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- Nov 17, 2012
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- Motherboard
- Asus Vivobook F510UA
- CPU
- i5 8250
- Graphics
- HD620
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This is in response to a PM, but I thought I'd make it public for anyone else with one of these Optiplexes.
I got my system up and running three or four months ago on 10.7.2 (with recent update through apple menu to 10.7.3). I had NO dsdt; I just installed easybeast along with hrac's intel Ethernet kext. This got everything working well, including Internet, although I lack the WoL option in the energy preferences, which is disappointing. I have it enabled in bios, but I imagine I need an updated Kext that will allow it on the Intel 82579LM Gigabit LAN.
Audio and video were no good OOB. Realtek ALC269q and AMD Radeon HD 6350, respectively.
I tried all the voodoo options for audio, but kept having KPs. Perhaps I was doing it wrong? maybe there was a conflicting Kext that should have been deleted first before installing voodoo? At any rate, I ended up buying an $8 USB audio stick (mic and speaker jacks) which was plug and play. Easy-peasy.
To start mackintosh at Dell Optiplex 790 or 7010 you need to use flag dart=0 in boot option.
For the AMD card, I didn't try my hardest to find a kext that would make it work right, since I had another card anyway. I got my Asus GeForce 210 1GB working OOB, making sure that graphics enabler was set to 'yes', so no problems there.
I did some other tweaking to get the OS to boot on a RAID volume, but I'll spare you those details since after the second RAID failure (thanks CCC for saving my bacon!) I just put the OS on a non-RAID disk. As a side note, my data disk is still on a RAID volume and I haven't had a problem.
My remaining problems, at this point, other than the lack of WoL which i already mentioned, included getting the system to sleep and wake up properly. I installed this Kext for system sleep: http://www.osx86.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=1771. Honestly I can't remember just how much that kext helped. I just know it wasn't 100% because I ended up installing 3rd party software to help the lion sleep. This issue may have been an OS issue, not a Hackintosh issue. That super-helpful software was PleaseSleep, and it's free. http://www.dragonone.com/products/macosx/pleasesleep/
Then, I did something else to the system that I neglected to write down on my Evernote Hackintosh page. It had something to do with making the system stay awake once it's awakened?? That is, before I installed or made this tweak or whatever it was, when I woke it from sleep with a single keyboard press, it would waken for three seconds and then fall back asleep, unless I continued pressing keys. This tweak cured that problem by sending inputs in the background to keep it awake after I hit a single key or mouse click to wake it up. If anybody knows what this tweak was or where it can be found, please shout it out.
I think that's about it. I hope this is helpful to someone else with a 990 or 790. Let me know if you have any more specific questions.
LONG LIVE THE HACKINTOSH!
To start hackintosh in Dell Optiplex 790 or 7010, use boot options dart=0.