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We've posted an article about this in the "Articles" section of the Web site. You would need to find the Mac that best matches your own specs, then edit Fake SMC to include the associated SMC key id.

Try a recent version of Kozlek's HWmonitor. If SpeedStep is working, you'll see your various CPU cores frequency throttle.

As long as your install was made from the onset with myHack + EDP, you don't need to re-install. I would just do a new EDP System Build with default settings, only choosing the BCM4315 in the wifi kexts list.

In Network Preferences, did you try the + button at the bottom to add the wireless card manually? Which kext did you copy from the D630 to the D830? If you have one of the latest EDP versions installed (if not, update), you can easily do a fresh System Build and manually select the kext for the Broadcom 4315 in the Wifi list. That'll copy the Broadcom43XXFamilyrev2 kext to /E/E. It works; that's what I have on my D620 with ML 10.8.4.

That link looks totally outdated... Use the official truk link (http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/tree/HEAD/trunk) or use Chameleon Wizard to update to one of the more recent 2.2 versions.

Ok, the error is actually when booting ModCD, not the Retail SL DVD... You used the latest version downloaded directly off Nawcom's site, right?

There shouldn't be any Extra folder on a Retail SL DVD, should they? Or it is not a retail DVD...

There are DSDT patches to fix that. DSDTEditor tool comes with such a patch. It's available on olarila.com

Nawcom's ModCD installation process is as follows: 1) boot ModCD 2) at ModCD setup screen, swap CD/DVD 3) press F5 4) When "Mac OS X Install DVD" icon appears, select it with left/right arrow keys and press [ENTER] That's it, that'll take you to the Mac OS installer screen. Done and verified last night with Retail DVD 10.6.3.on D620 GMA950. Just boot with default legacy kernel as I found that Mach kernel gave me a black screen... NB: Not that it matters to be able to boot ModCD and into the SL installer, but you never mentioned any pre-existing Windows installation before... Is that something "new" on your D620 HDD that you want to keep?

Where do you see that? If in "About this Mac", a permissions repair through Disk Utility usually fixes this, otherwise if it's within a CPU monitoring tool, that would be CPU throttling.

1) make sure you have the latest copy of ModCD -> http://nawcom.com/osx86/ModCD/ 2) make sure you have a proper Retail SL 10.6.0/10.6.3/10.6.8 DVD (if you don't it's not difficult to get an image, but you'll have to restore it, either to a USB key or a DVD) Boot ModCD, swap disc, press F5. That's it, I've just done it on my D620 GMA950 LoRes and I get to the Snow Leopard installer without any problem. That is without any option and with default legacy kernel. Again, yes, update your BIOS to the latest version and configure it as per recommended settings, that'll put your system in the best possible configuration to support OS X and get support from this place.

Installing EDP must be followed by a System Build, otherwise your /Extra is more or less empty... EDP System builds also call on myHack/myFix, so if your system was not installed through myHack, you'd be calling for trouble trying to use EDP. If you want to revert to what you had before, simply reinstated the Extra that you will now find at the root of your HDD named "/Extra_backup..." and, assuming your system was built with myHack, simply run myFix (full) to repair permissions + caches. You would not normally use EDP unless your particular system has been integrated in it.

"Kill myself or quit building my mac?" -> The 1st option will directly result in the 2nd, so option #1 will suffice! Did you try the mach-kernel? Failing that, you could always reinstall that dodgy SLV1 ISO and restore to a USB key the image I made for you from the retail DVD yesterday. It was in the "To keep" folder on the desktop. I hope you did not delete it or wipe your HDD without copying its contents to a key or something... If not, yes, kill yourself. Once you have that SL key ready, you can simply copy the bootpack onto it and try to boot that key with ModCD. It should certainly be Ok with mach_kernel. I might try ModCD on my own D620 GMA950 tonight, but frankly, this is exhausting!

Make sure you have the lspcidrv kext in /E/E when you boot your installer, then once at installer screen, go to Utilities to open a Terminal window and type lspci -nn. That'll list your hardware specs as detected by the OS. Did you try to boot with the well-known patched IOATAFamily kext at all? I would also disable Bluetooth in BIOS if possible; that was known to cause keyboard/mouse issue with Lion which was looking for BT devices and ignoring built-in keyboard when BT was on. You never know...

Start again and DO NOT select ElliotRTC in the options... It's off by default and it's not a good idea to select everything out of ignorance (best recipe to fail). A little search on the forum could have led you here: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2880-d420-video-issues-w-multiple-osx-versions-what-am-i-doing-wrong-here/&do=findComment&comment=22054 or here: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/147-dell-latitude-d430-thread/page-7&do=findComment&comment=9243 or many more... It's just a matter of reading: KP on ElliotRTC -> do not select ElliotRTC.

How about looking at your ATA controller id through lspci -nn command, then check the IOATAFamily kext for a potential patch?

Indeed. I encountered the same problem on an E6420. The HDD was not visible from the OS X installer, however, if I took it out and connected it to a USB adapter, I could install OS X on it. On checking the BIOS, I found the HDD mode to be set to RAID. So, check your BIOS settings...

EDP is not compatible with the method you used to install OS X on your machine. If you intend to use EDP, you have to install OS X with myHack.

Root = 1st level of your media (HDD, CD/DVD or USB pen). In Unix/Linux/Mac OS/etc. world, it is also referred by '/'. folders = branches files = leaves So you basically need to copy your custom/Atom kernel to the very 1st level of your USB pen. There are 2 things you can do: 1) rename your existing mach_kernel (i.e. the Mac OS original kernel) to something like old_mach_kernel (or whatever you like) and copy your Atom kernel as mach_kernel. By default Mac OS boots the Mach kernel... 2) leave your Mach kernel as is and copy your Atom kernel as atom_kernel (or whatever you like) at the root. Then open up Chameleon Wizard and update the boot plist tab to specify your newly copied atom_kernel (or whatever you named it) as bootable kernel. See example below. If you don't change your Chameleon boot plist, you will have to invoke the Atom kernel as boot option (enter the Atom kernel file name after the Chameleon ? prompt). That's it.

Actually, I would keep whatever settings are currently in place in the system works/boots fine. I would simply adjust the boot delay parameter as suggested above but that's it.

HD3000 is supported natively provided your DSDT is accurate. Did a brief ML install on my wife's company Latitude E6420 and that worked out straight away with the right DSDT.

Difficult to say until you can actually compare hardware specs. And that goes beyond CPU, RAM and graphics chip. Once comparison is feasible, you may re-use kexts, but not DSDT/SSDT, starting off with a Generic bootpack...

Point noted. There are other enhancements we need to do on these pages. Whenever we find the time...

The nVidia model is indeed the machine you should choose as it supports all recent Mac OS versions, from Snow Leopard 10.6 to the forthcoming Mavericks 10.9 in 32/64bit mode. The Crestline models can run Snow Leopard and Lion natively in 32bit mode and Mountain Lion in 32bit mode with a special Hack called MLPF. You can swap wireless cards, yes and you would have to as Intel cards are not supported by Mac OS. You need a system with SL 10.6 minimum. PB G4 running Tiger is no use. It is the latest version Apple commercialise at the moment. Mavericks should be released next month (and is fully supported by D630 nVidia). I believe Snow Leopard can still be ordered somehow -> might need to call your local Apple Rep for that. Lion is no longer available as far as I know. Please think of doing a search before posting a thread as most of these questions either been asked and answers provided or are covered in the various pages of the Web site.

Hi and welcome on OSXLatitude. Have a browse through the various sections of the forum, you'll find dedicated support sections for various systems, including the Latitude D Series.