Blackshore Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 - VGN-NR21S/S Hi guys! This is my first post here! I might be posting in the wrong section..pleace move this the correct place in that place. I can say that I'm a 3d animation student and that I have a legal legit hackintosh as a workstation computer made by a BPU from EFI-X. And I LOVED Leopard! Truly Loved it! Recently I got a cheap secondhand laptop from Sony. Right now I'm running a slightly modded version of Windows 2008 server on it instead of the Win vista which was the orginal OS. I Tried OpenSuse (linux distro), but I didn't like it. I got a SONY VAIO VGN-NR21S/S. I belive that is only a Europe release. Could you guys help me get information if any OSx86 will work on this computer more or less fully? I think I got this hardware: Chipset: Mobile Intel® GM965 Express Chipset Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5450 with Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep® 1,66 GHz, 2 Core, L2-buffer 2048, Frontside Bus (MHz) 667 Displaytype: WXGA - 1280 x 800, 15,4, X-black LCD Soundcard: Realtek ALC262 Memory: Speed (MHz) 667, Type: DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 1 024 MB)(Max mem: 4gb) Graphiccard: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GT GPU Dedicated mem: 895 MB, Seprate:128 MB Ethernet: Marvell Yukon Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 Chipset based Wireless Ethernet: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AGN Other: PCI bridge (port 1-3): Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express USB Controller 1-3: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller USB Controller 1: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) Will this work on any OSx86 project? I found this on the soundcard: (Link) Does it work?? I found this on the graphics: LINK Seems to be a problem? Can I get it to work? (more links: Link2 , Link3, Possible solution: Link4) I Auctually found this from a user named: Maury84 hackintosh on VAIO NR21S/S chipset MOBILE INTEL GM965 Express INTEL Core 2 DUO T5450 recognized GeForce 8400M GT GPU 1280x800 in VESA mode, no QE/CI Ethernet Marvell Yukon 88E8039 works using AppleYukon.kext Intel Wireless AGN4965 found as airport device, not recognized, not working SATA/IDE works audio output works with no patch audio input not tested yet USB works firewire not tested yet two finger scroll works 2GB RAM DDR2 SDRAM recognized How is devopment coming along? Are there any planned drivers for those above? AGN4965 and GeForce 8400M GT GPU Please give me some answers some directions on this. And which OSx86 project is most reliable??! Sincerly B for Sweden! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153446-sony-vaio-vgn-nr21ss-laptop-compatiblity-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilar Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 - VGN-NR21S/S Hi guys! This is my first post here! I might be posting in the wrong section..pleace move this the correct place in that place. I can say that I'm a 3d animation student and that I have a legal legit hackintosh as a workstation computer made by a BPU from EFI-X. And I LOVED Leopard! Truly Loved it! Recently I got a cheap secondhand laptop from Sony. Right now I'm running a slightly modded version of Windows 2008 server on it instead of the Win vista which was the orginal OS. I Tried OpenSuse (linux distro), but I didn't like it. I got a SONY VAIO VGN-NR21S/S. I belive that is only a Europe release. Could you guys help me get information if any OSx86 will work on this computer more or less fully? I think I got this hardware: Chipset: Mobile Intel® GM965 Express Chipset Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5450 with Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep® 1,66 GHz, 2 Core, L2-buffer 2048, Frontside Bus (MHz) 667 Displaytype: WXGA - 1280 x 800, 15,4, X-black LCD Soundcard: Realtek ALC262 Memory: Speed (MHz) 667, Type: DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 1 024 MB)(Max mem: 4gb) Graphiccard: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GT GPU Dedicated mem: 895 MB, Seprate:128 MB Ethernet: Marvell Yukon Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 Chipset based Wireless Ethernet: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AGN Other: PCI bridge (port 1-3): Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express USB Controller 1-3: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller USB Controller 1: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) Will this work on any OSx86 project? I found this on the soundcard: (Link) Does it work?? I found this on the graphics: LINK Seems to be a problem? Can I get it to work? (more links: Link2 , Link3, Possible solution: Link4) I Auctually found this from a user named: Maury84 hackintosh on VAIO NR21S/S chipset MOBILE INTEL GM965 Express INTEL Core 2 DUO T5450 recognized GeForce 8400M GT GPU 1280x800 in VESA mode, no QE/CI Ethernet Marvell Yukon 88E8039 works using AppleYukon.kext Intel Wireless AGN4965 found as airport device, not recognized, not working SATA/IDE works audio output works with no patch audio input not tested yet USB works firewire not tested yet two finger scroll works 2GB RAM DDR2 SDRAM recognized How is devopment coming along? Are there any planned drivers for those above? AGN4965 and GeForce 8400M GT GPU Please give me some answers some directions on this. And which OSx86 project is most reliable??! Sincerly B for Sweden! