[Guide] Install High Sierra or Mojave on the Dell Optiplex 7010 / 9010 Desktop PC - Revision II

[pablovanwetten]

Trs96 just wanted to thank you for your great info.
You are so generous in sharing your findings, its humbling really...

Much, much, much appreciated!

 

[smashabback]

I used this guide, and I'm up and running with the i5-3475s. Woohoo!

One thing I noticed is that I'm not getting transparency effects and I'm getting some weird graphics glitches, which leads me to believe that I'm not getting Hardware Acceleration on my Intel HD 4000 graphics. Is that expected?

 

[trs96]

I'm not getting Hardware Acceleration on my Intel HD 4000 graphics. Is that expected?

I get full acceleration so no it is not expected. Go back over the guide and figure out what you didn't do.

 

[smashabback]

I switched out and used the specific i5-3475s SSDT and that looks to have made the difference.

 

[Grizz]

trs96,

Here is what it looks/looked like:

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Broadcom BCM94352HMB Dell DW1550 802.11ac WiFi Card Bluetooth 4.0 867Mbps

It came with the

Broadcom BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n (Dell DW1530) Mini PCIe card, but I have replaced that with Broadcom BCM94352HMB 802.11ac WiFi Card Bluetooth 4.0 867Mbps (Dell DW1550) MiniPCIe card. It plugs right into the PCI card shown.

As a test last night - I powered OFF, disconnected the SSD where my High Sierra is installed and working - and put in the old SSD where Windows 7 was installed. I formatted it, and installed Windows 10 (64-bit). It immediately recognized the WiFi and installed drivers. When it was done with the install - I had WiFi with no issues, as it wanted to connect to my home network. But searching in Windows 10 for BlueTooth - it was saying that there was no BT Controller present.

So.... HMMMMMmmmmm I thought, either a bad PCIe card, or that USB header must be connected.

I will have to dig for a cable to do this (I am sure I have one here). I have boxes and boxes of old cables.

Grizz

OK. I found one of the USB HEADER (appears to be 9-pin to 9-pin) . When looking at the USB Header on the PCI card, it only has 8 total pins (but one is missing). Also the BLANK pin area on the board does not align to the cable. Also the little TRIANGLE (Index pin) does not align on the board to the one on the cable.

DAMN, DAMN, DAMN! Now I will have to find another cable online....or some other means of getting the USB header on the motherboard attached to this card.

Grizz

 

[Grizz]

I basically want a PCI 1x card which will use the Mini PCIe card (Half mini: BCM94352 HMB/AzureWave AW-CE123H - supports WiFi/ac and BT4LE) that I bought - so that I can do WIFI and BT without having to plug in a BT USB DONGLE.

Grizz

 

[trs96]

When looking at the USB Header on the PCI card, it only has 8 total pins (but one is missing). Also the BLANK pin area on the board does not align to the cable. Also the little TRIANGLE (Index pin) does not align on the board to the one on the cable.

I wouldn't be too confident that will work even with the right cable. Can you still return that card and get one of these:

Dual Band BCM94360CS2 PCI-E 867Mbps 802.11AC BT4.0 Wifi PCI-Express Adapter Card | eBay

BCM94360CS2 chip. WIFI: 2.4G 300M / 5G 867M. AC 1000M dual-band desktop PCI-E wireless LAN + Bluetooth 4.0 combo. 2 X Dual Band Antenna. Two Antenna;Signal Stronger,Full-height Bracket. Compatible interface: PCI-E X1 X4 X8 X16 and video card slot.

www.ebay.com

 

[jed2]

Hi trs96 I just wanted to thank you for your excellent build and instructions! I have a few comments and maybe a couple of questions. Firstly, I also have an HP 8300 and have tried both your build (H-Sierra) and Sniki's build (Mojave) and both worked too and now that I have done both the Dell 7010 and the HP 8300 (Mojave) I have tried configuring on the HP 8300 and putting the drive into the Dell 7010 and it seems to work (limited testing) and also once configured on one, putting the EFI from the other on it and putting it into the other and that works too, which is great. So in coming to a question, what are the main differences between the 2 machines in terms of what they need to set up as a 'tosh. Secondly, I have played with both the NV710 and the iHD4000 (from a core-i3 3445) and the NV710 seems to load so much faster (on both Dell 7010 and HP 8300) and I am wondering why that is and if others have noted this too or whether its just me and I need to look deeper? Many thanks!

 

[jed2]

Also, I have noticed that getting through the BIOS boot up on the 7010 is faster the earlier the BIOS. Its much quicker around version A17 and starts to slow right down around A20 and is still slow or slower at A29. It seems to work fine on this build on A20 and am tempted to go lower to get faster boot speeds unless there is a pressing reason why I shouldn't? Unlike the HP 8300 (which boots through the BIOS much faster), I haven't found a "Quickboot" setting, unless I'm missing something obvious? Thanks.

 

[Grizz]

I wouldn't be too confident that will work even with the right cable. Can you still return that card and get one of these:

Dual Band BCM94360CS2 PCI-E 867Mbps 802.11AC BT4.0 Wifi PCI-Express Adapter Card | eBay

BCM94360CS2 chip. WIFI: 2.4G 300M / 5G 867M. AC 1000M dual-band desktop PCI-E wireless LAN + Bluetooth 4.0 combo. 2 X Dual Band Antenna. Two Antenna;Signal Stronger,Full-height Bracket. Compatible interface: PCI-E X1 X4 X8 X16 and video card slot.

www.ebay.com

I will see if I can return the card and the adapter.

Does this one appear to be the same one?? The listing you gave ships from China.

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Grizz