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Yup, me thinks Atom CPU needs atom kernel or, I guess, legacy/AMD kernel such as Nawcom's...

Have a look at Insanelymac.com, they have a good section on AMD systems, especially kernels (AMD systems cannot run vanilla kernels). Last time I looked, good Yosemite support stopped at 10.10.4 and there was no available AMD kernel for EC, but that was a few months ago. Things may have evolved since.

You need to patch the Bluetooth kext in order to add your own BT device and get it supported. You'll then be able to enable/disable BT services from within OS X. Have a look at what was done for other BT devices, for instance here. It even works for integrated and supported BT chips of unsupported Intel wireless cards as stated here or here for instance.

For wireless cards...

If video performance is not up to speed, you probably need to tune AGPM (AppleGraphicsPowerManagement). See here (includes tested and verified settings for NVS 160M on E6400).

@ssprod: rather than offer your Clover folder + necessary kexts by PM, why don't you post them directly in this thread or as an add-on to a guide? Don't be shy to share.

A supported CPU is indeed normally properly detected. At least on a good vanilla installation.

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/8281-e6220-bios-settings/

You'll need the correct CPU for that, i.e. CoreDuo/Core2Duo (a Celeron would probably require a legacy kernel), but it seems this model is based on GMA 4500M graphics which means you'll never enjoy graphics support/acceleration; as such, it's kind of worthless. It does not look like a good platform to run OS X unfortunately.

https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7807-nvidia-gpu-performance-tuning-with-agpm/

Those files are of course reusable from Yos to EC.

Or this E6420 guide... All necessary files included in the pack.

You may not have any GPU power management.

i5-2520M is supported. You can grab the associated SSDT in my E6220 guide.

I can confirm Bronxteck's statements. Due to chipset/GPU, this old laptop will only support OS X in 32bit kernel mode so the upper limit is Lion 10.7.5. You may attempt ML with the special MLPF hack but it's kind of awkward and a little buggy anyway. Best to stick to a full vanilla installation. The GeForce 7400 should be supported by the standard nVidia kexts (NV40 architecture from memory) but getting full graphics acceleration may require a DSDT patch or an EFI string injection (more or less the same effect), indeed as per the Dell Latitude D620/D820. No Intel wireless card will be supported and would therefore have to be replaced by a supported model in order to enjoy wireless networking. Regarding an installation guide, I invite you to consult the myHack-based installation instructions found in the EDP->Documentation page.

BCM5722D is available in all D630/D830 packs posted on the forum or in the bootpacks repository. There are several versions which work differently in 64bit-only OS X versions, so make sure to use the latest version available. Look at my D630 El Capitan thread in the R&D section for instance.

Afaik, installing or running OS X on PC hardware has never killed a motherboard! You'd have to run on seriously incorrect settings to damage the underlying hardware, like incorrect power management leading to sustained/prolonged overheating or something to that effect.

Check your hibernation mode in Terminal with command: sudo pmset -g Make sure to disable hibernation as it's a prerequisite to get sleep & wake to work Ok on a Hackintosh. If you have a sleepimage file in /var/vm, delete it: sudo pmset hibernatemode 0 sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage For additional tranquility, you may even set your sleep image to null device so that no file ever exists and prevents wake/reboot: sudo pmset hibernatefile /dev/null

Like most Intel CPUs since Sandy Bridge, power management is not entirely natively obtained, it requires the generation of a CPU-specific SSDT. Improved power management and boost mode management can then be enjoyed. You don't need NullCPUPM with a Haswell CPU, just the kernel patch. Your poor 3D performance will be due to lack of suitable GPU power management.

Let's keep this thread to its's own topic please: DSDT fix.

+1 You should be Ok running SL or Lion in 32bit mode but you probably won't have any graphics support from ML. It's old hardware...

Yes, it would be most useful to load this 3rd party kext and rebuild the cache.

Make sure to use a SSDT created for your own Sandy bridge CPU, do not use a SSDT table generated for another CPU model.

It only seems to be difficult with the combination of Clover and UEFI mode. I've never had any issues with Chameleon/Enoch and legacy mode on Sandy Bridge or Haswell-based models such as E6220, E6320, E6420 or E6440.

Oh well, with a little 5min search, here you are: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNA1000M http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=21&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true Use the 10.8 package. If the app won't run due to OS X version difference, just extract the kexts from it or modify the Info.plist of the app so that it matches your OS version.