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153446-sony-vaio-vgn-nr21ss-laptop-compatiblity-please-help/#findComment-1085790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
booger_sniffer5000 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 - VGN-NR21S/S Hi guys! This is my first post here! I might be posting in the wrong section..pleace move this the correct place in that place. I can say that I'm a 3d animation student and that I have a legal legit hackintosh as a workstation computer made by a BPU from EFI-X. And I LOVED Leopard! Truly Loved it! Recently I got a cheap secondhand laptop from Sony. Right now I'm running a slightly modded version of Windows 2008 server on it instead of the Win vista which was the orginal OS. I Tried OpenSuse (linux distro), but I didn't like it. I got a SONY VAIO VGN-NR21S/S. I belive that is only a Europe release. Could you guys help me get information if any OSx86 will work on this computer more or less fully? I think I got this hardware: Chipset: Mobile Intel® GM965 Express Chipset Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5450 with Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep® 1,66 GHz, 2 Core, L2-buffer 2048, Frontside Bus (MHz) 667 Displaytype: WXGA - 1280 x 800, 15,4, X-black LCD Soundcard: Realtek ALC262 Memory: Speed (MHz) 667, Type: DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 1 024 MB)(Max mem: 4gb) Graphiccard: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GT GPU Dedicated mem: 895 MB, Seprate:128 MB Ethernet: Marvell Yukon Technology Group Ltd. 88E8039 Chipset based Wireless Ethernet: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AGN Other: PCI bridge (port 1-3): Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express USB Controller 1-3: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller USB Controller 1: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) Will this work on any OSx86 project? I found this on the soundcard: (Link) Does it work?? I found this on the graphics: LINK Seems to be a problem? Can I get it to work? (more links: Link2 , Link3, Possible solution: Link4) I Auctually found this from a user named: Maury84 hackintosh on VAIO NR21S/S chipset MOBILE INTEL GM965 Express INTEL Core 2 DUO T5450 recognized GeForce 8400M GT GPU 1280x800 in VESA mode, no QE/CI Ethernet Marvell Yukon 88E8039 works using AppleYukon.kext Intel Wireless AGN4965 found as airport device, not recognized, not working SATA/IDE works audio output works with no patch audio input not tested yet USB works firewire not tested yet two finger scroll works 2GB RAM DDR2 SDRAM recognized How is devopment coming along? Are there any planned drivers for those above? AGN4965 and GeForce 8400M GT GPU Please give me some answers some directions on this. And which OSx86 project is most reliable??! Sincerly B for Sweden! If you are getting a laptop with a dedicated graphics card, don't get a Sony. For some reason the display doesn't work correctly, get an HP or something if you want a dedicated graphics card. Overall verdict, don't get it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153446-sony-vaio-vgn-nr21ss-laptop-compatiblity-please-help/#findComment-1087520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napalm_pt Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Still no updates on this laptop? I have a friend who has one, but it seems that critical component does not work so I better no even try... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153446-sony-vaio-vgn-nr21ss-laptop-compatiblity-please-help/#findComment-1354737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackshore Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 Still no updates on this laptop?I have a friend who has one, but it seems that critical component does not work so I better no even try... The Wlan is development is here: http://projectcamphor.mercurysquad.com/ More will probably come with time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153446-sony-vaio-vgn-nr21ss-laptop-compatiblity-please-help/#findComment-1361084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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