salado Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Has anybody got the Snow Leopard installed on Dell XPS420? Mine is running on 10.5.4 and works great. But after searching around for 2 weeks, still can't make the Snow Leopard installation going. Any information will be appreciated. -Salado Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMoshi Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Just got it up on XPS 410. I don't know how different they are, but I'd say installation and everything was smooth using SnowOSX 3.5 Universal. However, I got into one problem. Can't figure it out. Ethernet... Ohh one more. Sound... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1338712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
salado Posted November 22, 2009 Author Share Posted November 22, 2009 Thanks! iMoshi! First the ethernet problem. I didn't find the direct solution when I installed 10.5.2 on the 420. But I bought one $11 10/100 NIC from new egg and it's natually supported by OSX. Second the difference betwen 410 and 420, I will give it a try with SnowOSX 3.5 Universal. Finger crossed. -Salado Just got it up on XPS 410. I don't know how different they are, but I'd say installation and everything was smooth using SnowOSX 3.5 Universal. However, I got into one problem. Can't figure it out. Ethernet... Ohh one more. Sound... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1338781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
salado Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 No go for XPS420 with SnowOSX 3.5 Universal. Installation completed. Crashed right after the system boots up. -Salado Thanks! iMoshi! First the ethernet problem. I didn't find the direct solution when I installed 10.5.2 on the 420. But I bought one $11 10/100 NIC from new egg and it's natually supported by OSX. Second the difference betwen 410 and 420, I will give it a try with SnowOSX 3.5 Universal. Finger crossed. -Salado Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1339286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigv616 Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Installation on xps420 is fine after replace IOATAFamily.kext from the one in this site(search). Could boot into SL w/o any problem, everything seems working fine except video card, I am unable to find any info on this crappy ATI 2400Pro 128MB card. The hack from Leopard won't work. By the way, I use same nework card as Salado does. Anyone has an idea on the video card issue? No go for XPS420 with SnowOSX 3.5 Universal. Installation completed. Crashed right after the system boots up. -Salado Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1340342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
innocuoussoul Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 EDIT: I used the 3.5 universal disk as well. Snow leopard runs fine on my xps 420. There are little quirks (like i can't get about this mac to display correctly without kernel panics) but other than that, I've been using it as my primary OS for about 3 months. The other thing I can't seem to get it to do is boot off the primary hard drive. I made a boot disk out of an old external that i use to get the thing to boot. Otherwise, it works great. I attached my extra folder. When it comes to the {censored} ATI card, I'm not sure about getting that working. I personally have an 8800 GT in mine. Hope these help! (btw, this includes the kext for the built in ethernet. works great!) Extra.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1346767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElShotte Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Ive gotten it to install and everything, its just that my HD wasn't getting detected (bad IOATAFamily.kext from Leopard) so now I have to find one for Snow Leopard and I remember coming across one here on the boards somewhere. I was doing a Vanilla install using the DSDT.aml (I think thats what the file is called) from my 10.5.7 install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1349676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcmint415 Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Ive gotten it to install and everything, its just that my HD wasn't getting detected (bad IOATAFamily.kext from Leopard) so now I have to find one for Snow Leopard and I remember coming across one here on the boards somewhere. I was doing a Vanilla install using the DSDT.aml (I think thats what the file is called) from my 10.5.7 install. Great job! How did you get onboard audio & ethernet to work? UPDATE: I got this working with iPC 10.5.6 Mac OS X Install DVD. Here are my settings: Hard drive on SATA 0 ATI Radeon 3800 Series (Intel) Intel ICHx SATA Sigmatel 9227 Intel 82566MM/DC On first boot: -v -f -x Everything seems to be working except for audio? Ethernet works great! UPDATE 2: Got audio working now too! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1392683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teqtonix Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I'm having problems getting my Bluetooth on the XPS 420 to be recognized in Snow Leopard. It worked fine under Leopard, but when I upgraded it went away. Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1414244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcmint415 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 I'm having problems getting my Bluetooth on the XPS 420 to be recognized in Snow Leopard. It worked fine under Leopard, but when I upgraded it went away. Any suggestions? Did you install SL from retail disc? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1415000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
baalrugh Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Did you install SL from retail disc? Up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/198852-no-good-luck-on-dell-xps420-snow-leopard/#findComment-1430957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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