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[GUIDE]10.6.3 on the Dell Studio 540 (Retail and Vanilla)


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Hey I finally figured out how to get a successful installation of the latest update of Snow Leopard on the Dell Studio 540.

Specs:

Model: Dell Studio 540

Ram: 3 GB

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33 GHZ

Video Card: Nvidia Gforce 9800 GT

Sound Card: Intel HDA

 

 

Ok first you have to download everything you need here: *UPDATED* [url="http://www.mediafire.com/?3wyjymklrdz[/url]

 

Then you burn legacybootcd.iso located in folder you just downloaded at the lowest speed possible. Now put the disc in your 540 and boot from it. After its loaded up you will be in a chameleon boot loader. Eject the disc and replace it with your snow leopard disc. After that press F5 and HIGHLIGHT YOUR DISC (dont click on it yet). you want to boot with the flags -v cpus=1 busratio=20.(you’re going to need a usb keyboard and mouse that are WIRED will get wireless working after the install) After the disc boots up go head and choose your language. After agreeing to apples terms highlight utilities and go to disk utility.

 

when its loaded up click on your hard drive that you want to install mac on (not partition) and go to the partition tab. under volume scheme select one partition and name it whatever you like. before you apply you have to click on options and select GUID Partition Table if its not already selected then you have to make sure under format that it is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Now you can click apply. After its done partitioning exit out of disk utility adn select the hard drive you just partitioned. Then click install and that should take 25-30 minutes. After you install mac and your computer restarts boot to the cd again.

 

Now HIGHLIGHT the hard drive you installed mac on. Now boot the hard drive with the flags -v cpus=1 busratio=20. When mac boots up you should see the welcome video then you should see the setup. Of course just go through the setup until you get to the mac desktop. Now you have to transfer the folder you downloaded onto the desktop of your mac. After that open the folder and open Kext Helper b7. Then go into the kexts folder and drag its contents into Kext Helper and click on Easy Install. When your done dont reboot, instead go to the Legacy Boot Cd and go into extra, then post-install, and open and install the myhackinstaller. After its done installing (dont reboot yet) open kext helper again then go into VoodooHDA_Pref and run voodoohdahelper and VoodooHDA.Prefane. After that drag VoodooHDA.kext into kext helper and install.

 

Now you can reboot.

Everything should be working now. If you dont want the theme or the boot log just go to extra on the root of your hard drive the go to themes, default, and delete boot.png and backround.png. If you want to change the theme then just change those pictures. Anyways i hope you enjoyed my tutorial and id be glad to help anyone having problems.

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