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Did you verify your SMBIOS plist with Chameleon Wizard? It looks as if the file does not actually contain a serial number. I guess you have the same reported info in your SysProfiler.

For physical replacement, Dell's support web site provides a service manual showing and explaining all details to remove/replace the various parts and/or elements of the laptop, including the graphics card. Don't bother with the FX 3500M, it's based on the same chip (G7x) as the GeForce Go 7950 GTX. So no difference. You may also find FX 1500M or FX 2500M cards fitted to other Dell laptops/mobile workstations of that generation. Sometimes, these also had optional ATI X1300 or X1400. All of those are not supported by OS X beyond Lion. You'd need graphics cards fitted with nVidia chips G8x or G9x to be able to enjoy ML, Mavericks or Yosemite (eg: nVidia Quadro FX 1600M/1700M, FX 2700M/2800M, FX 3700M/3800M) but I don't think you'll find any MXM modules fitting your XPS M1710. It's probably a lost cause to go beyond Lion (or bastardised ML) to a full 64bit-mode OS X version on that old laptop I'm afraid...

Check if the AMD 8000 controller + framebufffer kexts get loaded. If not and if you're game, try and patch the kext with your own device id, you never know...

Look here for pointers. There's also a very good article on CPU power management at InsanelyMac. Sorry I can't provide a link but look it up.

Make sure you do not have any kext called AppleACPIPlatform in your Extra folder. All versions of SL work fine with their own native versions. The AppleACPIPlatform kext provided in many bootpacks comes from 10.6.7 (v1.3.5) or 10.6.8 (v1.3.6) but only applies to Lion and ML. As far as I know, these kext versions from SL 10.6.7/10.6.8 do not work with earlier versions of SL. If you find the kext in /Extra/Extensions, delete it and re-run myFix (Quick) on your media.

The trouble will be finding an MXM card/module that is compatible: 1) with the format and connectors (bottom for motherboard, top for LVDS LCD cable) required for the M1710 2) with recent OX versions such as ML, Mavericks or Yosemite. The XPS M1710 was available with either a 256Mo GeForce Go 7900 GS or a 512Mo GeForce Go 7950 GTX card. I think the Inspiron 9400 had similar cards. I have previously installed OS X on a HP EliteBook 8560w that had such type of MXM graphics card but different manufacturers seem to use different card size and different connectors. As such, it could be a kind of "Mission Impossible" to find what you seek. In the HP workstation, the card was based on nVidia Quadro 1000M GPU and a card based on nVidia Quadro 2000M also exists. The Quadro 1000M was fully supported under Mavericks and presumably also under Mavericks (but I never verified this). I guess the same would extend to the Quadro 2000M.

I'm afraid this nVidia GPU would only be supported up to Lion, not beyond. Starting with Mountain Lion, Apple dropped support for older GPUs such as Intel GMA 950/X3100, ATI 1xxx chips or nVidia 7xxx. The best you could hope for would be to run a bastardised version of ML with the special MLPF hack which calls on ML DP1 kernel and ML DP1/Lion 10.7.5 kexts/frameworks to run ML in 32bit kernel mode. But you can forget about Mavericks and Yosemite, I'm afraid. Both will sure install but you'll never be able to get graphics support so it's kinda worthless... There are no 64bit kexts for those old GPUs and no OpenGL support beyond 10.7.5 either. There are no workarounds or solutions to this matter. My advise is to stick to Lion 10.7.5 to have a fully working Hackintosh on this 8-9yrs old laptop. For wifi, make sure you have a supported card, not an Intel one. There a non-exhaustive list of supported cards in R&D forum subsection.

The writing of such drivers is a matter for experts/professionals...

The best way is to add your own SMBIOS plist to your installer. Place it in /Extra for Chameleon or in EFI/... (can't remember) for Clover. Chameleon Wizard app provides a fairly substantial list of SMBIOS profiles. However CW is no longer updated since end of last year. You may use another tool called Champlist from which you can choose all sorts of Mac Model and export a SMBIOS plist file. I have used that Champlist method in the past (for MacBookAir1,1 profile) and it worked perfectly with Chameleon even though it was not available in the CW list.

You can never disable the integrated Intel HD because the nVidia GPU output is handled through the IGP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus There are however ways to disable the discrete GPU through DSDT if required. You'll find sample configs on the web, it's been fairly largely discussed on various Hackintosh forums.

On paper, yes. Possible Optimus issue as usual.

-> Diskpart, active partition...

Support for the 8xxx/9xxx families was only introduced in Yosemite. So it's only the beginning...

Simply boot off your Win7 CD/DVD, select the FAT-prepared empty partition, format it NTFS and install Win7 on it. Leave the existing Lion partition untouched. Use Chameleon Wizard and (re)install the Boot0hfs mode as a precaution.

