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Hi, You can't boot the retail SL DVD with myHack, only with ModCD. I guess you probably have a HiRes 1440x900 model, hence black screen right at the point where the boot completes and the Mac OS X installer/desktop should appear. Nothing to worry about, this is to be expected... There are 2 things you can do with Nawcom's ModCD (in the absence of ModUSB) copy the DSDT from our D630 X3100 HiRes bootpack to a USB key, plug that key in and somehow load when you select your Retail DVD (find which HDD is it and use boot option "DSDT=hd(,)/DSDT.aml) use an external screen and press F8 during laptop POST so that display is on external screen at ModCD bootup and at Retail DVD boot up. Upon DVD load completion, the external display will go dark and the built-in LCD will be activated and show the installation screen. Upon SL installation, you'll be in the same situation so use external display again for 1st reboot. Afterward, just copy the D630 X3100 HiRes DSDT to /Extra and it'll fix things for good. At that stage, you'll probably be running SL with legacy kernel from Nawcom. This initial installation will not be fully complete and some of the hardware may not be fully functional. You could complete this and also run the vanilla Mach kernel with that installation. However, I would recommend that you start afresh from there with a full vanilla installation made with myHack + OSXL bootpack + fine-tuning with OSXL EDP tool. What you should do from there is the following: using Disk Utility, make an image of your SL DVD download and install myHack 3.1.2 download our bootpack for your D630 model (a folder called "Extra" should be created in your "download" folder) mount your freshly made SL image (you can simply double click on it) get a USB key of at least 8Go run myHack and opt for "Create 10.6 installer" and select your USB key as destination when asked for "Extra folder", dont choose "Generic" but "my own" and point to the bootpack folder you previously downloaded at the end, you will have a nice myHack SnowLeopard installer on your USB key That was a 1st phase, so now you need to start again with a 2nd phase that will set you with our supported full Vanilla installation: reboot off that installer USB key and follow the installation process towards the end of the installation process, you'll again be asked for "Extra" folder. Do as before, i.e. select "my own" and point to "/Extra" of your USB installer on completion, you should be able to reboot straight into a fully bootable SL installation download our EDP package and install it If you're not prompted to run EDP, open up /Extra folder in the Finder and double click "edptool.command" in EDP, click "Config" button in top menu, then select "build from model database" in left column from there on, choose your particular model and do a system build using the recommended/default settings Good luck.

Hi, That bluetooth problem is a known issue. I spent quite some time on it with another forum member. Basically, it only happens with Snow Leopard and is not reproducible under Lion or Mountain Lion (on same hardware). I mentioned it here: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1824-bluetooth-adapters-on-latitude-d-series-inspiron-laptops/ The wired Ethernet issue could be of the same nature. I would recommend to upgrade to Lion or ML (now that it is supported on X3100) if you can. Just in case, could you confirm whether or not you're using SleepEnabler kext? It's not required on the D630. Also, try and add the attached kext to /Extra/Extensions, in case it makes any difference (remember to re-run myFiax (full) afterwards). It's a kext Bronxteck worked on to better identify our DW350/DW360 BT adapters and allow BT enabling/disabling from menu bar icon. CSRBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport.kext.zip

I totally agree with Mario, don't put too much trust into those benchmarking soft. To me, they're merely a CPU indicator, nothing more. I once showed a forum user how a these tools can produce daft results: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2088-cant-restartshutdown-lion-or-mountain-lion/page-2?hl=t7100 CPU cache size seems to be an important contributor to these tools for some reason.

Enjoy! These are great hacks.

If you run myHack again, you'll see a specific option for Chameleon installation, under myFix or Create installer. The booted OS is the partition you've booted from.

Why not? If we can get a few systems, a Toshiba section can sure be created.

Hi and welcome to OSXLatitude.

Assuming you use Chameleon as boot loader, did you try to specify resolution in boot plist?

Loss of shutdown capability is probably due to a change in the DSDT table. You need to work that one out with Dinesh, although you could start comparing your previous DSDT with that provided with Dinesh if you know a little about DSDT tables.

