- Joined
- Jul 13, 2011
- Messages
- 20
- Motherboard
- Dell XPS 8500
- CPU
- i7 3770
- Graphics
- HD 4000
Leonowski,
Thanks for the help. I managed to get to the installer. Had to remake my USB drive, then used the on board HDMI port instead of the AMD Graphics card. Also used one of the USB ports on the back of the PC instead of the front blue ports.
Its doing the OSX install now Will see how the rest goes.
Thanks
Again
Yeah, the Radeon HD 7000 series will not work in Mac OS X at all. You will have to resort to switching inputs. I have a DVI cable to the Dell 24 inch monitor with an HDMI connector on the other end. If I want to boot into Windows for games, I use the Radeon's HDMI port. If I want to use Mac OS X, I have to switch to the HD 4000 HDMI port. The cool thing is that in Windows, I can do a hot swap of the cable. Unfortunately, that doesn't work in Mac OS X so I have to boot up with the right port plugged in.
I also have another problem where I get a garbled screen from Chimera if I attempt to boot while the Radeon is plugged in. I don't get the garbled screen while plugged into the HD 4000. I also don't get a garbled screen from the bootloader on the USB stick. Weird stuff.
The best solution is to probably buy a 2-way HDMI switcher so I can hit a button to switch cards. That way, I don't have to keep reaching around the computer.
I've been running this Mountain Lion setup for over a week now and it's pretty awesome. I may just bite the bullet and buy an Nvidia card so I can skip dual-booting. All I need Windows for is Counter-Strike: Go anyway. If I can get a decent vid card for Mac OS X, I'll just play Counter-Strike in Mountain Lion.
Oh - I forgot to mention: SpeedStep is working. I used the Chameleon/Chimera boot options for generating C and P states. Then, I used fakesmc plus the Intel plugins installer from Multibeast. Also in Multibeast is the HW monitor app to monitor the CPU changes. I can see it changing between 1600mhz and 3400mhz. However, I don't see Turbo kicking in (3900mhz).