Dell Inspiron 1545 Retail Snow Lepard | Boot 321 Successful

[no3tic888]

So it took me a couple of tries and now I have a working Dell 1545 Hackintosh running 10.6.5. I found out a couple of things as well.

 

These are my specs:

 

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 Mhz T4300

4GB RAM

320GB HD

Intel 4500HD Integrated Graphics

Dell DW1515 WLAN mini-card

 

I followed eggmcmuffin’s tutorial, post 339. Here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=203728

At first but things weren’t working out so I improvised a bit.

 

Here’s basically what I did:

SL Boot 132 CD

SL Install DVD

Disk Utility | Erase

Custom Install | System | Additional Fonts | Rosetta

Kext Utility Application

Chameleon 2 RC3

WiFi worked

Install Part 1 | Reboot

[Didn't install Trackpad.pref]

WiFi doesn't work

[i didn’t install Part 2 because they didn’t work for me. I tried them twice before giving up]

Install Part 3 | Reboot

Install 10.6.5 Combo Update | Reboot

[i had downloaded the update earlier. Since I didn’t install the sleepenable.kext, there was no kernel panic and I didn’t have to play with Terminal.]

WiFi works!

[At first I thought that I was going to have to get a new WiFi card but luckily it worked when I applied the 10.6.5 update]

Install Trackpad.prefPane on SL boot132 CD/DVD

Deviato AppHDA 1.9.9f12 (10.6.5)

[The audio does kind of pop at times. Will look into it]

Ran Software Update

 

I’m going to wait on 10.6.6 until I back this up or find more success stories.

 

Sleep does not work. (Updated: Sleep works but the screen does not turn off until I close the lid.) I will look into that as well but I’m very happy with the results. It’s pretty much an Vanilla install with a touch of kext adjustments. It’s the most of my other hacks though but this was just a unused notebook gathering dust.

 

I do want to add a time delay for Chameleon. I don’t always want to press a key to boot. I want it to wait about 10 seconds and then automatically boot into OS X. I’ll look around for the solution. I remember doing it for my MSI Wind and I think my G4 Hack does it as well. I haven’t booted that in a while now.

 

Safari seems to always be crashing as well as Chrome. Firefox seems to work okay. I’m going to reinstall again and see how it goes.