Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54 Hackintosh

macOS Monterey on Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54 with OpenCore 0.7.8 EFI folder.

Configuration

Specifications	Details
Laptop Model	AN515-54 51X1
Processor	Intel® Core™ i5-9300H
Graphics	Intel® UHD Graphics 630 & Nvidia GeForce® GTX 1050
RAM	16GB DDR4-2666Mhz
Disk	SK Hynix 256gb PCIe® NVMe™ & 1TB SATA HDD
Audio	Realtek HD Audio ALC255
Wifi	Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9560 160MHz
Ethernet	RealTek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet

What's working

• Audio (Input & Output)
• iGPU
• ACPI Display brightness
• Ethernet
• Sleep + Wake
• Smart Touchpad + Gestures
• WiFi (2.4Ghz and 5GHz)
• Native hotkey support with Fn keys
• iServices (Messages, FaceTime, etc.)

What's not working

• GTX 1650 (macOS does not support recent Nvidia GPUs).
• HDMI port (since it's connected to the GTX 1650).

Installation

First-time installation

• Set-up the BIOS configuration:
  • Boot to BIOS by pressing F2 during boot.
  • In the Main screen, enable F12 boot menu, disable Fast Boot, then press Ctrl+S and change the new SATA mode option to AHCI.
  • In the Boot screen, disable secure boot.
  • Finally, go to the Exit screen and select "Exit saving changes".
• Read through the following tutorial to create a bootable USB, and then place the EFI folder inside it:
  • https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/
• You should add Serial Number, UUID, MLB and ROM details to Config -> PlatformInfo -> Generic if you want to get iServices working as explained here.

Post Install

• Clone the ComboJack repo and run the installer inside the ComboJack_Installer folder to get the jack port working correctly.
• Run the following commands for sleep wake:

  sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
  sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0
  sudo pmset -a standby 0
  sudo pmset -a proximitywake 0
  

• If dual-booting with Windows, follow this guide to fix time.

Disable CFG Lock (Advanced users only)

To disable CFG Lock, follow this guide. Note that you'll be modifying the BIOS, so be very careful or you could end up bricking your device. If you're not sure about something, do NOT do it.

After following the guide, disable Kernel -> Quirks -> AppleXcpmCfgLock and you're done.

Credits

• Thanks to Hoang63X for providing their configuration, which helped me solve various issues.
• Thanks to Acidanthera for providing AppleALC, AppleSupportPkg, Lilu, OcBinaryData, OpenCorePkg, VirtualSMC, VoodooInput, VoodooPS2, and WhateverGreen.
• Thanks to alexandred for providing VoodooI2C.
• Thanks to Sniki for providing OS-X-USB-Inject-All.
• Thanks to corpnewt for providing USBMap and ProperTree.
• Thanks to zxystd for providing itlwm and IntelBluetoothFirmware.