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Graphics will be Ok up until acceleration is required by the OS, which can be as soon as you open up Safari for instance. For very basic stuff, you'll be Ok, but you will notice that your Finder bar will not be translucent, that you have no way to change screen resolution through the display pref pane or that opening up the LaunchPad will be slow and possibly glitchy. Try a Ctrl-UP/Ctrl-UP, Ctrl-DOWN/Ctrl-DOWN or Ctrl-LEFT/Ctrl-RIGHT to see how that goes too… Basically, you need to get a supported low-profile PCIe card in that desktop. Here's a /Extra folder for your Inspiron 530s that contains: i530s_Extra.zip DSDT table (from LatinMcG) Chameleon boot plist SMBIOS plist (iMac 10,1 profile) Extensions subfolder with: the tuned up FakeSMC kext the 2 PS2 kexts (AppleACPIPS2Nub + ApplePS2Controller) the 2 Voodoo audio kexts (VoodooHDA + AppleHDADisabler) the LAN port kext (Intel82566MM) the lspci kext (lspcidrv) That's all I use and that's all you need as far as I can see in your /Extra folder to boot with everything working (unless you have other hardware I missed). To show you how close the Inspiron 530s and the Vostro 200 ST are, here the lspci info from my Vostro (obviously you won't have my nVidia graphics card or my Tenda Ralink-based wireless dongle): pc10:~ admin$ lspci -nn pcilib: 0000:01:00.0 64-bit device address ignored. pcilib: 0000:01:00.0 64-bit device address ignored. 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:29c1] (rev 02) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection [8086:10c0] (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 02) 00:1a.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 92) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2916] (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2922] (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Unknown device [10de:104a] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation HDMI Audio stub [10de:0e08] (rev a1) 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g [1814:0302]

Does it get registered as multiple USB modems in Network Pref Pane with maybe a little telephone icon in the Finder bar?

What changes does this SSDT bring to the D630 because the T° issue is with the GPU, not really with the CPU?

As I suspected, you have the default integrated GMA 3100 and that is totally unsupported under Mac OS X. That is why your machine is lagging and graphics are choppy: you have no acceleration at all. You have to install a supported PCIe card in your 530s. It's the Small Tower model, right? I use a Twintech GT610 2Go in my Vostro 200 ST as it comes with low-profile rear brackets in order to fit into low-profile desktop such as ours. GT610-based cards are very cheap and work perfectly. You can actually use the Vostro 200 bootpack and EDP System Build, but remember to replace the Vostro DSDT table by the 530s table I provided earlier.

Sounds like a consequence of running a Hackintosh with partial graphics acceleration only. In Chrome, I've read that you could "disable HW acceleration", so maybe that's the explanation for the difference in behaviour. If confirmed, there's probably nothing you can do for Safari...

It's just a default ranking feature of the forum package we use, which is based on the number of posts made. It's not used for anything and means absolutely nothing Herr General.

Where do you see a download? I have no idea what could be downloaded once the EDP system build has reached completion. You're talking of a flicker, what do you mean exactly? If you're talking about disk activity, that will be the kext cache being regenerated.

Good, you see it pays to do a little research on one's own... I presume you went further than 1st post in the thread to get your modded BIOS. Open up a Terminal window and type lspci -nn (assuming you have the lspcidrv kext in /E/E). This will list your entire hardware specs and we'll be able to identify the LAN card model (presumably the same Intel as on the Vostro 200). You say Mavericks is laggy... but what graphics card are you using? I'm not sure the built-in video chip is supported (GMA3100 on Vostro 200).

Yes, use our tutorial as it is a common base for all myHack installations we support. The difference in your case is that you do not have a bootpack from us though... Do not use that tool for installing kexts on a myHack installation! just copy the kexts to /Extra/Extensions, then run myFix (full). That is the only process you should normally use. Do list the kexts you have in /E/E, the profile you used for your SMBIOS plist and the parameters used in your Chameleon boot plist. Which version of FakeSMC do you use? Better even, upload a zipped version of your /Extra folder.

Placing DSDT.aml in /E/E of your USB installer was fine. The above BIOS link will take you towards a Insiron 530 thread that lists several modded BIOSes. Read it thoroughly to download the most adequate file. At least some people reported using those modded BIOS to subsequently install ML on their 530.

