[GUIDE] Snow Leopard on HP dvx Quad Core i7 QM

[brilo]

Hello, i have installed SL and upgrade to 10.6.3,

The problem is, i can only boot with cpus=1, and it was running very very slow.

I cannot open any application though..

 

Then i try with safe boot -x cpus=1, it was fine. But it was in the safe mode, no sound card and not so good.

Any idea to solve this problem?

 

My notebook spec:

HP DV6T 2000 CTO

Intel core i7-720

1 Gb NVidia GT-230M

6Gb RAM

 

All i do is :

1.Boot using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] -x cpus=1

2.Install snowleopard 10.6

3.Run 10.6.3 update

4.Install [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

5.Install legacy_kernel

6.Install another version of [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

 

Any idea why i cannot do anything while using normal boot?

[yioulas]

could the wifi card be replaced with one that's compatible with osx? I already got one, but I heard that that hp laptops reject mini pci cards that were not build specificly this laptop so the bios needs to be patched in order to replace the wifi. Anyones knows anything about this? I plan to buy an hp dv8 soon but I want to be sure everything will work.

 

cheers

[yehia2amer]

Hello, i have installed SL and upgrade to 10.6.3,

The problem is, i can only boot with cpus=1, and it was running very very slow.

I cannot open any application though..

 

Then i try with safe boot -x cpus=1, it was fine. But it was in the safe mode, no sound card and not so good.

Any idea to solve this problem?

 

My notebook spec:

HP DV6T 2000 CTO

Intel core i7-720

1 Gb NVidia GT-230M

6Gb RAM

 

All i do is :

1.Boot using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] -x cpus=1

2.Install snowleopard 10.6

3.Run 10.6.3 update

4.Install [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

5.Install legacy_kernel

6.Install another version of [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]

 

Any idea why i cannot do anything while using normal boot?

 

use the legacy kernel and all will be fine here

and don't forget to put you busratio flag ex:"busratio=12"

could the wifi card be replaced with one that's compatible with osx? I already got one, but I heard that that hp laptops reject mini pci cards that were not build specificly this laptop so the bios needs to be patched in order to replace the wifi. Anyones knows anything about this? I plan to buy an hp dv8 soon but I want to be sure everything will work.

 

cheers

 

don't know but those versions are not so much good for a hackntosh , Clevo W860CU is reported to be more compatible and nearly the same specs , please take a look here

[kampo]

Hello Yehia Amer

I tried to boot with tonymacx86, myHack, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], i restored retail SL dvd to a usb i tried all the commands cpus=1 busratio=12 fsb=133, cpus=12 busratio=20 , busratio=12 , -v -f -x etc. and my results are panics or reboots

DV7t-3000 i7 720 , pm55 , nvdia 230m,

Sorry about my english

[vknyvz]

Yehia Amer

 

what do you think?

 

ASUS G73 Gaming laptop right...

 

 

would your method work on my lappy too?

 

i7 720 1.6ghz

6gb ram ddr3

ati 5870 1gb ddr5

 

i know lol my graphic card is top of the line, highest mobile GPU From ATI so no kexts i have found for it but this shuldn't be a prolem i think, some other might work

 

i haven't done your method yet as I will tomorrow once i get my blank DL discs

but I have tried these

 

iDeneb 10.5.8 lite edition, can't even install, reboots as soon as I see white backgrounded apple logo on install

iDeneb 10.5.6 installs just fine but when you try to reboot this time it reboots on boot up's white backgrounded apple logo

iAtkos v7 10.5.7 same as iDeneb 10.5.8 lite edition

 

I think something is incompatible at this stage, would you know what it is?

 

as I said problem is the same always, re-boots after seeing white screen with apple logo.

just 10.5.6 ideneb installs fine but it does the same on boot up this time.

 

 

by the way I have tried to boot up with tonymacosx86 boot ATI.iso after installing with iDeneb 10.5.6 then it gave multiple EBIOS READ ERROR

 

hope your method works but would you happen to guess what's the issue here?

[yioulas]

use the legacy kernel and all will be fine here

and don't forget to put you busratio flag ex:"busratio=12"

 

don't know but those versions are not so much good for a hackntosh , Clevo W860CU is reported to be more compatible and nearly the same specs , please take a look here

 

I've never heard of clevo before but I checked them out and they are very interesting. They are sold under different

 

names. This guru fire i7 looks very interesting let me know what you think.

