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Asus X540LJ Hackintosh working OpenCore EFI with macOS Big Sur

Asus-X540LJ-Hackintosh-OpenCore

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Asus Vivobook X540LJ

• Bootloader: OpenCore 0.7.9
• macOS: 11.6.5 Big Sur

Changelog

Update: 20-March-2022

• Update OpenCore 0.7.8 to 0.7.9
• CPU power management optimization.
• Other Kext update

Update: 18-February-2022

• Update OpenCore 0.7.5 to 0.7.8
• macOS Big Sur 11.6.4 support
• Other Kext update

Specification:

• MainBoard: Asus X540LJ.
• Processor: Intel Core i3-5005U @ 2.0GHz (Broadwell)
• RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600mhz (Duel channel)
• Graphic:
  • Intel HD5500
  • NVIDIA GeForce 920M 2GB
• Network:
  • Wifi: Atheros AR9565
  • Ethernet: Realtek RTL810xE
• Audio: Realtek ALC255 (layout-27)
• Touchpad: ELAN 1100 (I2C)
• SD Card Reader Realtek RTS5286
• Storage: 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD

WORKING:

• Power Management
• Intel HD Graphics 5500
• Sound (Internal Speaker and Headphone working)
• Mic (Internal and External both working)
• Wifi
• Bluetooth
• SD Card Reader
• Ethernet
• Adjust brightness
• USB 2.0 and 3.0
• Trackpad (All gestures supported)
• Sleep (working while power adapter is not connected and using battery)
• Battery Stat
• Tempareture Monitor
• Apple Store
• iCloud
• Fn feature (Brightness and volume button works)

Not WORKING:

• Nvidia 920M GPU (will never work)
• iMassage (Not working on my device. It might work on your device)
• Facetime (Not working on my device. It might work on your device)

BIOS Settings:

• No need to change any BIOS settings. Set default BIOS settings.
• If you use secondery monitor then disable Launch CSM in BIOS boot section.

Installation:

• Change the default BIOS settings.
• Just put this EFI to your USB EFI partition.
• If you don't know how to bootable your USB then here.
• Install macOS Big Sur.
• No need to install any additional kext to macOS extention. All driver will be loaded automatically.
• After install mount the USB EFI and copy this to your HDD EFI.
• Change the serial numbers and other things. You can find the tutorial from here.

Bluetooth fix:

• To toggle on/off bluetooth, you have to swichoff your wifi temporary.

SSD Fix:

• If you use SSD then you have to enable TRIM Support for better performance.
• Go to the Terminal and type sudo trimforce enable
• Then type Y and enter.

Credits

@RehabMan for his guide for beginner @alexandred and his team for VoodooI2C @acidanthera for his OpenCore Bootloader and kexts @zxystd for Atheros Bluetooth fix and many more people that I can't list here.