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I posted a very detailed guide for ModCD SL installation on D420/D430 in this very section not that long ago. Just do a search please.

Please make the effort to post a suitable table that is limited to the hardware specifications. I don't think the carry case or the McAfee antivirus are of any value here.

How quick does the laptop reboot? You might want to try with option "GeneratePStates=No" and/or "GenerateCStates=No".

Mario, no boot so no Disk Utility... Alexandre, are you able to list your hardware specs at all? Did you try to boot with option: cpus=1 ?

Yes and if you press Esc/Space/Enter a few times, it tends to go away...

You will find that we usually place posts about results of an update of a particular OS X version and on a given model under Research section or Support -> Software matters -> Mac OS X. In your particular case, we have several threads or posts on the matter but to summarize things, you can safely update either through Apple Menu or through Combo update. As a general rule, we recommend to re-run EDP System Build after an update to be on the safe side.

The above problem was solved. This matter is closed. If your ISP is too blocking the EDP download, there's little we can do about it. You can verify this by clicking on the little arrow icon at the bottom of the EDP installation pop-up window when you run the EDP installation image. You should see lots of line listing the various files being downloaded. If you're not seeing anything and end up with an empty /Extra folder, you need to contact your ISP or check your own router firewall if you have one and get SVN downloads allowed through. No we cannot and will not upload a snapshot of /Extra folders next to each model. That would take too much storage space and it would never fit everyone's needs. Not everyone had the same Wireless card or bluetooth or whatever. This is the very reason why we have a centralised EDP system that looks up your model and downloads only what you need.

I'm talking about the indicated section of the forum. You have noticed the forum was arranged in sections & subsections, haven't you?

Wireless depends on the card you have. Once again, Intel cards are unsupported, so if that's what you want, head over to R&D->Hardware->Wifi/Bluetooth section to look at the wireless card inventory to look at potential replacements.

Hi and welcome to OSXL. I see you've already found the Asus support section and a thread to post about your model, so you'll hopefully find and obtain the answers to get your system fully Hackintoshed.

Well, I'd say the network you were trying to join was actually refusing the connection, i.e. not a Mac OS X issue...

Some of the info displayed in Apple Menu -> About this Mac and/or System Report is just cosmetic. Some of this can easily be changed in the DSDT source file. I posted a recent article about this sort of things in the Articles section of the Web site. Have a look at it. You may also want to edit your SMBIOS plist with Chameleon Wizard for other things such as RAM speed for instance. All those are just cosmetic, so no impact on the system at all.

It would be helpful to indicate whether sleep is natively working under Mav DP8 or if you had to do something about it. Can you please be a little more specific?

That particular Atheros card does work OOB (I have it), at least with all myHack vanilla installations (from SL 10.6 to Mav 10.9). I can't say for distros... In all likelyhood, given the description you made, that'll be an issue related to your wireless network setup such as MAC address filtering on your wireless router or something of that order.

If all that differs is the CPU then at worst, it's "just" a matter of getting the correct SSDT; this, in order to get proper CPU Power Management. You can follow Dinesh's most excellent DSDT/SSDT thread in Research section of the forum to extract the various BIOS tables from Windows and send them to him for patching.

Your attachments should suffice for integration into EDP. Thanks for posting them.

As indicated above, do a search on "AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement" and you'll get a single thread with the kext I attached towards the end. Would you be good to rock? No idea, maybe, maybe not...

You have an issue with the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement kext and that should remediable. There were recent posts about it in the E6xxx section. I think I might have even posted a patched version somewhere these last few days. Do a search on the kext name.

I don't believe the MBR patch actually works in recent myHack versions. You wouldn't need MBR support on a target partition that will/would be GUID/GPT only. And it does not sound like you were intending to install OS X on a HDD with an existing Windows partition, were you? Anyway, if you now have Mavericks, keep it!

All details, yes. Do it by PM if you prefer.

It appears it is the FX1700M.

It takes a bit of time, but it could be useful for us if you could post all the various parameters available in the BIOS, in a manner similar to what was done for the D4xx, D5xx and D6xx series (pinned BIOS settings thread). Not the most pleasant piece of work, but at least, that could potentially help us give you some pointers. Keep your existing BIOS for the time being.

Well... you seem to have gone past your beach ball issue but I don't see that little dongle of yours. However, I see an entry for the (infamous) Intel wireless 3945. If that is still in place, it should be disabled or, better, totally removed. Can you look in the USB section of the System Report for your wifi dongle? It's a D820, not a D620, right?

Booting in verbose mode should not be considered a problem, quite the contrary: it allows you to monitor the OS startup and be informed of issues with your system. Your myHack USB installer boots in verbose mode because the corresponding bootflag is set in the Chameleon boot plist found in /Extra/Extensions. I'd keep it that way if I were you. AHCI mode is indeed the recommended BIOS setting for HDD mode. It's interesting to read that you can get to the OS X installer screen with the E6400 boot pack, but with the M4400's. We need to look into that. Your issue could be due to kexts but also to DSDT. Bear in mind that the bootpack we currently have for the M4400 was made for the model with Intel QuadCore Q9300 CPU and nVidia Quadro FX 1700M. Could you post a picture of the screen at the point where the installer stalls?

It's more of a Dell design issue where the fan used on this notebook is unsufficient to properly cool the CPU. There's no decent heatsink either. Now that you have SL 10.6.8 running on your D420, you may want to experiment with myHack. You could create your myHack installer with our boot pack and install SL again on a 2nd small HDD partition. That will allow you to compare both methods.