 

http://www.notebookguru.de/en/Notebooks/Guru-FIRE-i7.html

 

 

Thanks for the tip!

[vknyvz]

i think we somewhat sahre the same fate in this

 

Hello Yehia Amer

I tried to boot with tonymacx86, myHack, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], i restored retail SL dvd to a usb i tried all the commands cpus=1 busratio=12 fsb=133, cpus=12 busratio=20 , busratio=12 , -v -f -x etc. and my results are panics or reboots

DV7t-3000 i7 720 , pm55 , nvdia 230m,

Sorry about my english

[wolfnoodle]

I've got the DV6 2090eo, is it just to follow the guide without changes or ? thanks in advance. . . and oh here's my spec,

 

Intel Core i7 720QM 1.60GHz

Motherboard Hewlett Packard Model 363E, Insyde Bios

Chipset Intel DMI Host Bridge

BIOS: HP F.1A (Date: 04/01/2010)

Memory DDR3 Dual Channels, Size 4096 MB , NB frequency 1981 atm, DRAM freq ATM 662Mhz

Graphic Nvidia Geforce GT 230M technology 40nm

Max clocks: Shaders 1100 mhx Core 500Mhz Memory 790 Mhz

And Atheros Network card and synaptics touchboard

 

And now, should it be a .dmg file ? i guess so ? i found one on tpb "Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Final Retail)" Just burn it and use it as an original dvd ? i understand it has to be a dual layer dvd, i just need a tip on wich program to burn with ?

[wolfnoodle]

How did u burn ur dvd ? or did you burn it on a mac ? i really need an answer on this one to get some progress! sorry for the double post!

 

 

awesome i would love to have all my cores working. Heading out to buy some dual layer dvd's now and hopefully will be up and running later tonight!

[yehia2amer]

Hello Yehia Amer

I tried to boot with tonymacx86, myHack, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], i restored retail SL dvd to a usb i tried all the commands cpus=1 busratio=12 fsb=133, cpus=12 busratio=20 , busratio=12 , -v -f -x etc. and my results are panics or reboots

DV7t-3000 i7 720 , pm55 , nvdia 230m,

Sorry about my english

i think we somewhat sahre the same fate in this

try this boot cd Empire EFI V1.085 R2

More info

 

I've never heard of clevo before but I checked them out and they are very interesting. They are sold under different

 

names. This guru fire i7 looks very interesting let me know what you think.

 

http://www.notebookguru.de/en/Notebooks/Guru-FIRE-i7.html

 

Thanks for the tip!

 

of course it is a great hardware but it is not so compatible with the macbook pro 6,1

my pleasure

 

I've got the DV6 2090eo, is it just to follow the guide without changes or ? thanks in advance. . . and oh here's my spec,

 

Intel Core i7 720QM 1.60GHz

Motherboard Hewlett Packard Model 363E, Insyde Bios

Chipset Intel DMI Host Bridge

BIOS: HP F.1A (Date: 04/01/2010)

Memory DDR3 Dual Channels, Size 4096 MB , NB frequency 1981 atm, DRAM freq ATM 662Mhz

Graphic Nvidia Geforce GT 230M technology 40nm

Max clocks: Shaders 1100 mhx Core 500Mhz Memory 790 Mhz

And Atheros Network card and synaptics touchboard

 

And now, should it be a .dmg file ? i guess so ? i found one on tpb "Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Final Retail)" Just burn it and use it as an original dvd ? i understand it has to be a dual layer dvd, i just need a tip on wich program to burn with ?

yup

 

How did u burn ur dvd ? or did you burn it on a mac ? i really need an answer on this one to get some progress! sorry for the double post!

it is very recommended to use the SL Retail, but if you want to try so you can burn it using any iso burner

like this one imgburn

if it is a dmg file you can use macdrive but i am not sure

[vknyvz]

trying Empire EFI V1.085 R2 right now let's see

 

Retail MAC OSX 10.6 does the same think, instant reboot after seeing white screen with apple logo.

