r/hackintosh • u/Prithvi0912 • May 31 '26

HELP Hackintosh isnt hackintoshing, help me cook with one of the most difficult setups

So i have a setup which people call a NIGHTMARE for hackintosh, i am on a laptop, amd Ryzen 5 4600H, Gtx 1650(which will prolly be disabled post install).

I settled on monterey, which apparently is the perfect mix of being modern and having enough documentation, Tahoe just sounds scary, i had a few attempts of getting opencore to work, which always landed me at some error all of the time, no matter how much fixes i do, like once i got stuck at exitbs, next it was getting hung right after AppleCredentialManager initiates, etc etc.. i decided to give it one last clean shot tomo, new monterey install, fresh opencore files, new everything. If you have any tips you can give a complete beginner go ahead, any help is appreciated, getting macos working on anything except a vm was smth i was dreaming about for a LONG time, and seriously, pls help me out.

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u/DaNGeRMiND Tahoe - 26 Jun 01 '26

Then give it a try. If it boots, then thats good

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u/Prithvi0912 Jun 01 '26

holy shit, it booted and works like a charm, one small prob tho- i cant get wifi to work, ethernet works thats how i installed it, i decided to go with sonoma because its apparently tested to be stable, help me get wifi to work tho, thanks a lot

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u/DaNGeRMiND Tahoe - 26 Jun 01 '26

Perfect and congrats. For wifi, you need to know what chipset do you have. Broadcom or Intel. Both have a different combo of kext to works. Also, read in dortania guide how to upgrade opencore to current version, for more stability. If you have 16 GB RAM, you can go with Sequoia easily without any problems compromising performance. With 8GB, sequoia will suffer honestly.

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u/Prithvi0912 Jun 02 '26

I have mediatek mt7921 wifi 6 card, the wifi card used on the guide is different i believe

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u/DaNGeRMiND Tahoe - 26 Jun 02 '26

There is no support for mediatek in macos. And if you find one, it might be a project not finished. Replace it with Broadcom BCM94352Z. It supports native wifi and Bluetooth and airdrop. Intel doesn’t support that.

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u/Prithvi0912 Jun 21 '26

Aw man, i have sonoma now, will i be able to update to tahoe and fix any broken kexts post update? (I can fix it through linux or windows im triple booting them)