mark blackett Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Hi.. I was running Leopard (10.4-10.5) on my older Dimension perfectly.. but recently I had hardware problems that forced me to buy a new PC. So I purchased a Dell Inspiron 531s. I tried installing Leopard from iPC DVD, iATKOS v7 dvd and Leo4All v5 with no success. I think it has something to do with the hardware.. it would install fine, but then when I would boot up, it would usually freeze when loading some of the SATA hardware kexts I think. I'm going to post my specs and if anybody has had success on installing leopard on this machine, I'd love to know about it. Also, to know which kexts I should use for my hardware.. Here are the specs.. Thanks!! Basic Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dell Inspiron 531s ACPI x64-based PC NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 430 TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653B SCSI CdRom Device ST325031 0AS SCSI Disk Device (249.99 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 6RY6JWB5, SMART Status: Healthy NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ ATA Channel 0 [Controller] ATA Channel 1 [Controller] Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ARBX1KKY IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller (2x) Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller Detailed Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processors Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processor 1 ID = 0 Number of cores 2 (max 2) Number of threads 2 (max 2) Name AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Codename Brisbane Specification AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Package Socket AM2 (940) CPUID F.B.2 Extended CPUID F.6B Brand ID 4 Core Stepping BH-G2 Technology 65 nm Core Speed 2310.6 MHz Multiplier x FSB 11.5 x 200.9 MHz HT Link speed 1004.6 MHz Stock frequency 2300 MHz Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 L1 Data cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size L1 Instruction cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size L2 cache 2 x 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size FID/VID Control yes Max FID 11.5x Max VID 1.350 V K8 Thermal sensor yes K8 Revision ID 6.0 Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 0 Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 1 Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 2 Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 3 Chipset ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Northbridge NVIDIA MCP61 rev. A3 Southbridge NVIDIA MCP61 rev. A2 Memory Type DDR2 Memory Size 2048 MBytes Channels Dual Memory Frequency 330.1 MHz (CPU/7) CAS# latency (CL) 5.0 RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 5 RAS# Precharge (tRP) 5 Cycle Time (tRAS) 15 Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 21 Command Rate (CR) 1T Display Adapters ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Display adapter 0 Manuf. API index 0 Display name \\.\DISPLAY1 Name NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 430 Revision A2 PCI device bus 0 (0x0), device 13 (0xD), function 0 (0x0) Vendor ID 0x10DE (0x1028) Model ID 0x3D0 (0x20E) Performance Level Default Core clock 425.0 MHz Memory clock 0.0 MHz Performance Level 2D Desktop Core clock 425.0 MHz Memory clock 0.0 MHz Performance Level 3D Applications Core clock 425.0 MHz Memory clock 0.0 MHz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203541-106-on-dell-inspiron-531s/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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