craigolio Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Hello - I recently posted about which mobo to get for my homebuilt quad-core machine, and I ended up with the Bad Axe II, along with the Q6600 processor, 4gb ram and two 500gb HD's. It is running quite nicely - I had to re-do my system though because I thought it would be cool to NOT set my drives to AHCI mode. I havenot been able to get sleep to wrok yet, but I attribute that to my ATI x1550 video card. In either case, I am getting a new desktop for my brother. He wants to buy a Dell XPS 420. Priced out a quad-core system with an ATI 2900XT video card, 3GB ram and 500gb HD and it meets his budget. The thing is, I played around with one of those at my office, and I was not able to get all four cores working, not able to get ethernet working, and not able to get OSX to recognize the second drive that I installed in the system (for dual boot) - both drives were sata, and Vista saw both drives. So the question is this - Has anyone made the Dell XPS 420 work with four cores and with either RAID or multiple drives? I have read enough to know that the ethernet flat out will not work, but the 4-cores thing and the dual boot thing is pretty important. If it cannot be done, I will just build my bro a machine like I built. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Look at my sig. All 4 cores no problem. Sound fine. Network apparently coming. RAID, doubt it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-545013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sas0 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Look at my sig. All 4 cores no problem. Sound fine. Network apparently coming. RAID, doubt it. Did you guys get network working with the XPS420's? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-571966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiffie Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 I have an XPS 420 with a QuadCore Q6600, 3Gb Ram and 2x500Gb Hard Drives + Geforce 8800Gt 512Mb I installed kalyway and everything is ok (execpt Sigmatel Sound and Intel Ethernet i825xxxx) The Q6600 is recognized and each core is working. I installed the 10.5.2 update and for the dual boot, i used easybcd. I have one disc with vista premium and the other with Leopard (formated in HFS+, MBR mode) I also have an integrated broadcom bcm43xv device that is recognized but i don't know why my wifi is really slow. Only one time it was really fast but now, it slows down. I'm still looking for the sigmatel sound and ethernet installs. Thanks a lot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-677181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgreenpc Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Picking one of these up today. Core2Duo 3.16Ghz or 2.66 Core2Quad. Have the sound and network issues been resolved? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-780789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 sound output works, you can buy a PCI network card for like $10, that works perfectly, and a PCI wireless card too... Just check the lists on the wiki (wiki.osx86project.org) -> Network Cards that are working Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-781803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylegypo Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Any news on the Ethernet? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-887521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgreenpc Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I went and bought a Realtek RTL8169 nic... its on the HCL listed as working OOTB so I went with that. I also goa a USB audio stick to avoid the issues we ALL have with the STAC soundset Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-907470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelix Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I have a XPS 420. I have an issue that sometimes i boot it up and it gives me a choppy mouse. Anyone else see this? When it does come up it works well, although I have to patch the sound each time. That I can live with, but would love to fix the intermittent boot. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-927721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylegypo Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I have the same problem with the choppy mouse, not found a proper solution but putting my mac to sleep and then waking it seems to fix the issue every time. rather than restarting and having the chance of it happening again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-927794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChoperBoy Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Got My XPS 420 Q6600, XfX Geforce 8800 GTS 640(running efi Driver) Usb sound and network dual boot with vista. any one else having a problem with system profiler not recognizing or displaying system memory? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-943222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylegypo Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 My profiler wont tell me about my ram either. I see you overclocked your xps 420? can I ask how? i've searched every were on how to unlock the bios Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-943678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChoperBoy Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/260114.aspx follow the link for XPS 420 overclocking, not for the feint of heart... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-947227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNovaKing Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Any word on the Ethernet working? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-1024292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuluzkiller Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 I have been trying to install ipc 10.5.6 on my XPS 420 but without any luck. Can someone who got it running on XPS 420 can give me some pointers like what BIOS settings needs to be changed, what fixes/patches I should choose during installation so I can get this going Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-1170451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
applebender Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Zulu, check this thread for my successful install xps420 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-1243440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamspy Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 Nice, I might just try this out. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77125-dell-xps-420/#findComment-1473594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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