Dell Inspiron 1525 Hackintosh iPC Guide
**THIS GUIDE IS OUTDATED PLEASE REFER TO THE SNOW LEOPARD GUIDE**
So you just got your Dell Inspiron 1525 or you’ve had it for a while and can no longer suffer the equivalent of modern day water torture, otherwise known as vista. Don’t fret, Macintosh osx is here to save the day.
I’ll lay out the steps in the easiest way I can possibly make it so you guys can have the least amount of questions.
Edit: Benefits of using this driver pack.
- No Sleep Hack!
- Perfect Audio as well as Internal Mic
- Easy Power Management
- Ethernet Fix
- SD Card Reader fix
1) Get your copy of “iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Universal FINAL” onto a dvd. You should be able to find it at all the usual locations.
2) Once you have the dvd, pop it in your drive and boot from the disk. Once you get here go to “Tools” from the menu bar and choose “Disk Utility.” Once you’ve gotten into the Disk Utility you have to select your hard drive and click on the erase tab. From this tab choose “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” and name it Macintosh HD.
3) From here continue the installation and choose “Customize” Below I have provided a picture of the options you should select. After you selected those continue with the installation.
4) Now that you’re done installing you can remove the disc and on the boot screen press “F8″ and type “-v -f” When the screen loads up it should just be a black screen, after this close the lid till you see the power light slowly “breathe” or pulse. When you open the lid you should be greeted with the Post-Install screen. Type all your info and stuff.
5) From here you’re going to need the 1525 Driver Pack. Everything in the pack has a readme.
Below is a quick video on how to do everything just in case you’re a bit lost. Keep in mind you probably won’t have sound to watch the video so you can either run it on another computer or watch it previous to installing osx.
**THE VIDEO IS OUTDATED**
All you have to do is kext helper everything and the dsdt.aml and everything should be good.
6) Now you can run all of your software updates and when you come back you wont have wi-fi, simply go into the misc folder and run the broadcom patch and you’ll be back in business.
7) Now you should have everything working. Stay tuned, I’ll have a post on how to get two-finger scrolling working 100% soon enough. Go here for the guide.
If you have any questions feel free to ask me about anything and I’ll be sure to reply as soon as possible!
Drivers: Hackintosh Drivers
Hey Kyle,
Did you installed on a fresh hard drive????? Means did you already had any operating system before installing Mac OSX. As i am having Win XP and then trying to install Mac OSX on a different partition but unsuccessful.
Can you please help me.
Sorry, I wiped Win XP as fast as possible and started with a fresh install… can’t really help you out. I’m sure you can search here or dailyblogged and get the answers though.
after having no luck with the boot132 method for snow leo i tried this IPC guide.
1. install goes fine
2. reboot, get to the bit where i have to close the lid
3. the power light never starts pulsing (i waited ages) and the screen stays black when opening the lid
any ideas, i have spent so much time reading and trying to get this happening.
thanks in advance, much appreciated.
Hey, thanks. Excellent. I didn’t close the lid though, and it all worked, very good guide indeed. However, I have not kext’ed the stuff yet as I don’t understand that, but am on it now, the main point is that at this moment I’ve got osx and win 7 in a dual boot configuration on my dell laptop.
Just download Kext Helper B7, open the program, then drag all the files to the program. It’s super easy and you can just follow the video above to get the idea.
Anyone notice choppy video playback???
Is it safe to do updates after this install or are there normally tweeks I need to work through after an update?
I am unable to go after step 2. In step two when i boot from the DVD.. after few minutes screen goes blank and no installation screen comes up… can anyone help me on this ??
I tried this on an inspiron 1545 and the wireless drivers aren’t working, i’ve followed all the steps very carefully. How can i get audio to work do i need to download something else excluding your driver package?
Hi all!. It seems i´ve been succesful with this. The guide is almost perfect. Only one thing, especially for those people having problems in step 4: you have to boot the system, with -v -f, the screen gets blank, an then, YOU HAVE TO WAIT ABOUT ONE MINUTE, just till the activity of the computer slows down. You can see this because the second light on the left (HD Activity), blinks almost nothing. Then, unplug the computer (I guess this is no necessary, but…), and close the lid. The computer starts some activity, and then, gets sleep (The activity almost stops), and the power led starts to “breath” (less than one minute between closing the lid and start “breathing”). Then, you can plug the cord and open the lid. And you are in.
Good luck, and many thanks!. I´m going to try 10.6. Hope to have the same good luck!
@ Stitch: Just a quick question. Did you installed on your Dell with no Operating System to start with and on a Blank formatted Hard drive???? As when i tried installing (with Win XP already on a different partition) MAC OSX on a partition didn’t had any luck.
Thanks.
