joe10190 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 i have been trying to install various versions of Mountain Lion on this laptop to experiment with MAC OSX. I am a total newbie at this. Usually stops at ACPI System State S0 S3 S4 S5. Tried boot flags -x -f -s -v with no joy. Myhack goes further but then stops at 19 minutes to go and there it stays forever . I have replaced the ACPIPlatform.kext and the IOATAFamily.kext from posts on this site to help D630 users without any success. I have successfully installed all these versions on various desktops also with 965 Chipset without any major install issues so am happy with the integrity of these various installers. Having read that D630/D830 with integrated GMA X3100 work with M Lion so hoping this will work too. Is this a correct assumption? Specs Dell Inspiron T5250 cpu Onboard Intel Graphics GMA X3100 4Gb DDR2 Ram 128 GB Crucial SSD Broadcom 94311 Wireless card Thanks for any advice. i need a 14" laptop to also experiment with mac osx but have no spare dosh. is it worth getting hold of a s/h Dell D630 with onboard graphics ( cannot afford the Nvidia models ) to play with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted March 30, 2015 Administrators Share Posted March 30, 2015 gma x3100 only worked up to lion in 32 bit mode natively. models with integrated nvidia with 965 chipset can run the newer operating systems ML up to current os yosemite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe10190 Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 thanks for the reply, but i was under the impression that the dell d630/d830 range of laptops have been tweaked to run mountain lion with x3100. I was hoping that the kexts would work with the dell 1520. Am i right to assume this? Thanks again for the reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted March 30, 2015 Administrators Share Posted March 30, 2015 if tweeking is MLPostFactor then i think yes. but Herve would know better then i. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 30, 2015 Administrators Share Posted March 30, 2015 MLPF hack only applies if you can 1st successfully install and run vanilla 64bit ML, without graphics acceleration of course. You need to get that essential part working before you can envisage running ML in 32bit mode with MLPF. With an Intel 965GM chipset, I would not have expected you to need the patched IOATAFamily kext on the 1520, only the AppleACPIPlatform kext from 10.6.7/10.6.8. That's a prerequisite to running ML on these machines. For the rest, the usual D630/D830 X3100 kexts should suffice: FakeSMC, VoodooHDA, VoodooBattery, PS2 controller, AppleRTC, etc. I recommend to stick to myHack as that'll give you more control thereafter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe10190 Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Thanks for all the replies. I have finally managed to install Mountain Lion onto this laptop using MyHack and the High Resolution Bootpack for the Dell D630 X3100. Managed to update to 10.8.3 despite error message saying update failed. Mouse and Trackpad working along with Broadcam 4311 wireless Sound, ethernet not working at the present and graphics stuck at 1024x768 i. I am hoping over the weekend to sort these out with the instructions here https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2464-dell-latitude-d630-intel-gma-x3100-ml-with-full-qeci/ Thanks again for all replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted April 3, 2015 Administrators Share Posted April 3, 2015 Good. You can ignore the "ML update/installation failed" messages, most of our Hackintoshes experience that with ML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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