Originally Posted by macnewbie20

Hi brock,

I'm trying hopelessly to install SL on dv8t. Mine has the exact specs as yours does. Can you list the steps you used to install SL on dv8t? I'm struck at the boot screen. I tried everything: Legacy Empire EFI v108, regular Empire EFI v108, iBoot Supported 2.0, iBoot Nvidia, tonyosx86p55 iso. I'm having issues with graphics (very slow and unresponsive UI in the SL install screen (selecting language...). Couldn't proceed any further.

Also, only with iBoot Supported 2.0, I was able to get upto the "Select language" screen. I also have to do this: cpus=1 busratio=12 fsb=133 to get the "Select Language" screen.

Please help.

Sorry, I didn't answer your question exactly. I was able to install properly using both the legacy and the i5 empire EFI iso. The install using a retail snow leopard DVD looks like it hangs with 28 minutes to go, but the HD is still working and the DVD drive spins occasionally - just let it go until it reboots. After rebooting using the empire EFI cd again to select the HD to boot your mac install, let it run through the welcome graphics - it will be very choppy, but once it finishes and sits for a minute you should be able to select your language and run through the registration etc. After that, just run the updates, and update the kexts. If you made it through the install, you should be able to select the language...

Thanks Brock and extraspeed for your replies.

Brock: what is your bios revision? Mine came with f.15
and then I upgraded to f.21. If yours is still f.15, then it
could be that f.21 is causing trouble.
I checked up my model. It is actually dv8t-1100. What is yours brock?

Also, Brock: what is your motherboard brand?

Mine is this:
Motherboard Name Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv8 Notebook PC
Motherboard Chipset Intel Ibex Peak-M PM55, Intel Lynnfield

Extraspeed: Is this motherboard information helpful to you? Also, brock is claiming that his speed numbers
from geekbench is not looking good. Do you know the issue?

Did you had a chance to get your numbers from geekbench?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Extraspeed

For those using the NVidia GeForce GT 320m


The DV7t shows the "NVidia GeForce GT 320m Graphic Card" working with 1 GB (1024 MB) running on Snow Leopard OS.






The entry will be 0x40 for 1 GB Graphic cards, 0x20 for 512MB Cards, 0x10 for 256MB cards.

Nice Works Mate!!!! what program did you used?

@ Bono2010


I've used "OpenGL Driver Monitor" from the Graphics Tools folder on XCode program or Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools folder. If you don't have "XCode", you can download it from Apple's web site or just google it.

Originally Posted by Extraspeed

For those using the NVidia GeForce GT 320m


The DV7t shows the "NVidia GeForce GT 320m Graphic Card" working with 1 GB (1024 MB) running on Snow Leopard OS.






The entry will be 0x40 for 1 GB Graphic cards, 0x20 for 512MB Cards, 0x10 for 256MB cards.

Well Done Dude!!! and Thank you fro sharing.

Originally Posted by brock

The system is fast enough for very basic tasks, but when you benchmark the system it is quite pathetic for a 1.73 i7 quad 820qm processor. Geekbench comes in at 1758, where my core 2 2.4 macbook pro comes in at 3238, my other hackintosh core 2 quad 2.4 comes in at 5054. This 820qm should eat all of these for lunch. I even confirmed this by testing this system on some ableton live demo songs and performance songs - this thing is a dog.

Geekbench scored 1758 because your laptop was using cpus=1. Vanilla kernel can run only one core on i7-x20qm.

You may download 10.6.3 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD from kexts.com. Bootup with cpus=8 instead when legacy kernel installed.

I have my DV7-3085DX scores 4499 in Geekbench 32bit with cpus=8 legacy kernel. Cheers,

Originally Posted by joeyung371

Geekbench scored 1758 because your laptop was using cpus=1. Vanilla kernel can run only one core on i7-x20qm.

You may download 10.6.3 legacy kernel for INTEL/AMD from kexts.com. Bootup with cpus=8 instead when legacy kernel installed.

I have my DV7-3085DX scores 4499 in Geekbench 32bit with cpus=8 legacy kernel. Cheers,

Hi there, Joeyung371.

Thank you for your information and the bench number.
Appreciate your sharing.

Best Regards

A Quick question, How can I change Yhe UUID on my laptop? I'm using Empire EFI.

Thank you in advance.

Originally Posted by Bono2010

A Quick question, How can I change Yhe UUID on my laptop? I'm using Empire EFI.

Thank you in advance.

There's a few different way to do that. One of them is by adding your UUID to the PlatformUUID.kext located on your extra folder. If you don't have it, just install it and add your UUID number (Universal Unique Identifier). Looks like

550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

Also, you can find your Universal Unique Identifier using Opening Utilities/Disk Utility.

Right click on your Snow Leopard installation in the left column and choose Information.

Check to see what your hard drive's UUID is under Universal Unique Identifier.

Write this number down or copy/paste it to a new text file.

Rebuild your Extensions.mkext cache and Reboot.

Extraspeed:

What is your notebook's full model name? dv7t-????. I'm still trying hard to get dv8t to work and haven't got beyond the "Select Language" screen which itself is a empty grey rectangle.

I even appended GraphicsEnabler=yes along with cpus=1 busratio=12 fsb=133 GraphicsEnabler=yes.

EmpireEFI didn't work for me at all. I tried iBoot Supported 2.0 and as I mentioned above, I was able to get the "Select Language" screen (blank grey window) with the bootflags mentioned above.

If nothing works in dv8t, I'm planning to get dv7t-3180us (Ready to ship) model. Do you know 3180us would work with your instructions in extraspeed.blogspot.com?

Please advice.