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I've just updated to 10.7.2 and I'm getting the 'Dock quit unexpectedly' alert about every 20 seconds, the whole system runs really slowly now. It ran fine on 10.7.1. My system is a D630 Intel graphics, 1440x900 display, 4gb RAM. Chameleon 2 VS I thought it might be to do with FakeSMC so I updated this to 3.1.1 - no difference. Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

One to share - a better keyboard layout file for d630's. Should be good for a few other models too. Make it with Ukelele. If anyone can work out how to get the four keys above F9 - F12 to act as F13 - F16 I'd be really chuffed. D630-OSX-Rico1.zip

Hi, This posting was originally placed in the 6xx thread but I got no luck with the responses there. "I've been having a look round the forums to see if anyone else has had problems tying to use a second hard drive in the media bay, I couldn't find anything. I've tried using one in two different D630s now and I get the same, or roughly the same, deal each time. Initially the drive mounts up fine and might even survive a wake from sleep or two, possibly even a reboot. But pretty soon the drive gets messed up. Sometimes it is recoverable with Disk Utility sometimes I need to use Disk Warrior to revive it, sometimes it's just plain dead and requires reformatting. I've tried several different drives, various capacities and manufacturers. I've tried two different media bay hard drive trays. I've tried two different computers. I've tried 10.6.7 and 10.6.8. I'd love to hear anyone else's experience with this issue. Is it possible to make it work? I do hope so. Thanks." Folks suggested I try messing with Dock setting in BIOS but I'm loath to to this without some further info - Does anyone have experience of Dock setting in BIOS affecting a hard drive installed in the media bay? Does anybody have any experience of using hard drives in the media bay? if so please share it here. Thanks everybody.

Thanks again Bronxtech (and Simeonoff), it is indeed switching off the "Dynamic Acceleration" feature under "Performance" that does the trick.

Hi, I've been trying to update my BIOS and I've made a freedos usb stick as per the instructions. When I change to the c: drive there are no files there. Is c: the USB stick? How do I get to the files on the USB stick please? Thanks

Thanks Zeppo. I didn't realise EDP placed a new DSDT in /Extra each time. I now have successful installs of bothe 10.6.8 and 10.7. I'm wondering a bout one thing though: I have a 2.2Mhz D630 but it shows up as 2.01Mhz in About This Mac. I thought this might be something to do with pStateMenu but it's not as it stays the same when I removed it. Does anyone have any idea why my system appears to be slightly slowed down? Thanks

Do you have any experience of Dock settings in bios affecting the media-bay drive? If fact does anyone have any experience in getting a second hard drive to work in the media bay? Thanks

Hi, it seems it's really easy to tip my system into that half-screen state that your dsdt had fixed. The slightest change to my setup and it goes there again. Do you know specifically what causes this? What is changed in your dsdt that fixes (sometimes) the problem. If there's any other help or advice you could give me I'd be really grateful. I've had to completely reinstall several times and I can't seem to get past the initial stage without going to half-screen again. Thanks, Rich

OK, did a repair - disk totally fine, no errors reported. Did repair permissions. Still hangs in the same way.

My current settings for the Dock are: Undocking Method : Hot Undock PCI Slot Monitoring : Enabled Silent Universal Connect : Off Do these setting really affect the Media Bay? Thanks again.

Oh it's embarrassing but I'm going to admit it - it was the switch on the side. Everything ok now. Thanks again Bronxteck

OK, I installed EDP 1.9 on the damaged partition, and ran option 3/7 which is to fix the mirror issue. My machine still sticks at the same point when I try to boot it from the damaged partition. Is there a way to target EDP at a particular partition or does it run from: A, the booted partition, or; B, the partition it is installed on (in which case it failed to fix my problem)? Thanks

Woops, thanks for the correction. I just spotted that feature in EDP today when I was installing my other machine so I'll try it in the morning. Thanks.

Thanks for the input everyone. I got my system going: I removed the ANATEL wireless card. Then I used myHack for the initial install of 10.6.3. Then I used EDP 1.9 with pretty standard selections including sleepenabler. Then I copied in the DSDT from above (thanks very much). Then I removed the sleepenabler kext and ran Kext Wizard. Successful boot into 10.6.3 with a full screen display. Software update to 10.6.8, didn't restart when it was done. Downloaded the 10.6.8 sleepenabler, installed it and ran Kext Wizard. Rebooted - everything happy. Waiting for a Broadcom wireless card to arrive so I can get my wireless going. Bluetooth not working but I think it might be the card, got on on order. I'm liking the new machine, it's definitely a bit snappier than my original D630 and the extra screen resolution is big bonus. Thanks for your help.

Hi, I've been having a look round the forums to see if anyone else has had problems tying to use a second hard drive in the media bay, I couldn't find anything. I've tried using one in two different D630s now and I get the same, or roughly the same, deal each time. Initially the drive mounts up fine and might even survive a wake from sleep or two, possibly even a reboot. But pretty soon the drive gets messed up. Sometimes it is recoverable with Disk Utility sometimes I need to use Disk Warrior to revive it, sometimes it's just plain dead and requires reformatting. I've tried several different drives, various capacities and manufacturers. I've tried two different media bay hard drive trays. I've tried two different computers. I've tried 10.6.7 and 10.6.8. I'd love to hear anyone else's experience with this issue. Is it possible to make it work? I do hope so. Thanks.

Hi, thanks for responding. I tries it and it still gets stuck in exactly the same way. Incedentally -x boots it into single user doesn't it - what would I do when I got there? Thanks

I have a D630 2GHz, 2GB Ram, Intel x3100, 1280 x 800 display - running 10.6.7 and it was all happy until I tried to mirror the display with an external monitor. The system went haywire and I had to reboot it. Now it gets stuck at the very beginning of the boot process. If I do a verbose boot I just get this one line - "Loaded HFS+ file: [system/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist] 479 bytes from 4255630." - and then it just sits there doing nothing. Any Ideas please? Greatly appreciated. I have another small partition called Spare on the same disk with an OS only install on it and this still boots fine.

What install method did you use please?

Hi, I get the following crash when I try to boot with the new dsdt: I'm stuck now as I don't know what to try. Any ideas please. Greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the replies. I'm still struggling though I'm afraid. It's a busy week so I haven't got enough time to get into it properly. Will report back when I've had a proper look. Thanks.

Hi Everybody, I have a D630 2GHZ, 2GB RAM, Intel x3100, 1280 x 800 display, Bios A12 - runs 10.6.7 totally happy. I have a D630 2.2Ghz, 4GB RAM, Intel x3100, 1440 x 900 display, Bios A17. I have a 10.6.7 install (largely copied from the 2Ghz D630) which boots up like the photo attached. I've tried fiddling with various Graphics Mode strings in Boot.plist to no avail. Does anyone have any idea how I might cure this problem please? It seems a few others have had this problem though I cannot find a documented fix. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please just ask if I need to provide any further information. Thanks again.