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I have just bought a Dell 640M with configuration as below:

 

T5600 Core 2 Duo

1G DDR 533 DDRII RAM

INTEL 945GM / GMA950

SATA 120G

SIGMATEL 9200

 

I have to disable one core in BIOS, otherwise the 4 countries language screen will appear when boot. what confuses me is that since the new iMac is also using T5600, why I incure this problem with same CPU on Dell. Anyone who knows the reason and solution, please kindly advise. Many thanks.

 

P.S.

I install 10.4.7

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  • 4 months later...

Hi i have a dell Inspiron 640m too

 

i got MacOS working out of the box with the help of many different peoples tutorials mainly from this forum, i started with a 10.4.7 jas dvd and installed the SSE2 and intel jas patches

 

Broadcom 440x worked out of the box no setup required

 

i then used one of the tutorials to update to 10.4.8

successful runs fairly smoothly

 

have darwin dualbooting OSX and Vista which works perfectly :)

 

audio is not picked up and neither is wireless, it just happens that the chipsets for the individual components are those elusive ones that fixes haven't been found for

 

i have the intel pro wireless 3945ABG

 

and the simatel HD audio

Vendor ID:8384

Device ID:7690

 

i am wondering has anybody got similar kit that they have managed to get working and what did you have to do, also does anyone know of a method to boot vista at the same time as OSX, i heard it was possible to use parralels with a physical disk rather than an image but it doesn't suppport vista

 

Thanks very much for your time

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Update i have managed to get more hardware going, i am going to start a guide for inspiron 640m users as i see there a fair few around here! it will hopefully complement the main guide that is for the similar range of dell laptops but more in depth to the 640m hardware

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I got Leopard on my Dell 640m OSX 10.5.2, but I have a few problems do any of you have any ideas. I used Kalyway 10.5.2, sleep kernel, used intel patch 950, cpu=1. I have gotten everything working: sound, wireless, usb devices, but there are three criticall things that I can not do. I downloaded the update to get to 10.5.3, but everytime I run it loads up and then I lose visual or video, and I can hear that the computer is still on, but no picture. The second problem is that I can not get it to dual boot with windows and I have tried many times. The third problem is that whenever I put the computer to sleep I can't get it to resume, I hear that hard drive and that the computer is on, but I can't get it to resume.

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