Hi, can you please start by giving us your T430 specs so that we can maybe compare them those of the model integrated in EDP. Then, if you need a specific DSDT/SSDT patching for your model, I strongly suggest you make a query for it using the procedure listed here: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/1945-dsdtssdt-patching/

Install Chameleon Wizard and double click on your Chameleon boot plist in /Extra; you'll then see all those options you inquire about. Chameleon wizard will also show you your current version of Chameleon; that can be important as some recent versions have a kind of bug where the bootloader keeps memory of previously used boot flags and options. You should be able to use Chameleon r2189 without issue (update if necessary). If it appears to keep memory of previously used flags and/or options, press a key at bootloader delay bar, delete any flags or options that may be listed and replace them them with a space. The booptacks are a minimum set of kexts and tables required to boot myHack installer and complete your initial OS X installation on your system. EDP is the fine-tuning post-install tool that you run to finalise your OS X installation. EDP will enable all those functionalities that may be missing at initial installation (audio, SpeedStep, TrackPad, etc.). When you run EDP and do a system build, use all default kextpacks that are offered. Your D830 will then be fully functional after a reboot, whether trackpad or audio. The default ANV-Slice trackpad kext does require a light finger for moving the mouse and a slightly heavier/normal finger for scrolling. It takes a little habit to get use to. If you want to change your trackpad kexts, re-do an EDP system build and choose a different trackpad pack. Sleep should be working natively without issue and without SleepEnabler kext. Same for CPU management: it does not require nullCPUPowerManagement kext. So, if you see those 2 in /Extra/Extensions (that's where all non-Vanilla kexts should go), delete them and rebuild caches & permissions with myFix (full). Finally, remember to check your BIOS settings against those published in the pinned thread.

You can update to 10.6.8 with the Combo update. Remember to re-run EDP upon update completion and before reboot. You should be able to use the D820 bootpack, as long as you replace its DSDT with that of the D620. Keep a copy of it at HDD root under a name like DSDT_D620.aml, so that you can always manually call on it (eg: boot option "DSDT=/DSDT_D620.aml"). After EDP, copy it back to /Extra under the name DSDT.aml.

PCMCIA is supported with early releases of Snow Leopard, but breaks with subsequent releases (from 10.6.6 if memory servers me right). You'll be better off replacing the Intel 3945 PCIe card by a supported model such as one of the Dell DW models.

Hi, what's your screen resolution?

You can do anything you want with /Extra folder on a myHack installer, but yes, you need to run myFix afterwards to repair permissions and rebuild caches.

Wake from USB is usually a BIOS setting. Have a look there.

Can't recall anyone talking about a Tosh here. Give it a try and let us know... If you need DSDT/SSDT tuning, look at the research section.

Great news, thanks DaFOB. Another one to the list... Edit: For subsequent ML 10.8.4 update, ML 10.8.5 update and 10.8.5 security updates, see the D430 MLPF guide. For fresh installations, refer directly to the D630/D830 MPLF guides.

ML installation mostly, if not always, ends up with "installation failed". Ignore it and try rebooting into your fresh ML installation.

Lion (and above) requires a Core 2 Duo PCU. Core Solo/Duo won't do. The D520 documentation stipulates that the laptop is equiped with either Intel GM945 or Intel 940GL, therefore can take Intel Celeron M, Core Solo, Core Duo or Core 2 Duo CPUs. Graphics is GMA950. The BIOS info page of your D520 will list its exact specs. Change your CPU to a Core 2 Duo (FSB 533 or 667MHz) and your problem should be solved. I guess the D520 is like the D620, i.e. you would need a socket M CPU, not a socket P.

myHack works properly with my 16GB USB key as well as with numerous IDE/SATA HDD connected externally via USB. Works also on internal HDD/partitions.

Then you my have a dodgy USB key... I'd also recommend you run the latest possible BIOS for your model and check that the BIOS settings follow the recommended ones (look at D620/D830 BIOS settings if necessary).

The Optiplex 755 is one of our desktop systems that's been integrated in EDP. Our OSXL bootpack does include the necessary kext for the LAN interface. Did you use our method to install Snow Leopard (i.e. myHack installer + bootpack) ? Should your LAN NIC still be undetected/unavailable, check the identity of you built-in LAN interface so that we can point you to the appropriate kext. It will require to be added to /Extra/Extensions and you'll have to run myFix (full) to repair permissions and rebuild cache afterwards. Secondly, you won't go far with the on-board Video chip; it's the unsupported GMA 3100 if I'm not mistaken, so you need an add-on PCIe x16 supported card to get full QE/CI.

The display sleep issue is a known one; it also affects the D620. It's to do with the nVidia chip; it's probably something to do with DSDT. Basically, if the display goes to sleep, it'll only wake to a grey screen. In that case, the best you can do is put the entire computer to sleep and wake it. For the rest, it still sounds like you're still without bootloader. You're probably not following the procedure 100%.