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I'm having a problem getting OSX 10.6.5 to run on a D630. Any help would be appreciated. The story so far - A friend's D620 Hackintosh 10.6.5 failed so I got her a replacement D630 and put in her old, working Hackintosh HD. The D630 wouldn't boot from the HD so I reinstalled 10.6.5 and the Dell_Latitude_D630-intel-sl Extra but I get the 'You need to restart your computer' message early when I try to boot and if I start in single user mode I see this -

I'm just using the predefined settings. The only thing I've added is Chameleon Wizard as Hervé suggested. Do you think it would be worthwhile cloning the HD, wiping it then re-installing the OS and finally, migrating everything back? It would take a while but would it stand a chance of working?

I've tried disabling Bluetooth in the BIOS but it made no difference. I'm not sure what to do with the USB bus though. My D630 used to go to sleep but wouldn't wake and now it only pretends to got to sleep and still won't wake!

I know. It doesn't do that now but it did before. ???

It's OK as I'm using a D630. Right, I've found Chameleon Wizard but I'm afraid that using your settings didn't work. In fact my laptop didn't seem to achieve sleep at all as, although the screen went blank, the fan continued to run constantly.

Thanks but, I'm afraid that I cannot find the Chameleon wizard in the Extra folder. I've searched my entire laptop and I cannot see it. I can't find it on my D830 either. All I can find is the Chameleon-Wizard folder, its cache, and lots of associated files

I am sorry to report that neither Hervé's suggestions or the predefined settings with or without disabling hibernation work. My D630 just won't wake from sleep.

Thanks, that's got the USB pen installer working. Now to get my D630 going again and finally test Hervé's sleep suggestion.

MyHack doesn't ask for a bootpack when making the installer. Should I use it to install the relevant extra after it has made the USB drive?

I'm sorry to take so long to get back to the forum but I'm having unexpected problems with my setups. I made the changes that Hervé suggested to my D630 but since then it has refused to boot. It just hangs forever with the Apple logo on the screen. I don't think Hervé's changes are the cause of my problems though. So, I dug out my installer USB drive with the intention of booting from that and running myfix on my D630 however, just after the Apple logo appeared on the screen, I got the message that my machine needed to be restarted and that now happens every time I try to boot from it. To date I am stuck in this conundrum. I cannot boot from the HD or the installer USB drive. I have extracted the HD and run myfix on it from my Mac but that doesn't help. I have made a new installer but that just acts like the other one and tells me I needed to reboot. I am baffled by this. Even more puzzling is that neither my old or new installers will now boot my D630 or my D830! I don't understand this as I used the old installer to set the laptops up in the first place. I am stumped by this particularly by why the USB installers won't work any more! I just followed the directions here - http://myhack.sojugarden.com/guide/

@Bronxteck - I've just tried sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 but it still wouldn't wake from sleep. @Hervé- After doing what Bronxteck suggested I re-applied the hibernation fix and, it still won't wake from sleep. Hmmm... Maybe I'm jinxed!

I don't have a D620 to hand right now so I'm trying again on a D630. The BIOS is D630_A18 and it's the Intel 1280 x 800 screen. I've just updated to EDP 431 and applied the predefined settings for that machine. I ran the required Terminal commands, booted into the BIOS and set a system password. Then I put it to sleep but, no matter what I do, it won't wake up and has to be restarted. I get the same results with all my Hackintoshes. What am I doing wrong?

I've tried that on three D620s and four D830s and it hasn't worked on any of them.

OK thanks. So, what you are saying is that there is no fix for this (yet) just like the no sleep issue.

What I meant was that my D620s don't go to full brightness after starting until I press the Pause key a couple of times but, I don't have to do this with any of my D830s whether they are Nvidia or Intel.

@Hervà - I'm afraid that buying a copy of SL wouldn't make it legal. The license forbids installing the OS on anything other than Mac hardware. However, it probably makes it less illegal than using a copy of SL that you haven't bought so at least you won't feel bad about it. Question - I have two D620s but on both of them at every reboot I have to press the Pause key to get full brightness. I don't have to do this with my D830s. Is there a way to fix this. (I'm using EDP 431.)

Ah! I have two D830s which came from different sources and they both have Intel cards. I shall try to source a couple of Broadcom ones. Thanks! Update - @Syonagar. I fitted a DW 1490 card this morning and WiFi is working perfectly. Now, if I can just sort out the sleep issue I'll be 100%.

Here is something else not working. I'm having a WiFi problem with a D830 (Nvidia). Basically the card isn't being recognised. The card works properly with Windoze 7 but not Hackintosh. This Hackintosh has a fingerprint reader but the others don't. Could that be the problem? I am using Snow Leopard 10.6.5 and EDP 3.44 but I'm not sure what kind of WiFi card is installed so there's a photo of it below.

Thanks but I have now tried that with a D830 and it still needed rebooting after sleep. ???

I just followed the guide too but they just won't wake up from sleep and have to be rebooted. Setting a password in the BIOS e.t.c. doesn't make any difference nor does using the latest EDP.

I've now been playing around with various Dell models (D620, D630, D830 and, M65) for a while now and I am very impressed with what has been achieved but, the one thing which eludes me on all my Hackintoshes is sleep. I have tried all of the tips and tweaks but none of them enable sleep. It's not a major problem but it would be nice not to have to restart my applications and re-enter passwords after rebooting. It would be far more Mac-like just to open the lid and everything to be there ready for me. Can anyone explain to me why it is so hard to get sleep working?

Thanks. Yesterday when I looked there the downloads weren't working but today the page looks different and they work. Maybe someone was updating the page? I managed to get my D830 working by a roundabout route. I cloned the OS from my D630 onto the D830, booted from my installer pen drive, installed Chameleon, ran MyFix, rebooted, rebuilt using EDPtool 3 and everything seems to be working apart from the biometric reader which is telling me that fingerprints are already registered when they aren't.

I'm trying to get OSX 10.6.5 running on a D830 but I cannot find the suitable Extra folder to put on my pen drive. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

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I'm trying to suss out my Dell/Hackintosh options and I may be able to get my hands on a Dell XPS M1710 Core2Duo T7600 2 GB 160 GB Nvidia 7950 GTX 17". Can you advise what OS I would be able to run on it i.e. Snow Leopard, Lion or, Mountain Lion?