What's the partitioning scheme of the HDD? MBR or GPT? How were each OS installed? For instance, Lion installed on an existing MBR partitioned HDD with Win7 or Win7 installed after OS X on a GPT partitioned HDD? In which order are the partitions? OS X 1st and Win7 2nd or the other? You should be able to boot your Win7 CD/DVD in repair mode, go to DOS prompt and run the DISKPART utility to check the active partition. You may have to change the currently active partition to the other one. You should also see the Win7 NTFS partition once booted in Lion. If you don't, then it probably doesn't exist (deleted or overwritten). Example #1: D630 with 160Go HDD . GTP partitioning scheme with 1 Lion partition + 1 ML partition (both OS X Extended (journaled)) + 1 Win7 partition (NTFS) . Chameleon r2456 in Boot0hfs mode installed on Lion partition C:\Users\Erwan>diskpart [attachment=6705:HDD_MBR_scheme.jpg] Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601 Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation. Sur l'ordinateur : D630CRESTLINE DISKPART> list disk N∞ disque Statut Taille Libre Dyn GPT --------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disque 0 En ligne 149 G octets 0 octets DISKPART> select disk 0 Le disque 0 est maintenant le disque sÈlectionnÈ. DISKPART> list part N∞ partition Type Taille DÈcalage ------------- ---------------- ------- -------- Partition 1 Principale 200 M 512 o Partition 2 Principale 59 G 200 M Partition 3 Principale 14 G 60 G Partition 4 Principale 73 G 75 G DISKPART> select part 1 La partition 1 est maintenant la partition sÈlectionnÈe. DISKPART> detail part Partition 1 Type : EE MasquÈ : Oui Active : Oui DÈcalage en octets : 512 Il n'y a pas de volume associÈ avec cette partition. DISKPART> select part 2 La partition 2 est maintenant la partition sÈlectionnÈe. DISKPART> detail part Partition 2 Type : AF MasquÈ : Oui Active : Non DÈcalage en octets : 209735680 Il n'y a pas de volume associÈ avec cette partition. DISKPART> select part 3 La partition 3 est maintenant la partition sÈlectionnÈe. DISKPART> detail part Partition 3 Type : AF MasquÈ : Oui Active : Non DÈcalage en octets : 64457940992 Il n'y a pas de volume associÈ avec cette partition. DISKPART> select part 4 La partition 4 est maintenant la partition sÈlectionnÈe. DISKPART> detail part Partition 4 Type : 07 MasquÈ : Non Active : Non DÈcalage en octets : 81311195136 N∞ volume Ltr Nom Fs Type Taille Statut Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 2 C Win7 NTFS Partition 73 G Sain SystËme DISKPART> Example #2: D620 with 320Go HDD . MBR partitioning scheme with 1 Win7 partition (NTFS) + 1 Lion partition (OS X Extended (journaled)) . Chameleon r2377 in Boot0hfs mode installed on Lion partition C:\Users\HervÈ>diskpartMicrosoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601 Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation. Sur l'ordinateur : LATITUDE_D620 DISKPART> list disk N∞ disque Statut Taille Libre Dyn GPT --------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disque 0 En ligne 298 G octets 101 M octets DISKPART> select disk 0 Le disque 0 est maintenant le disque sÈlectionnÈ. DISKPART> list part N∞ partition Type Taille DÈcalage ------------- ---------------- ------- -------- Partition 1 Principale 217 G 101 M Partition 2 Principale 80 G 218 G DISKPART> select part 1 La partition 1 est maintenant la partition sÈlectionnÈe. DISKPART> detail part Partition 1 Type : 07 MasquÈ : Non Active : Non DÈcalage en octets : 105906176 N∞ volume Ltr Nom Fs Type Taille Statut Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- * Volume 2 C Win7 NTFS Partition 217 G Sain SystËme DISKPART> select part 2 La partition 2 est maintenant la partition sÈlectionnÈe. DISKPART> detail part Partition 2 Type : AF MasquÈ : Oui Active : Oui DÈcalage en octets : 234171138048 Il n'y a pas de volume associÈ avec cette partition. DISKPART>

Try the attached. DSDT.zip Atheros AR9565 is not supported by OS X to date.

Nope sorry, I use the BT service of a factory-fitted Intel wireless card and added a 2nd natively-supported Atheros card in one of the spare 1/2 size mini-PCIe slot.

HD4600 HDMI support not sorted yet on Yosemite; that's "work in progress". Docking station, no idea, not even played with that. I'd say probably similar issues as HDMI support.

I still haven't sorted out my own headphone output so can't really help you out on that one. I've only worked on getting it silent, not throw out garbage noise with the (then inaudible) audio. USB resume on wake and Sleep on lid closure working now?

As far as I know, you can still order Mavericks from Apple and obtain a redemption code to download it. Failing that, Google is your friend...

Why don't you try Mavericks instead? https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7091-dell-latitude-e6420-with-i5-2410m-hd3000-and-1600x900-lcd-mavericks/

USB fix is detailed in my E6440 thread; just apply the DSDT patch as detailed, i.e. add the code below to devices EHC1, EHC2 and XHC: Method (_DSM, 4, Serialized) { If (LEqual (Arg2, Zero)) { Return (Buffer (One) { 0x03 }) } Return (Package (0x0E) { "AAPL,clock-id", Buffer (One) { 0x01 }, "built-in", Buffer (One) { 0x00 }, "AAPL,current-available", 0x0834, "AAPL,current-extra", 0x0898, "AAPL,current-extra-in-sleep", 0x0640, "AAPL,device-internal", 0x02, "AAPL,max-port-current-in-sleep", 0x0834 }) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } } To get sleep to work on lid closure, apply Rehabman's DSDT lid fixes (Lid_PWR + LidPoll). No need for the ACPIPoller kext under Yosemite, only under Mavericks. Rehabman_Lid_fixes.zip

Keep a Mavericks partition to work from. Will allow you to save the Yosemite one if it gets screwed.

Press [space] when on your Yosemite icon at the bootloader. You may have a sticking verbose flag.

Try without the SSDT file.