ASUS Z170-DELUXE - i7-6700K - HD 530 & RX 5700 - [From macOS El Capitan 10.11.6 to Big Sur 11 - Windows 10]

Clover EFI for ASUS Z170-Deluxe - macOS Big Sur

ASUS Z170-DELUXE

macOS Install Instructions

For specs, notes, other informations see the linked Insanelymac guide

Create a macOS USB Installer with any method you now.
- For creating Big Sur Installer USB on Windows, use my guide: [GUIDE] Creating Clover macOS Big Sur Installer USB on Windows
- On macOS you can download the macOS Installer from App Store, or with gibMacOS, and create the USB Installer with the official "createinstallmedia" method
- For Sierra and older you need to use the official .dmg from Apple’s website.
Mount your USB’s EFI and paste my CLOVER and BOOT folder from my bootpack folder to it
- On Windows you can mount your USB’s EFI with MiniTool Partition Wizard
  - Open MiniTool, select your USB drive’s EFI partition, right click, select “Change Letter”, Click OK, Apply, OK
- After that you can manage the EFI using Explorer++ in administrator mode
- On macOS you can use Terminal to mount, or use EFI Mountain Snow.app to mount your USB EFI
- If there is no EFI folder inside the EFI partition you need to create that first

Example Structure:

After finished, next step is to boot the Installer USB
- I suggest to boot with config_debug.plist because if anything will go wrong you’ll see the logs of what causing that.
- In Clover press NUM 0 or select “Options” below the partitions, select “Configs”, then select “config_debug.plist”
Install macOS
- Don’t forget to boot from your USB after restarts
  - If you install Big Sur boot from Preboot only!
After installing you need to mount your USB’s EFI and your System Drive’s EFI then copy the CLOVER and BOOT folder to your System Drive’s EFI
- (again, if there is no EFI folder, you need to create it first)
Unmount and remove your USB Installer and restart your system

Open up your config.plist with Clover Configurator.app, on SMBIOS tab, generate new SMBIOS, then you can log-in to iServices now

That’s it!

 Happy Hackintoshing! 

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Insanelymac - @kushwavez

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