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Fully working Hackintosh on Dell G7 7588
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BIOS Setting for Windows 11 #6

Open 13thdemarch opened 2 years ago

13thdemarch commented 2 years ago

Hi guys, first at all, I want to say Happy Lunar New Year to everyone. Hope you guys will have a great year. In Lunar New Year holiday, I have tried to test "the default" BIOS setting for Windows 11 and macOS. And currently is my result:

BIOS is the latest version 1.19.0. After update, restore BIOS setting to BIOS Default.

  1. UEFI Boot Path Security: Disable.
    • Just no security for using USB boot or external HDD boot.
  2. PTT Security: Enable.
    • Enable TPM for Windows 11. Currently no issue on macOS.
  3. Intel SGX: Enable.
    • Enable Intel Software Guard Extension. Needed for Goodix Fingerprint. Currently no issue on macOS, even sleep.
  4. Vt-d: Disable.
    • Why I disabled this option? Because Microsoft has changed some interesting things on Windows 11 with Virtualization-Based Security. It has more features and more protections than Windows 10. It also blocks reading-writing 0x150 Model Specific Register (MSR) if Vt-d is Enabled. That's why on Windows I can't undervolt the CPU if Vt-d and Core Isolation are enabled. It will reduce performance a little and increase the heat.

Please give me more results if you have any issue with those settings. They may also can be applied on some Dell laptop machines from CoffeeLake and newer.

Thank you so much for testing!