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you need to update your BIOS to the last one (A09 or A10 from memory) because that is what our DSDT files are based on. If, for some reasons and as you described it, myHack's "post-install" does not work/run as it should, I can suggest the following: reboot off your USB installer once at the SL installation main screen, do not proceed with any installation but click on Tools, select myHack and then manually do the "install Extra", "install myHack utilities", "install Chameleon" and "remove problematic extensions". I believe that will get you set with SL.

Downloading without login in (i.e. as Guest) works just fine: I've done several consecutive downloads from different machines without any issue... Also, I'm pretty sure we have various links to Nawcom's repository (for direct access to files) on this forum. You have to do a search though.

Ha, looks like Conti took it offline. In that case, just update your USB installer to Chameleon r2248 or above using Chameleon Wizard. I've posted 2 threads about it in Announcement and EDP bug sections.

tuh tuh tuh, you have to be a little more persistent... and God knows you'll need quite a lot of patience with Hackintoshing! I really don't see the issue with the link below, so I don't understand what you're on about osx86.net: http://www.osx86.net/view/2298-nawcom_modcd_0.3.2.html I think you mistakenly ran too quickly into bad conclusions...

I just heard you need to use myHack v3.1.2, not 3.2 Beta8 which apparently has an issue with SL.

Make a temp SL installation with Nawcom's ModCD. It won't be perfect, but it'll give you the sufficient basis to create your myHack installer. ModCD comes as an ISO image that you burn to a CD/DVD. That gives you a bootable disc with which you can use either the Apple retail Snow Leopard DVD (10.6.0, 10.6.3, possibly 10.6.8) or a DMG image restored to HDD or USB key. Look it up on the forum, I mentioned this several times in the past.

Which version of FakeSMC + HWMonitor do you run? The latest appears safe to use: 5.2.755. Make sure to edit the FakeSMC plist to reflect the correct Mac model (or closest) and chose the corresponding SMBIOS plist as detailed in the performance tuning article.

SD card reader will never work in Mac OS X: it shares an IRQ with the 10/100 LAN port and Mac OS X does not support that. Even when you disable the LAN in BIOS, the SD card reader never works properly; you can insert a card and it gets detected, however it'll remain unreadable no matter what you do. Intel wireless cards are not supported at all in Mac OS X; make sure you only use those supported cards like the Dell DW1390 (a Broadcom-based model that works OOB in Mac OS X ). I don't know about Fingerprint support, never had a D4xx that had one. There's no PCMCIA support after 10.6.6. I did some extensive tests last year and noticed that you can get it to work in subsequent SL releases (at least with some cards - I tested it with an old 2xUSB 2.0 Cardbus adapter) to the detriment of network connectivity. It's either or, but they will no coincide. Hot plugging did not seem to be supported either. All the rest works (bluetooth, wireless, LAN, sleep & wake, audio, LCD brightness, trackpad, USB, etc.) Now you know what to expect

If you already have myHack installed on your machine, yes, you can simply add the missing kexts or replace your /Extra folder by the boot pack for your specific model. Then run myHack-myFix (full) to repair permissions and rebuild kext cache. On reboot, you should be Ok and good to install EDP and do a System Build. If you do not have myHack, what you can do is: copy the LAN kext to /System/Library/Extensions open up Terminal from Utilities folder and type: sudo chown -R 0:0 sudo chmod -R 755 touch /System/Library/Extensions Reboot and you should have LAN working.

You can extract your DSDT with Chameleon Wizard, if you do not already use one. You can also use DSDTEditor too (available off Olaria forum) or follow the process detailed by Dinesh in his DSDT/SSDT thread in Research section of the forum.

Sounds like your video problems come from lack of DSDT and use of distros (iFail, Kalyway, ...). Use our bootpack and myHack to create your USB installer for a full Vanilla installation, then follow up with EDP fine-tuning. Everything should be Ok then. Read-up the documentation provided in EDP pages of the web site. Re: wireless, which card do you have exactly? You can easily check that by opening the little door under the D420: you'll see the card, which will have the model on the sticker. There's a non-exhaustive list of supported/unsupported cards here: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2120-supportedunsupported-wireless-cards-inventory/?p=16194

It's the fact that you're using a distro (iFail) without a specific DSDT for your D830. Boot it with video output on an external screen (press Fn-F8 right at the very beginning) and I bet that display would revert to built-in LCD at switch to desktop. You should use our bootpack and proceed with a Vanilla Mac OS X installation with myHack, then follow with EDP tuning, i.e. the OSXL procedure. Look up for the documentation in our EDP pages on the web site. Please note that GM965 is the chipset that all D830 have. By default, this chipset includes GMA X3100 graphics which, I assume, is your case. Some D830 have discrete add-on nVidia graphics (NVS 135M/NVS 140M) instead, which are much better. When you use our bootpack, make sure to pick up the one with correct graphics chip + screen resolution that matches your LCD (the DSDT slightly differs) in the case of X3100 graphics.

Try and use the /Extra from your previous Lion installation as boot pack. I would not use the DSDT of a given computer on another one, unless it is really identical hardware wise; this is not entirely the case between D630 and Inspiron 1525.

When you say you have no NIC, I assume you're talking about the on-board 10/100Mb Ethernet port. You should use our bootpack as it contains the kext for the on-board LAN: check your /Extra/Extensions folder and it should contain something like BCM5722D.kext If it does not, that would explain your issue.

Sometimes, you have to go to the audio pref pane and manually select the analog output; then, let there be sound!

Hi, what's in your /Extra folder? Did you try boot options such as npci=0x2000 or PciRoot=1 or -x ? This laptop runs on GMA X3100 graphics which is not supported by ML. As such, you have no native graphics support, except if you apply MLPF hack on that installation. You can have a look for details in the various guides I've published in the relevant section, especially those for D630 X3100 and D620 nVidia.

Hi, A few questions: which BIOS version is your D620 running? did you configure the BIOS as per recommended settings? do you have an Intel wireless card? If so, disabled it or take it out as it's unsupported and it'll need to be replaced what does the KP show?

I guess it depends on the model/brand of SSD; they're not all equal.

EDP provides other battery management kexts if required. Look in /Extra/storage/kexts/battery

You need that one: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

You'll notice the injected device properties in Jake's Chameleon boot plist. That may not suit your own HD4000, so you should try one of the other device properties lines that can be used. It depends entirely on your particular hardware. PS: stick to Chameleon, you'll get better support here.

Which Chameleon version are you using? You need a version that supports HD4000 (i.e. where it's been injected) and then maybe inject device properties in your boot plist. I've no experience with HD4000, but I found it did not use to be supported by Mac OS X until some time last year. I'm sure experts will reply here soon, but you can start by reading these pages to get more information: Intel HD4000 QE/CI Acceleration http://www.nikvdp.com/technotes/hackintosh-customac-getting-a-ga-h77-ds3h-with-intel-i7-3770-working-not-as-easy-as-one-would-expect/

What are your Chameleon boot plist parameters? Are they similar on HDD or USB key?

Isn't numeric keypad handled by keyboard selection in Language & Text Pref Pane->input sources, where you can select numerical, extended or PC keyboard? You can also get better keyboard support by using the layouts provided in a tool called Ukelele. That Calc button would normally have a soft key attached to it. Unless you can program it like in Windows, I doubt it'll work natively... Unless tools such as DoubleCommand support it.

Is hibernation mode set to 0 ? Check with Terminal command: sudo pmset -g