Update Your Dell Inspiron 1525 to 10.5.7
Posted in Dell Inspiron 1525, Misc on May 12th, 2009 by Genaro Bonilla – 294 Comments**THIS POST IS OUTDATED PLEASE REFER TO THE SNOW LEOPARD GUIDE**
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1) Well first you have to download the 10.5.7 Update Kexts (Edit 10/16/09)
2) Now go and download 10.5.7 Combo Update
3) Install the Combo Update and restart. On first boot it will restart on its own and then boot again.
4) Kext helper the “Update Kexts” and press “Advanced” then “tag cache rebuild” and press “run”
5) You have to install the trackpad now.
- Drag “trackpad.prefpane” to the desktop
- Open “Terminal”
- Run
sudo -s
rm -rf /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Trackpad.prefPane
cp -R ~/Desktop/Trackpad.prefPane /System/Library/PreferencePanes/
exit
6) Run the “Broadcom” package (Don’t click restart)
7) Repair Disk Permissions on “Macintosh HD” THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!! After this you can restart.
8 ) Boot with “-v” Enjoy 10.5.7!
9) Noyasoft reminded be about deleting AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
Open terminal and run
sudo -s
rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
