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[Guide] HP 6300 Pro / HP 8300 Elite - A 100 percent Working and Easily Affordable CustoMac

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Working on a new sierra setup, on hp pro 6300 ssf, i5-3470, with low profile nvidia gt 520 video card. Once the installation completed, it seems to be working, except sleep/wake.

If it is just the screen sleep, it would wake up properly. For deep sleep (computer), I can see/hear the computer waking up, but the screen remains dark. Have tried darkwake=0, not working...

Any suggestion on how to fix this?
I did the following in order to fix my sleep issues (but have onboard HD4000 graphics, not sure how much difference it will make).
sudo pmset -a standby 0
sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0
I can sleep, although it might not be the "deep sleep" that happens after ?24 hours.
 
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I did the following in order to fix my sleep issues (but have onboard HD4000 graphics, not sure how much difference it will make).
sudo pmset -a standby 0
sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0
I can sleep, although it might not be the "deep sleep" that happens after ?24 hours.

The pmset commands did not work for me...I suspect it has something to do with the gt 520 video card, because in my other 8300 usdt system with hd4000, the 'deep sleep' wake is working properly, in both Sierra and High Sierra.
 
I bought:
Amazon: Computer PC HP Elite 6300 PRO SFF - Intel Core 2 Duo G640 2,8Ghz x 2 - Ram 4GB - HD 250GB (arrived broken) - USB 3.0. 132 euro.
Amazon: ZOTAC GeForce GT 710 1GB DDR3 ZT-71301-20L DVI-D + HDMI. 35 euro.
Amazon: ANEWISH® Antenna USB WiFi a Lunga Distanza Chiavetta Wifi con Antenna 5dBi Ricevitore WiFi 600Mbps 802.11ac Dual Band 2.4G/5.8G Scheda Wifi Supporto Windows 10/8/7 / Vista / XP / 2000, Mac OS. 16.90 euro.
Amazon: Hamlet HXD25U3MRD - Box per Hard Disk SATA, USB 3.0 da 2.5" (colore Rosso) + Hard DISK 320GB recovered from old notebook. 18.98 euro.
Ebay: Memory: HYNIX 4GB DDR3 1333MHZ PC3-10600u-9-10-B0 2Rx8 HMT351U6BFR8C-H9 NO AA. 27.90 euro.
Recovered SSD 3.5 OCZ Vertex 2 da 120GB.
Recovered Samsung HD2333 DVI, HDMI E VGA.
Recovered SanDisk SDCZ48-064G-U46 Cruzer Ultra Chiavetta USB 3.0 64 GB.
I installed high sierra with the pendrive.
Finished installation. I changed this setting Clover: nvda_drv=1
If it does not work to add: Inject nvidia.

With this configuration the pc works fine. I'm happy and I have spent less than 250 euro.

Ciao, ciao da Paco2008.
 
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I bought:
Amazon: Computer PC HP Elite 6300 PRO SFF - Intel Core 2 Duo G640
With this configuration the pc works fine. I'm happy and I have spent less than 250 euro.

Ciao, ciao da Paco2008.

Do you mean you're using a Pentium G640 CPU ? A core 2 duo would not fit in the socket of the HP 6300 motherboard. CPU must be either Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge ( 2nd or 3rd gen.) to be compatible. Glad to hear it works for you. I recommend getting at least a Core i3 CPU for the best results but if your Pentium works for you that's fine.
 
Do you mean you're using a Pentium G640 CPU ? A core 2 duo would not fit in the socket of the HP 6300 motherboard. CPU must be either Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge ( 2nd or 3rd gen.) to be compatible. Glad to hear it works for you. I recommend getting at least a Core i3 CPU for the best results but if your Pentium works for you that's fine.

Yes, it's true.
CPU-Z in windows told me I have a Intel Pentium G2020 2.90GHZ
Boh... there are two different things.
Ciao, ciao...da Paco2008, Venice Italy.
 
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HI, this guide worked great for me. I just had to do more search to fix Windows 10 dual boot (uefi on separate disk). Dual boot was ok, but computer was booting on Windows each time I booted on Windows.
I finaly find how to force boot to clover with that command (on windows , terminal as admin)
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\CLOVER\CLOVERX64.EFI

I had to do that, because on that HP, there is no UEFI custom boot entries, it's not really full UEFI but Intel EFI compliant, still BIOS look menu. It seems, under UEFI boot only 1 boot is possible for HDD. On Boot order it didn't put both disks.

I also put Linux Mint, now it's a Triple Boot (OS X Sierra on 1 SSD, and Windows 10 + Mint on a separate HDD).

I experienced many problem with changing display resolution. I finally install DisableMonitor but I'm still not sure everything is working good. I don't want to wast long time to have my display back correctly.

Next think will be probably upgrade memory RAM by adding 2 x 8Gb.
 
Hello everyone
(sorry for my English)
I came into possession of an HP 8300 ssf Intel® Core ™ i5-3570S, an Msi GeForce GT710 2GD3H LP video card.
I wanted to ask you if I could follow the guide
(HP 6300 Pro / HP 8300 Elite - 100 percent Working)
because I've seen it requires an i5-3470S,
and therefore a different gpu.
and if kindly some of you had the proper DSDT
for this model.
I thank you in advance
 
Thanks for excellent guide! Everything work perfectly. HP 8300 microtower.

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