[Guide] Lenovo Ideapad S540-15IWL GTX Laptop on MacOS Catalina

[Lucatek]

 

Lenovo Ideapad S540-15IWL GTX (81SW)

 

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Processor: Intel Core i7-8565U (4C / 8T, 1.8 / 4.6GHz, 8MB)
Memory: 4GB Soldered + 16GB DIMM DDR4-2400
Graphics: Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 620 + GeForce GTX 1650
Display: 15.6" FHD (1920x1080) TN 220nits Anti-glare
Hard Drive: CRUCIAL SSD 500 GB + Samsung 256GB PCIe NVMe
Wireless Network: Intel AC-9462 (Card replaced with BCM94360CS2 on an adapter.)
Audio: ALC 257
Camera: Inbuilt
Battery: Integrated 52.5Wh
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro + MacOS Catalina with Clover.
BIOS: LATEST
Ethernet + Bluetooth: RTL 8188EU

Card Reader: Realtek RTS522A

 

 

What's working:
Keyboard
Trackpad, gestures.
Audio

Headphones (Work in progress)
Brightness control.
Sleep
Inbuilt Camera

HDMI OUT: (Work in progress)

What's Not Working:

Dedicated Graphic Cards with Acceleration 

FingerPrint Sensor

BIOS:
Ensure your disk is in AHCI mode. Here are the settings that I used.

USB installer:
Create a normal installation media.
Use my complete EFI Folder below.

Ensure your clover/drivers/uefi folder has following files:

ApfsDriverLoader.efi

ApfsDriverLoader.efi

AppleImageCodec.efi

AppleKeyAggregator.efi

AppleUITheme.efi

AptioMemoryFix.efi
NvmExpressDxe.efi
VirtualSmc.efi
HFSPlus.efi
AudioDxe.efi

Ensure your clover/kexts folder has following files:
Lilu.kext

AppleALC.kext

CodecCommander.kextEFICheckDisabler.kext

HibernationFixup.kext

NoTouchID.kext

NVMeFix.kext

Sinetek-rtsx.kext

SMCBatteryManager.kext

SMCProcessor.kext

SystemProfilerMemoryFixup.kext

Voodoo2C.kext

Voodoo2CHID.kext
VoodooPS2Controller.kext
VirtualSMC.kext
WhateverGreen.kext

With this you should be able to complete installation but for Complete All Features you must install also:

1) For TrackPad  Voodoo2C.kext and Voodoo2CHID.kext in S/L/E. 

2) For Card Reader Sinetek-rtsx.kext in S/L/E. 

 

Quickly Installation
Install Clover on your usb drive EFI Partition and replace with my complete EFI Below.
 

Keyboard:
Keyboard already be working but the Keys Will be FN+K and FN+P for fix Brightness and Volume shortcuts:
Volume already works. For brightness fix, use the SSDT-Q1112 patch.
Also apply the _Q11->XQ11 and _Q12->XQ12 rename patch via clover config.

Follow this guide if you need details.

Inbuilt Camera
Works. No extra files needed.

CPU power management
Works. No extra files needed.

Sleep
Disable Hibernation:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo pmset -a standby 0
sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0
sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage
sudo mkdir /var/vm/sleepimage

Configuration for MacBook Pro 15,2 (13-inch Mid 2019)
 

CREDITS: 

All this Hackintosh was possible thanks to the indispensable contribution of the master, Ivan, Alias @DreamWhite

 

EFI-v5-latest.zip

Edited April 5, 2020 by Lucatek

[Lucatek]

The Last UPDATES Here in My GitHub Repo.

 

https://github.com/lucatek/Lenovo-Ideapad-S540-15IWL-Hackintosh

 

Thanks!

Edited April 20, 2020 by Lucatek

[VineshPatel]

Thank you and appreciate brother for your work.

 

The problem is when i open disk utility it doesn't show any drive. I think macOS doesn't recognize SSD as i use samsung SDD.

 

Can you please solve it for me?

[Marke2566]

Hi all! I've issues on boot i'm stuck in Apple logo with loading bar.  Someone can help me?