Any help figuring out what's going on would be extremely helpful. I'm attaching four minidumps here (with the earliest one being from the failed installation). Of course, the issue could be something else completely.
Considering the install never completed, Boot Camp doesn't show up in installed programs, and I can't uninstall it in any way. After downloading the drivers it extracts the ESD files using the 7-Zip program. To download Boot Camp drivers for Windows 10 without a Boot Camp assistant, you need to download Brigadier, a freeware tool that downloads ESD files of drivers from Apple servers.
Therefore, what I think happened is the Boot Camp installer installed (and maybe loaded) some Boot Camp-related driver from Apple that's causing the issue. Download Boot Camp drivers for Windows 10. Windows 10 was fully working until I started to install the Boot Camp drivers. The fact macOS still works fine and I'm typing this in safe mode with networking after being logged in for almost an hour indicate to me that this isn't a hardware issue. Most Windows-related forum posts this is either due to failed hardware or a bad driver loading. So clearly something else is going on here.Įvery time since the failed Boot Camp install, the crash is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. However, attempting to boot Windows directly (i.e., loading Windows without first booting OpenCore), STILL caused Windows to crash.
I thought it could be that OpenCore broke something, and so I thought maybe I should rely on Windows Boot Manager instead, and have it load OpenCore only when wanting to boot macOS. The thing is even after 1 minute of idling, Windows 10 crashes after logging in. Complete all the installation procedures, but it stops at this page and does not move to the next step. Unlike other OpenCore Windows issues, Windows 10 boots fine, and I can log in. Hello, I have a problem installing Windows 10. I can get Windows to boot in safe mode, though. Ever since then, Windows 10 does nothing but crash when booting normally. During the installation, Windows 10 crashed with kernel security error or something like that (don't remember what it exactly said, and I don't have a screenshot to provide, sadly). Since Bootcamp is just an easy way to dual boot on an Apple computer, issues like this generally boil down to motherboard chipset drivers, Windows drivers. So, I started to install the Boot Camp drivers to enable that functionality. I wanted to try the new OpenCore function that enables Boot Camp/Startup Disk features on non-Apple hardware. The problem came when I re-installed Windows. due to a USB Wi-Fi dongle, it's still a completely functional Hackintosh. Apart from the lack of handoff/continuity/etc. That part was completely painless, believe it or not. I also took the opportunity to switch from Clover to OpenCore.
I decided recently to upgrade my Acer Predator 15 Hackintosh to macOS Mojave from High Sierra (still rely on 32-bit apps, fight me).