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Dell no not whitelist their laptops; that's specific to HP and Lenovo. So you can insert any card you want in your E6430.

All cards based on Atheros AR9285 chip will work once you inject the compatible statement in DSDT or once you patch the Atheros40 kext and inject the necessary PCI id.

You can disable USB ports in BIOS. But if your PC suffers from physical damage after a fall, you ought to wonder if it's worth using it...

Explain "it does not work"... You'd obviously only repair permissions to /L/E and/or /S/L/E and rebuild your cache if you'd added or made modifications to kext(s) there. If you're injecting kexts through Clover EFI folder, then you'd indeed be wasting your time rebuilding your cache. Anyway, you stated you "finally discarded" the OS X/macOS installation, so matter's closed I guess.

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/9690-yosemite-on-z51-70/

It would be nice of you to do so without anyone asking and also explain the changes you made. This way, you can pro-actively contribute favourably to this thread and the community.

Try and copy your driver to /L/E and rebuild your cache as opposed to inject the kext. R4 (or is it R5?) works perfectly for me under 10.13 DP1 on Dell E6230 and E6440. Same once you replace the TrackPad PrefPane to be able to configure add-on stuff like TouchPad clicking.

Just to confirm that cDock v2 which worked perfectly under Sierra still runs perfectly under High Sierra 10.13 DP.

And the old D630 girl rolls again! There too, I just re-used files from my Sierra pack.

We'll assume it's the nVidia model. Based on your short description, it sounds like you're not initialising graphics. I don't understand why you would need or want to replace after an update from 10.9.4 to 10.9.5 when it's actually part of the update. You also seem to be using Enoch so rather than boot without cache (-f or KernelBooter_kexts=Yes), rebuild it!

There we are. Installed Ok on the E6230 with adjusted Clover r4079 boot files + new masks to bypass firmware verification and running perfectly. ACPI tables and kexts from my Enoch Sierra bootpack re-used.

You were told exactly what to do in post #6 and reminded in post #8. Please follow instructions rather than waste everyone's time...

Did you downgrade to A12 as per the 2 x steps reminded by JakeLo? If you did, check the settings of DualLink parameter: 1) set to 0 if LCD resolution of lower than 1600x900 2) set to 1 if LCD resolution is higher than 1440x900 The LCD resolution also impact the Capri framebufer layout-id to use: 1) low res -> layout-id 0x01660003 2) high res -> layout-id 0x016660004 NB: your LCD native resolution is shown at bottom of System Information BIOS page.

Announced earlier at WWDC and DP1 made available for developers. Full installation cannot be completed at this stage but it's only a matter of hours probably...

I see...

Check again when you have a good network connection. FaceTime may retain low-quality settings until it's able to up' them.

Probably linked to your Internet connection speed whilst in camping (3G maybe?). Try again once you're back on a high-speed connection.

Which layout-id did you select? Should be 0x0600260a. Set DualLink to true too.

No kexts no, this Sunplus UVC webcam (ven/dev ids 0x1bcf/0x2802) is USB internal and works OOB using Apple's own inner drivers. You'll find no specific add-on kexts for it. Make sure you have full graphics acceleration and good enough ambient light in the room.

Install EC or Sierra? Yes. Obtain full graphics acceleration? Possibly but doubtful this will still be supported. Radeon HD 4330 is low-level and old stuff... Use Clover, select EDID injection and the correct AMD family framebuffer. You'll have to try the various framebuffers in the Clover list all until you (hopefully) find the correct one that works.

Ok, so it's indeed a SandyBridge CPU. You therefore need to adjust the graphics settings as mentioned earlier. Please note that there is no Turbo boost mode on this i3 CPU (which is often the case on these entry level CPUs) https://ark.intel.com/products/53438/Intel-Core-i3-2350M-Processor-3M-Cache-2_30-GHz Post a zipped copy of the DSDT + Clover config.plist you're currently trying to use and we'll try to do the needful, i.e. inject the correct laptop SNB/HD3000 layout (and remove the HD4000 layout injection). You'll also have to remove and CPU power management SSDT not meant for your i3-2350M and re-generate the appropriate one with Pike's usual tool.

Those guides are for IvyBridge CPUs with HD4000 graphics. As such, it should be no surprise that they're not fully applicable to your model since it's apparently a SandyBridge i3/HD3000 model. We haven't seen many of those around here. The overall OS X/macOS installation process remains the same but the patched DSDT and/or graphics settings posted in the guides clearly apply to HD4000 graphics not to HD3000. You must therefore adjust the graphics settings to, say, those described in the E6220 guides. Lookup Rehabman's laptop patches repository as well. I think there are specific DSDT patches for SandyBridge on Series 7 chipset. What's your exact CPU model? It should be listed in BIOS System Information.

D8xx are meant to run on 90W mains adapter. You're probably are or were given a message at start-up informing you that your adapter could not be determined and that this may prevent system performance. Note that this may also happen if your power adapter cable is damaged. http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN148385/ac-adapter-error-message-occurs?lang=EN I'm not aware of any Clover option or macOS parameter that could bypass this Dell safety matter. Considering the price of an adapter (we're talking less than 10€/$), I'd advise you to go for it. The workaround you mentioned sounds quite far from being a hardship...

-s flag will not boot your system since it's for single-user mode, i.e. some step by step special boot mode you only use when you try to repair the system after doing something that broke it... You want to use -f -v flags to boot without cache and in verbose mode.

Then you know what to look at...