Asus-X540LJ-Hackintosh-OpenCore
I have released macOS Sonoma EFI for Asus X540LJ. Go to this link
Asus Vivobook X540LJ
- Bootloader: OpenCore 0.7.9
- macOS: 11.6.5 Big Sur
Changelog
Update: 20-March-2022
- Update OpenCore 0.7.8 to 0.7.9
- CPU power management optimization.
- Other Kext update
Update: 18-February-2022
- Update OpenCore 0.7.5 to 0.7.8
- macOS Big Sur 11.6.4 support
- Other Kext update
Specification:
- MainBoard: Asus X540LJ.
- Processor: Intel Core i3-5005U @ 2.0GHz (Broadwell)
- RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600mhz (Duel channel)
- Graphic:
- Intel HD5500
- NVIDIA GeForce 920M 2GB
- Network:
- Wifi: Atheros AR9565
- Ethernet: Realtek RTL810xE
- Audio: Realtek ALC255 (layout-27)
- Touchpad: ELAN 1100 (I2C)
- SD Card Reader Realtek RTS5286
- Storage: 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD
WORKING:
- [x] Power Management
- [x] Intel HD Graphics 5500
- [x] Sound (Internal Speaker and Headphone working)
- [x] Mic (Internal and External both working)
- [x] Wifi
- [x] Bluetooth
- [x] SD Card Reader
- [x] Ethernet
- [x] Adjust brightness
- [x] USB 2.0 and 3.0
- [x] Trackpad (All gestures supported)
- [x] Sleep (working while power adapter is not connected and using battery)
- [x] Battery Stat
- [x] Tempareture Monitor
- [x] Apple Store
- [x] iCloud
- [x] Fn feature (Brightness and volume button works)
Not WORKING:
- [ ] Nvidia 920M GPU (will never work)
- [ ] iMassage (Not working on my device. It might work on your device)
- [ ] Facetime (Not working on my device. It might work on your device)
BIOS Settings:
- No need to change any BIOS settings. Set default BIOS settings.
- If you use secondery monitor then disable
Launch CSM
in BIOS boot section.
Installation:
- Change the default BIOS settings.
- Just put this EFI to your USB EFI partition.
- If you don't know how to bootable your USB then here.
- Install macOS Big Sur.
- No need to install any additional kext to macOS extention. All driver will be loaded automatically.
- After install mount the USB EFI and copy this to your HDD EFI.
- Change the serial numbers and other things. You can find the tutorial from here.
Bluetooth fix:
- To toggle on/off bluetooth, you have to swichoff your wifi temporary.
SSD Fix:
- If you use SSD then you have to enable TRIM Support for better performance.
- Go to the Terminal and type
sudo trimforce enable
- Then type Y and enter.
Credits
@RehabMan for his guide for beginner
@alexandred and his team for VoodooI2C
@acidanthera for his OpenCore Bootloader and kexts
@zxystd for Atheros Bluetooth fix
and many more people that I can't list here.