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  1. I recently bought a D620 off CL for 30 bucks, the owner claimed the CPU is fried after he OCed it, I thought it's probably the mobo that fried, but I gave it a go anyways. And I was right, the mobo was fried, I swap my T2600 from my own D620 over, and it's still full back screen. so it's definitely the mobo.

     

    I manage to salvage this much so far.

     

    1) 80GB Toshiba SATA, threw it in my spare external enclosure.

    2) 2 Batteries, it came with regular + extended, i tested it out, they're good for 2 and 3+ hours.

    3) wifi card, not sure what I can do with it since I have 2 other spare intel one from my replacement lol.

    4) DVDRW drive, I found that it had one, pretty nice since all I got is DVD CDRW combo drive. slap it in my D620 right away haha.

    5) T5600, i use it to upgrade my D620

    6) The screen, my old D620 had some botchy spots, this one is clean, and it's also 1400 X 900, so it's nice.

    7) 2GB ram stick, i was surprise to find that it had a 2GB stick configuration, that's worth 15 bucks lol, I already have 4GB on my D620 so it's useless, but we'll see.

    8) The power brick, I needed one since I've been using 1 for both of my notebook.

     

    This is what I think is left.

     

    1) blue tooth, it had the card, not sure if hackintosh will work with it?

    2) Heat sink, this sink was use for the Nvidia base D620, so it has the extra leg for the GPU, you think it'll work on my intel D620? mine doesn't have one for the GPU

    3) Anything else? keyboard I don't need...

     

    haha, just trying to salvage w/e I can get before I throw it away... I really enjoy using these D620/D630 notebook, they're easy to work with and cheap.

  2. I'm trying to install Snow Leopard 10.6.3 (Retail Disc) to a D630, T9300, Intel 965 Video, Dell 1395 Wifi.

     

    I can get a vanilla install using MyHack 3.1 to install but no wifi or ethernet. When I then install EDP 1.9.2 and run the edptool it causes the "please restart your system" after reboot.

     

    So, next I tried to update the USB installer with a D630-Intel-Video bootpack. That kernel panics after IntelCPUMonitor and FakeSMC.

     

    Can someone please tell me what are the correct files and/or sequence I should be running.

     

    TIA. Tman.

     

     

    I use myhack 2.1 and it work, same spec as yours but I have the lower resolution screen. 3.1 never worked for me installing SL.

  3. Check your IDA settings in BIOS (if supported - not sure on the T7250), in the Performance tab. If it's enabled, disable the feature, save and reboot.

     

    Here's what I obtain with and without IDA on my D630:

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    It's as if FSB was reduced down from 800MHz to 732MHz when IDA is enabled, whereas with IDA disabled, the correct frequency of the CPU at every bus speed multiplier is displayed.

     

    What are your other speeds reported? If the issue is indeed IDA-related, having a FSB800 CPU, your SpeedStep emulator might display speeds ranging from 549 to 1830Mhz. IDA is not that important, since it only allows occasional brief turbo boost of a single core, whilst the other is inactive. On the T7500, it allows brief boost to x12, i.e. 2.4GHz of one core. It does not make that much of a difference to be honest.

     

    that does the trick :). thanks. I'm just not comfortable when it's not reporting the right number, other than that it works great :). Now it's reporting the right number haha. thanks again.

  4. I was never good at installing hackintosh, but I'm good at installing window :)

     

    So... on theory none of your device is able to boot because it went straight to your HDD..

     

    and someone stated above, check your disc, or your USB, is it bootable?

     

    that's all there is to it. the USB for sure has to be bootable but creating a bootable USB is part of it, so it's probably easier to get some sort of external DVD drive and boot from there.

  5. 1) the CPU... most D620 are supply with the older Core Duo, and not the Core 2 Duo... so watch out for that, Core 2 Duo is slightly better, you can upgrade later down the road, but considering the prices of the CPU, i don't think that's a smart option, just get a used notebook with good CPU.

     

    2) Ram, 4GB of DDR2 is around 32-35 bucks (that's how much I paid just last week)... so that's up to you...

     

    3) screen. the D620 is equip with the older dimmer screen than the D630... but it does come with low/high resolution version, i suggest the high resolution version. the low res version is just too cramppy.

     

    Other than that, with the difference in the graphic, most of these guys are similar in most other specs.

  6. Link? I already have a Mac and a retail Snow Leopard DVD (Family Pack, I'm not even exceeding the number of allowed installations), so I'm not thrilled about the idea of downloading an unofficial build. The EDP already has the kext for the Broadcom wifi, I thought...if it isn't already baked into the SL installation. I was using the latest 1.9.x EDP. I've tried both the Chameleon bundled with the EDP and the latest downloaded Chameleon from their site.

     

    Appreciate the help, but that's not getting me much of anywhere.