Just make up a myHack USB installer with Generic bootpack and start from there. Add any necessary kext according to the hardware specifications of your X61 (Wireless, LAN, audio, etc). A DSDT is a BIOS table, so I trust you understand it is specific to the particular computer model it comes from/applies to. If you've already collected a DSDT for the ThinkPad X61, use it if it appears necessary (for instance, to properly detect HDD if it is not the case without DSDT or avoid black screen when OS X switches to Desktop). For bootloader, we use Chameleon and that is what myHack will install. You often have to psychologically prepare yourself for hours, days if not weeks of efforts when it comes to Hackintoshing, because you will go wrong and you will need to start from scratch again. Such is life. If you're not ready for it, spare yourself the frustration...

When you install EDP, there is normally a little grey arrow in the window that you can click on: it opens a black box with details of the files being downloaded in green color. Is this where you see errors? If it's the case, then, indeed, you probably have a local issue downloading the files (your own network/cable/wireless, ISP link, etc.). It has happened to users in the past, on rare occasions.

You place it in the /Extra/Extensions folder of your myHack USB installer with filename "dsdt.aml". That'll load by default. Please note that the Inspiron 530/530s is more or less identical to the Vostro 200 desktop, so don't hesitate to refer to our Vostro 200 Guide to install OS X on your machine.

No, no, no, it's a DSDT table I attached, not a modified BIOS. If you want a modded BIOS, look at the Award mods at bios-mods.com.

I don't think those files would help much; from what I had gathered on IM, it's an issue with the HDD declaration in the DSDT table. Try the attached table, it's a known good working one from LatinMcG, a well-known Hackintosher and DSDT/BIOS specialist on IM and various other forums (I even use his 530s table on my Vostro 200 as it gets it to wake properly!!!): dsdts530.zip For other various info, read this thread.

I would totally re-install EDP if I were you. I understand you made some manual editing to the code to get it to work following an incorrect download/installation, but it's clearly not working properly so it'd be better to start afresh.

Yes to both.

Set your HDD mode to RAID, that should do it. Failing that, head over to biosmods.com where I think there is a modded BIOS that supports activation of the AHCI mode only (it's very similar to Vostro 200). Please note that installation of OS X on the 530 has been very well covered on IM where you can find a good DSDT table.

It's indeed been mentioned some time ago in a thread "buried somewhere" as Bronx said, at least here or here in i8kfan related threads.

Tuning setting details are listed here.

The Intel 4965 is using 3 antennas where the AR5B91 only uses 2; there's no power cable there... Just leave the grey cable disconnected and its connector end properly insulated (they normally have a little transparent plastic sock when unused). Check the good detection of your Atheros card with lspci -nn Terminal command and make sure wireless is no longer disabled in BIOS if you had disabled it. You don't need any additional kext for that card, it works OOB as indicated in the thread.

Once you've created your USB installer, re-run myHack and select "Create Extra", pointing to your downloaded boot pack. Do not install with Generic bootpack, use our OSXL boot pack. Then, when you reach the end of your OS X installation and get prompted for the "Extra" folder, just point to /Extra of your USB installer. If you manipulate kexts in /E/E, whether on a myHack USB installer or on an actual myHack OS X installation, always re-run myFix (quick) so that the kext is actually taken into consideration. If you fail to do that, your kext is just ignored.

ThinkPad X61 is based on Intel GMA X3100 graphics, as such, it cannot run Mountain Lion or Mavericks. It could possibly run ML if you use the MLPF hack like it's done on our GMA950/GMAX3100 Latitude D Series. You will find lot's of information and guides on forum.thinkpads.com (eg: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=98102) but you can of course try your own myHack Lion installation for instance, bearing in mind that you need to remember to disable or remove any unsupported hardware like Intel wireless cards.

I don't understand this at all; I've checked both my D620 nVidia & D620 GMA950 and both have running LAN interface with Intel binary BCM5751 kext. Are you sure you installed the kext properly? You need to copy it to /E/E then run myFix (quick). AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext.zip

Process is complete, yes. If by "screen flickering" you mean flickering of the contents of the EDPWeb page, that's perfectly Ok, it's just the EDPWeb app. It sounds like you got there, but be cautious as if appears your EDP download did not go too well.