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Used your D630 bootpack and got the sound and ethernet going!! Still haven't been able to update beyond 10.6.6. Each time the update finishes and reboots, the computer locks up tight. At least I've got a nice usable OSX laptop now, thanks you you!! Really appreciate all your help and I sure won't be going back to that other guy's site again!! Thanks, Frank

Screen resolution is 1440x900!! WOW!!

Check that it's up in 32bit mode now!!! using the arch=i386 command.

Herve, we had snow/ice storm (southern Arkansas) come through today and had no power all afternoon. Yesterday, when I was updating to 10.6.8, it came back up ok but would lock up and just would not run at all so I am back to 10.6.6. I tried the arch=i386 several times, the apple screen comes up normally then goes black, nothing, just blank screen. Here is the terminal output for lspci -nn Last login: Mon Feb 16 19:04:44 on console unknown001d60aafeff:~ fwalker33$ lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) [8086:2a02] (rev 0c) 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) [8086:2a03] (rev 0c) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850] (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2829] (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 02) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02) 0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01) unknown001d60aafeff:~ fwalker33$

YES, it's GMA X3100. How do I set SL to 32bit mode?? Right after I got SL working I used tonycrapx86's multifail trying to get the audio working and it changed the boot loader to chimera (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) even though I didn't select it. The laptop won't boot up on chimera (chameleon, stolen and rebranded), so I went through the reinstall again. I don't know how to install the necessary drivers without using multifail.

I am using my (10.9.5) computer to build the myHack usb installer. I RE-did the myHack usb installer several times and each time (I have AVG installed) AVG would find a virus and delete it and each time the install would go so far then turn the laptop off. Finally, I decided to turn AVG off before building the myHack usb and it worked, and installed 10.6.3!! FANTASTIC!! Right now I am updating, up to 10.6.5 so far, I tried jumping directly to 10.6.7 but software forces doing it in order 10.6.4, 10.6.5, 10.6.6, 10.6.7. I've read horror stories of going to 10.6.8, it didn't cause a problem when I was updating my desktop. The really important things, WiFi and Touchpad are working. Things that I guess CAN live with like graphics 1024x768, no audio, and no ethernet. I'm so leery now of making changes that might mean starting over again. Do you think I could install a bootpack that would fix these?? Like I said, FANTASTIC!! i am very HAPPY just like it is!! Thanks

Over 6 months ago after many days of trial and error I managed to get OSX installed and running on an old Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 motherboard and I've updated it from v10.6.3 to v10.9.5. So I don't have a great deal of OSX knowledge/experience other than what I have learned from reading through the many, many online forums. This is my first experience with Mac's and I'm LOVEing it!! I am now trying to get my grandson's old Dell laptop inspiron 1520 running OSX. I have tried every distro or bootloader that I have been able to find online. A few days ago I ran across this guys blog... https://www.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/06/11/snow-leopard-on-a-dell. Henrypoon mentions getting OSX 10.6.3 running on his inspiron 1520 which is what brought me here with high expectations. Yesterday, using myHack 3.1.2, I got SL loaded onto a USB stick The myHack boot usb starts loading but never gets to the install screen, just shuts down. When I use the -v verbose flag, I can see the final line on the screen, "CPU halted" and that is what the computer does, shuts down! I also tried the myHack usb on my desktop with 10.9.5 installed and it shutdown as well. Could someone please tell me...is there a flag that I can set to stop the CPU halting?? Also, is it possible that the myHack v1.0.1 might work when v3.1.2 doesn't and if so, is it possible to get a copy of v1.0.1?? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!