ThinkPad W510 hackintosh

[swithdrawn]

Hey everyone, thanks for the informative posts. I've just received my W510 and I'm in the process of installing Snow Leopard. I decided to try a dual boot with Windows 7 on a GPT disk (probably not wise for my first go on this machine). Presently, the only way I can boot into Snow Leopard is by using the -s -f boot flags. It's probably a rouge extension. I will post my progress here once I have something to report.

[tylerwylie]

Hey everyone, thanks for the informative posts. I've just received my W510 and I'm in the process of installing Snow Leopard. I decided to try a dual boot with Windows 7 on a GPT disk (probably not wise for my first go on this machine). Presently, the only way I can boot into Snow Leopard is by using the -s -f boot flags. It's probably a rouge extension. I will post my progress here once I have something to report.

Makeup extension? :p

[swithdrawn]

That must be what gives the UI it's sheen.

Ok, so at the end of today, I have both Windows 7 and Snow Leopard loaded onto a single GUID drive. I followed nabs' guide; use Empire EFI to boot into SL installation, update to 10.6.3, install new kernel, myhack, reboot. As of now it seems I have fully supported video, but no keyboard/trackpad (usb kb/mouse works). The webcam also works. That's about it.

However, there's something wrong with myhack/chameleon as I still have to use the thumbdrive chameleon bootloader. I tried setting the Snow Leopard partition (disk0s2) to boot as detailed in this guide, but I guess it had no effect. This is the first priority now.

*Update*

Above issues SOLVED. A second pass with the myHack installer fixed the bootloader (I don't know why the first one didn't hold). I got keyboard/trackpad by selecting the ApplePS2 kext in the myHack installer. Well that was quite a day. Off to bed.

Also, nabs posted that he installed the 10.3.1 kernel using a guide, what exactly does that mean. Do you lose all the functionality of 10.6.3 by booting the 10.3.1 kernel. Is it worth it?

I saw no one else answered so I'll clarify - the kernels and the OS version numbers are different. 10.3.1 kernel corresponds to 10.6.3 OS, I believe.

[swithdrawn]

Got ethernet working using this extension for the Intel 82577LM (installed to S/L/E) - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... pic=219114

Also I tested out an external monitor from the VGA port - works perfectly fine (this is running GraphicsEnabler on the Quadro FX card)

Still not working: Audio (tried voodoohda, not sure why it didn't work). Haven't looked at sleep, speedstep, or the USB 3 ports yet.

[tylerwylie]

Any wireless luck? I have a T410 with similar hardware, and if I could get a good SL install on this... would be quite pleased.

[swithdrawn]

Any wireless luck? I have a T410 with similar hardware, and if I could get a good SL install on this... would be quite pleased.

There doesn't appear to be any options for the intel 6300 wireless which is in the W510. If we want wireless, we'll have to buy a usb stick, unless the BIOS actually locks it out (anyone have info on which cards IBM locks out?)

I'm stuck on sound - the Conexant 20585. There are appears to be someone who got it working using DSDT, but considering my inability to read his posts (in mandarin) and my relative inexperience with DSDT patching, I will probably let this one go for now.

[irwanc]

The W510 has proven to be a very good Hackintosh.

Checkout this URL:
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index ... nkpad_W510

[liwenhui]

I flash my bios with a modified one to support Atheros 9280,which is a half high PCI-E card.

[swithdrawn]

Thanks for the link irwanc.

Is anyone else having a hell of a time getting dual boot functioning properly? I have a straight forward MBR with two partitions, but it seems both the Windows dvd diskpart and the Snow Leopard diskutil simply fail at setting the active partition to the HFS one. Thusly, I get a blinking cursor on startup.

Alternatively, diskutil has no problem setting the active partition to the windows one, and I can use easyBCD. But man, I'd really prefer Chameleon.

[Yong]

I flash my bios with a modified one to support Atheros 9280,which is a half high PCI-E card.

how did you do that ,I changed the wifi card to dell 1510 tonight,but no luck ,not support by bios

[Neflem]

how did you do that ,I changed the wifi card to dell 1510 tonight,but no luck ,not support by bios

See this thread - http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... flash+bios

Better have a pot of coffee with you, it's huge.

Basically, the mods have a site where they keep the modifed BIOS that will replace your installed BIOS.
You need to request access and wait.

I believe that the "trick" is that in the modified BIOS, they remove any type of restriction from being checked.
That is, instead of tying to keep a list of cards that are allowed.

