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Make sure to check the Chameleon boot plist before you reboot and remove the i386 parameter if it ever came back...

A USB mouse should definitely work. Try to boot the USB installer with the ML bootpack.

Tried with GraphicsEnabler=No?

Just try the various PS2 kext package available in EDP; can't remember which one works Ok with Lion, but I'm pretty sure Apple PS2 kexts or myHack default kexts are Ok. ANV Slice certainly works too.

My mistake, T8300 indeed!

No such list here, although I had tried to start one up. The best place to look at for this kind of things is the wiki on IM. I personally contribute there.

You can look at the file, it's totally safe...

Mavericks is installed now with myHack 3.3 + M4300 modified Mav bootpack (removed the i386 settings). Installation was straight and painless. No problem whatsoever. No PCIRoot=1 PStates & CStates enabled No IOATAFamily/NullPowerManager/CPUMonitor/TSCSync/SleepEnabler kexts Just FakeSMC 5.2.678 kext with SMC key 1.33f8 and SMBIOS plist set to MBP5,1 profile + minor cosmetic fixes to DSDT table That girl is dancing on 1st tune.

One critical point for Mavericks (somehow ML too) is the graphics card fitted to these workstations. Dell tended to fit nVidia Quadro FX card and they're hardly supported under Mac OS. So be prepared to swap your graphics card for ML and/or Mavericks.

There are various ways to do that: boot a myHack USB installer that had the lspcidrv kext in /E/E -> should allow you to open up a Terminal window to type lspci -nn command If the PC still runs Windows, look at the various devices listed in Windows Device Manager use various Windows tools such as those listed by Dinesh in his R&D->DSDT/SSDT thread look up the published specs in the user manual (available off Dell's web site) etc, etc. Generally speaking, the main things to look at include CPU model, chipset (HDD controller), amount of RAM, model of graphics card (whether built-in and/or PCIe add-on), HDD type, audio chip, LAN and/or wireless card model, BIOS version (the BIOS settings can be important too). Have a look at the description I had made of my Precision 670 (a model much older than yours) in the EDP->Supported Models with Guides->Dell forum section. By the way, didn't you ask the same questions about ML for that particular machine in that same section last summer?

The M4300 is very close to the D830 (and therefore somehow to the D630), so it would have been much better to use the D830 bootpack rather than the D820 if there was no M4300 bootpack at that time. The DSDT are more likely to be similar had you used the D830 bootpack. Naturally, what you ought to do these days, is use the actual M4300 bootpack. I took delivery of a WSXGA+ M4300 today and it'll soon be running Mavericks. I'll be able to report how the installation goes

We need to look at our various bootpacks. Something was probably set incorrectly at generation. We know the workaround meantime, so the problem is kind of minor.

I will need to re-test DW1390 and DW1490 with Mavericks, it may well be that Apple have now done to the BCM4311 chip (DW1390/DW1490) what they did to the BCM4312 (DW1395/DW1397) from ML 10.8.4.

What's in the Chameleon boot plist of your USB installer?

MBP5,1 gives best graphics performance, whilst CPU speedstep still works as expected (no speedstep when choosing MBP3,1 profile).

All the models listed as supported can be a good fit. Just choose according to market availability, $$$, card size and compatibility with your target OS.

Are you still running default FakeSMC 4.0 with SMC id 1.30f3 and default SMBIOS plist? If so, follow our article about performance tuning to adjust your system's parameters.

Bootpack could have an erroneous Chameleon boot plist set for 32bit kernel mode. Try to boot with option: arch=x86_64.

1st of all, only use the correct bootpack; you can't go wrong, there's only 2 of them: one per LCD screen resolution (we assume you know what resolution your D630 LCD has). Then, check your BIOS parameters and configure them as per the recommended settings specified in the pinned thread in this D6xx section. Have a USB keyboard/mouse at hand because you'll probably find that, even if you manually enter boot option USBBusFix=No, your built-in keyboard and/or trackpad won't be recognised. If you play with the Extra folder (which I would not recommend you do), you need to re-run myFix on the target media, whether on your USB installer or on your OS X partition. Generally speaking, you should install the D630 bootpack on your USB installer using the myHack->Install Extra menu option. That is the safest way to do it. If you want to intall and run Mountain Lion, head over to the EDP->Supported models with Guides forum section.

Only applications specifically designed to use multi-threading will use this logical core functionality. It's an application implementation/usage more than an OS one. As such, it's perfectly normal to see different load/usage per logical core. I encourage you to search the Net about that. Re: FakeSMC, look at our article about performance tuning, it contains some of Kozlek's early and more recent FakeSMC kexts; You can also use Google of course, you'll quickly get the correct URL...

Again, look at the list of supported/unsupported wireless card in R&D->Hardware->Wifi section of the forum.

Update to 10.6.8, then re-run the EDP System Build. If VoodooHDA #3 does not work, try the Patched AppleHDA settings offered in the option list.

No, use MBP5,1 SMBIOS. MBP3,1 won't work. Please follow instructions.

That's just because you have a quad core CPU with 2 threads per core, i.e. 8 logical cores. http://ark.intel.com/products/64891/Intel-Core-i7-3720QM-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_60-GHz You may have to change to one of Kozlek's FakeSMC kexts and update to the proper SMC id to get your 8 logical cores recognised. Right now, it looks like you're running default FakeSMC v4.0 with default SMC id 1.30f3.