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Quite the contrary actually, the patch only works on PCIe devices but it's for O2 Micro readers. There are no DSDT devices for USB components and USB card readers usually work OOB or not at all. @giang_asl_8, I'm afraid the O2 Micro patch is not suitable for the Realtek RTS525A card reader which remains incompatible with OS X/macOS. VoodooSDHC does not bring it to life either.

The E6220 is one of the best laptops in terms of compatibility with OS X/macOS, have no doubt about that. There's obviously something very wrong with your setup or USB installer but I cannot say what. Maybe you're not using a genuine copy of El Capitan installation app. I've never encountered or heard of the message you reported: "no task-access server configured! The system will not get very far".

What did you create your USB installer from? Are you sure you followed every single step of the guide without sidetracking?

To avoid any confusion on the matter, only apply the MBR patch if attempting installation on a HDD with MBR partition scheme. This is obviously not applicable if you install on a HDD with a GUID scheme.

And please post in the E5xxx Support section, not the EDP Guides one. Thanks.

There's a thread listing all the BIOS recommended settings in this very section. Please read it. With a bit of attention you normally can't miss it, it's the 3rd one down the list... Re: SSDT, I think you got it all wrong. Indeed, you start with no SSDT. Look up Pike R Alpha's blog for the CPU power management SSDT generator, it has a full set of instructions re: usage.

Is your BIOS configured as per recommended settings? You have a different CPU than fitted to my own E6220 but my guide does stipulate that it's not a problem, you just have to generate your own CPU-specific SSDT using Pike R Alpha's well known generator script (you'll find it with a Google search). As such, make sure you have NullCPUPowerManagement in /E/E when you boot your USB installer. If you use the pack I posted, you should normally boot in verbose mode and without cache. So you should see everything that happens being displayed on screen.

Whether you want to dance around your chair at the same time with feathers in your hair and singing wouhou is up to you.

That's not the correct way to install it and that's not going to work. I assume you use a myHack USB installer and you need to run myHack to install the Extra folder on the key. It's the only way kexts will be taken into account and the old ones removed. NB: there's no need to quote every single message you directly reply to.

So you used the pack I had posted in post #11 of that thread you linked? How did you install it on your USB installer? You could probably upgrade your BIOS to the latest version A10. Make sure it's configured as per the D620 recommended settings provided here.

Restart and when Chameleon kicks in, press any key to interrupt the bootloader and manually add -f -v flags; this should then show you where it hangs. You did not say so I'll ask: do you have the GM950 model or the nVidia?

Well go through the file and list your various hardware components in a similar fashion to those posted here for Dell E6220 or here for HP 8560W for instance. There are sites on the Web that'll help you identify hardware by PCI ids and vice-versa.

The overall process used for those laptops is fully applicable to your HP laptop, not the bootpacks. Those bootpacks contains BIOS tables specific to the models + drivers (kexts) specific to the hardware components fitted to them, so you cannot reuse them. Only some drivers may be re-used if you have the same hardware. Other than your IDT 92HD81 (codec 7605) HDA audio (different from what is fitted to the E6x20 or E5x20) and your unsupported Intel wireless card, you've not listed the rest of your hardware specs; maybe you can start with that: LAN, bluetooth, USB, card reader, video outputs, trackpad, etc. List the exact model specs, ideally the vendor + device PCI ids. Example: Intel 82579LM GigEthernet, O2 Micro 0Z600GJ0 SD card reader, ALPS V3 Rushmore TrackPad. Please note that your HP laptop will probably require the lapic patch to avoid a lapic KP. Can be applied on the fly through Enoch or Clover or by limiting CPU to 1 single core (not the desired long term/permanent option).

Lookup existing guides for SandyBridge/HD3000 laptops in our EDP->Guides section. Obviously the DSDT/SSDT specific parts won't be applicable to you at this stage. You'll have to extract and patch or get your tables patched in due course. You will need to mess with your laptop (it's the only way to learn and you will fail several times before you succeed) but you can't break or damage anything. I suggest you experiment using a dedicated hard drive.

Well anything related to wireless and bluetooth obviously! I cannot guess what you may have done in that respect with your Clover configuration, what kexts you might be injecting through Clover or what kexts you might have added to /S/L/E or /L/E. I've no crystal ball...

Other than the Intel wireless which will need replacement (keeping in mind the likely HP whitelisting), your listed specs are compatible. Post your progress and results as you go along.

Please open up your own separate thread if you require support on that matter. SNB FB patches for HD3000-only models are well known and documented.

Well, it seems you got closer since the app icon with the little phone appears on your Hack now. Check your Config.plist and/or set of kexts for any rogue entry/driver.

'seems it's unsupported under Sierra then... Desktop GT610 has similar issue and is based on same/similar GF119 Fermi chip.

I let you do your homework to begin with but: 1) check the Extensions section of your SysProfiler 2) do a forum/Google search on USB ports under El Capitan/Sierra

Is Mieze's kext loading? Check the in your SysProfiler. Re: USB, did you patch the DSDT USB controllers and install a USB injector kext?

Jake gave you the correct patch for Sierra. Your initial patch is obsolete.

Hmm, it works fine between my E6230 (Sierra + Apple BCM94360CD card) and my iPhone 6s for compatible apps such as Safari or Maps for instance. Assuming: both devices are on the same wireless network (watch between 2.4/5GHz networks with same SSID, they're different networks) both devices are connected on iCloud with same id both devices have BT enabled both devices have handoff enabled you should be Ok. http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/04/18/how-to-enable-apples-handoff-feature-between-your-ios-devices-and-mac Which SMBIOS are you using on your E6530? Should be MBA5,2/MBP9,2 or similar. Seems more like a configuration issue somewhere imo.

Avoid these tools to rebuild the cache because they probably do not report errors on failed rebuilds. It's written all over the forum if you bothered searching but you manually rebuild the cache in Sierra with the following commands: sudo touch -f /S*/L*/E* sudo kextcache -Boot -U / Re-enter the command if you get and error 77 something. Ok with 17. Alternatively use: sudo touch -f /S*/L*/E* sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel ` What makes you say Handoff only works in 1 direction?

Rebuild your cache. Clover on-the-fly patches only apply to cached kexts.