[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8.2*

[xeno3d]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

10.8.2 running here as well, no issues at all.

 

[scottspfd82]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

Hey guys,

First of all thanks for this great guide, this is all completely new to me and this let me get Mountain Lion running (almost) flawlessly.

I have everything working, Icloud, App Store, etc.

I have a few questions...

1. I dual boot Windows 7 and Mountain Lion. I can't boot from the hard drive (installed Chimera) without the Iboot disk in the disk drive. I still boot from the hard drive, but it only works if that disk is in there. Any ideas on getting it to boot without the disk? Not a major issue really, but it'd be nice.

2. My XPS 8300 came with 2 500gb drives. They're setup as RAID under my system settings, and I've used them for awhile as an exclusive Windows 7 setup. Windows won't boot when BIOS is set to AHCI. And ML (on a separate drive) won't boot for RAID. So I have to change system settings to boot one or the other. It'd be awesome to be able to boot either without changing settings. I always thought AHCI = RAID but doesn't seem so. I don't want to have to risk losing everything on my Windows machine to make it AHCI compatible. Any ideas here?

3. Every time I boot into OSX I get an "Unsupported Video Card!" message before boot. Graphics work fine, wondering if this is anything to worry about?

All of these are minor issues that I can live with, but it'd be cool to know if anyone else experienced them and if any solutions are out there. Beyond that - THANK YOU - for this guide. I'd never even considered a Hackintosh and now I'm really liking it a lot. And this made it easy. Much appreciated!

 

[derfred85]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

Hello everybody!

I'm a bit new to the Hackintosh-World but gave myself a try, after I found Grave's great tutorial. I thought: hey, you own that Dell 8300 - so give it a try ... Unfortunately I did not bring it to work.

First of all, here are my Dell's specs:

Dell XPS 8300
i7 2600 3,4GHz
8 GB RAM
Realtek Audio and Broadcom Ethernet onBoard
NVIDIA Geforce GT 530 1GB
Corsair Force3 SSD 120 GB
(if more info is needed, please ask...)

Well, I started with following Grave's Lion tutorial for the XPS 8300 and finally got to the post-Installation Point. Then I wanted to complete the Setup with multibeast, but after rebooting I was not able to boot the System again. Read some Workarounds for that issue and found out, that I was still able to boot from the USB installer, but then did not manage to get the System running as described in Grave's tut.
After several more tries, I decided to check out the Mountain Lion Installation.

All in all I mostly ended up in kernel Panic after booting, sometimes "Error 0" issue, which I was not able to fix as it is described in some Workarounds in www...

Generally my question is now:
- is there anybody out there with same Dell XPS spec (maybe most important: graphics?!) and has got experience with the Installation of Lion/Mountain Lion on that System?
- anybody seeing what went wrong with my Installation? ... what is the reason for that kernel Panic and / or the issue "booting only possible via USB" ...

Any help and / or comment is highly appreciated!
Thank you in advance for your Support!

BR from Germany ... Fred

 

[djmgermanos]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

Thanks,
For me is everything ok,
XPS 8300
i7 2600
ATI 5670
Only the wireless BCM 4313 don't work!

Daniel from Brazil

 

[Fr33z3r]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

Hello everybody!

I'm a bit new to the Hackintosh-World but gave myself a try, after I found Grave's great tutorial. I thought: hey, you own that Dell 8300 - so give it a try ... Unfortunately I did not bring it to work.

First of all, here are my Dell's specs:

Dell XPS 8300
i7 2600 3,4GHz
8 GB RAM
Realtek Audio and Broadcom Ethernet onBoard
NVIDIA Geforce GT 530 1GB
Corsair Force3 SSD 120 GB
(if more info is needed, please ask...)

Well, I started with following Grave's Lion tutorial for the XPS 8300 and finally got to the post-Installation Point. Then I wanted to complete the Setup with multibeast, but after rebooting I was not able to boot the System again. Read some Workarounds for that issue and found out, that I was still able to boot from the USB installer, but then did not manage to get the System running as described in Grave's tut.
After several more tries, I decided to check out the Mountain Lion Installation.

All in all I mostly ended up in kernel Panic after booting, sometimes "Error 0" issue, which I was not able to fix as it is described in some Workarounds in www...

Generally my question is now:
- is there anybody out there with same Dell XPS spec (maybe most important: graphics?!) and has got experience with the Installation of Lion/Mountain Lion on that System?
- anybody seeing what went wrong with my Installation? ... what is the reason for that kernel Panic and / or the issue "booting only possible via USB" ...

Any help and / or comment is highly appreciated!
Thank you in advance for your Support!

BR from Germany ... Fred

Hi there,

this is my first post but I hope that I can help you.
So have to say that I have quiet the same specs except the SSD.

I just installed ML on my XPS 8300 with a Unibeast created 10.8.0 Retail ML.dmg

All works fine BUT sometimes it happens that I don´t come to the LogIn-Screen after the grey boot screen.
Don´t know why.
Sometimes have to reboot only once, other times about ten times...

Hope that anyone have a solution for me. Maybe the GT 530 making problems?

And Fred if you need some help please feel free to contact me.

Brgds,
Fr33z3r

 

[watts870]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

Anyone having trouble getting in iPhone/ipod to sync?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[watts870]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

Got it working, added

<key>USBBusFix</key>
<string>Yes</string>

to the boot list.


s

 

[sasherm13]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

Does the 10.8.2 Supplemental Update 1.0 cause any problems? I haven't updated yet for fear of wrecking my setup.

 

[scottral]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

Hello, I have just finished my Hackintosh install on a xps 8300. Everything worked out. I have been running it for about 3 days and each day I have had an issue with the network connection. I leave the machine run for around 3 to 5 hours and when I come back to it no network access. I have a brodcom NIC that came standard with the machine. I used this Kext BCM5722d.KEXT and it worked but I still get the network dorps, i do know that is the correct kext.

Any advice on how or why this happens.

Thanks

 

[KuroishI]

[Success] iDell XPS 8300 *Mountain Lion 10.8*

I was getting the same thing with the onboard ethernet card. It would drop especially when downloading large files which would then require a reboot. Most of the onboard NICs have these issues it seems. I purchased the Rosewill RC-401-EX Network Card Gigabit Low Profile 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express 1 x RJ45 from newegg.com and it works flawlessly. It uses the Marvel chipset which is natively supported by Mountain Lion out of the box. Here is the link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166015
Twenty bones isn't such a bad deal for an otherwise stable hackintosh build. Sonos makes a card with the Marvel chipset as well but is twice the price and uses the exact same chipset. Hope this helps.