PlutoDelic

I have no idea, all i was doing is preparing to switch to VGA via Fn + F8 during either BIOS boot or Clover, which is the only way to get VGA output. I have tried that combo, no luck. I could get in another time, took the picture from above, and looked around a bit. It detected nearly all EFI paths by itself, way better output then the actual GUI BIOS. Ps, why reflash Bios? All fine here in that sector.

Im puzzled, kinda sniffed that it wasnt mentioned around. Still no luck getting inside, and yea, as you can see, the systen is stock and untouched in BIOS, note the summary on Top-Left. Ps, Dell documents show no information for this menu either...

Guys, i am not sure if any of you have bumped into this or actually know how to get there, but i need help to enter this sort of hidden menu. This might be KEY to get full UEFI support, as adding EFI strings shows supported paths which the GUI Bios doesn't. Please have a look and let me know the key combination to boot into, the last hour i had no luck to guess the combo...

I prefer Stereo over Surround, however the TV stereo amps are horrible in general. I usually connect to a Hi-Fi amp as you mentioned through the 3.5mm jack, but dont get me wrong, this is all cause of music.

This is the VGA Output, as you can see, a 24 inch monitor connected through VGA, though built-in display is non functional... As soon as i get home, i will take a picture of the DisplayPort as well... PS, actually, i highly advise you to get Clover, if you mess things up, it is so easier to work around it...and when i upgraded through app store without any problem to 10.9.5, it just cemented that clover is the future .

TV is not selectable as an output, sorry for not clearing that out. The port is strictly video only as it seems.

just sharing my findings for VGA/DisplayPort testings... https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/7281-dell-latitude-e6410-nvidia-nvs-3100m-dual-screen-issue/page-2&do=findComment&comment=43444 wondering if anyone has the same issue, am on clover as well.

Ok lads, got something here... I've been moaning about external display issues, but i did do some tests. 1st. I have Clover installed and even updated to 10.9.5. System wont detect VGA output, BUT...i've noticed that Fn + F8, which switches the display print, crashes the system. So i thought to give that a try during clover booting, and it works, i got 1080p output on VGA, but main display wont work. I will test shortly with a docking station that has DVI output as well. 2nd. DispayPort, it works, strangely though. I conncected a displayport-to-hdmi adapter which i found laying around, and as soon as you connect it, it will mirror the built in screen on the TV, extended it as the 2nd display, and got 1080p on the screen, though it is impossible to disable the built-in one. And yea, no Audio over DP/HDMI, am though very fine with that since i hate TV amps. That being said, the displays at 1080p played me three uncompressed 1080p 15gig files without a problem, but dragging windows from a position to a position feels laggy sometimes... My trying with UEFI Clover got off since it was impossible to boot the HDD through UEFI, and yet the USB worked like a charm. EDIT: DSDT attached for just in case, please let me know if im using the wrong one cause i definitely dont know which one it is from the massive amount of them i have tested... DSDT.aml.zip

They never did, their early PPCs adopted DVI, i cant remember seeing VGA in stock mac hardware anyway, was this ever sorted? Need both VGA and DP?

Lads, I've successfully managed to install Mavericks 10.9.4 with a Clover USB. I updated to 10.9.5 flawlessly through the AppStore. My E6410 is a nVidia variant, updated to the last BIOS (A16), and the system feels quite stable...the notebook heats up a bit more then usual, but that is out of scope right now. Initially, after the setup went well, i tried installing Clover UEFI on my GPT Disk, however, this notebooks UEFI implementation is whack, i tried every possible EFI file entry, uppercase lowercase backslash frontslash, ubuntu/windows masking, whatever was left to try, googling UEFI for E6410 ends up showing people moaning how shitty the UEFI implementation from DELL is...so i left this as a dream for the future, i can live without it. After that, i wiped the EFI partition with this command "newfs_msdos -v -F 32 EFI /dev/disk0s1" (disk0s1 might differ to your setup, careful), after adding -F 32, things got better and installing Clover with MBR bootloader (boot0ss) boots the system. I ended up copying my USB's clover settings as it wouldn't boot my system with the default one, so that will require further investigation...but yea, it works . i used Clover Configurator to load extra EFI drivers for Clover...very handy tool, and also placed the DSDT to the /EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/PATCHED/ folder... so from this build, i have witnessed a few catches: first, battery monitor is inconsistent, a lot of times battery percentage freezes, and only a reboot will give it the right numbers, however, it rarely works as it should. Audio suddenly disappeared, rebuilding caches didn't help (Kext Wizard) so i installed the VoodooHDA manually, even though it is on the /EFI/CLOVER/KEXTS/10.9 folder present. after the kext install, audio is back. (also happened during the 10.9.5 update) External Displays, i definitely need VGA for work, and DisplayPort for home, none work so far...my pure guess is DSDT, but as i said, it is a guess. care to help me guys, this thread could end up being a guide for clover thanks in advance Pluto