XPS M1330 with Solid State Drive (SSD)

[Roy_Pal]

Hi OS X experts,

 

The XPS M1330 laptop is one of the most popular laptops to find guides, reviews, solutions for installing different packages of OS X. Yet, I can't get to the installation wizard due to a kernel panic.

 

From what I understood from googling, specially through InsanelyMac forums, this kind of panic ( ex. "IOAPIC Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23" ) can be of four causes:

1) unsupported hardware

2) unsuccessful ISO burn, bad DVD quality or corrupted ISO.

3) Incorrect kernel switches on F8

4) Incorrect BIOS settings

 

1- unsupported hardware:

From the guides and reviews, hunderds of people if not more successfully installed OS X on the M1330 with the same CPU, video card as mine.

Here is my specs:

XPS M1330, Intel Core 2 Duo T9300(2.5GHz, 800Mhz, 6M L2 Cache)

4GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm

128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

SAMSUNG RBX Series 128GB Solid State Drive

Broadcom BetLink Fast Ethernet

Dell Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-card

Dell Truemobile 355 Bluetooth Module (2.0+EDR)

DVD MAT{censored}A

SegmTel High Definition Audio

 

2- unsuccessful ISO burn, bad DVD quality or corrupted ISO:

I downloaded through BitTorrent the following:

Kalyway 10.5.2

Leo4All v3 10.5.2

iATKOS 5i

iATKOS v7

iPC 10.5.6. Universal PPF5 Final

 

BitTorrent checks the files after downloading, I also checked the MD5 for each ISO and made sure they match with the attached MD5 file

I tried different DVD brands, different machines to burn the ISO files I even tried to burn at 2x with verifying data after burn.

 

3- Incorrect kernel switched on F8:

I tried many combinations of the following

-v

-x

-s

-f

mach_970

toh

cpus=1

platform=ACPI|XPC86

busratio=20

 

4- Incorrect BIOS settings:

On my DELL XPS M1330 I have A15 Bios, I tried the following options:

Integrated NIC - OFF

Media Card and 1394 - OFF

SATA Operations - ATA

Flash Cash Module - OFF

CPU XD supoort - Enabled (Default)

Multi Core Support - OFF

Dynamic Acceleration- OFF

SpeedStep Enable - OFF

Virtualization - OFF

Internal Bluetooth - OFF

Internal Wi-Fi - OFF

Internal Cellular - OFF (I don't have WWAN card)

 

I tried to play with the above options, turn some on and some off.

 

Result:

I get stuck at the begining of boot process before the installation wizard starts with:

a) IOAPIC Version 0x20 Vectors 0:23

panic(cpu 0 caller...ACPI AcpiOdFree"@...

 

Any Help is appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Roy

[Roy_Pal]

When using toh -v

I get the following:

 

Extension "com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style.

 

SpeedStep:disabled and SATA: tried with both AHCI and ATA.

 

Any thoughts ?

[Roy_Pal]

I finally tried iATKOS 4i and it worked like a charm with no BIOS custimization or special boot switches.