     

    Scott

     

    I don't know if the EDP have kext for broadcom wifi, I disable wifi when I do install just so I don't get kennel panic. but it's up to you.

     

    I actually tried both the charmelion bundle and the stand alone version... both seems to work. That's indicate by me booting up and it shows the chameleon screen. that's all it really is, a fake boot that imitate a mac.

     

    so to start, maybe you should disable everything in the notebook and do the install that way, see if it works.

  7. Hi!

     

    I'm reinstalling Snow Leopard on my D820 (Intel video, Broadcom WiFi, 2.1 GHz C2D, 4 GB RAM)...the new installation method is confusing me, though. I'm not certain which Bootpack/EDP/Chameleon I need...it's behaving much worse then the first time I went through this with the older installation method. Specifically, the trackpad is nearly unusable, WiFi appears but never sees any networks, Ethernet LAN doesn't appear at all, and installing EDP and configuring seems to leave the system in a state where all I get is panics when booting.

     

    Can anyone give me a short set of "Download THESE specific items and run them in THIS order" instructions? I'm not stupid and have worked in IT for ages...and part of what I have learned over the years is to not beat my head against a wall when someone else may have the answer. :D

     

    Thanks in advance!

     

    Scott

     

    if the D820 is similar to the D620, then make the bootable USB using the D430USB.ISO image file... and that should get most things to work, after u get in, just install EDP 1.9.2 if you're on SL and if you're on Lion then use the 2.2 EDP.... not sure which wifi you have, but if you have the regular wifi that works with mac, then u need the kext for it. that's pretty much it. I'm almost certain the D620/820 series are pretty easy going with the installation.

  8. well if you ever decide that the d630 will be your main machine and still have the d620 high-res screen, the lids/screens are interchangeable but you need to also swap the ribbon. cheers.

     

    I think the main problem I have is that the D620 screen isn't as nice as the D630, it's not as bright/vivid.

     

    the other problem is that because I bought my D620 for only 40 bucks, the screen has 2-3 spots that's not so perfect (can't see while the screen is on, but it's still kindda annoying lol).

     

    But if I ever need one, i just pick up another D630 with high res screen, I picked up my D630 for 135 with charger + battery (good shape). So I think i might be able to pick up something similar for around 150ish if I need to. I actually like these units, pretty easy to work with and relatively quick).

  9. So after all the trouble I've had, and all the help I received on here, I manage to put SL on both my D630 and D620, and I just want to share back on how I did it.

     

    D620: Intel Graphic

    Very straight forward. I used the D430USB image that someone hosted on torrent. Then use my window 7 notebook to write the image onto a 16GB USB drive using dd as the guide described (it's harder than it sounds, and it took some figuring out).

     

    Before you put the USB into the D620, make sure wireless is disable, and NIC is also disable blah blah, disable everything that you don't need. There's no SATA option here, so it's just the default.

     

    If you've done it right, it should boot up... run the setup for OSX SL.

    after it's done, boot from the USB drive again, but this time boot the HDD up. Use EDP 1.9.2 install all the stuff and you're good to go.

     

    D630: Intel graphic. Will need a mac for this method to work.

    very similar, but this one was brain wrecking for me because of the wrong extra folder I downloaded... but now it should work, grab the boot file on Osxlatitude for intel D630, inject that into the D430USB pendrive... simply replace the extra folder... do note that pen drive you will need a SL or some sort of mac OS to access and inject the files in.

    Keyboard/mouse will not work during installation, you'll need USB keyboard/mouse.

    and the rest is similar to the D620.

     

    To get wifi to work... I ordered a wifi card on ebay, it's call the DW1395, costs about 2.50 USD shipped for me (I ordered 2 so it's 5 bucks total)... at any rate, use kext wizard and inject Broadcom43XXFamily.kext. enable wifi in your bios, and now you'll have internet.

     

    My overview of the 2 computers I have.

    the D630 in most ways are better than the D620, the installation is a little bit trickier depending on your luck, but the screen is better, the CPU is better, the temp management is better, more bios options, basically a better unit over all. My D620 screen is higher resolution, so that's the bonus on it, but for the most part I enjoy using the D630 more.

     

    so to sum it up, if you have to get 1, get the D630, it's worth the extra 10-20 bucks (they're about the same price on ebay)...

    I actually prefer the intel graphic VS the Nvidia one due to the lower heat output. get one with the higher resolution and it should make a very nice notebook. bad part is that you'll most likely have to purchase more ram like I did, about 35 bucks for 4gb of ram.

  10. ok it's installing now on my D630...

     

    the problem was a real stupid one.

     

    the boot pack I downloaded from here wasn't the right one. not once but twice, not my fault, i think in the process of revamping the site, someone uploaded the wrong one (not once but twice lol)... I just re-downloaded and it worked.

     

    I still have the older one on my flash drive as that was the one I've been using...

