How to Fix Kernel Panic on Intel i7-4820K with GTX 1060 (macOS Sequoia)

How to Resolve macOS Sequoia Kernel Panics on i7-4820K and GTX 1060

Running macOS Sequoia on an Intel Core i7-4820K (Ivy Bridge-E) with an Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics card requires specific configuration adjustments to prevent immediate kernel panics during boot.

1. Disable Nvidia GTX 1060 (Critical)

Nvidia Pascal GPUs (such as the GTX 1060 6GB) have zero graphics acceleration support in macOS versions newer than High Sierra (10.13). Attempting to load macOS Sequoia with this card enabled will lead to kernel panics or a completely black screen.

• Add the boot-arg -wegnoegpu to your OpenCore configuration to disable the GTX 1060.
• Note: Since the i7-4820K does not have an integrated GPU (iGPU), you will have no graphics acceleration unless you swap the card for a compatible AMD GPU (like the RX 580 or RX 6600).

2. CPU Spoofing for Ivy Bridge-E

macOS Sequoia dropped all support for Ivy Bridge CPUs. To boot, you must spoof your CPU as a supported model (e.g., Comet Lake or Skylake).

1. Under Kernel -> Emulate in your config.plist, set:
   • Cpuid1Data: 55060500 00000000 00000000 00000000
   • Cpuid1Mask: FFFFFFFF 00000000 00000000 00000000

3. Update Boot Arguments and Patches

Add -v (verbose mode), keepsyms=1, and debug=0x100 to your boot-args to inspect the exact trace if a kernel panic still occurs. Ensure you use the CpuFriend.kext if power management fails.