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System Name: Dell Studio 540 Bios Settings: Integrated Peripherals: ATA System Settings: Memory: 8GB DDR2_800 DDR SDRAM CPU Info: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz (7 x 333) Sound card: Realtek ALC888/1200 Display Adapters: NVIDIA…

System Name: Dell Studio 540 Bios Settings: Integrated Peripherals: ATA System Settings: Memory: 8GB DDR2_800 DDR SDRAM CPU Info: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz (7 x 333) Sound card: Realtek ALC888/1200 Display Adapters: NVIDIA…

Alright, so I have Windows 7 installed on my first hard drive. I have OSX 10.5.8 installed no my second. Just to be clear, these are two different hard drives, they are not partitioned. In order for me to boot into OSX, I have to manually…

“Thanks for posting the guide. I will have to give this a try mid month. Some areas seem a bit difficult but I will ping you with any questions. Have you noticed any performance increases with SL?”

“I am glad we could help, I did my best with the guide but many others contributed.”

“I haven't been back for about a month now. I see you got SL working on your Studi 540. Like bsiv, would you mind posting detailed steps?”

“I am sure this is a very common problem, the time between my Windows install and my OSX install does not match. It isn't a huge deal, just more annoying than anything. I can manually set one and then it changes the other. They are never in …”

“FYI, I was able to upgrade to 10.5.8 without any problems, that I can tell so far.”

“Perfect, it worked. I really didn't expect it to be that easy.”

“I figured out there was a new version of the NVinstaller, 9f23Installer.pkg. However, I am still in the same position. Let me know”

“Crimsonredmk, lend me a hand. Within System Info under Graphics, it says Quartz Extreme Not Supported. I downloaded OSXTools and enabled Quartz Extreme, however, upon restart it did not enable it. I then downloaded EFIStudio and my video ca…”

“Okay, I currently cannot check if I have quartz extreme but my guess is that I do. I can find out by looking at the Mac Info. If I do have this, do I need to do anything? Also, at what point did you install the NVInstaller, at the initial i…”

“Xbench score jumped to 166.16 after installing NVInstaller (vanilla) and removing the Device ID from Boot.plist - of course, this is for the Nvidia 8600GT. I had the same problem with the Radeon 3450 (blue screen) and no one seems to have i…”

“If anyone can get the ATi Radeon HD 3450 video card working at full capacity please post detailed steps. As noted above, I have the Nvidia 9500 but I would also like to figure out how to get the 3450 card running. I have no idea how to add …”

“No problem guys, with the help I received at the uphuck forum I was able to take what advice Pere provided and hopefully put it in a format that most people can follow. I am now trying to dual boot Windows 7 and OSX. Once Windows 7 is insta…”

“Dell Studio 540 Installation Guide Using iAtkos v7 In order for this installation guide to work appropriately, you will need to have near similar hardware configurations than what I posted below: System: Dell Studio 540 Memory: 8GB DDR2_800…”

“Yeah, as long as Speedstep is disabled, I can install the VoodooHDA kext and my sound is great. I am going to post a very lengthly Dell Studio 540 Install Tutorial shortly that should help people get this up and going from the begining to t…”

“crimsonredmk crimsonredmk, before you contact Pere let me send you a guide to do it. I just figured out how to do it yesterday with Pere's help. It is one thing to have Pere do it but if you ever change your hardware you will need to learn …”

“Yeah, I did get through it and it was due to the VoodooHDA or the SpeedStep. If you installed the exact same drivers that is listed within this forum, then I don't know what the problem is. I was lucky enough to get through it.”

“Did you see the uphuck forum regarding this procedure? You are trying to modify the DSDT to reconize four cores so you don't have to boot with the cpus=1 -v command, right? Let me know if you figure this out, like I mentioned, I had someone…”

“Yay, so here's what does and doesn't work: Works: Sound - I left VoodooHDA checked, hopefully this won't kill the kernel as some have reported it has... Works: USB - all of the ports work 100% Works: Ethernet. Even got a $30 Ralink Wifi-N c…”

“I tried it but I couldn't find the Extra directory I think it has something to do with iAtkos. I check it for it to be there, but it wasn't there... is there any way I can add it? SportsGuy, if you hare trying to find the DSDT file within t…”

“I have a different video card than both of your so my video works perfect. I have no idea how to install the audio though, nor have a put much effort into it. I intend on looking more into this later when I have more time. Please report bac…”

“Can you tell me how to upload a kext? Do I need a tool? If you have uploaded the sound drivers, can you point me in the right direction for the following driver: Realtek ALC888/1200?”

“Apparently there is a way to modify the hidden DSDT.aml file so it reconizes four cores. Pere, in the other forum is supposed to do this for me. I wish I knew how so I could do it myself upon another build.”

“It is good to see you are still trying. A couple of days ago I got iPC running using the following settings: iPC 10.5.6 Universal Final Kernel: 9.5.0 voodoo Video Drivers: Nvinject 0.2.1 1024 VRAM Chipset: Intel ICH10 SATA Support Audio: Ca…”

“This thread hasn't gone anywhere so I thought I would add to it with hopes that someone can provide some asistance based on the stage I am at: Memory (RAM): 8191 MB CPU Info: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz CPU Speed: 2335.5 MHz…”

“Darn, I was hoping that easy fix would have taken care of it. Are you using iPC? Maybe you can try using a different boot OSX.”

“I have the same exact settings but I am not using the onboard video (HDMI). However, if you get it to work I will certainly get an HDMI DVI adapter. I had a similiar problem as you in regards to the boot loop. If you haven't already done so…”

“I figured out how to obtain the NVCAP, you have to go onto Windows, download a tool like NVFLASH, then boot into DOS upon startup and write the ROM file to your bootable floopy / USB drive. Then, you take the ROM file into OS X and get a pr…”

“Thanks for the reply. I am extremely new to this OSX thing. Would you mind providing a bit more detail about NVCAP and how to go about enabling this so I get full support?”

“Okay, so I downloaded Universal Installer (UIInstaller) from PCWiz, opened it and clicked on the "Apply EFI String for Video Card" box and selected custom NVIDIA. It then prompts me for my card name, I entered "Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT," sele…”

“It does have this capability. However, they are on two separate drives so it doesn't work.”

“Right now it automatically boots into Win7. However, if I want to boot into OSX I F12 to select the appropriate hard drive. This works fine but is annoying. I want it to load into a bootloader where I can select my drive from there. Much cl…”

“I have no idea what that means.”