     

    so far the keyboard don't work, but i'm sure once I get in there, I'll try to make it work.

  11. Hi Ufuk,

     

    I've just succeeded installation on my D630. Can you give us your laptop's specifications, namely graphics model (intel v nVidia) and LCD resolution (1280x800 v 1440x900)? As I've found out these last few days, there are some subtleties between models...

     

     

    if possible, can you help me out?

    I have a D630 with intel graphic 1280 X 800

     

    I can't seems to get the dang thing to get into the setup, screen/mouse freeze up right before setup is about to start.

  12. Dear clockwork,

     

    Try to boot with mach_kernel arch=i386 -f -v and let me know where it get stuck. We need more information before we can assist you.

     

    Cheers!

     

     

    hi, i booted with that, it almost got into setup, but for some reason, when it comes to the setup screen, it just grey out with the mouse at the top left of the screen and I can't move the mouse at all unless I add in a USB mouse.

  13. My D630 (Intel 1440x900) installation went mostly okay.

     

    I had to use a different DSDT.aml than the default from myHack 3.1, and I had to edit the org.chameleon.boot.plist to 1440x900x32 to get the resolution right. And there's still no audio, but that's a minor issue right now.

     

    I can boot successfully from the MyHack Install Disk as long as I select the local HDD. I'm logged in, the keyboard, trackpad, wifi, bluetooth, etc. all work great. In fact, I'm posting from that boot right now.

     

    I installed Chameleon, but I did not install EDP 2.2 - it seems like it causes everything to break.

     

    If I try to boot from the HDD it hangs, sometimes during fsck, sometimes shortly after. There is no kernel panic though.

     

    I'm not sure what's going on. Any advice?

     

    If I could boot without the MyHack Install Disk, I think that would be good enough for now, but if I copy the .kexts from /extra/ to my HDD's /extra/ that's not really doing the trick. What am I missing?

     

    I'm having kennel panic on my D630 doing this, which DSDT.aml did you use? thanks.

  14. sure thing, I'll do it sometimes this week, I'm stuffed with finals this week, so I might not have time to test these machines out. I have 10.6 running on my D620 so it's no biggie, I might just go Lion on this D630 and see if it helps the situation.

     

    and this is the instruction for making the D430USB drive using window.

     

    1) Extract the file SLD430USB.img.bz2, use 7zip, that's the easiest program to use in window, the result is the SLD430USB.img file.

    2) Download dd for windows http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

    3) Place the SLD430USB.img and dd in the root of your C drive (don't have to, but this makes it easier)

    4) Open command prompt (start > cmd) right click on cmd and run it as admin

    5) run the command "Diskpart"

    6) run "list disk" and locate your pen drive

    7) select the pen drive by typing in "select disk #"

    8) type the following commands (enter them every line)

    clean

    create partition primary

    clean

    exit

    9) exit out to the command prompt again and type dd bs=1M if=sld430usb.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 –-progress

     

    Before you do step 9, make sure harddisk1 is your USB drive, you can do this by doing the command dd --list or in "Diskpart" check using the command list disk.

     

    that's it, then wait for the pen drive to be done...

     

    since it's labeled as D430 I'll assume that it has to work with the D430 computers, I use it with my D620 and it worked, so I can also assume that it'll work with most D620 (I have the intel graphic on my D620).

     

    that's it, this is just a add on to the guide written in wiki, that one was way too short, i ran into a lot of problems before figuring it out.

  15. got it, thanks. I had to do a reinstall but version 1.9.2 worked perfectly. thanks. The only problem I have is preventing the machine from going to sleep when I close the lid, anyone know of something that prevent the machine from going to sleep?

  16. I'm getting no sound after EDP 2.2 install... I definitely had sound before I ran it :)...

     

    so I'm thinking because it's made for Lion (I read the changes log), it might not work well with SL...

     

    I'm not ready to go to lion yet (busy week, and I need to gather up the material to even install it), so I'm sticking with 10.6 SL right now... anyone have a clue as to what version I need? thanks.

  17. after further testing, I think something's wrong with the boot file off OSX site.

     

    I was able to use a plain D430USB pen drive and boot off a D620

    but after I used my hack to replace the extra folder with the D620intel folder of the site, it hang at the start of the set up exactly like how my D630 is hanged up.

     

    very weird in deed.

  18. I made this thread because the other one is a mess.

     

    so far I've tried almost everything to try and get it to work.

     

    the D430USB thumb seems to be the best, however I can't locate the extra folder to swap it with the D630, as a result it hangs when i'm trying to go in setup.

     

    I tried the myhack method on the wiki, it also hangs during setup... the ISO i have of SL is about 8.1GB, i'm not sure if that's the problem because I googled and a torrent shows that the SL image is only 6GB+

     

    Sooooo I'm trying to see what I can do... why doesn't the D430USB file have the extra folder?

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