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You need a battery manager to be able to get the battery status in the Finder's bar (voodooBattery or another). When you do an EDP build, only selected options are installed but yes, stuff that you had before but no longer select will be deleted.

You got me to doubt my own published pack so I tried a new installation of 10.9.2 on a USB external HDD. I made a USB installer on a 16Go SanDisk Cruzer with myHack v3.3.1 and created the Extra folder using the ML-Mav pack. That's all. I installed Mavericks on a USB external disk with a GUID/GPT partition formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). At the end of the installation, I pointed to the Extra folder at the root of the myHack USB installer when prompted for the Extra folder (selecting my own, not generic) and removed all suggested kexts. On reboot, I had a complete working 10.9.2 installation with nothing to add except stuff not supported by the pack (such as my wireless dongle for instance). No boot option or flag required. I guess you're either doing something wrong or your Mavericks/myHack downloads are possibly corrupt. If you can boot in safe mode (-x), do that, the open up Terminal and type myfix -qt /. That should rebuild kext cache and reboot.

myHack v3.3.1 includes Chameleon v2.2 r2266 by default. There's nothing you can do about that, but you can update it by using Chameleon Wizard from a Mac or a Hack; simply target your myHack USB stick when you're in the Install tab and update. There's no specific pack for your machine, so you'll have to actually make it, building from what you've experienced and found out. Don't expect existing packs for other systems to necessarily work on your particular model. Start with the generic bootpack since that gave you good results at the beginning. If you want help, once you have your basic system working after a myHack build, post us the output of Terminal command lspci -nn. This will show us the list of hardware (at PCI level) your machine has and can help us point you to such and such driver to handle your hardware.

Don't install or use EDP; the pack I posted is sufficient. Is your computer clock defaulted by any chance and not at today's date & time?

OS X will detect the Intel card at low/BIOS level but won't be able to load any driver (kext) for it, so no possibility to activate the card. The Broadcom card will be detected and added to the list of network interfaces in the Network preference panel. KPs are not systematic and somehow depend on the combination of laptop model/Intel wireless card model/OS X version. If you're still at OS X installation phase, I'd say use only the Broadcom 1st and add the Intel card once OS X is up and running..

One slot is labelled WLAN, i.e. destined for wireless cards, the other one is labelled WWAN, i.e. destined for 3G cards. However, you can use either type of cards in either slots, so yes, you can have both cards at the same time. In your case, only the Broadcom card will work under OS X.

Clearly a bug with the most recent EDP update then. Meantime, you can make use of the kexts and plists provided here. Try and keep the DSDT from your original bootpack.

Yes, the bootpack for Mavericks is the one in post #9 of the guide. The bootpack from the compatibility chart/bootpack page is the old initial one that derived from my very 1st Snow Leopard installation. It still has kexts for ATI X1300 graphics and the outdated DSDT. It's not good for Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks. This needs to be revisited, sorry...

Mmm, I can't see anything obvious that'd be out of the norm. Here is an updated and complete /Extra for your D630 nVidia. You would only add a kext if a particular piece of hardware specific to your laptop was not already covered. Install it with myHack (keep a backup of your existing /Extra) and do check the version of Chameleon bootloader you currently have. I would recommend you use the latest available through the Chameleon Wizard, i.e. r2377 or r2378 at time of writing. Extra_D630NV_Mav10.9.zip EDIT - 9 Aug 2014 ----------------------- Pack modified with original unedited DSDT in order to suit all D630 laptops.

Ok, well this default EDP build should be considered totally outdated. Many of those kexts can be either removed or replaced. Can you post the contents of the Chameleon boot plist + SMBIOS plist that you have in Extra? 'just trying to find out where the problem is really...

Looking ok at root level. What's in Extra? By the way, what Chameleon bootloader version do you have before & after EDP?

It's as if the kernel file is missing... Boot your myHack installer and check it out through Terminal. Look at what's at root of /Volumes/.

Assuming the kernel file is indeed present at root level and Ok, how about if you actually manually specify the kernel using "mach_kernel" or "mach_kernel -f -v" ? You may have an incorrect or corrupt kernel reference in your Chameleon boot plist, in which case the manual statement will overwrite it.

That'll be a cache issue. Try and boot with -f flag, then re-run myFix (quick) to rebuild your cache; alternatively, use Terminal command sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel.

Interesting, if you partition your HDD under GPT scheme, it can't be seen from BIOS. That's a 1st for me. Can your BIOS be updated at all to make some comparison in behaviour?

Some USB keys have issues with GUID partitions. I bought a 32Go USB key last year and it would only work when partitioned MBR. I could not repartition it GUID, it simply would not work...

If you don't see your HDD in the BIOS, it's either disabled, physically disconnected or dead.

Bronxteck found and patched a kext for SD card reader. If anyone with an HP 8560w could try and report back to me via PM, that'd be appreciated! I no longer have the laptop with me. JMB38X kext only works if paired with HSSDBlockStorage kext so it's fitted as a PlugIn here. I also undersqtand that Firewire needs to be disabled to get SD card reader to work due to shared IRQ. JMB38X.kext.zip

According to online documentation, Gobi3000 (MDM6600) is used on Sierra MC8355 card. As such, you could try to create a WWAN entry in the CellPhoneHelper kext based on existing Sierra entries.

I've never heard of a Hack that had issue with display sleep or screensaver. Did you configure those through the control panel? Sleep does not appear to work on the E6410, as indicated in the published guide. You did not say which model you have, but consider that, if it does not work for the nVidia model, it has even less chances to work on the Intel HD model as sleep-related process (especially wake function) does take graphics into consideration.

There is no difference whether you create your myHack USB installer on a real Mac or a Hack. If this new stick is not functional, I'd recommend you recreate it again, not forgetting to install the bootpack (install Extra) and, if necessary, Chameleon. Now, it would also help to know what the problem is with this stick... You say it's not loading, but what do you actually mean? Chameleon bootloader not loading? in which case reinstall Chameleon on the stick, or myHack installer not reaching OS X installer screen? in which case, boot with -v and report on the eventual error displayed on the screen.

Well, I only know of this because Bronxteck explained this to me, so I'm not really the person to be thanked at all. Personally, I found shims don't really help cooling the nVidia chip much better. They run hot, it's just a fact of life and they all fail at some point. Mine has yet to fail, but I know it will and I know what to do the day it does.

No, that's wrong. Read up the dedicated thread in R&D section for the values that apply to the D830 nVidia and follow the procedure detailed in the article to make your changes.

Read up the article on the matter in the Articles pages of the web site. It's also mentioned in the dedicated R&D thread that lists recommended & tested settings.

Is your laptop switching on at all? If it seems dead, you could try baking the bare motherboard 10mins in the oven. Remove all removable items of course (RAM, CPU, daughter board such as modems, plastic labels, etc.). Did it myself 4 days ago on a totally different machine and I resuscitated an effectively dead laptop! It's quite amazing this baking procedure... preheat the oven at 200°C/400°F if possible (but not mandatory), sprinkle add-on chips such as GPU with a mixture of acetone/violin resin (roughly 90% acetone/10% resin that you'll mix in a glass) place the mobo on something non-metallic (I placed mine on a mini cake rubber tray) bake it 10min, keeping the oven on turn oven off after 10min and crank the door open let the motherboard cool down For me, 15mins later, I had a fully functional laptop brought back from the dead (it was not even switching on before)!