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This is my first guide, although I have built several hackintosh's following other peoples guide, I thought it might be a good time to give back to the community as I found NOTHING for this great bit of kit online. So bear with me... I did this build for a friend of mine, but I would highly recommend the hardware, it's an excellent laptop. Dell Inspiron 17 (3721) 17.3" HQ display Core i3 4gb 500gb HD Working: OSX 10.8.3 Webcam Graphics Sleep Ethernet Battery indicator / charge level Wifi & Bluetooth (requires changing the mini card under the keyboard, a 2 minute job) HDMI out (no idea can't check) Sound (Using VoodooHDA 2.8.4) Trackpad (No gestures as VoodooPS2 won't work after sleep) Very stable for a couple of days now. Method: Bios Preparation: 1. Make sure the laptop is plugged in... 2. Power on and hold down F2 to enter BIOS setup 3. Use the arrow keys to go to the Boot menu 4. Use the down key to move to Secure Boot and press enter 5. Select Disabled 6. Use the down arrow to move to Load Legacy Option Rom and press enter 7. Select Enabled 8. Use the down arrow an move to Boot List Option and press enter 9. Select Legacy 10. Press F10 to save and exit 11. Let the machine reboot and press F2 at the Dell logo 12. Use the arrow keys to go to the Boot menu 13. Use the arrow keys to move to LEGACY BOOT and press enter 14. Use the arrow keys and select Hard Drive 15. Press F5 or F6 to change it's position to top of the boot order 16. Press F10 to save and exit 17. Switch off the laptop for now Done. OS Preparation: 1. Get a friend with a working Mac or Hackintosh 2. Create a standard OSX installation USB key or USB hard drive using the many guides available... 3. Very Important: Copy the GenericUSBXHCI.kext file to /Extra/Extension folder on the USB installation Drive, otherwise you will get a number of different cryptic errors, most notably "still waiting for root device" 4. Make a folder called ++Tools on the USB installation drive 5. Copy all of the attached files into this folder. This will save a lot of pain later Done WIFI Preparation: 1. Buy an Atheros AR5B197 from eBay (or AR5B195 works too and is apparently cheaper) 2. Follow this guide to remove the keyboard http://www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemble-dell-inspiron-17r-n7110/ 3. Disconnect the two antennae and whip out the old WIFI card, its held in with one screw 4. Put the new card in, secure with the screw and connect the antennae 5. Replace the keyboard Done Installation: NOTE: This will completely erase your Windows 8 installation, there is no going back from here. Be warned, be careful. 1. Connect the USB installation drive to the laptop 2. Turn on the laptop 3. Press F12 at the Dell logo 4. Let the installer load to the Welcome screen 5. Get a cup of coffee (me I prefer beer, but I'm Irish) 6. Select your language and click the small arrow at the bottom 7. At the top of the screen you will see a menu for Utilities click it 8. Click on Disk Utility 9. Your main drive should say 500.11 GB etc. and be coloured grey (it will have several partitions listed below it), the USB drive is coloured orange 10. Click on the Main drive (the top grey drive) 11. Click on the tab to the right where it says Erase 12. Make sure Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is selected 13. Change where it says untitled and name the new drive Macintosh HD 14. Click on the Erase... button 15. On the menus at the top click where it says Disk Utility 16. Click where it says Quit Disk Utility 17. Install OS X should appear again, click the Continue button at the bottom 18. Click Agree to the Software Licence Agreement. If you are bored read it. 19. You should see a big picture of you Macintosh HD drive, click on it, a green arrow should appear 20. Click Install button at the bottom 21. Get another cup of coffee / beer. This takes about 20 minutes. 22. If the screen goes grey during installation, don't panic its just the screen saver, press the spacebar once to check progress. 23. When the machine restarts select the Macintosh HD drive and press enter Done System Set Up: 1. Hopefully if all went well you should see the Welcome screen 2. Select your country and press Continue 3. Sect your keyboard and press Continue 4. Select My computer does not connect to the internet and press Continue 5. When you see Your Internet Connection just press Continue 6. A warning pops up, just press Continue 7. The Transfer Information... screen pops up, select Not Now and press Continue 8. Agree to the Software Licence Agreement 9. Name your computer and user account then press Continue 10. Select your country and press Continue 11. Select Start Using Your Mac Done Post Installation NOTE: Using Chameleon caused huge issues, especially with the CPU not being discovered. I edited this guide to instal chimera (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) from multifail, once I did that EVERYTHING worked perfectly. 1. Nearly there. 2. Click on the desktop, and then under the Finder menu at the top click Preferences... 3. Select Hard Disks under Show these items on the desktop 4. Go to the ++Tools folder on your USB installation disk 5. Download multifail and double click the multifail.pkg file 6. Go to the Boot Loaders section and install chimera (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) select nothing else. This will instal the boot loader and quit when finished. 7. In the ++Tools folder double click the ShowHiddenFiles app and select Show Special Files quit the application 8. Copy the Extras folder in the ++Tools folder of the USB installation drive to the root of Macintosh HD 9. In the ++Tools folder double click the Kext Wizard icon and click on the Installation tab 10. In the S/L/E folder inside the ++Tools folder and drag its contents onto the Kext Wizard window 11. In Kext Wizard click where it says System/Library/Extensions and click Install 12. Type in your password and press OK give it a minute or so 13. When it says Done click OK and click on the Maintenance tab 14. Select all 6 boxes, make sure Macintosh HD is selected and press Execute. This takes about 10 minutes. It asks you for your password towards the end, enter and press OK 15. Get a beer. Quit Kext Wizard 16. Eject your USB installation drive 17. Fingers crossed, and press the power button select Shutdown Done Final Step - Remove boot0: error 1. We need to do this final step due to the way the hard drive has been set up day 1 2. Restart and hold down F12 for Boot Options and select USB Storage Device and hit enter 3. Select the USB Installation drive and press enter 4. Select your language and then select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu at the top 5. Unmount Macintosh HD and quit Disk Utility 6. Select Terminal from the Utilities menu at the top 7. In the Terminal window type in diskutil list 8. Locate Macintosh HD and copy the identifier beside it, mine was disk0s2 yours will be in a similar format 9. In Terminal change directory to the ++Tools folder i.e. type in cd /Volumes/Install OSX/++Tools 10. In Terminal type ls to verify you can see the boot1h file 11. In Terminal type dd if=boot1h of=/dev/identifier 12. Restart the laptop Done Sound I have used Voodoo 2.8.4 and got sound working. This MUST be done in conjunction with using the chimera (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) (chameleon, stolen and rebranded) boot loader rather than Chameleon. DSDT I have attached working DSDT & SSDT files as part of the Extra Folder installation. A BIG THANK YOU to Dinesh for his help here. EDITS: Made a small edit to the WIFI section to avoid confusion. ++Tools.zip