Mine was a fresh installation, using the whole HD. Your issue has something to do with the order you´ve installed the Operating systems.. Have you tried to invert the order?. (first OSX, then XP, and the boot (grub or sth like that)
Maybe you can try to see if, just in the 4 step, without trying to sleep the computer, pluging an external monitor you can see something, and you can finish the installation.
Anyway, about the order, there are several people that has installed dual and triple boot, and as I can remember, most of the problems has much to do with the order. You can see this in insanely mac.
I assume you don´t install any of the drivers for X3100 in the first steps, because this can ruin your installation.
Other option is to forget windows…I did it, and I really don´t miss it at all…
Good luck!
Thanks Stitch for a quick reply. You won’t believe i spend 3 full days on getting it work using different methods/guides available over the internet before giving up. I too assume that it was because of me already having Win XP.
I will also try to do a fresh installation. Thanks for your reply.
@Asheesh:
i have this problem too.
can anyone help?
it wouldnt boot from the ipc disk !!! Help
@Asheesh: that is exactly what happens to me on my 1525
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Thanks. I have a successfully running dual boot system osx 10.5.7 and vista home basic (which I’ll probably never use) This is my first experience using osx as a primary system and I’ve never used vista (xp for a really long time).
Anyway, here’s my problem. When I plug my vga cable into my LCD TV and press fn+F8, the laptop monitor turns black and I see the apple splash screen on the TV. fn+F8 again gets me back to the laptop but the screen is just a mess of colored lines.
What am I doing wrong?
OK, I’m also having a sleep issue on battery. The second time I put the computer to sleep, the screen does not go black and I lose keyboard and touchpad and I need a hard reboot. No problems at all with the first sleep/wake or when plugged in. Is something happening during the first wake under battery power that would cause this?
Fixed the sleep issue. I guess it’s a common problem with 10.5.7 that I was having on 10.5.6. I’ve been searching hackintosh threads blaming a 1525/OSX compatibility problem. Turns out it’s an Apple problem.
I never activated my ethernet port as I’m only using wifi. For some reason, if the ethernet port is inactive, you get this sleep error. Just activate the ethernet port and all is right with the world. Hopefully Gregs sees this. Easy fix (hopefully it continues to work)
i want to ask if it work on dell inspiron 1525 with intel celeron 550??
@Dan: when installing click customize and select video and then the second video option if your useing kalyway
i have 3 partitionon my hd 1 got ubuntu, windows n im gna istall mac now i hope the grub loader works for mac
i managed to install mac leo bt lost ubuntu now i js got leo n win 7
@Sandeep: hey man you can ask me.. whats your problem… ive been there before with the whole dual booting thing..
okay guys…
. never trying this ever again.
i have a:
dell inspiron 1525
1.86-1.87 GHz intel pentium dual-core processor
running windows 7 with 2 gigs of ram
i have tried to install iAtkos v7 multiple times, but when it booted the screen flashed white and then goes to black…
NOW i tried to install iPc OSx86 10.5.6 Universal PPF5 Final via this guide.
IT DID NOT WORK AND SCREWED UP MY COMPUTER.
I made an 80g partition for mac and when i installed it onto that partition and started my comp. it said boot error: 0
I could not boot into windows 7 even tho windows 7 existed on my machine, so i had to reinstall my entire system
BTW this was my sisters computer and it was for the sake of her. i already have a macbook so i’m not too pissed
Hello,
As Asheesh, frog24 and hackintosher96, I have the same problem.
Please help.. someone?
Thanks
Doesn’t anyone know how to fix the problem mentioned above??
Can i also use “iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Universal PPF5 FINAL”
According to this guide I have installed OS X 10.5.6, than I installed the 10.5.7 Combo Update (from Apple web site), and than the 10.5.8 CU (same). After that I installed the extensions (drivers) from the package “Dell 1525 Driver_update_2009_05_27″ – very easy! Now everything works: wifi, video 1280X800, sound, Ethernet, usb, bluetooth, power management… I didn’t try the Time Machine yet… And what, I think, is the main advantage of all this is that I can use almost every software, because if a Mac version exists and if it is supported by Leopard (10.5), the maximum version that the soft will ask is 10.5.8 )) …I think with S Leo it is not quite the same, cause there is a stable version 10.6.2 …and the official Apple version 10.6.3 ))
…Ah, I forgot, after installing 10.5.7 CU I installed Chameleon 2…
thnx man u helped me alot on my hackbook my wifi worked very welll thnx again
olease provide a image of os .nrg file to burn .
Anyone who’s having trouble with booting from the disk, clean your disk drive.
Eject it, then just use a tissue paper to clean it, make sure you get the laser/ sensor
hey since my post, i said i would never try this again… well now summer has come and i decided that i will make this work and now i’m typing on my fully working HACKINTOSH. thanks guys!
I had a dell 1525 laptop with iatkos v7,ethernet is not working help me…