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Intel NUC8 BEH & BEK Hackintosh

With Thunderbolt Hot-Plug Works without flashing

EFI for Intel NUC8 i3/i5/i7 BEH/BEK with OpenCore bootloader

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MY NUC8i3BEH Spec:

Component Brank
CPU Intel® Core™ i3-8109U (2C-4T)
iGPU Intel® Iris® Plus 655
Lan Intel I219-V
Audio Realtek ALC235
Ram 16 GB DDR4 2400 Mhz
Wifi + Bluetooth Intel® Wireless-AC 9560 + Bluetooth 5.0
Nvme Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 500GB
SSD SiliconPower A55 512 GB
Card Reader. microSDXC Card Reader
SmBios MacMini8,1
BootLoader OpenCore 0.9.4 (Release)
macOS Version Ventura Beta 13.6 (22G115)

info

Peripherals

infospec infoperiph infopci infovideoproc

What works and What doesn't or WIP:

  • Intel® Iris® Plus 655 iGPU HDMI Output
  • Intel® Iris® Plus 655 iGPU - H264 & HEVC
  • ALC235 Internal Speakers
  • ALC235 HDMI Audio Output
  • All USB Ports
  • SpeedStep / Sleep / Wake
  • Intel I219-V
  • Controller NVME PciE Gen3x4
  • Controller SATA III
  • Thunderbolt 3 port (hotplug without fw flash)
  • AC 9560 Wireless + Bluetooth
  • PWRB & SLPB
  • microSDXC Card Reader
  • NVRAM
  • All Sensors (CPU, NVME, SATA, FAN)
  • Windows 11 boot from OpenCore

Benchmark

infocpu infoopencl infometal

MacOS bootable USB creation:

  • Read the Dortania guide for creating your USB from Windows or macOS
  • Guide Dortania - USB creation

Post Install

For proper sleep it is recommended to set these commands from the terminal.

sudo pmset standby 0
sudo pmset autopoweroff 0 
sudo pmset proximitywake 0
sudo pmset powernap 0 
sudo pmset tcpkeepalive 0
sudo pmset womp 0
sudo pmset hibernatemode 0

For anyone who has flashed a modified Thunderbolt firmware and wants to restore the original one I provide you with the original firmware.

BIOS Settings:

To start, choose "Load Defaults" (choose from the menu or press F9 in the BIOS setup).

Then change:

1. Devices Section:

In "Onboard Devices" section → "Onboard Devices Configuration" panel → Set "SD Card" to Enabled.

In "USB" section → "USB Configuration" panel → Set "Portable Device Charging Mode" to "Off".

In "USB" section → "USB Ports" panel → Set both "USB2 Header Connector" ports to Enabled.

In "Video" section → "Video Configuration" panel → Confirm that "IGD Minimum Memory" is set as 64 MB.

In "Video" section → "Video Configuration" panel → Confirm that "IGD Aperture Size" is set to 256 MB.

In "Onboard Devices" section → "Legacy Device Configuration" panel → Set "Enhanced Consumer IR" to Disabled.

In "Onboard Devices" section → "Legacy Device Configuration" panel → Set "HDMI CEC Control" to Enabled.

3. SECURITY Section:

In "Security Features" section → Set "Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d)" to Enabled.

In "Security Features" section → Set "Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX)" to Disabled.

In "Security Features" section → Set "Thunderbolt Security Level" to "Legacy Mode".

5. POWER Section:

In "Secondary Power Settings" section → Set "Wake on LAN from S4/S5" to "Stay Off".

In "Secondary Power Settings" section → Set "PCIe ASPM Support" to Disabled.

7. BOOT Section:

In "Secure Boot" section → "Secure Boot Configuration" panel → Set "Secure Boot" to Disabled.

In "Boot Priority" section → "UEFI Boot Priority" panel → Confirm that "UEFI Boot" is Enabled.

In "Boot Configuration" section → "UEFI Boot" panel → Set "Fast Boot" to Disabled.

In "Boot Configuration" section → "UEFI Boot" panel → Set "Boot USB Devices First" to Enabled.

In "Boot Configuration" section → "UEFI Boot" panel → Set "Boot Network Devices Last" to Disabled.

In "Boot Configuration" section → "UEFI Boot" panel → Set "Startup Sound" to Disabled.

In "Boot Devices" section → "Boot Devices" panel → Set "Thunderbolt Boot" to Enabled.

In "Boot Devices" section → "Boot Devices" panel → Set "Optical Boot" to Disabled.

In "Boot Devices" section → "Boot Devices" panel → Set "Network Boot" to Disabled.

In "Boot Devices" section → "Boot Display Configuration" panel → Set "Display F7 to Update BIOS" to Disabled.

Press F10 to save and exit.

Special Config:

  • Usb port mapping performed

See ioreg for more clarification

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