Hackintosh Guide - Disable Discrete Graphic Card - Notebook - Nvidia or AMD

[Divyansh Kumar]

ahhh i am really messed with this now please i need help and i am a noob, my first time in hackintosh so if you can explain me how to do it would be very great of you thanks and i have a send me file too

Send me.zip

[cm0270]

Is it possible to get a modified DSDT for a MSI GP70 2QF Leopard Pro-486 laptop?

i7-4720HQ Haswell CPU

Geforce 950m dedicated graphics

Intel HD 4600

16gb DDR3

I have Mojave installed on the laptop but trying to disable the Nvidia 950m. The Intel HD4600 works great but the battery goes quick because I know the Nvidia card is likely causing the issue.

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Brad

[MaLd0n]

[ref]Divyansh Kumar[/ref], DSDT.aml.zip

 

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[ref]cm0270[/ref], post files

--Run_Me

RunMe.app

[cm0270]

attached

Send me brads-iMac.zip

[MaLd0n]

[ref]cm0270[/ref], DSDT.aml.zip

change EHC1 to EH01
45484331
45483031

change EHC2 to EH02
45484332
45483032

change GFX0 to IGPU
47465830 
49475055 

change HECI to IMEI
48454349 
494d4549 

change SAT0 to SATA
53415430 
53415441 

[cm0270]

inside the DSDT? I am really unfamiliar with this stuff with editing those. lol

[MaLd0n]

[ref]cm0270[/ref], put dsdt in clover/acpi/patched and add patches with clover configurator, acpi tab

[cm0270]

Ok out and about for a few. Will do this as soon as i get back. Had issue with efi not mounting.

[cm0270]

Done: dsdt in clover/acpi/patched and add patches with clover configurator, acpi tab

Is this, or is this not, supposed to fully get rid of the Nvidia completely on this screenshot? I had to completely redo the install. Somehow I messed something up on the main drive and got it all reinstalled.

Only thing I can think of is I am missing something somewhere.

See attached files.

 

 

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After a reboot again it now shows this. lol I have no idea how it got rid of the Intel graphics and kept the Nvidia. Stumped here.

[cm0270]

well now the Nvidia is gone and Intel is showing up only in system information. There were a few entries in Clover that I removed. lol. Probably not the best thing but will figure it out.

But now it won't let me get the HD4600 graphics up. Keeps saying 7mb. Before I was able to Inject EDID and Inject Intel with ig-platform-id of 0x0d220003 in the Graphics tab and then in the Devices tab use 0x04128086 in the IntelGFX box and it would show up as Intel HD 4600 1536mb.

config.plist.zip

DSDT.aml.zip

[MaLd0n]

[ref]cm0270[/ref], U try create ur patch with HacinTool?

https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/335018-hackintool-v183/

[cm0270]

hacintool doesn't give me any options to do. it is greyed out and won't let me input anything.

[MaLd0n]

[ref]cm0270[/ref],

[cm0270]

still no luck with this thing. Here is my ACPI files that were extracted using F4 with clover on reboot.

 

acpi.zip

 

And here is the ACPI folder from the drive itself from the EFI folder.

 

acpi.zip

ACPI.zip

[MaLd0n]

[ref]cm0270[/ref], u need check what device need disable

[cm0270]

Check what device needs disabled?

I need the Nvidia Optimus 950m disabled. That is what I have been trying to do so I can just use the Intel 4600 without it eating my battery up with the Nvidia running in the background. And then getting the Intel 4600 set to 1536mb vs 7mb.

[MaLd0n]

[ref]cm0270[/ref], Yes, but what device we need disable? post a full dump

--Run_Me

RunMe.app

[cm0270]

Runme app isn't having any luck fully running.keep hitting this error

[onemanosx]

[ref]cm0270[/ref], previous bug removed in hackintool's latest version v1.9.6. Try it.

[MaLd0n]

[ref]cm0270[/ref],

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[cm0270]

I have tried the new Hackintool but how do you apply the patch after the changes?

Sorry I am being a pain with this but this part is new to me.

thanks

[onemanosx]

[ref]cm0270[/ref],

 

[cm0270]

I must be a complete and bonafide idiot because nothing I do fixes this issue.

This is the screenshot from Hackintool. Guess I am just not coordinated enough to figure this darn thing out.

Moved the config.plist from EFI folder to desktop and ran Hackintool. made what I thought was the correct changes and exported and replaced the one on the desktop.

[Allan]

When you export to Desktop, automatically the app (Hackintool) will generate a backup config.plist, and one with modifications included.

 

[cm0270]

Ok the progress so far. Managed to get Hackintool done. Thankfully. I copied the config.plist from the EFI folder to desktop and ran Hackintool and saw the backup one it created. copied it to EFI folder and renamed it to config.plist. Intel HD4600 showing up now as 1536mb as it should be.

Only problem left is the Nvidia 950m showing up though. That is the main thing trying to get figured out.

Also any clue what the best SMBIOS to use as well? Does that make any difference also?

Attached is copy of config.plist also that I am currently using.

 

config.plist.zip

 

This is the output from Hackintool:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Devices</key>
<dict>
	<key>Properties</key>
	<dict>
		<key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)</key>
		<dict>
			<key>AAPL,ig-platform-id</key>
			<data>
			AAAWBA==
			</data>
			<key>device-id</key>
			<data>
			EgQAAA==
			</data>
			<key>disable-external-gpu</key>
			<data>
			AQAAAA==
			</data>
			<key>enable-hdmi20</key>
			<data>
			AQAAAA==
			</data>
			<key>framebuffer-fbmem</key>
			<data>
			AACQAA==
			</data>
			<key>framebuffer-patch-enable</key>
			<data>
			AQAAAA==
			</data>
			<key>framebuffer-stolenmem</key>
			<data>
			AAAwAQ==
			</data>
			<key>framebuffer-unifiedmem</key>
			<data>
			AAAAgA==
			</data>
		</dict>
	</dict>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>