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[GUIDE] Dell XPS L701X OFFICIAL OS X Lion 10.7.4

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Dell XPS L701X OFFICIAL OS X Lion Tutorial

This tutorial is assuming that you have access to a version of OS X on a MAC.

Dell-XPS-17.jpg

My Specs are:-

  • -Intel Core i7 740QM 1.73 GHz
  • -Nvidia GT 445M 3GB VRAM
  • -16GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM
  • -1600 x 900 Native Resolution
  • -1TB (2 x 500GB) 7200 RPM
  • -2.0 HD Webcam
  • -91W/hr Li-ION Battery
  • -Windows 7 Ultimate, and MAC OS X Lion (of course :D)

What Works:-

  • -Native Resolution (1600 x 900)
  • -Full Graphics Acceleration
  • -All USB ports (Yes USB 3.0 as well)
  • -Touchpad with 2 finger scrolling
  • -Audio
  • -Microphone
  • -Bluetooth
  • -Webcam
  • -Ethernet

What Does Not Work:-

  • -Wireless (This is due to wireless card being unsupported by OS X, but will be buying dongle)
  • -Sleep (Computer remains running, but screen turns off)

REQUIREMENTS!
  • 1. An 8GB Flash Drive to install LION from
  • 2. Another flash drive to copy over multibeast and other attached files
  • 3. Formatted 2nd internal hard drive to install Lion on
  • 4. A copy of OS X Lion
  • 5. Unibeast

HERE'S THE TUTORIAL...

  • 1. Open up disk utility
  • 2. Plug in flash drive and select it in the disk utility
  • 3. Click on Partition tab and change the current partition to "1 Partition"
  • 4. Make sure the format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
  • 5. Click on options below the newly made partition and select Master Boot Record, then click APPLY and Partition
  • 6. Close disk utility
  • 7. Open Unibeast
  • 8. Click continue until it prompts for the drive to install to; Select flash drive
  • 9. Click continue
  • 10. Make sure the copy of OS X Lion is in your applications folder
  • 11. Check Mac App Store "Install Mac OS X Lion", and Laptop Support
  • 12. Click continue and install

You are now ready to install Lion on laptop :D

So...When booting up your laptop, hit F12 to get to the drive selector screen Make sure no other USB devices are plugged in apart from the flash drive.
Then...
  • 1. Select the Removable Devices, and hit ENTER
  • 2. The Unibeast bootloader should appear after a few seconds
  • 3. Select the Flash Drive and hit ENTER again...

After a few seconds, the LION installation should appear. :D

  • 4. Select your preferred language, and click the ARROW

The taskbar to the top should then appear

  • 5. Select Utilities, then Disk Utility
  • 6. Select the Hard Drive which was formatted
  • 7. Go to partition tab and make 1 partition
  • 8. Make sure format is in Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
  • 9. Make sure in options, you select GUID Partition Table
  • 10. Click apply and partition
  • 11. Once completed, exit disk utility and click continue and agree
  • 12. Select the newly partitioned hard drive and select INSTALL
  • 13. When finished installing, keep flash drive plugged in
  • 14. Boot laptop from the flash drive again
  • 15. When the Unibeast bootloader appears, do not select the flash drive again, but instead select the Hard Drive which you installed Lion on
  • 16. You should now be at the registration screen :D

  • 17. Once registering and such, open multibeast and have ethernet plugged in (This is to be able to download 10.7.4 from the Software Update)

  • 18. In multibeast, click continue, select the Lion hard drive, then continue again.You should see the Installation Type (The list of stuff)
  • 19. Expand the Drivers and Bootloaders dropdown list
  • 20. Expand Kexts and Enablers
  • 21. Expand Graphics
  • 22. Expand Nvidia 4xx/5xx Support
  • 23. Select 10.7.2+ Combo OpenCL Enabler
  • 24. Expand Miscellaneous
  • 25. Select NullCPUPowerManagement
  • 26. Select USB 3.0 - NEC/Renesas and Etron
  • 27. Select PS/2 Keyboard/Mice and Trackpads
  • 28. Expand Network
  • 29. Select Lnx2Mac's RealtekRTL81xx Ethernet v0.0.90
  • 30. Expand Bootloaders
  • 31. Select Chimera v1.9.2 r1394
  • 32. Click Continue and Install
  • 33. The installation for the ethernet driver should also appear. Run through the installation like normal (i.e. click continue and select hard drive, and install)

Once completed, restart your laptop.
Upon restarting, hit F2 to go into your BIOS setup.
Change your boot sequence to boot from the secondary hard drive (Lion hard drive) first.
Save changes and exit.
When chimera bootloader appears, you can either hit Enter twice or just let the timer countdown.
If you're successfully booted back into Lion, take a breath. You've reached far :)

Now on the top left, click the apple logo, and then SOFTWARE UPDATE. UPDATE your hackintosh to 10.7.4 :D

