Big up on this ageing thread!
Hi everyone, Hervé from France here. I've been a Hackintosh fan a tad over a year having started with Leopard 10.5.8 on my overclocked Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop (which works like a dream). Tried to install SL on that one, but always failed miserably.
My wife's got a Latitude D620 which I'm thinking of "converting" too. Same with my office D630 for which I have my own personal HDD to play with. I mean to set them up with dual-boot Win7/SL (or maybe Lion) one day.
For the moment, I've got my hands on a D430 that a friend of mine asked me to check to see if I could get something out of it. Basically, it's running like a dead dog under XP. I got it with 1Go of RAM, 60Go HDD and a U7600 1.2GHz C2D CPU. I thought it'd be a lost cause, but I added 1Go of DDR2-533 to it and attempted SL 10.6.8... successfully thanks to this place!
D430 was updated to standard BIOS A09 before starting.
Here's my method:
1) damaged/broken middle ports meant the D430 only has 1 USB port left, so USB boot pen/key installation was sole way
2) made Nawcom ModCD/retail SL 10.6.3 USB boot key from Hackintoshed Inspiron 6000
3) installed SL 10.6.3 (ticked off printers + extra fonts + languages, rest was left at default settings)
4) rebooted off USB pen drive and selected newly created Mac OS X installation
5) at that stage: no sound, no wireless, basic 1024x768 video
6) downloaded EDP 1.9 off this site, copied to separate USB key and transferred to Hackintoshed D430
7) launched EDP package and proceeded to kexts installation for D420&D430 Dual core models:
- VoodooPS2controller
- NullCPUPowerManagement
- SleepEnabler
- VoodooBattery
- Emulated SpeedStep
- Latest Chameleon
rebooted off HDD sucessfully -> full graphics 1280x800, wireless working, but /!\ no sound /!\
9) installed DoubleCommand for Keyboard re-mapping
10) downloaded Ukelele and copied Logitech FR layouts into /Library/KeyboardLayouts, then selected as Input off PrefPane
11) proceeded to Software Update, including dreaded 10.6.8 update
12) re-applied EDP 1.9 kexts installation just in case
13) rebooted and was asked to install downloaded updates (I thought they had been installed)
14) Big GULP as I clicked "Reboot"
15) Pretty much a TOTAL SUCCESS at reboot!!! Working D430 under SL 10.6.8
Just need to try and fix the sound now.
Thanks a million for this site and all its goodies, it's made my day! The D430 works really well under its new config. Much more faster than with XP, but there might have been a problem underneath there...
Things that don't work... yet?
- no sound
- does not go to sleep when lid is closed or FN Esc is pressed
