Install OSX 10.5.6 on a Dell Vostro 410

encript — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:01:28 +0000

If you missed out on the last p0wnz deal it looks like this deal from Dell is now bye bye see ya later gone. Sorry if you didn’t take advantage of this because I got a 99.8% fully functional Mac Pro Hackintosh. You can check out the specs below My preferred method for installing this was with the use of iPC 10.5.6 beta. When first attempting to install this I had tried various install combinations but could not get it to boot. All I would get is an apple logo for approx two and a half minutes and then a circle with a line threw it or a don’t symbol (similar to a no smoking symbol). There was no work around for that. I had to use a different install disk to get it up and running. I chose to use Kalyway 10.5.1 which worked flawlessly with Vanilla kernel applied. However I was not satisfied with 10.5.1 because I wanted to take advantage of all the new features. I then by chance happen to see that iPC had two new update patches PPF4 and PPF5. So I reapplied this to the iso files and re burned it. Upon installing I used the following settings. Audio ACL888 drivers, No video drivers selected, ICH9/10 HDD patch, DSDT SMBIOS patch selected and that is all. Everything else can be done after installation.

Dell Vostro 410 OSX Hackintosh 10.5.6 from Encript on Vimeo.

Specs.
Intel Q6600 Quad Core Processor
Is detected as 4.0 ghz for some reason I am currently looking into a solution to fix that.

3GB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHZ – 2X1GB+2X512MB.
Ram is detected fine and provides good memory for running applications.

256MB ATI Radeon HD 3450-supports (DVI,HDMI+VGA) Connections
When installing OSX on this dell I tried many different combinations to try and get this video card to work however all attempts failed miserably. Keep an eye out on this page an quite possibly a worked up driver might be created by the talented lastexile Insanely Mac Link. Instead of waiting around for these drivers to be created there have been specially made kext files kext link which have been created specifically for this card. Once installed you can take advantage of all your monitors resolutions. Bad side you will not get Quartz Extreme which is necessary for many applications to work properly. including frontrow and imovie.

Dell 19 inch Widescreen E1909WFP Analog Flat Panel Display
Highest resolution this monitor can support is 1440×900. Once the drivers for the ATI 3450HD PCIe installed you can take advantage of this high resolution.

Norcent 2200 HDTV
I then hooked this up to my HDTV via VGA to take advantage of some space issues in my house and to use it as a Media PC. Highest Resolution I can get on this is 1280×720. 720p is not bad at all I can work with that.

Realtek Ethernet Drivers
These work off the bat no problems here.

Realtek Audio Drivers ACL888
This works when you have ACL888 checked when installing. Also if your having problems getting the drivers to work you can install them again post install. If ACL888 doesn’t work try ACL888 Legacy which you can find from browsing the install disc.

GeForce 8400GS
I bought this thing because I needed to get a video card that supported Quartz Extreme. This works right out of the box for me I didnt have to add anything for it to work. But other say that they needed to use nvidia inject 0.2.1 to get it to work properly so now I have a 100% functional mac pro for 550 with a 19 monitor.

Update
I recommend that if you are planning on installing Mac 10.5.6 to use iPC with all the latest patches applied because this will end up saving you some time in the long run. As of writing this iPC was up to PPF5. Also I love Mac OSX so much that I ordered the new bundle of leopard,ilife and iwork.

Also a little explanation of the kernel panic I received when I would try and boot. I would get this odd circle with a line through it because of ICH9/ICH10 chipset patch not properly applied. So you make sure you select that so you don’t get a big headache.

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