Hervé

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.

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!