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[Guide] ProBook 4340s Ivy-Bridge Installation
Updated for 10.8.4 and ProBook Installer v6.1 Beta 14
Updated for 10.8.4 and ProBook Installer v6.1 Beta 14
The model of ProBook I have is Ivy-Bridge processor with a 7-series motherboard, i3-3110M 2.4 GHz on HM76 chipset. The exact specifications can be found at HP ProBook 4340s Notebook PC (C4Y15EA). If you have a different combination of processor to motherboard, i.e. Sandy-Bridge processor on Ivy-Bridge board or Ivy-Bridge processor on Sandy-Bridge board, you may have difficulty enabling HD 3000 / 4000 graphics. If so follow this guide Enabling HD 3000 graphics on 7-series motherboards, and HD 4000 on 6-series motherboards.
To start with I will give a summary of what is working:
Working
- HD 4000 Graphics Acceleration
- WiFi AR9827
- Bluetooth AR3011
- LAN
- On-board and HDMI audio
- Track pad with three finger gestures
- Sleep / Wake from Sleep
- HD Webcam
- Built in Mic / Line in
- Full range of brightness levels
- USB 3.0, backwards compatible with USB 2.0
- Card Reader
- VGA out when booting with cable plugged in
Pre-Installation
As this model, and most others I assume, come pre-installed with Windows 7 or 8 you should update through Windows to the latest BIOS version, this is currently F.40 released on 1/02/2013 and can be found at HP Notebook BIOS Update. Simply download, run the .exe file and follow the on-screen instructions.
Now you have the latest BIOS version, time to create the UniBeast installer v1.7 for Mountain Lion. Remember to choose Laptop in the option menu! As I had already created a UniBeast USB pen for a desktop installation, I forgot I required a different setting for laptops and tried using this on my ProBook - I did not get far! As always, make sure you use the official ML application from the App store and it can take some time to create the bootable USB pen. Use the official guide to help create the Installer, UniBeast 10.8.
Once created, ensure you have the correct BIOS settings:
- Hard drive set to AHCI mode
- Fast boot disabled
- Turn off Safe Boot and change from UEFI to Hybrid to enable booting from USB)
-v -f GraphicsEnabler=No UseKernelCache=No
You should now reach the OS X Mountain Lion installer page, if you have trouble read the verbose messages on the screen and ask for help within this forum! However if you think you are stuck at a particular message, leave your laptop alone for at least 5 minutes, as it does take some time to reach the installer screen so be patient. Once at the screen, refer back to the UniBeast 10.8 guide for correctly setting up the partition schemes. The entire installation should take ~20 minutes.
Post-Installation
Once installed, the laptop should restart. Plug in your LAN cable and use the USB pen to boot into your newly created partition by typing the same boot flags as before:
-v -f GraphicsEnabler=No UseKernelCache=No
The installer should provide you with working internet. Navigate to:
- HP ProBook Installer 6.1 (Beta 14): Ivy-Bridge Support and download the latest package. Note, you can always download this and place on your USB after creating the pen earlier on.
- OS X Mountain Lion Update v10.8. (Combo) and download the combo update, again this can be placed on the USB pen after running UniBeast.
- OS X Support Kexts -> 4x40s -> Mountain Lion -> 10.8.4
- DSDT Generator/Patcher -> ProBook Model -> 4x40s Ivy Bridge
- DSDT Generator/Patcher -> Fan Behaviour -> Readings Only
- DSDT Generator/Patcher -> Display Type -> Low-Resolution Screen
- DSDT Generator/Patcher -> Optional Patches -> Atheros AR9285 Patch (If your card is not natively working)
- SSDT Generator
- System Definitions -> i3/i5 Ivy Bridge
- Chameleon r2250
- Extra Tools -> Chameleon Wizard
- Extra Tools -> Kext Wizard
- Extra Tools -> HWMonitor (Lion and ML)
- Extra Tools -> MaciASL
- Extra Tools -> Show All Files
Which WiFi card?
The WiFi card that comes with the C4Y15EA model is a Ralink RT3290 model that is not compatible with OS X. I swapped this out for an Atheros AR5B197 which is a WiFi (AR9287) & Bluetooth (AR3011) Combo card. Fortunately HP provides videos that you can follow for Removal and Replacement, I followed the one for Wireless Lan Module and it couldn't have been simpler.
The AR5B197 does not natively work, and that is why I selected the AR9285 patch under DSDT options. If yours works natively, then no need to select this. As the 4x40s range does not have a BIOS whitelist for WiFi cards, you are free to select any of the natively working cards. I would suggest the Atheros AR5BHB92, which has AR9280 chipset and operates in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz ranges giving a maximum speed of 300 Mbit/s.
To help you select which WiFi card you wish to use in your ProBook I have translated this Polish google spreadsheet into English to help understand which cards you can buy and install. As of writing this, there are 3 supported natively and 4 which require a DeviceID fix. When buying from eBay don't worry if in the description it says, 'not supported in HP laptops', as the card in my ProBook said the exact same in the description.
The latest ProBook installer has addressed several issues that were previously missing with regards to; Bluetooth, HDMI audio and trackpad working after sleep. Previously it was required that we add product and vendor ID of the bluetooth card to IOath3kfrmwr in order to load up bluetooth functionality, however this has been done for us - so no more manual editing! Secondly, HDMI audio requires editing of AppleIntelFrameBufferCapri - which again has been included in the latest version of the ProBook installer so we don't have to! Finally, the issue with the trackpad working after the ProBook has been put to sleep has been fixed since a special release of VoodooPS2Controller, where the latest release has been included in the installer, this also enables the use of brightness and volume keys as default.
Summary
This has been the easiest installation of OS X that I have done so far! There are a huge amount of resources dedicated to installing OS X on a ProBook and there are plenty of supplementary guides to aid for HDMI audio and working WiFi etc. The people on this forum are fantastic and very much willing to help, I will add more to this guide as updates are released and a huge thank you to everyone who has answered any of my questions and helped point out mistakes
Download links
UniBeast v2.0.0 for Universal
HP ProBook Installer 6.1 (Beta 14): Ivy-Bridge Support
OS X Mountain Lion update v10.8.4 (Combo)
HexEdit
KextBeast v1.0
KextUtility v2.5.1 for Mountain Lion
Polish WiFi Card on Google Spreadsheets