Video and Audio

Power Management

Connectivity

macOS Continuity

Miscellaneous

This is not a guide. It shoud only be used as a reference. I provide some tips and tricks I learned on my journey in building a hackintosh. The best way of using this is as a supplement to the OpenCore guide. If you have questions about how to setup your specific hardware, are unclear about what to do, or would like to see the settings I've used.

I understand that some may simply add the OC and Boot folders to their EFI folder. For clarity the EFI partition needs a folder called EFI that contains the Boot and OC folder.

EFI (drive)
	EFI
	├── BOOT
	├── OC

It should work and your HP Z640 should boot and work fine. You will at minimum need to generate SMBIOS values if you want Apple services to work. Note that all error reporting/logging has been turned off in the config.plist. You will have a difficult time trouble shooting with the setup provided. You can easily turn on the error reporting and logging if you follow the Dortania guide. Best of luck.

NOTE if you simply wish to copy my EFI please do the following:

1. Generate SMBIOS values and add them in the config.plist (Use MacPro7,1 or iMacPro1,1)
2. Ensure the value of showpicker is true in the config.plist file to provide the opencore menu when booting.
3. Prepare your install USB
4. Move the entire EFI folder (with your modifications) to the proper partition on your USB (or SSD once the install is complete).
5. Install - You'll need to select Escape to get the boot menu options and boot from the USB each time the computer restarts until you've copied the EFI folder onto the hard drive. You may also need to select the correct boot option during install.

The one and only guide to install macOS, provided by Dortania

These are relevant components on my machine which may differ from yours, keep these in mind as you will need to adjust accordingly, depending on your machine's configuration.

Refer to HP Z640 Specs for possible stock configurations.

• Zx40-Hackintosh repositories:

  • BillDH2k/Hackintosh-HP-Z440-Z640-Z840-OpenCore
  • DmitriyyyyS/HP-Z440

• Zx20-Hackintosh repositories:

  • BillDH2k/Hackintosh-HP-Z420-Z620-Z820-OpenCore
  • sagaciouszu/OpenCore-HP-Z620

• The guys from Acidanthera that make this possible
• ben9923 for VoodooI2C
• Apple for macOS
• CorpNewt for USBMap
• headkaze for Hackintool
• Mieze for IntelMausiEthernet
• People at r/hackintosh for their advice and help
• And every other contributor

Security

• System Security
  • Virtualization Technology (VT-x) Enable
  • Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d) Disable

Advanced

• Boot Options

  • Fast Boot Disable
  • S5 Wake On LAN Disable

• Device Configurations

  • SATA Controller Mode AHCI

• Secure Boot Configuration

  • Configure Legacy Support and Secure Boot Disable Legacy Support and Disable Secure Boot

• Performance Options

  • Intel Hyper-Threading Technology Enable

Broadwell-E

To enable support for Xeon v4 CPUs, you must change the following values in Kernel -> Emulate under your config.plist file:

• Cpuid1Data: D4060300 00000000 00000000 00000000
  • Fake CPUID entry
• Cpuid1Mask: FFFFFFFF 00000000 00000000 00000000
  • Mask for fake CPUID

Haswell-E

To enable support for Xeon v3 CPUs, you must change the following values in Kernel -> Emulate under your config.plist file (Already configured in the included EFI folder):

• Cpuid1Data: C3060300 00000000 00000000 00000000
  • Fake CPUID entry
• Cpuid1Mask: FFFFFFFF 00000000 00000000 00000000
  • Mask for fake CPUID

Z840 Support

• 2nd LAN port must be disabled in BIOS for Z840 workstations
• Add the following kexts to enable SAS controller
  • AstekFusion2Family.kext
  • AstekFusion2Adapter.kext

Either add as a String or as a Data (HEX Data ProperTree)

Format is lang-COUNTRY:keyboard

🇺🇸 | [0] en_US - U.S --> en-US:0 --> (656e2d55 533a30 in HEX)

Pick your keyboard layout here:

AppleKeyboardLayouts.txt

1. Move the entire EFI folder from the prepared USB (with your modifications) to the EFI partition on your hard drive or SSD.
2. If you have a Broadcom wireless card (Wi-Fi & Bluetooth) use the OpenCore Legacy Patcher. The EFI folder is already prepared for OCLP.