Dreadox Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Dell Vostro 400 Min-Tower CPU Intel Core 2 Quad (currently kabyl 9.2.2 kernel I think) MB Foxconn XXXXX - yes working, except below RAM 2GB 800mhz - yes working, generally in system profiler, error on more info?! Video card PNY Nvidia 8600 512mb (upgraded from 8300) - yes working (haven't cecked QE yet) Realtek ALC888 on Foxconn - not working Intel Ethernet on Foxconn - not working SATA on Foxconn - yes working Apple Ethernet 10/100 PCI - yes working Some $7 Firewire/USB PCI - yes working Restart - yes working Shutdown - causes reboot Sleep - not working, goes to sleep, need to powerdown Kalway 10.5.2 10.5.4 software update combo breaks entire install Download 10.5.3 Kalaway combo, but haven't installed yet Okay this has taken days to get this far... Resolved ethernet by installing Apple card. Patching the intel ethernet kext plist failed. Installing ALC888Audio.mpkg and ran AppleHDAPatcher v1.12.app with multiple versions of alc888.txt failed to get the motherboard audio working. Now out of PCI slots, so I'm going to go buy a USB or firewire breakout box for audio I/O. Haven't swapped kernels to fix sleep/shutdown issue, but don't expect it to work. All in all I regret getting the vostro w/o checking the motherboard specs first. May sell and get another Hackintosh. Not a recomended motherboard until someone writes drivers. Recognized as a Mac Pro for half the price however. Any ideas on getting stuff working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadox Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 Okay I got an Alesis io|2. I was thinking about getting an external audio box anyway for recording. I haven't even installed the drivers yet, but I got audio out. No music for a week, now I am I heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadox Posted July 17, 2008 Author Share Posted July 17, 2008 Okay I've been troubleshooting the sleep problem. Not sure if it's a motherboard issue or video card issue. If I put it to sleep with apple menu, key/mouse has no effect. After sleep the PC powerlight blinks, and pressing the PC power button seems to wake up the computer, but video doesn't come back. I checked pmset, and it indicated hibernation was 0, which I believe means standby yes, hibernation no, which is what I want. So I though the next thing was to start swapping kernels, I went to the bootloader plist and changed the indicated kernel to kabyl-kernel from mach-kernel1. Now the OS X won't boot at all, even to safe mode. I've tried switching the kernel at the bootloader instead to no avail. So I'll either need to fix it at single user, make second mac partition, get mac os extended viewable in XP or reinstall, blahhh, tanked! No matter how I boot -v it hangs at "Property 'Driver-1d1c000". Any ideas ow to get it back? Was my method incorrect? Is anyone going to reply to me? Or am I beating the dead horse of my own personal record? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadox Posted July 19, 2008 Author Share Posted July 19, 2008 Progress, after not much... I have sleep! I switched the Bios from from S3 to S1. I guess that means it's less efficient sleep. I have tried most of the kernels and haven't gotten S3 sleep to work. Although, in the meantime, I learned all about the bootloader and and it's prefs. Vanilla with platform=osx86 is fastest to boot. Still can get get the syntax down for default, still trying to -v without breaking booting, wtf. Need to try other nvidia drivers now. Mostly I want to leave it on and not get to hot, Like the day I left it on without sleep. When I got back it was like and oven, I exaggerated in the cabinet. And it's sound real loud. Well it turns out the computer was fine, but the noise was the video fan. I removed the sticker card that was riding away and all was well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VoDanhKhach Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Hi, I'm a noob on this thing. Can you tell me in detail how you got the Ethernet to work? Also, any news about VGA drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadox Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 As far as I know on board ethernet does not work. I'd find a OS X supported PCI card if I where you. I have no idea about drivers I just installed what came with the install. Every time I install drivers I break things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountain Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Is Foxconn standard motherboard for the Vostro 400 or did you swap it? I have the same desktop and been wanting to install OSX. Thanks Edit: Do you need a seperate hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evgeny-BG Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Could you send me kext for sound on this Vostro 400, Now I am with Snow Leopard... I use Voodoo but I dont have microphone.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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