Hello everyone. I just recently bought a Dell XPS 8300, and I was hoping to put Mac OS X on it. I have an old inspiron laptop I got for free that I got Snow Leopard on to without any problems (though I didn't use this website to do it, instead I found a website exclusively dedicated to putting OSX on Inspiron 1525s). I searched around, and was directed to crispybishop's post about his successful installation. I followed all of his steps perfectly, yet for some reason, it will NOT work.

Heres what happens: Boot from the iBoot CD Eject iBoot - put in SL Retail DVD (10.6.3) Press f5 type PCIROOTUID=(insert every number between 0 and 5 here) The screen turns black and the fans run like the computer is about to explode. I'm not sure what motherboard is in the computer, it isn't documented anywhere.

The Processor is an Intel i7 2600 The GPU is an ATI Radeon HD5770 The hard drive I am using for the OS X installation is a Western Digital 500gb I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, but I did notice a couple of things that might be problematic to this working. Crispybishop's guide said to set my bus speed to 29 or 30, but my bios does not have an option to change bus speed. Am I missing something?

The Seagate DiskWizard worked as expected. It took over two hours to clone the three partitions from the C: Drive: Tomorrow I will remove the Disk from the external SATA Hard Drive enclosure, open the XPS and install the faster drive and power on the XPS 8300 with crossed fingers and hope for a successful boot. Dell XPS 8300 with a 1 TB HDD. I've installed a Samsung 830 SSD and it shows up in BIOS, Disk Management. Is sectors in use, - is free space). I did copy the OS partition twice, the second time checking options that you.

When iBoot loads up, the screen is off place, so I cant see the bottom part of it, where the letters I am typing are. I forgot to say that I was using iBoot legacy. I will definitely try using the Graphicsenabler=no thing. Secondly, this might make the entire idea of putting mac os x on the computer impossible, but I have no idea what kernels even are, let alone how to use them. Is there a guide to using them?

Where can I find more information on this? Thank you for taking the time to help me out everyone! It means alot to me! (also, just curious, but will it not work for me to have 2 hard drives installed at once? I know the guide says to only have the one youre installing on installed, but would it fail if I had my Windows 7 one plugged in as well as the blank one?).

Okay so I didn't plan on hitting this unexpected wall. I am trying to use a 4TB HDD because I maxed out my 2TB. The original plan was to clone it. But I hit a block when my computer only recognizes it as 1.6 TB, which isn't even enough for a clone. The computer also doesn't recognize it like other drives. Everything I am reading is showing that in order for it to be recognized in its full capacity, it needs to be GPT and on a UEFI based OS. I am using Windows 7 on this computer.

I can't find a definitive answer as to if my system supports UEFI. I don't wan to start a clean install if it is pointless.

Any tips on making this work? Thanks in advance! Re: XPS 8300 with a 4TB hard drive I have a Dell XPS 8300 and installed a Toshiba 6TB N300. At first, BIOS was the only item that would recognize the full capacity.

Disk Management only showed 1.4TB. After researching for a couple of hours, I figured out that if I updated the Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller, I could use the drive at full capacity.

Here is the link to the driver zip file. I extracted it to a folder and used the Windows update driver in device manager and selected the folder I created.

There are newer driver versions available, but they do not look compatible with my computer. I downloaded Intel's Driver and Support Assistant, but it said no updates were available. The link below is to the main page where you can download the above. Max portrait d un serial niqueur. Poster in thread also suggests you don't need UEFI for a 4tb drive, just a 64bit operating system.