Any test t3610 with Big Sur 11.7 or Monterey ?

[Fedora7]

Thanks for sharing your experience with the newer version of Big Sur or even Monterey.

[cosmiccowboy68]

I experienced Hackintosh builder stumped for months trying, and finally, I have found a way to install Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma onto a DELL Precision T3610. Which I thought was impossible due to its bios and lack of certain functions such as TSC_sync. I found this page for a x79 MB.

https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/issues/2163

and used the EFI found here as a base

https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/files/10074725/ESP.Dump.zip

If there is any interest I can give out more details.

[csutedja]

I experienced Hackintosh builder stumped for months trying, and finally, I have found a way to install Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma onto a DELL Precision T3610. Which I thought was impossible due to its bios and lack of certain functions such as TSC_sync. I found this page for a x79 MB.

acidanthera/bugtracker#2163

and used the EFI found here as a base

https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/files/10074725/ESP.Dump.zip

If there is any interest I can give out more details.

Hey, I used that EFI on my t3610 with no modification and it installed sonoma with no issue. However, I cannot get it to go to the setup screen. Are there modifications required for the t3610?

[cosmiccowboy68]

The only changes I made to the EFI was to change the network kext and the ssdt-pm.aml to match my CPU generate a new serial, but I was able to get to the installer and run Sonoma and is very stable.

[csutedja]

The only changes I made to the EFI was to change the network kext and the ssdt-pm.aml to match my CPU generate a new serial, but I was able to get to the installer and run Sonoma and is very stable.

So I've added my ssdt-pm and new serial and I got it to boot on my current big sur install. However the sonoma installer always repeats itself here. Is it because I have a spoofed GPU (RX550)? ![Uploading IMG_4293.jpeg…]()

[csutedja]

I'm not sure if this is because of my GPU or my power management files but before doing this the installer booted just fine

[csutedja]

Ended up getting Sonoma to install but the machine has never reached the setup screeen because it reboots before reaching that on every boot due to something about PCI configuration end

[cosmiccowboy68]

@csutedja, Can you post your config and PC spec and will have a look at your T3610 issue. Are you on A19 bios with default bios settings and running ACHI mode?

[csutedja]

Here's my EFI with serial data removed. I'm using A19 bios with AHCI, TPM/SecureBoot disabled. CSM off. https://file.io/WX7TAhquCEO0 @cosmiccowboy68

[cstrouse]

@csutedja RX 550 cards are only supported when Baffin core variants and AFAIK GPU spoofing/patching can't do anything to force support. Are you sure you have a supported core variant?

Also, keep in mind that X79 and C602 chipsets are not the same thing and there are quite a few small variations. Most of the battle getting my setup running reliably and performing well was always figuring out the differences between consumer X79 motherboards (like the Chinese boards that got popular when the CPUs hit the enterprise liquidators, eBay, AliExpress, etc for unbelievably low prices) and enterprise C602 boards for HEDT applications using the Intel technical documentation for the chipsets. You may also want to try throwing cpus=<INT> into your boot args to see how things go without HT as I remember fiddling with that a bit years ago and getting further. There were also a bunch of goofiness in the Dell OEM ACPI tables that I was dropping/modifying to get PCI issues to go away (mostly DMAR/MATS?).

I would move on to a newer Precision T model like I did before just getting Apple Silicon hardware (the initial M1 air, then a loaded M1 air from the update, and now a loaded 14" M1 Pro). I couldn't keep using the machine without proper DRM support and 4K media playback and now Apple/OpenCore/Dortania are no longer supporting CPUs from this generation due to AVX2 issues.

[csutedja]

@csutedja RX 550 cards are only supported when Baffin core variants and AFAIK GPU spoofing/patching can't do anything to force support. Are you sure you have a supported core variant?

Also, keep in mind that X79 and C602 chipsets are not the same thing and there are quite a few small variations. Most of the battle getting my setup running reliably and performing well was always figuring out the differences between consumer X79 motherboards (like the Chinese boards that got popular when the CPUs hit the enterprise liquidators, eBay, AliExpress, etc for unbelievably low prices) and enterprise C602 boards for HEDT applications using the Intel technical documentation for the chipsets. You may also want to try throwing cpus=<INT> into your boot args to see how things go without HT as I remember fiddling with that a bit years ago and getting further. There were also a bunch of goofiness in the Dell OEM ACPI tables that I was dropping/modifying to get PCI issues to go away (mostly DMAR/MATS?).

I would move on to a newer Precision T model like I did before just getting Apple Silicon hardware (the initial M1 air, then a loaded M1 air from the update, and now a loaded 14" M1 Pro). I couldn't keep using the machine without proper DRM support and 4K media playback and now Apple/OpenCore/Dortania are no longer supporting CPUs from this generation due to AVX2 issues.

Yeah, I have a supported core version of the RX 550 because it works on big sur. I've moved on from trying to get this to work to be honest as well. I have an older macbook pro as a backup anyways to run mac apps. I might try the cpus= thing but I might just not bother putting more effort into this thing anymore. Thanks for the help though!

[csutedja]

UPDATE: Gave it another shot with monterey assuming that sonoma has AVX2 issues, and I got a working system first try (minus DRM)! Thanks @cosmiccowboy68 for the EFI folder!

[1stfoldAhmad]

I have the same PC with sonoma installed. But After sonoma installation I am unable to boot. Can you please help me?