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I WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS REPO ANYMORE SINCE I MOVED TO OPENCORE. YOU CAN CHECK MY OPENCORE EFI DEVELOPMENT HERE.

Will leave this as archived since it still has some useful information but I would recommend using OpenCore for your Hackintosh builds.

MSI GS65 8SE Hackintosh Guide

Hi! This is a guide on how to install macOS on your MSI GS65. I will specifically show how to install on an MSI with Coffeelake series chipset, eg. 8750H, but if any other MSI owners have issues with their hack feel free to create an issue for any help.

DONT JUST COPY THE EFI FOLDER SINCE I CANNOT GUARANTEE IF ITWILL WORK FOR YOUR SYSTEM. FOLLOW THE GUIDE AND IF YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE USE MY EFI AS A GUIDE.

Table of Contexts

Hardware

Issues That Can't Be Fixed (as of now)

Issues I Currently Have (that could possibly be fixed)

Upgrading from Mojave to Catalina

If you currently have Mojave on your MSI Laptop, make sure you have the latest Kexts installed and also make sure you have "rename H_EC to EC" in your config.plist ACPI->DSDT->Patches.

Requirements

Pre-Installation

Bios Menu Setup

USB Setup

For this step you will need a mac to install Clover Bootloader and the macOS Installer to the USB.

Installing Clover

Building the installer:

Mojave

sudo "/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" --volume  /Volumes/install_osx --nointeraction
sudo diskutil rename "Install macOS Mojave" install_osx

Catalina

sudo "/Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia" --volume  /Volumes/install_osx --nointeraction
sudo diskutil rename "Install macOS Catalina" install_osx

Installation

Congratulations! You installed macOS Mojave on your computer!

Post-Installation

As you may have noticed, Clover Bootloader loads from a USB, but it would be more convenient loading Clover Bootloader from the HDD instad of the USB.

If you would like to know how to do that you can follow this link

There are still a few issues that need to be fixed. For instance:

Fortunately I have fixes for these issues:

Mounting EFI Partition

Keyboard Brightness keys fix

Audio Fix

Backlight Fix

Disable the Nvidia GPU

Fix Sleep and prevent DDGPU turning back on after sleep

USB Ports Improvement and USB Properties

Battery Status

Bluetooth fix

Computer loading when inputting password

Cannot control RGB Keyboard

Unfortunately SteelSeries did not create a driver to control RGB keyboard on macOS. Fortunately I was able to create a gui to change your rgb keyboard. It's still in development so be aware of bugs that you might encounter.

The app is SSKeyboardHue.

Multi-Gesture touchpad support

Coming soon...

Troubleshooting

If you have any issues or question about your installation or you're coming from anotehr MSI laptop, feel free to open a new issue and I will be happy to help.

Also if there is any issues with any of the installation steps that I provided or if you'd like to contribute feel free to do so.

Thanks to Rehabman, acidanthera, and may other people for allowing hackintosh to be possible.

will try to make it more universal soon.