Blackshore Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Hi, I need assistance with my old Optiplex GX280. I searched for a osx86 solution instead of using windows xp as the orginal os is. The Computer have a cd drive and not a dvd drive. Will not boot from external dvd either. So what I did was that I plugged the GX280 harddrive to an other Dell computer. A Dell Optiplex 755 and installed OSX iPC 10.5.6 with the instruktions here. http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph..._Optiplex_GX280. After installation I did move the HDD back to the GX280. The drive will not boot in normal mode..but can go in if i type in -v in the bootloading. Since all the hardware was new to it I did a repairpermission for the disc. But there is allot of problems: *It boots up in -v mode but not normal. *I repaired Disc permissions since it had allot of permission errors cause of the hdd move. *I forgot to add additional language translation so It is in English. (need to add swedish afterwards) *The "about this mac" got wrong information. It says 4 GHz Intel core Solo. I think it is less then 3, perhaps 2. I forgot to write it down. *The ram says to be 512 mb, but it is 1Gb ram in abouth this mac. * I can't get more information regarding the mac since System profiler crashes. * Ethernet is not working. Solved. * Sound is not working. Solved I would like to fix these problems. Can you guys help out? Or do I need to make a iPC bootable USB drive and reinstall osx? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203296-help-needed-for-dell-optiplex-gx280/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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