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Provided you have an nVidia D830 (the only D830 models that can properly run Mavericks), you should be able to simply proceed with a fresh install over your ML installation. That would normally preserve all apps and files that you currently have. Needless to say, make a full backup of your ML partition (a full partition image ideally) before you do anything.

Ok, that's what I was expecting. If you get full QE/CI in ML with the GeForce 8300GS, I would have thought it would be the same in Mav, but maybe the nVidia kext needs patching for the 8300GS. Failing that, I would recommend you opt for a known supported card; there are some very cheap models like the one I use.

Configure your BIOS setup as per recommended settings listed in the pinned thread. It looks like you have IDA enabled when your D830 is fitted with a Merom CPU.

Thanks for this contribution. Could you provide the PCI IDs so that I add it to the list of supported USB devices? Is it 0x2001:0x3308 as indicated on Wikidevi: http://wikidevi.com/wiki/D-Link_DWA-121_rev_A1 ? This Lion driver you linked to, is it from the RealTek web site as I don't see a Mac OS driver on Dlink's site? Realtek on the other hand list drivers from Tiger 10.4 to ML 10.8: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=21&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true How about trying the ML driver?

IOATAFamily has been ON for ages, but it's not required on our D630/D830/... Anyway, we'll fix this in the next few days & weeks.

You cannot use the default installation guide since that ML is not normally supported on the D620... You must have noticed there is no ML bootpack for the D620 and therefore no way to proceed with the myHack & standard OSXL booptack. You need to use our special guide with a special hack called MLPF. Look for our specific guides for those unsupported systems in the EDP->Supported Models with Guides section of the forum.

It's because the "ACPI fix" is now OFF in D630 System Build Fixes tab, when it used to be ON by default. So guys, make sure you turn it to ON when you do your EDP system builds. Folks, please note that we're working on a set of revised boot packs and revised EDP System Builds kexts and default settings. This will be gradually deployed over the next weeks.

I've just made a brand new ML build on my D630n and the system would not boot after EDP. EDP is no longer applying the AppleACPIPlatform kext at System Build with default options and that causes it to hang at reboot... To recover, boot with USB installer, then use Terminal to copy the above kext from USB key to /Extra/Extensions on HDD. Then run myFix (quick). D630n will then boot ML properly.

If you use our myHack + special ML bootpack, Ethernet works and you can install EDP to proceed with the D620 system build. EDP will not work unless you actually used myHack as an installer because it relies on myFix. So, provided you did use myHack, did you do the "Install Extra", pointing to the specific ML bootpack previously downloaded?

Isn't it that the OS actually shuts down but the computer does not physically switch off?

I understood nVidia 7300 card to be unsupported in 64bit-only versions of OS X (ML & Mav)... If you boot the OS Ok, do you actually have graphics acceleration?

Can you check your boot plist contains the EFI string?

Oh, so it was the bluetooth issue; yes, that's well known and published all over this forum...

installing what?

No, Darkwake not needed; just the D830 bootpack with a myHack installation. If that still did not work for some reason, I'd advise you to try the D630 nVidia or M4300 boot pack.

Your BIOS settings are wrong. Again, look at the pinned BIOS settings threads for D830 and D620 and adjust accordingly. Update your BIOS to latest version if you're not running it. You can always try the D620 nVidia or M65 bootpack if you want. The machines are quite similar.

Well, those specs sure are Ok; must be the USB installer being incorrectly built through virtual machine...

I'm afraid there are often problems with myHack USB installers created from virtual machines. You also need to make sure you have a proper retail Lion installation app as recovery images/medias aren't any good. Might be a silly question, but you have a Core2Duo CPU, right? Not a CoreDuo? You need 2Go of RAM minimum too. If in any doubts, post us the info shown in Processor Info and Device Info pages of your BIOS setup.

Is that after completing the "Install Extra" process with the downloaded D820 nVidia boot pack? Check your BIOS version, update to the latest BIOS if you're not running it and make sure your BIOS setup is configured as per recommended settings. You can refer to the pinned threads about D830 and D620 BIOS settings for that. I've no D820 to make the list but you could actually contribute to making it.

If you were not prompted for the "Extra" folder (=bootpack) during USB installer creation, just re-run myHack and select "Install Extra" pointing to your downloaded boot pack. This can be done at any time, even to replace the Extra folder of the installer by another bootpack in order to reuse the OS X USB installer on a different computer.

That was the PState/emulated SpeedStep provided by EDP when doing the System Build. That is somehow obsolete now. Look at the article about "Performance Tuning with FakeSMC..." in the Articles section of the web site for native SpeedStep. There's also a thread in R&D->Other Research section of the forum.

Thanks!

Sounds like you have an Intel wifi card; needs to be removed or disabled in the BIOS. Don't hesitate to use the forum Search facility before posting; most issues for the D6xx series have been thoroughly discussed by now.

You appear to use quite a minimal set of kexts in your bootpack, so minimal chances of going wrong at the moment. You could maybe try without the NullCPUPowerManagement. Could you advise on the version of FakeSMC you use? Older version v4.0 shouild work fine, but you may get a better result with one of Kozlek's recent ones. We've published several copies of 32/64bit v5.2.678 on the forum (I'm sure I put one in the Vostro200 guide).

There's an article + a forum post about performance tuning with FakeSMC & SMBIOS plist on our D Series laptop in Articles + R&D section. Have a look in the relevant web site section or use the Search facility on the forum. We're working on modifying those kextpacks that could benefit from the tuned up FakeSMC & SMBIOS plist; that could be available in the next few weeks. DSDT is the same in bootpack & EDP system build, bootpacks are just the minimum subsets of kexts strictly necessary to boot the OS X installer. Audio is not a necessary item as far as an installer is concerned. Re: VoodooHDA, I guess you would know the various versions are available on the Net. Our VoodooHDA #3 is just own index and refers to one of the latest v2.8.x versions. EDP does not operate as an app you simply install on your Hack. It makes use of a database of kexts, plists, DSDT tables, modules, Chameleon boot files and various tools to tune those systems that have been integrated, i.e. tested & validated by our team. There is no zip file you could use per sé. If, for some reasons, you don't want to have EDP on your D830 but still want the files it provides after system build, I can only suggest that you actually make an EDP system Build and retain a copy of the various tables/plists/kexts it installs in /E/E. Feel free to redo your own /Extra folder with the saved files afterwards and rebuild your kext set & cache.