adisan Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 hello i've installed 3 times the unphuck version but each time after installing i'm getting a message telling me to reboot the machine. Anyone had any success on putting OSX on Dell Precision M90? It's a dual core 2.0GHz, 2GB Memory, NVidia 3500M, wireless, bluetooth, card reader, DVD, gigabit network, 17" 1920x1200 display. It's a nice machine and i would love to put OSX on it. i'm an OSX addict and i'll switch windows for osx anytime. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56024-osx-on-dell-m90-failure/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixblicker Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 I got OSX running on my M90 (Core Duo, QuadroFX 2500M, 2GB Ram). I have a JaS 10.4.8 installed. Never tried the uphuck! Sorry! Well you have to fight several thing. 1. The Intel wireless might run with the drivers develeoped somewhere here in the forum! Search for it! (I bought a USB-Wlan-strick to get internet!) 2. The graphics card is tricky. I needed to flash my BIOS for the graphics card. Check out www.macvidia.com for info on this one! Seems like the BIOS of 512 MB cards are messed up. But you have to chance to get full support (I have dual-screens!) 3. Sound. Well there existst the AppleHDAPatcher which worked, but you only get sound output. No input. Further more, if you plug-in a headphone you will still hear music from the speakers. (I bought a USB-Soundcard for some Euros!) 4. You can only use one core. At least I can only with my Core Duo. Just need to add "cpus=1" in the com.apple.Boot.plist after you succesfully installed the OS! 5. USB, DVD work! 6. Firewire shows-up but I never got the chance to test it! 7. Modem, no chance! But who needs this anyway! ;-) 8. Network-card. I have no idea! There is a thread about Broadcom 57xx cards with a hack! So look there! I need to have Windows running for work. But for all private things I use Mac OS X! Got all major software smoothly running! If I just could get the second core to work, that would be fantastic. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56024-osx-on-dell-m90-failure/#findComment-400480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adisan Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share Posted July 5, 2007 actually flashing my bios is not something that i want to do. i don't know how this will affect my windows performance. i was hoping to find a software fix for all these issues. if i'll find anythig i'll post it here. thnak you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56024-osx-on-dell-m90-failure/#findComment-401899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixblicker Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 The modded BIOS should not affect your performance at all! You just fix an error in the BIOS! There are wrong parameters for the vram in the BIOS! That's why the Darwin bootloader only shows 256 MB on most of the 512 MB Nvidia cards! You might want to check the macvidia forum. np_ is searching for a software fix! But there is not much going on lately! That's why I did the step on flashing my gfx-rom! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56024-osx-on-dell-m90-failure/#findComment-402086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adisan Posted July 8, 2007 Author Share Posted July 8, 2007 with Jas or uphuck i have no luck, it installs but when trying to boot i get an osx message telling me to restart. damn Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56024-osx-on-dell-m90-failure/#findComment-403937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
siniux Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 The modded BIOS should not affect your performance at all! You just fix an error in the BIOS! There are wrong parameters for the vram in the BIOS!That's why the Darwin bootloader only shows 256 MB on most of the 512 MB Nvidia cards! nix, but without the bios flash the osx doesn't boot at all, or just display's the wrong resolution? I instaled the Jas 10.4.8 but it gave me the same error it gave to adisan. But hei, I didn't do anything about the dual core... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56024-osx-on-dell-m90-failure/#findComment-415927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
siniux Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 i just read this post: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=15474 could the first problem, related with the Core 2 duo be what me and adisan have? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/56024-osx-on-dell-m90-failure/#findComment-422990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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