 

by the way I HAVE SNOW OS X 3.6 (10.6.2) but darn same same smae problem instant reboot on boot after seeing that white screen with apple logo for one second.

 

i don't have much option in the bios that i can change ??? my laptop specs below, damn this shouldn't be this complicated

 

lol their web site says

 

Empire EFI will not work with problematic systems and graphics card. Common ones are like SONY laptops (some may work and some may not. Depending on your luck) , ATI Mobility Radeon HD series (i.e 3xxx , 4xxx and 5xxx series). Mobility HD Reason will not be supported. Few other odd hardware because of the way how it works

 

guess my high end gpu got one con after all

[vknyvz]

so weird

 

with Empire EFI V1.085 R2

 

i have installed the retail OSX 10.6 but on reboot `CPU HALTED`

 

if i try to boot to iDeneb 10.5.8 lite edition `unable to find driver for this platform ACPI` probably cpu related

 

if i try to boot to SnowOSX 3.6 10.6.2 'unable to find driver for this platform ACPI` probably once again cpu related

 

weird why the heck retail installed at least then gives cpu halted error on reboot

 

edit

problem solved successfully installed a retail MAC OSX 10.6 DISC and rebooted just fine using Empire EFI V1.085 R2

 

but most of the applications don't work now! (surely, including iphone SDK)

 

MAC Community needs a driver for ATI 5000 series!

[g4sho]

Hi, the cpu halted error would occur for me until I got correct kernel because I have more than 4 gig of memory in my dv8. To solve this issue in the meantime I would type maxmem=4096 as a kernel flag before booting.

 

 

so weird

 

with Empire EFI V1.085 R2

 

i have installed the retail OSX 10.6 but on reboot `CPU HALTED`

 

if i try to boot to iDeneb 10.5.8 lite edition `unable to find driver for this platform ACPI` probably cpu related

 

if i try to boot to SnowOSX 3.6 10.6.2 'unable to find driver for this platform ACPI` probably once again cpu related

 

weird why the heck retail installed at least then gives cpu halted error on reboot

 

edit

problem solved successfully installed a retail MAC OSX 10.6 DISC and rebooted just fine using Empire EFI V1.085 R2

 

but most of the applications don't work now! (surely, including iphone SDK)

 

MAC Community needs a driver for ATI 5000 series!

[yehia2amer]

Hi, the cpu halted error would occur for me until I got correct kernel because I have more than 4 gig of memory in my dv8. To solve this issue in the meantime I would type maxmem=4096 as a kernel flag before booting.

nice tip,

[kampo]

Hey can someone check my print screen and tell me if i succeed ?

[yehia2amer]

Hey can someone check my print screen and tell me if i succeed ?

yes you do, congrats

[kampo]

Thank you Yehia Amer

Here what i did...

-[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] cpus=1 busratio=12 -x

-after retail installatio boot back with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] cpus=1 busratio=12 -x

-install combo update 10.6.3

-install [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] : select under [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] √ [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] for unsupported cpu , select √ Disk Utilities

-reboot

- download and install extra from Empire EFI V1.085 R2 (if you can't boot in mac or your usb doesn't work after restart boot with Empire EFI V1.085 R2(everything work except graphics ) install extra and from Empire EFI V1.085 R2 and reboot )

You can find Empire EFI V1.085 R2 in previous page of this post Yehia Amer link it to me on page 2 of this post

 

(If you succeeded my opinion is to download carbon copy cloner and clone (or similar app) your disk to an empty external or 16gb usb for safety)

 

I didn't install any dsdt because i have no idea how. I tried to install the 1 that Yehia Amer attach in zip file with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] but after a restart i received panic

 

Two more questions

1)which .plist is the best for our laptop? i use the imac (dv7t-3000 i7 720 qm pm55 230m 4gb ddr3 )

2)After 30-60 min of usage i have almost less than 500 mb of ram free, after i use iFreeMem i have 1.2-1.5 gb free Is this normal ? I tried parallels desktop and i went out of ram. a friend of mine with mac C2D use parallels with strong programs like autocad and works fine. Any suggestions i will appreciated

 

 

 

Thanks again

[dastan]

hi my problem is that when i replace the boot CD with snow's DVD and enter install , some white texts start to scroll for 1-3 seconds then suddenly my laptop reboots like nothing happened . i also tried [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] same result .any solutions ?

