ASUS ZenBook UM462D / UX462DA - Ryzen 5 3500U - Can macOS be installed?

[etorix]

This is my very first time doing a Hackintosh.

An AMD laptop is quite ambitious for a first.

All the best for the work ahead, USB and others!

 

[Edhawk]

When looking to increase the amount of VRAM in the laptop you have to use Smokeless_UMAF.

1. Boot to the UMAF USB, using the 'F8' Boot Menu key.
2. Select 'Device Manager' using the up/down arrow keys
   1. 
3. Select 'AMD CBS' from the menu.
   1. 
4. Select 'NBIO Common Options', from the CBS sub-menu.
   1. 
5. Select 'GFX Configuration', from the NBIO sub-menu.
   1. 
6. Select 'iGPU Configuration' and then select <UMA_Specified> from the dropdown list
   1. 
7. Select 'UMA Frame Buffer Size' and select <512M>, <768M> or <1G> from the dropdown list.
   1. 
8. Use the 'Esc' key to exit the GFX sub-menu.
   1. should look similar to this screenshot.
9. Use the 'Esc' key to exit NBIO sub-menu.
10. Press 'Y' to save the changed GFX settings.
11. Use the 'Esc' key to exit the CBS menu.
12. Use the 'Esc' key to exit the Device Manager menu.
13. Use the 'Continue' option, above 'Reset' option to exit UMAF menu.

Remove the UMAF USB and boot in to macOS, you should have full graphics acceleration.

 

[sukhrobjonov]

The next steps include but are not limited to the following:

1. Copy your working EFI folder to the hidden EFI partition on your macOS drive, so you don't require the USB drive when booting the system.
2. Under take USB configuration, so you have a working USBMap.kext that activates the USB ports/Bluetooth and Webcam in macOS.
3. Fix Audio, if built-in Realtek not working out of the box.
4. Fix Trackpad, if some functions not available. As this is a hack you may loose some trackpad functions that are available in windows. This should be expected.
5. Fix VRAM allocated to AMD IGPU. Increase VRAM to 512MB as minimum, 1GB would be better.
6. Fix battery read-outs, if not already working.

Best place to read about how to deal with these post installation steps is the Dortania GitHub link below.

OpenCore Post-Install | OpenCore Post-Install

I would recommend you keep hold of your USB pen drive with the working EFI folder, i.e. don't overwrite or erase the drive. As it might come in handy down the road, when you are looking to change things and something unexpected happens, i.e. you can no longer boot to macOS with the EFI folder on the macOS drive.

Making a Backup/Clone of your MacOS drive is always advisable especially when changing things during the post install phase. I have lost count of the number of times I had to reinstall macOS because I borked the setup I was working on!

Hi! I just wanted to say a huge thank you for your help with building and fixing the EFI configuration. Thanks to your expertise, the laptop is running incredibly well now. We managed to stabilize the CPU temperatures (CPB fix), clear up the boot screen glitches. I truly appreciate your time, patience, and knowledge. Awesome job!

 

[Edhawk]

Thanks for the kind words, glad to be able to help.