Nathan

I got the 1440x900 one working - albeit without acceleration.

The one with remaining issue is 1440x900 - the others are 1280x800. I'm wondering if thats it. (They were all updated to the A17 BIOS.)

The npci was probably one of the things that did the trick. Thanks for that. (I tried about everything I could find on these forums - many of which were written by you) I now have 2 laptops working, and 1 which seems to be failing to output video after EDP was run (or thinks it is using an external monitor). I was going to try some solutions I'd seen elsewhere on this forum for that tonight.

I had considered that, but as several authentic Macs have been installed from it I didn't think it likely. If and when I get a chance I'll see if I can get another copy of the DMG too. Using the 'manual' install process on the one Nvidia laptop it worked (on the non-Nvidia ones it failed - on one it would crash, on the other it would fail to see the drive).

I tried with these settings on 4 different D630s now (including 1 with Nvidia video). Not one of them has got further than about 17 minutes remaining on the "Installing" screen. I'd be grateful for any other ideas. Thanks.

Thanks again. I'll try that as soon as I can (probably tomorrow night). I did try the "cpus=1 -x -v" and did set AHCI to on, but didn't think about dynamic overclocking, or know about the npci setting. I had tried the pack, but with that it never got as far as starting to install.

I'd be happy to post a screen shot when I get a chance. However, all it would show is the usual "Installing" screen frozen with 17 minutes to go. (It looks just like that - just with more time on the clock, and me unable to move the mouse and the hard drive has stopped spinning). BTW, Thanks for your perseverance in trying to help with this. My friend bought some D630s as well in the hope they would work, so your answers are aiding him too.

Removing the WiFi card (which was a Broadcom) did enable it to get further. (About a quarter of the way through before it froze again). It seems I'm not being very lucky, or I'm missing a big step somewhere.

And put it back again after installation? It didn't seem to be doing anything that requires wifi. Is there a Kext which if added or removed would fix this?

My D630s always freeze up when I am at the Lion "Installing" screen. Has anyone else encountered this problem and / or have any suggestions? Note: I have two Dell D630s (with Intel graphics & A17 BIOS). I use MyHack 2 RC4 with Lion to create a USB install. SL always crashed. I've tried it with the Extras from OSXLatitude (it gets further without them)