 

the -x did help a little ,but after 3 minutes of loading files the same thing happened .... i also tried two different dvd's

 

HP dv6

core i5 m430 quad @2.27

nVidia G105M 512 MB

3GB RAM

320GB HDD

[dastan]

please somebody help me

I also tries -v , -x -v ,and -x -v cpus=1 but nothing works

and i noticed that with -x the extensions seems to load and after that I saw" no dsdt"and some other texts before it reboot immediately

[dastan]

I also discovered that my chipset is Intel pm55 , and also tried kakewalk CD method ,same results

 

any help will do !!!

[f1rstrate]

Restart computer with tonymacx86-P55BootCD

At Chameleon prompt, replace CD with your Mac OS X Install Retail DVD and press F5.

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Hi, I have done everything correctly in step one( bios options, boot w. tonymac cd, and used retail version of snow leopard) but i am getting a kernel panic prompt(see attached)...

 

Any ideas?

 

i would greatly appreciate any feedback or ideas thanks so much!!!

 

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I am working with a hp dv8t-1000 8gb ram, intel i7...

[dastan]

I successfully entered the Installation wizard by using ( cpus=1 busratio=17 -x -f -v ) ,17 for core i5 430m ,

but after that the snow disk failed to install because it couldn't copy the files necessary .

 

anything besides that my Snow DVD may be damaged ?!!! ....

 

I successfully entered the Installation wizard by using ( cpus=1 busratio=17 -x -f -v ) ,17 for core i5 430m ,

but after that the snow disk failed to install because it couldn't copy the files necessary .

 

anything besides that my Snow DVD may be damaged ?!!! ....

[Dragon Master]

So, I have dv6t-2300 and I was able to get Snow Leopard installed using this guide, but only if I use the hard drive internally. If I try to boot from an external hard drive, I get an, "EBIOS read error: Device timeout" error.

 

First I tried installing from the external hard drive and everything seemed to go well until after the install was finished. Then after the restart, I started getting the error when I tried to boot into that external hard drive.

 

After doing quite a bit of reading, since nobody seemed to have a definitive answer, I finally figured out that it had something to do with me using an external hard drive. So, I took the hard drive out of the external enclosure and put it inside the laptop and it booted using “–x cpus=1”

 

My main problem is that I still want my original hard drive to be inside the laptop, with Windows 7 and all of the software and games that I have loaded into it, while Snow Leopard boots from an external hard drive. I was wondering if anybody had any ideas. The only thing that I can think of is that there is a special kext that might be used to allow booting from an external hard drive.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

[Volcacius]

Please someone try this kext http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1460172 I think it would fix wifi not working. I'm gonna buy this laptop and having wifi working is crucial for me.

 

EDIT I see you're using an old version of voodoohda, please try the latest one http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=355 I also think getting mic to work is just a matter of pin config.

[Dragon Master]

All right, I figured out the "EBIOS read error: Device timeout" error problem. The error was because I was booting from a USB external hard drive specifically. As soon as I used an eSATA external hard drive, I was back in action. Though, you can't boot with eSATA drives through the BIOS configurations, so I still have to use the tonymacx86-P55BootCD-nv2xx CD.

 

Now, I have proceeded with the guide up to STEP 3 and am wondering what I do with the remaining items in the "tonymacx86-snowleopard" folder, such as: boot, DSDT.aml, and the contents of the "System - Library - Extensions" folder. I haven't tried anything with boot or DSDT.aml, but as soon as I try to place the contents of the "System - Library - Extensions" folder into /System/Library/Extensions/ and try to repair permissions, everything locks up and I am unable to reboot back into Snow Leopard after having to restart the machine.

 

My main concerns are with the contents of that folder, are they needed or not? If so, are all the kexts needed? If not all are needed, then which ones are? Also, I have an idea what some of the kexts are for, but could someone enlighten me on there purposes?

 

I think that I have figured out that I need to delete AppleHDA.kext since I am using VoodooHDA.kext. Though, I am definitely confused on whether I need both Intel82566MM.kext and RealtekR1000SL.kext since I have a built in Realtek ethernet. Can anyone verify my presumptions and maybe even explain a little bit more for me.

 

Thanks in advance.