Once flashed, you should not get that 18xx error or whatever.

I have that same Dell card in a Toshiba N200 - it comes up as a "Third party" card - but works great!!
You can even spoof the MAC address with it !! - I wish the Atheros in my X60t could - but I digress.

Good luck.

[Neflem]

There doesn't appear to be any options for the intel 6300 wireless which is in the W510. If we want wireless, we'll have to buy a usb stick, unless the BIOS actually locks it out (anyone have info on which cards IBM locks out?)

IBM does not lock out USB cards/stick - would be far too difficult.

The card that are locked out are full and mini Mini PCI-E cards that you use for wireless.

You can swap the card, but will probably need to flash your BIOS to allow use of it.

[liwenhui]

how did you do that ,I changed the wifi card to dell 1510 tonight,but no luck ,not support by bios

Yong, I got this hacked bios from my friend. With this white list bios, I buy a second hand 9280, costs US$ 7,which is native supported by 10.6.3.

[chopperpl]

Hello to All,
I have just finished my hackintosh project on w510 by using latest tonymac's iBoot + Multibeast, and iMac11,1 smbios.plist that suppose to enable SpeedStep. Well, I have to say it is not worth it. I have ran xBench few times, and I get less than half score of whatever real MacBook Pro gets (around 75). I don't really know, if there are other configs for w510, but I got i7 720 with 4GB Ram. It is a single boot box. The installation was flawless, but still no support for intel wifi... Has anyone here benchmarked their w510 with xbench? Any scores to compare?
Thanks
Update: I also realized every cpu utility shows 1.6GHz max speed. I was never able to see this number goes higher. I also ran 'yes' command, and then tried probing the cpu and it was still operating at 1.6Ghz. Seems Turbo feature is not working... Any clues?

[chopperpl]

Yong, I got this hacked bios from my friend. With this white list bios, I buy a second hand 9280, costs US$ 7,which is native supported by 10.6.3.

Would you be so kind, and send me a copy as well?
THanks in advance

[Merli]

Hi All,

I just ordered a W510 with 880 graphics that I will be attempting to OSX86. I have some experience with this, having done MSI U123 and VMWare 7 OSX86 installations. I've previously bought a retail OSX Snow Leo disk set, and I also have a Mac Mini that I use as a home theater PC and for Xcode. I travel a lot for work, so I use the hackintosh stuff when I am on the road for XCode development. VMWare works but is awful slow and the U123 screen is too small for Xcode. The W510 dual boot would give me the best of all worlds.

This install looks to be a bit more challenging than the others. I will follow through the previous posts here and see how it goes. Pre-install questions:

1. I want to dual boot Win7 and OSX. I bought a 2nd drive for the UltraBay to hopefully make things cleaner/easier. I have a USB DVD for the OS X install. Any tips/suggestions on how to best set up the dual boot? I'm assuming that I'll use MBR on the Windows drive and GUID on the Mac OS Drive?

2. From what I have read here, do I need a BIOS patch to get a different wireless card to work?

I will probably have a few questions as I go through it, but I intend to keep track of everything I do and post my notes here to help others.

[Yong]

Yong, I got this hacked bios from my friend. With this white list bios, I buy a second hand 9280, costs US$ 7,which is native supported by 10.6.3.[/quote]

Would you be so kind, and send me a copy as well?
THanks in advance[/quote]
me too please

[liwenhui]

Patched w510 bios

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bxe46O ... y=CMXwp-QF

Note.
1.use the winphlash.exe as flash tool.
2.bios file should be bios.rom
3.this bios is not based on current most updated Lenovo version.
4.after flash and reboot, if you insert your wifi card ,it should get rid of 1820 message.

I also have a question about w510's video. Now I used nvenabler.kext to enable all video function, 1600*900, CI/QE, resolution changed. But when I connect to projector, I can't make it dual display. When projector get displayed, w510's lcd will be blank.

[swithdrawn]

1. I want to dual boot Win7 and OSX. I bought a 2nd drive for the UltraBay to hopefully make things cleaner/easier. I have a USB DVD for the OS X install. Any tips/suggestions on how to best set up the dual boot? I'm assuming that I'll use MBR on the Windows drive and GUID on the Mac OS Drive?

You've done the right thing by getting two harddrives. I wish I had done this, but the multitude of netbook guides that simply have you do a GUID/MBR hybrid blinded me to the truth! Such a setup is unstable at best. Two HD's is the way to go - just give the OSX one boot priority and you should be good with a chameleon bootloader.

