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Hey Chris1111, Good on you for adding to the Optiplex755 knowledgebase Couple of questions: - did you use a DSDT? - how did you get your Graphics Card recognised? Love the way you've added a pic of the tower to the About this Mac section. Merci bien! dm4n

10.8.3 Update: Downloaded the Combo update from Apple (instead of via appstore) Ran myHack before Restart. Didn't replace any kexts in S/L/E Also, I connected new Crossover 30" WQHD monitor. Everything works oob- monitor and resolution (2560*1600) recognised in System information. Still have to add ATI 5670 as the video card in System Properties. Cheers and Good Hack

Hey, sorry for the delay replying. Had some interesting times after trying to fix crackling sound issue by removing a few kexts. The result was completely hosing the system. Nothing would boot. I thought it may have been a hardware problem. A call to Dell tech support pointed to a bootloader issue (I didn't tell them it was a hackintosh). Out of it all, I learned a new phrase: Problem Exists At The User Level I reinstalled everything from scratch (except for Windows). And mapped the steps for next time. They are: 1. Install OS X using my hack usb 2. Before reboot: boot into Install usb and do boot1h fix using file on usb (note: this fix was still required although I used myHack install). 3. Install kexts- judiciously. Install default smbios.plist 4. Install voodoohda 2.74 r63 (Audio works well with no crackles) 5. Fix efi strings device properties for access to AppStore (see here) 6. Clone drive using Carbon Copy Cloner (only if you want to make bit-for-bit backup to another drive) and install Chameleon on the other drive using multifail (remember to select the correct drive)- to make it standalone bootable. 7. 10.8.1 update thru Appstore. 10.8.2 update combo. Install AppleACPIPlatform.kext 8. Sleep fix: remove NullCPUPowerMAnagement.kext from S/L/E or Extras, run myHack and reboot. Note: I'm not sure if Sleep is properly working- probably partially. The fan of Graphics Card (ATI 5670) keeps spinning. But I have yet to get this recognised as more than ATI5xxx in System Properties. Cheers and good hack

Sleep working! Changed settings: turned off darkwake=0 in Chameleon Wizard and presto. Also, updated to 10.8.2 - had the boot issue - fix here.

Thanks for the info. I checked out Speedstep and it seems that the HWMonitor report is perfectly normal. The next issue I'd like to address is Sleep- at the moment the system powers into some kind of suspended state- on Sleep- but won't wake up. I've got P&C states and C2,C3, C4 states enabled in org.chameleon.boot.plist As well as Force HPET (not sure if this is needed), darkwake=0 and Use Kernel Cache. Also getting some errors and warning on compiling the file extracted using DSDT Editor. I've included non-compiled DSDT as text file and screengrab of compilation errors and warning in case anyone cares to cast an eye over them. Cheers Archive.zip

I've got SpeedStep enabled in the BIOS (rev A21). I notice that Syonagar on this post refers to using the IntelCPUMonitor.kext (Tjmax in info.plist set to 100)- would this be related to Speedstep? I'm just reading up on p and c states on Wikipedia- I'm guessing that's connected?

Hi, I've got 10.8.1 running on Optiplex 755. What works: Startup/ Shutdown/ Restart, Ethernet, Audio (with Voodoo HDA 2.7.3), graphics (ATI 5670 partly recognised as ATI5000 delivering resolution of 1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz)- QE/CI (Chess works), App Store. What doesn't work: Sleep, DVD player (see below), likely other things I havent found yet, occasional KP's- just run myHack QuickFix and seems good to go. Install Method: myHack followed by boot fix from here. I've been trying to only install vital kexts- see here for clues. I used Chameleon Wizard to edit the org.chameleon.boot.plist: My Specs are: 3GHz C2D, 4GB Ram, ATI 5670. I've pimped out the system with 4 HD's, by disconnecting the little used DVD and substituting an SSD- although the SSD is propped up on an angle The OS's are: a 64GB ssd running ML, a 500GB HD running Lion 10.7.4 (soon to be upgraded to ML), an 80GB HD with a Carbon Copy Clone of the SSD, and a 160GB running Windows 7. I also got an IR controller from eBay which worked oob - and allows rudimentary remote control of VLC- the main purpose I wanted. Question for the experts: Hardware Monitor says that my CPU 0 & 1 are running at 1992 MHz, while About This Mac says the Processor is 2.99 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo- which I presume means that the CPUs aren't running at full speed? If so- how to change? To Do: see if system can be amended to recognise ATI 5670, experiment with DSDT Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks to the Hackintosh community for making this possible