Dell Vostro 3888 Hackintosh Guide

This guide wil guide you for making your own EFI folder for the Dell Vostro 3888.

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Desktop Specs

• Model: Dell Vostro 3888
• CPU: 10th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-10400 (6-Core, 12MB Cache, 2.9GHz to 4.3GHz)
• Chipset: Intel® B460
• GPU: Integerated Intel UHD 630
• RAM: 8GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz (upgradable to 64GB)
• HDD: 1TB SATA @ 7200 rpm (GUID Partition Table)
• Audio: Realtek ALC3246/256
• Wifi: Intel(R) Wireless-AC 3165
• Ethernet: Realtek RTL8111 Gigabit Ethernet

What Works:

Wifi

Bluetooh

Ethernet

CD-ROM

All USB Ports

Front Audio Jack [Microphone not tested yet]

Back Audio Jack

HDMI

Sleep

What Doesn't Work:

Need to Recheck

Not Tested:

VGA Port

SD Card Reader

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How to make your own EFI? First of all, here is the list of the kexts & tools that are needed:

• Kext:

Lilu

WhateverGreen [GPU Patches]

VirtualSMC

AppleALC [for audio]

Airportitlwm [Wifi Card]

IntelBluetoothFirmware [Bluetooh Card]

RealtekRTL8111 [Ethernet Port]

• Tools:

Latest OpenCore Release [Bootloader]

macrecovery.py [Creating macOS installer]

SSDTTime [Creating SSDTs]

ProperTree [Universal plist editor]

GenSMBIOS [Generating SMBIOS data]

Sample/config.plist [Sample config.plist]

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Creating the installer

You may follow the OpenCore Dortania guide for making the installer on:

Windows

macOS

Linux

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Adding Files

After creating your installer, we will work now on creating your own EFI folder. First, download & extract the OpenCore-0.6.8-RELEASE.zip. Access the X64 folder, then copy the EFI folder to your USB EFI partition.

Now, you'll notice that it comes with a bunch of files in the Drivers and Tools folders, most of which we don't want:

• Keep the following from Drivers(if applicable):

Driver	Status	Description
OpenRuntime.efi	Required	Required for proper operation
OpenHfsPlus.efi	Required	Needed for seeing HFS volumes(ie. macOS Installers and Recovery partitions/images).
OpenUsbKbDxe.efi	Optional	Required for non-UEFI systems(pre-2012)
OpenPartitionDxe.efi	Optional	Required to boot macOS 10.7-10.9 recovery

• Keep the following from Tools:

Tool	Status	Description
OpenShell.efi	Optional	Recommended for easier debugging

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We may now start adding our kexts & drivers. Download all the kexts linked above. Here is the list of kexts which we need

Kext	File
Lilu	Lilu.kext
WhateverGreen	WhateverGreen.kext
VirtualSMC	VirtualSMC.kext, SMCSuperIO.kext, SMCProcessor.kext & SMCDellSesnors.kext
AppleALC	AppleALC.kext
itlwm	airportitlwm.kext [Big Sur Version]
IntelBluetoothFirmware	IntelBluetoothFirmware.kext & IntelBluetoothInjector.kext
Realtek RTL8111	RealtekRTL8111.kext

This is what your Kexts folder might look like:

SSDTs

We will need to create the following SSDT files:

SSDT-PLUG

SSDT-EC-USBX

SSDT-AWAC

SSDT-RHUB

We use the SSDTTime tool to create these SSDT files. Run the SSDTTime.bat as Administrater. You will see the following screen: First we need to run the 8th selection [Dump DSDT], then we will need to run the FixHPET, FakeEC, PluginType, AWAC & finally USB-Reset. Your SSDTTime/results folder might look something similar to this:

Copy only the following files to the EFI/OC/ACPI.

SSDT-AWAC.aml

SSDT-EC.aml

SSDT-HPET.aml

SSDT-PLUG.aml

SSDT-USB-Reset.aml