For the installation, I had success booting from an Empire EFI cd to the Snow Leopard installation dvd. Once installed, I had to continue using the Empire EFI cd with the boot flags -v -s -x -f or I would get a kernel panic. Once I upgraded to 10.6.3 and upgraded the mach_kernel (instructions on the 3rd page of the thread) I installed MyHack with the default settings + the PS2 kext and everything was cool.

Patched w510 bios
I also have a question about w510's video. Now I used nvenabler.kext to enable all video function, 1600*900, CI/QE, resolution changed. But when I connect to projector, I can't make it dual display. When projector get displayed, w510's lcd will be blank.

Are you using VGA or HDMI?

[liwenhui]

[/quote]

Are you using VGA or HDMI?[/quote]

I used VGA port. How about the display port works ?

[chopperpl]

Patched w510 bios

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bxe46O ... y=CMXwp-QF

Note.
1.use the winphlash.exe as flash tool.
2.bios file should be bios.rom
3.this bios is not based on current most updated Lenovo version.
4.after flash and reboot, if you insert your wifi card ,it should get rid of 1820 message.

I also have a question about w510's video. Now I used nvenabler.kext to enable all video function, 1600*900, CI/QE, resolution changed. But when I connect to projector, I can't make it dual display. When projector get displayed, w510's lcd will be blank.

liwenhui,
Thanks for willing to share it. The link you provided is dead, or it is probably accessible only when you're logged in to your google account. Is it possible to share it via public link, or perhaps you could zip it, and send it to me via email. ducatipatataj at yahoo
Thanks again.

I have not tried with second monitor, but I will on my projector.... stay tuned.

[Yong]

I'm kind of afraid of updating my bios ,I just got my w510 back from Lenovo ,I bricked my w510 one month ago. I had better buy a usb wifi card instead ,I'm scared, which card should I buy.?

[chopperpl]

I'm kind of afraid of updating my bios ,I just got my w510 back from Lenovo ,I bricked my w510 one month ago. I had better buy a usb wifi card instead ,I'm scared, which card should I buy.?

Did you use patched bios from liwenhui, or you tried patch it yourself?
Thx

[Yong]

Did you use patched bios from liwenhui, or you tried patch it yourself?
Thx[/quote]
nope ,I don't want to brick my w510 again

[liwenhui]

liwenhui,
Thanks for willing to share it. The link you provided is dead, or it is probably accessible only when you're logged in to your google account. Is it possible to share it via public link, or perhaps you could zip it, and send it to me via email. ducatipatataj at yahoo
Thanks again.

I have not tried with second monitor, but I will on my projector.... stay tuned.

I don't have any hotfile, rapfle liked account.

Any one can PM me one for upload ? I will post MD5 of the bios file here.

[liwenhui]

liwenhui,
Thanks for willing to share it. The link you provided is dead, or it is probably accessible only when you're logged in to your google account. Is it possible to share it via public link, or perhaps you could zip it, and send it to me via email. ducatipatataj at yahoo
Thanks again.

I have not tried with second monitor, but I will on my projector.... stay tuned.

already sent you by email

[chopperpl]

I got it, Thanks.
Have you installed exactly same patch you sent me with success? I don't want to brick my laptop...
Thanks

[liwenhui]

I got it, Thanks.
Have you installed exactly same patch you sent me with success? I don't want to brick my laptop...
Thanks

My W510:

Software Versions:
Menu Extra: 6.2.1 (621.1)
configd plug-in: 6.2.3 (623.1)
System Profiler: 6.0 (600.9)
Network Preference: 6.2.1 (621.1)
AirPort Utility: 5.5.1 (551.19)
IO80211 Family: 3.1.1 (311.1)
Interfaces:
en1:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x3041)
Firmware Version: Atheros 9280: 2.1.9.8.1
Locale: Unknown
Country Code: CN
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 132, 136, 140, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165
Wake On Wireless: Supported
Status: Not Associated

[chopperpl]

Sweeeeet!!!!!! Wireless is up and running!!!!!!
Did you get alternative buttons (red left & right) to work? Also, it seems power management is not working properly for me. When I execute the shutdown it doesn't turn of the motherboard, and dvd is spinning... Do you have same symptoms?

Thanks

[chopperpl]

liwenhui,
Unfortunately, I had no hdmi cable to test external display. It seems it is not a standard hdmi, but something that ibm came up with. I will get one off ebay, and test it then...
Did you get your SD card reader to work? IF yes, what kext have you used?
Thanks