Simple Guide? HP Pavillion DV2113tu

[razmatt]

Hi all,

I have a HP Pavillion DV2113tu Laptop and am wondering which build I should use to hackintosh it.

I have 2GB of RAM and a 80GB Hard Drive.

Here are the rest of my pc's specs:

Motherboard chipset

Intel 945GM

 

Centrino

Yes

 

Processor number

T2400

 

Processor speed

1.83GHz

 

Processor

Core Duo

 

Card Reader

SD, MMC, MS, MS Pro, xD

 

Optical drive

DVD DL writer with LightScribe

Ports

3 X USB2.0; FireWire; RJ11 (modem); RJ45 (Ethernet); VGA out; S-video out

 

Bluetooth

Yes

 

Infrared

Yes

 

Ethernet

10/100/1000

 

Modem

56K data/fax

 

Built-in devices

1 x ExpressCard/54 slot; Web cam

 

Wireless LAN

802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g

 

Webcam

Yes

Graphics hardware

Intel GMA 950

 

Amt of video RAM

128MB

 

Diagonal screen size

14.1 inch

 

LCD technology

Transflective TFT (widescreen)

 

Screen resolution (max)

1280 x 800

 

can anyone give me any constructive advice as to which system to use and which would be best compatible with my hardware etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks again

Razmatt

[Alessandro17]

Which methods have you tried so far?

[razmatt]

I have a copy of Iatkos 7, which I tried to install just using default setting, but when chameleon loaded, the apple symbol came up, and the spinning ticker, and then I was presented with a blue/grey screen with LOUD disco music blaring out! Then when I tried customising the install I realised that all of my drivers were not set to install, so I reinstalled with the custom settings. However, when it rebooted, the bootup hung at the grey mac screen, with the circle ticker still going, but a small "no entry" style symbol superposed on the mac symbol. So clearly this custom install did not work!

 

Any advice?

Thanks for the help so far Alessandro17!

Razmatt

[Alessandro17]

Well, honestly I don't see any reason why your HP shouldn't work with OS X.

Have you chosen a driver for your GMA 950? That looks like the main problem.

Obviously you managed to get sound working (don't worry about volume, you'll be able to adjust it later)

 

My suggestion would be using a Snow Leopard distribution, either Hazard or iAtkos S3 v2.

 

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a guide specific for your notebook, but really it shouldn't be too difficult.

 

An Italian wrote a guide for HP dv7 and dv6, but he says it can be adapted to other HP Pavilion notebooks:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=223332&hl=

 

(starting from: "Adattare la guida ai PC che non sono nè HP dv6 nè HP dv7")

 

See if you can get a decent translation on-line, else I'll try to help you with the translation.

[razmatt]

thanks for the help so far! I got the OS running "of sorts". The wireless card, mouse, webcam and sound card were not properly recognised, and some programs did not open, but at least i managed to boot the OS....ish. I'm going ot give it another crack when I have repartitioned my Hard drive i think. Thanks for the guide, that looks very useful! It is a pity that we don't call blank CDs or DVDs "Virgin" CDs or DVDs or perhaps that was just the dodgy google chrome translator?

 

Thanks for all of your help, and I shall get back to you when I have tried again!

Razmatt

[Alessandro17]

It is a pity that we don't call blank CDs or DVDs "Virgin" CDs or DVDs or perhaps that was just the dodgy google chrome translator?

 

He says indeed a "virgin" DVD But google should translate it as "blank" in English

 

Thanks for all of your help, and I shall get back to you when I have tried again!

Razmatt

 

NP. You are welcome