Monterey OpenCore EFI folder for Dell Vostro 14-5480

Disclaimer: This repository is for documentation and storage purpose only. Don't use the same EFI folder for your machine even if it's the same model. This Readme will provide you the informations about what is included, and you should read this alongside with Dortarina's OpenCore Install Guide and Dortarina's OpenCore Post-Install to understand more about what is used here.

Disclaimer 2: This repository is for Monterey only.

This is the EFI folder I've made for my (old) laptop to run Hackintosh based on this extremely helpful guide from Dortarina team.

The Hackintosh community is amazing.

If you've come to this repository and have any question or issue about this repository only, please feel free to open an issue. Please don't ask me to troubleshoot your installation.

General information

Laptop specs

Components	Name / Type
Model	Dell Vostro 14-5480
CPU	Intel Core i5-5200U
iGPU	Intel HD Graphics 5500
dGPU (unsupported in MacOS)	Nvidia Geforce 830M
RAM	8GB DDR3L 1600Mhz (originally 4GB)
SATA SSD	1TB Samsung 870 EVO (originally HDD)

Other notable stuff

(These will help a lot in finding Kexts)

Components	Description
Keyboard & Touchpad	PS2 Connection
Audio codec	Realtek ALC3241 (ALC290)
Wi-Fi card	Intel Wireless-N 7265
Ethernet	Realtek Gigabit Ethernet (RTL8111)

OpenCore version

Components	Version
OpenCorePkg	8.0.3

Not working

• Sleep (S3). It should be the Nvidia GPU that causes the problem but I have tried multiple ways to troubleshoot but no luck.

Working

Pretty much everything else.

Firmware Drivers

Stored in /EFI/OC/Drivers

Must haves (to boot)

• HfsPlus.efi
• OpenRuntime.efi

Extra files:

• OpenCanopy.efi: beauty treatment.
• ResetNvramEntry.efi: adds an option to reset NVRAM on the OpenCore OS select screen (press Space to show).

Kexts

Stored in /EFI/OC/Kexts

Must haves (to boot)

• Lilu.kext
• VirtualSMC.kext

VirtualSMC Plugins

• SMCProcessor.kext
• SMCSuperIO.kext
• SMCBatteryManager.kext
• SMCDellSensors.kext (probably not needed)

Graphics

• WhateverGreen.kext

Audio

• AppleALC.kext

Ethernet

• RealtekRTL8111.kext

USB

These kexts are for USB mapping on my own machine, please generate your own UTBMap.kext using this guide.

• USBToolBox.kext
• UTBMap.kext

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

• BlueToolFixup.kext (Bluetooth)
• AirportItlwm.kext (Wi-Fi)

Keyboard & Trackpad

• VoodooPS2Controller.kext

Battery

• ECEnabler.kext (Without this the OS can't read battery status on my machine)

Realtek Card Reader

• RealtekCardReader.kext
• RealtekCardReaderFriend.kext (To show it on System Information)

SSDTs

Stored in /EFI/OC/ACPI

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config.plist

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