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Hello, I read that indeed. I have bought a SSD disk, so switching on / off is relatively fast, I do not really use the sleep mode. The only problem resides in closing the lid which kinda force a sleep mode, and then I can not wake OS X and have to hard reboot the laptop. Do you know any plist or else to tweak to disable any effect on closing the lid ? I know this setting exist on Windows (Energy settings/Closing the lid), what I do not know is if it is triggered hardware (BIOS) or software (the OS). EDIT : Guess I should have googled that before : http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37991/nosleep _____________________________________________________ Beside that I'm not a big gamer but I'm playing Assassin's Creed Brotherhood for Mac, and it works really well. I am not sure this game would run fine with HD3000.

Hello, Some updates about my hackintosh, your package Jake Lo is working just perfectly. Except Sleep as expected and a glitch with iTunes/Quicktime/iMessages when playing mov video (Artifacts then crash), beside that everything work perfectly. Today, I updated from 10.9.2 to 10.9.4, after reboot my screen went black. I was able to remote my Mac using a vnc software, ssh, and a recovery partition. Console (/var/log/system.log) showed a couple of errors, but most notably : com.apple.kextd[13] Kext id com.apple.nvidia.nvGF100hal not found; removing personalities from kernel. 10/07/14 11:44:02,400 com.apple.kextd[13] String/URL conversion failure. To fix this issue, I had to edit : /System/Library/Extensions/AppleGraphicsControl.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy.kext/Contents/Info.plist Below those strings : <key>IOKitPersonalities</key> <dict> <key>AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy</key> <dict> <key>ConfigMap</key> I had to add <key>Mac-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</key> <string>none</string> _____________________________________________________ The explanation is that you have to match the board-id to your /Extra/smbios.plist : To get this value, you can type : $ Ioreg -l | grep board-ip Or check SMboardproduct in /Extra/smbios.plist Once you have it (Mac-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX), fill the Info.plist file mentionned above. All credits go to RehabMan and PikeAlpha for figuring this out And avin7000 / the1door for reporting.

Hi Jake Still those freeze on QuickLook (mp4) or while using Quicktime. Think it is related to this framework which keep crashing : (cf full crash report attached) The sleep mode does not work either, the screen goes black and the keyboard back light stays on, cannot wake it up, even over LAN. Sorry for the external link, do you think this might fix it : http://www.osx86.net/files/file/92-appleacpiplatformkext-for-os-x-109 ? The rest is still fine, the multitouch is gone, but I have been able to sort that out. I had to re-use Rehabman package and get rid of ApplePS2 ans ACPIPS2Nub. The fn + play / next does not work anymore also. fn + up / down, does not change the brightness while it can change it during the boot stage. (Except for fn + right arrow [kb backlight], it seems the fn key is not mapped) Did anyone find a fix/workaround for this ? Any advises ? Can I provide you with process dump or logs ? I am going to extremely busy in the next weeks so I will slow down on the Hackintosh since 90% works I am overally very satisfied. When I ll get the time I ll have a look at how to patch, to make this compatible with Maverick. Many thanks to all for your contributions. VTDecoderXPCService.rtf

Cool, I will try this on a secondary partition. Thank you for your help !

Hi Jake, Thank for your reply. So here's my Spec. Indeed I do have the Nvidia NVS 4200M. My Dell Latitude E6420 Specifications: BIOS Version A06 Intel® Core i7-2720QM CPU @ 2.20GHz 16GB DDR3 1333MHz 2 DIMMs 512MB NVIDIA NVS 4200M Intel® HD Graphics 3000 SCREEN | Samsung LCD panel (SEC Model 544b, MJ154 - 140KT) 14.0†HD+ (1600x900) Anti-Glare LED HDD | Western Digital Scorpio Black wd5000bpkt 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Dell Wireless Bluetooth 375 Intel® 82579LM Gigabit Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 Wireless Half mini-PCI card (Replaced by Broadcom BCM94322HM8L) Integrated HD Video Webcam IDT Audio HDMI SD Card Reader | O2Micro Integrated MMC/SD controller Broadcom Usbccid Smartcard Reader (WUDF) Dell ControlVault w/ Fingerprint Swipe Sensor

Hey guys, So I update this post as I believe it is more specific than the "E6420 Research Thread". I have successfully installed Maverick (OS X 10.9) I have almost everything working here, here the list of what doesn't work : - SD Card (Don't think it can ever work, Can anyone confirm ?) - Quicktime and QuickLook on video (CoreAudio/CoreVideo crash ?) - Sleep - Battery Status - Screen brightness What annoyed the most (but is now working): - WiFi (Replaced with Broadcom BCM94322HM8L) - The sound (Finally got it right thx to Jake Lo, I stole the AppleHDA.kext from there) - The resolution at boot (Also modify E6430 smbios.plist --with vimdiff-- using the smbios.plist from JakeLo, thank you for this !!!) - Trackpad (I used RehabmanMerge.zip 979.39KB from there, thank you Bpedman !!!) Ok so I modified the package Dell Latitude E6430 from Compatibility & Bootpacks, and changed the few details listed above to match the E6420. This finally after two weeks work pretty well. Ok, So back to what does not work : > Sleep (I'd say it doesn't matter much, I have bought a 120Gb SSD for 60EUR / Universal Caddy for 10EUR) My boot will be fast enough, to disable sleep and just shutdown the hackintosh whenever not in use. > SD Card (I don't really care either) > Battery Status (I have a running laptop with 0% battery life, bet you're jealous) > Screen Brightness (Is it any patch for this) > Quicktime, Ok I'd say it doesn't matter as VLC works fine, and flash / html5 etc... Now the big trouble is that the laptop heat a lot, and sucks the battery pretty fast. I am really concerned about the heat even doh, it is smooth and only crash when readin video using Quicktime or the Quicklook. The strange thing is that Final Cut Pro which I think also use CoreVideo / CoreAudio run fine. Can anyone help please ? This built is really the only thing I could use so feel free to use it. (Indeed the Nero Extra provided by JakeLo, make my E6420 flickering on black screen, until the screen stay stuck in black). JakeLo, if you got some time to help me on this, I would really appreciate it. Extra.zip