After updating (you should restart laptop), then boot back into Lion once more, and use KextBeast to install the two kexts in the attached zip folder named "Sound". These are the kexts which will enable sound and microphone. Restart once more, and then your hackintosh should be at the stage where mine is :)

Thanks for checking out my tutorial. I hope I didn't forget anything :p
 

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Thanks for the nice tutorial... i haven't selected to install the bootloader when i installed with unibeast one month ago so i don't have the possibility to boot now without the unibeast USB...

i will reinstall all the system today probably

...tips for a good replacement WiFi/bluetooth?
 
lolz thanks man...and for the wifi, i've been looking around for many weeks...and finally ordered this from amazon... everyone's saying how it working OOB ... :) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004BV4JXI/
i'll be getting it soon...and will try it out

As for the bluetooth...that works by itself already lol :D
 
paulsniper19 said:
lolz thanks man...and for the wifi, i've been looking around for many weeks...and finally ordered this from amazon... everyone's saying how it working OOB ... :) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004BV4JXI/
i'll be getting it soon...and will try it out

As for the bluetooth...that works by itself already lol :D

mhh nice and cheap... let me know infos about your "tests"

but... i mean something that can replace the intel pci card embedd in the xps, i don't have the WiFi/Bluetooth combo card, but i would buy one that is compatible with OSX and Windows too
 
FrancYescO said:
paulsniper19 said:
lolz thanks man...and for the wifi, i've been looking around for many weeks...and finally ordered this from amazon... everyone's saying how it working OOB ... :) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004BV4JXI/ref ... T1_SC_dp_1
i'll be getting it soon...and will try it out

As for the bluetooth...that works by itself already lol :D

mhh nice and cheap... let me know infos about your "tests"

but... i mean something that can replace the intel pci card embedd in the xps, i don't have the WiFi/Bluetooth combo card, but i would buy one that is compatible with OSX and Windows too

hmmm well i've heard about the Dell 1510 wireless card, but that's for Snow Leopard...i doubt it'll work on Lion :( I prefer the usb dongle so that i won't have to downgrade my current wireless card for that purpose =/
here it is if you wanna give it a shot lol
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002OB0FPI/
 
Do you think i have a better method before reinstall all?
(i think i need again my girlfriend macbook...)

i installed all with an old version of unibeast using a DSDT found on this forum, now the only method that i have to start is booting from Unibeast USB Stick with "GraphicsEnabler=No"

my video card is 550M not 3D

and i have no
-no Touchpad with 2 finger scrolling
-no webcam
-no audio

if i boot from the second hard drive the bios say "No operating system found", can i install chimera after the system installation witouth broke my windows setup (that is on the first SSD drive)?

whats your suggestion ?

EDIT:
i updated to 10.7.4 via apple software update and seems multibeast and kextbeast don't do anything after installation, so i haven't method to install chimera :|
 
FrancYescO said:
Do you think i have a better method before reinstall all?
(i think i need again my girlfriend macbook...)

i installed all with an old version of unibeast using a DSDT found on this forum, now the only method that i have to start is booting from Unibeast USB Stick with "GraphicsEnabler=No"

my video card is 550M not 3D

and i have no
-no Touchpad with 2 finger scrolling
-no webcam
-no audio

if i boot from the second hard drive the bios say "No operating system found", can i install chimera after the system installation witouth broke my windows setup (that is on the first SSD drive)?

whats your suggestion ?

EDIT:
i updated to 10.7.4 via apple software update and seems multibeast and kextbeast don't do anything after installation, so i haven't method to install chimera :|

That's odd how multibeast doesn't do anything :/ as for kextbeast, did you put the files from the Sound folder on the desktop itself, then use kextbeast? That's how i did it. Since multibeast doesn't do anything, then i would suggest you re-install =/
 
in your tutorial you suggest to install the kexts before the update...

but i have seen that when i update from 10.7.3 to 10.7.4 i lost something, for example i installed something for the battery for show the battery percentage (Vodoo battery something like this) and after the update i got again (the same if Vodoo battery is not installed) an "x" on the battery icon in the statusbar

and another thing...

for start the installation from unibeast stick you say only

3. Select the Flash Drive and hit ENTER again...
no dsdt.aml is needed? (i updated my bios to A17)

here, some other kext and DSDT (A17 Too) i found
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... id=1783895
 
FrancYescO said:
in your tutorial you suggest to install the kexts before the update...

but i have seen that when i update from 10.7.3 to 10.7.4 i lost something, for example i installed something for the battery for show the battery percentage (Vodoo battery something like this) and after the update i got again (the same if Vodoo battery is not installed) an "x" on the battery icon in the statusbar

and another thing...

for start the installation from unibeast stick you say only

3. Select the Flash Drive and hit ENTER again...
no dsdt.aml is needed? (i updated my bios to A17)

here, some other kext and DSDT (A17 Too) i found
http://www.insanelymac_.com/forum/index ... id=1783895

which version of XPS do u have? L701X or L702X?
 
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