Hervé

It should be, just try it out with a myHack USB installer configured with the Generic bootpack. Report back afterwards. One thing to be aware of: that Atheros AR9485-based Qualcomm wireless card remains unsupported under Mac OS X as far as I know so you'll probably have to replace it by a compatible model. I understand the PCI ids of that AR9485 are 168c-0032.

Looks like you could have an unsupported card like a DW1520. Can you clarify the situation on this?

At 18€, honestly, there's no hesitation to have... You'd spend more on an evening meal or a night out! https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/5561-buying-older-mac-os-x-versions/&do=findComment&comment=28686

Look at the list posted in R&D->Wifi section.

EDP probably got the laptop to download Xcode, it's happened to me before with Mavericks. However, after that, you should be able to install EDP and do your System Build. I would suggest you retry the whole EDP process and report back again.

Are you using Nawcom's ModCD + a proper (i.e. legit) retail SL 10.6.3 DVD or image? Torrent downloads can be duff....

Use Chameleon Wizard to check the GraphicsEnabler box of your Chameleon boot plist!

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Installed public 10.9 release (Build 603) over my GM build 598 installation. Experienced some odd behaviour with installation itself but that might have been something I did wrong. Anyway, once latest version was installed, everything worked as before. SSD users must remember to check and possibly re-enable TRIM afterwards. ML boot pack can be totally re-used and EDP system build can be done exactly as for ML; there really is no difference there. Eventually re-did a fresh/clean installation and all was Ok.

So, did you manage to boot into Mavericks? For your wireless, open up a Terminal window and type the lspci -nn command to display all your hardware specs and paste the result here.

You can't boot Mavericks with arch=i386 !!! That means 32bit kernel mode. Remove it or boot with option arch=x86_64 and you should be good to go. You can then edit your Chameleon boot plist.

Danelly, check if it's available at the root of your USB installer to copy if from there. If not, I'll try to upload it here for you once I get home. I would not reboot meantime...

Try to manually specify your kernel at Chameleon bootstrap by entering: mach_kernel. If you manage to boot, I'd check what's specified in the Chameleon boot plist (in /Extra) in case it's referring to an invalid file. If you cannot boot off your HDD installation, boot off the USB installer then open up Terminal to verify the contents of your HDD root with command: ls -la. File mach_kernel is expected at HDD root level.

Can you post a picture of the crash or KP you get at boot time? You can worry about the wireless once Mavericks can boot again...

You did the EDP system build, right? Or just installed EDP then rebooted? I'll try Mavericks on a friend's D830 nVidia 135M probably next week.

Then, the current system profile may not match your actual hardware. Try and identify the most likely MacBook match in the Apple list and edit your SMBIOS plist + FakeSMC accordingly. Or try NullCPUPowerManagement as indicated in that old post.

As long as you've set your BIOS according to the recommended parameters, updated your Chameleon bootloader to v2246 or later, used the correct DSDT (LoRes or HiRes) and followed the guide step by step, you should be Ok. Add the -v bootflag to see where MLPF boot fails, but you must have missed something along the way.

If you just need cheap and cheerful, I recommend one of those nVidia GeForce GT6x0 based cards. I'm using a GT610 and it's perfect for my little needs.

Ha true, you WERE that forum member! Then you have nothing more to do, I already setup your system for native SpeedStep. Do you still see the CPU throttling in HWMonitor? If T° remains high and fan often on full speed, you could look into opening the laptop to clear it off any dust residue that may have gathered in front of the fan and also renew the thermal paste for better cooling.

Yes, it would break everything. You need to re-run a myHack 10.9 installer over your ML installation. You won't lose anything but that is the only safe way to upgrade to Mavericks.

If CPU Dynamic Acceleration, is enabled in your BIOS, disable it. It seems it's lowering your CPU + RAM speed...

That would be the emulated SpeedStep and that is available through EDP System Build kext options. For native SpeedStep, which is better, look at the article I posted last May about tuning performance with FakeSMC kext. Enabling SpeedStep in the BIOS does not necessarily result in SpeedStep being activated on a Hackintosh, quite the contrary. You often need the appropriate software (emulated SpeedStep kext + monitoring apps) or one of the recent FakeSMC kext from Kozlek. In your case (i.e. M4400 laptop), you will gain native SpeedStep by following the procedure explained in my article; I've validated it with a forum member on his M4400 very recently.

You probably don't have SpeedStep running, neither natively, nor through emulated SpeedStep tools such as PState. Have a look at the article and/or research section post on the matter to try things out.

Do a search for "ModCD D420" or "ModCD D430" with Author set to "Hervé" on forum section "D4xx" for stuff posted since, say, "July 1st" for instance. Bear in mind that what you're looking for may not be in the 1st search result of course...

When you do the EDP System Build, try the ANV-Slice PS2 kext pack to start with; this used to be the recommended PS2 kext pack for ML until the newer pack detailed and released on the forum appeared.