PatrickVeryGood Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Hi, im trying to hackintosh this Acer Aspire 7741Z-4643 and im currently running into two problems, which are Yosemite doesnt seem to see my network card, and the second issue is the vram is only showing 3mb. CPU: Intel Pentium P6100 Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics Network: 54.03345.421 (Which is what i found on the card itself) The ethernet currently is not working also Full list of specs: http://www.lapspecs.com/detail/acer+aspire+7741z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted October 7, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 7, 2019 Pentium P6100 is Arrandale generation so its (1st gen) Intel HD iGPU may only be supported if it carries id 8086:0042 or 8086:0046. Then, support will depend on the video connector used for your laptop: eDP or LVDS. You'll have to consult the bible on the matter at InsanelyMac. If the Intel HD iGPU of this Arrandale Pentium is not supported, you'd have no support for graphics and you'd therefore have to forget about OS X on this platform. Also note that, this Pentium P6100 not being SSE4 capable, at best you'd be limited to El Capitan 10.11 if at all possible. All in all and this applies to your Ethernet and Wifi cards too, you're going to have to identify your hardware a little better than that site provides in terms of specs. You can either look at each main hardware component individually through Windows Device Manager and look at the hardware id information available in the driver's tabs. Failing that, use well-known tools such as CPU-Z or Aida64 to create a full report on your laptop's components. Alternatively, now that you run Yosemite (albeit in limping mode), you may: run IOregistryExplorer app, save its output, compress it and attach it here open up your SysProfiler (Apple menu->System Information), save its output, compress it and attach it here These should provide us with your full system's specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted October 7, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 7, 2019 Quick Google search (don't be shy on that front...) on "Acer InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n" led me here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/579491/acer-aspire-7741g;-invilink-nplify-ieee-80211-bgn-drivers-needed/ If you confirm Atheros AR5B97 chip (168c:002e) on your side, you may lookup compatibility with OS X here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickVeryGood Posted October 7, 2019 Author Share Posted October 7, 2019 Ok i will check the wifi card right now but for the graphics card is there a boot flag that i can load with that i can test? Also i got ethernet to work, i just had to restart the computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted October 7, 2019 Administrators Share Posted October 7, 2019 No, there is no "boot flag"... As I said, identify your iGPU id then read the Bible on 1st gen Intel HD at InsanelyMac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickVeryGood Posted October 7, 2019 Author Share Posted October 7, 2019 Ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickVeryGood Posted October 7, 2019 Author Share Posted October 7, 2019 ok so i can confirm that the gpu and wifi card are the same as stated, and i am going to boot into my live ubuntu flash drive and check the connector right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickVeryGood Posted October 7, 2019 Author Share Posted October 7, 2019 Yes, the connector is LVDS enabled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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