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Sorry, I have little experience with ATI boards (outside the X1300) and have only been using nVidia cards since. I find them easier to deal with (OOB or with patches) but that's probably a matter of experience and taste... There's a pretty good wiki at InsanelyMac for all sorts of supported hardware, including graphics cards. Just scrounge the web.

There's a new modded BIOS at bios-mods.com for the Vostro200. It widens CPU support to quad-core Yorkfield-CL and Harpertown Xeon CPUs. So, not all quad-core CPUs appear supported but interesting models like the E5450 for instance. X series are supported too but at 120W compared to 80W for E series at same or slightly higher speed (@FSB 1333MHz, E5450/X5450 run at 3.0GHz, X5470 runs @3.33GHz), E models should indeed be favoured for what are otherwise strictly identical CPUs. I've got an E5450 on order too. Running Ok on a dual-core Xeon [email protected] meantime. NB. Quad-core cpus are only supported on the G33M03, the G33M02 only supports dual-core CPUs.

My Vostro200 has a DSDT with working sleep in SL, L, ML and Mav. Try it, it should work on the Inspiron 530, they're more our less identical machines. From memory, sleep was not working in my Yosmite DP installations, but then my HDD failed and I haven't replaced it yet. So no mainstream Yosemite tests on this one yet.

Ok, that's what I thought. The MBA6,x profile seems to give only LFM and HFM + all turbo boost frequencies, whereas the MBP11,1 gives an extra intermediary step. So it's an [email protected] your have then, not an i5-4300u. Over time, you should see boost frequencies in the range 22 to 29/33 (depending on number of active cores).

Just install Chameleon. A recent release like r2395 or r2401 will do absolutely perfectly.

Hi Jake, what CPU multipliers do you get with MBA6,2 SMBIOS on this machine? Did you try the MBP11,1 to compare?

If you have an Intel wireless card (like the 3945 model often found in these laptops), disable it in BIOS or remove it. It'll need to be replaced by a supported card.

Ok, well I can only advise you to seek RampageDev's assistance then. My knowledge of AMD Radeon HD cards is very limited. You can try RampageDev's other DSDT injection if you want. As I said, it's all listed on his blog.

Why do you use PciRootUID=1 and npci=0x2000? PCI root is correctly set to Zero in the original DSDT. Try with GE set to No.

Can we stick to AMD Radeon 7970 here please? Did you try the DSDT?

Try the attached patched DSDT in /Extra; boot with option DSDT=/Extra/DSDT_Patched.aml and let us know the result. DSDT_Patched.aml.zip

Oh, is it the actual source file? Man! I did not even think of that! It sure works now... IonGeneral, did you boot with option GraphicsEnabler=Yes?

Sorry, that DSDT file can't be opened. It looks far too big too (500Ko). Can you try to extract it with DSDTEditor, then save it as a .dsl (source) file?

Check that your BIOS is configured as per recommended settings and you should be Ok with my Lion pack. Your D430 has a Core2Duo CPU, right?

If you need to inject the card characteristics to the OS via DSDT, please post a saved output from IORegistryExplorer (specify which version of the tool you've used, there are several). We'll then be able to extract the necessary data and prepare a DSDT patch. Of course, post your DSDT too. If you're not using any DSDT file, even better, extract your raw table from BIOS through tools like Chameleon Wizard or DSDTEditor. I also recommend you read this. It explains it all in great details.

Last line is "still waiting for root device", so PCI issues. Screen corruption suggests you're either runnong on a BIOS not below A13 or not using the correct graphics framebuffer. Check out for possible hints in this Mavericks guide: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/6387-dell-latitude-e6330-intel-hd-4000-graphics-mavericks/

Use the attached pack; needs nothing further, it has everything... D630i_LoRes_Lion10.7.5.zip

Well, can you give us the specs of the LAN port and Wifi card (PCI vendor and device ids at a minimum)?

In my case it were indeed unecessary: I just patched the Info.plist file and it worked on my E6440. Less hassle... Otherwise, please note that all kext binary contents are normally in .kext/Contents/MacOS subfolder and the binary file usually bears the name of .

Don't use the MBR patch of myHack v3.3.1, there's a bug. It's detailed in several posts in the myHack section.

It's a Haswell CPU, so there's a good chance your sudden laptop reset is due to the unpatched kernel if you're not booting with the Haswell-patched version.

The idea is not to patch the binary, but the Info.plist of the kext so that it matches the id of your own SD card reader. https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7346-applesdxc-sd-card-driver-on-e7440/

Sleep requires hibernation to be turned off. EDP normally has an option for that, well it certainly used to! Open up Terminal and check hibernatemode through Terminal command sudo pmset -g. It's probably set to 3. Change that to zero through command sudo pmset hibernatemode 0. Then remove the sleep file previously created through command sudo rm -f /var/vm/sleepimage. That's it, on reboot Sleep/Wake should work perfectly.

There is no specific guide that I am aware of. Just use the regular installation process detailed in the EDP-Documentation section of the web site. If by X1300 you mean an ATI Radeon Pro X1300, it'll work with a bit of tuning/patching and only with SL; it's not supported beyond. I wrote how to get it to work either in my Vostro200 guide or somewhere in the Dell-Desktop section in an Optiplex 755-related thread. Just do a search on the forum and you should find it somewhere. For later versions of OS X, you'll need to change your card for a supported one. Again, a GeForce G210 is a cheap and cheerful solution and exists in passive cooling form.

You may want to give my E6440 guide a shot in terms of kexts and DSDT patching. It's for Mavericks at the moment and Chameleon based but kexts + DSDT patches should still apply.