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Everything is great, now i've got everything i need on this awesome precision thanks to you Chris.  USB 3.0, sata 3.0 card, pci wifi card, ssd etc.. Thank you again for all your help bro.

Your happy !

Enjoy the Dell Precision 690; its a great PC for OS X   B)

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Greetings, I was a little confused when creating the 690 installer and ran the Post Installer on my Lenovo T410s running Maverics. What does the post installation do? Will it mess up my current installation on my T410s?

 

I have not had much success installing El Capitan on my P690. Just a black screen. Any advise on how too move forward?

 

Thank you.

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Greetings, I was a little confused when creating the 690 installer and ran the Post Installer on my Lenovo T410s running Maverics. What does the post installation do? Will it mess up my current installation on my T410s?

 

I have not had much success installing El Capitan on my P690. Just a black screen. Any advise on how too move forward?

 

Thank you.

Post Installer Dell Précision 690 for OS X El Capitan on Lenovo t410 ! And moreover OS X Mavericks !

Why?????

Post Installer contain only Clover ESP  with some kext inside Clover for 10.10 and 10.11

and of course a DSDT.aml for a Dell Precission 690

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Post Installer Dell Précision 690 for OS X El Capitan on Lenovo t410 ! And moreover OS X Mavericks !

Why?????

Post Installer contain only Clover ESP  with some kext inside Clover for 10.10 and 10.11

and of course a DSDT.aml for a Dell Precission 690

 

chris1111,

 

I was just a bit confused during the creation process of the install USB. I thought the post install was after the creation of the USB and I ran the post install on the computer (T410S) I used to create the USB installer. It was not intentional, just a mistake. I was concerned about my error damaging my install of Mavericks on the T40s.

 

I still have had no luck installing El Capitain on my Precision 690. It boots into the Clover menu, but after selecting the OS X install I just get a black screen.

I am connecting my display via VGA.

 

 

Dell Precision 690

 
2 -  Dual Core Xeon Proc 5130 2.00GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 1333MHz
 
4 - 300GB SAS Hard Drive
 
12GB, DDR2 ECC SDRAM Memory 667MHz
 
EVGA GeForce GT 710
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Hey chris, I love my Precision 690. I've put a lot of work into it but it's still not perfect. The reason is, the fans are too loud.  Coming from a personal computer in my room which was an old hp Compaq pavilion  with dx7500 motherboard, which was reasonably quiet.  Now, with this precision the fans are so loud it's becoming unbearable.  Every time the computer goes to sleep, it's a relief honestly.  How would I go about swapping out the fans with some quiet ones from corsair or some sort?  I assume some cable modification would be required.

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Hey chris, I love my Precision 690. I've put a lot of work into it but it's still not perfect. The reason is, the fans are too loud.  Coming from a personal computer in my room which was an old hp Compaq pavilion  with dx7500 motherboard, which was reasonably quiet.  Now, with this precision the fans are so loud it's becoming unbearable.  Every time the computer goes to sleep, it's a relief honestly.  How would I go about swapping out the fans with some quiet ones from corsair or some sort?  I assume some cable modification would be required.

Not to loud for me

If you do this tell me how and what is the fan you are change and how you do this  :wink_anim:

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you are in same boat my friend  :wallbash: i have the same problem as you

what about water cooling and some cable modification


most fans use yellow dell uses white so:

Red= +12V
BLK= GND
BLUE= Frequency
White= RPM (same as Yellow on "normal" 4 wire fans)


http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/655301-Nidec-BETAV-TA450DC-wiring-help-please/page2

 

Some info  about Fan wiring dell 690

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I second that Rockey lol. I wish mine was quiet like yours Chris. I'm definitely going to swap out the fans because I can't take it any longer. I'll be sure to let you know how I accomplished it. If I didn't have so many machines I'd get to it sooner. Now I'm just enjoying my intel Nuc DC53427HYE El Capitan.

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i can just say you are lucky to have a quieter dell 690  :king:

This is the sound of my Dell at start up and finishing to boot  :D

chris111,

 

I am using the config.plist mentioned in post #202 that has nv_disable=1.

 

I appreciate your time.

Did you try to an Adapter  DVI to VGA

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This is the sound of my Dell at start up and finishing to boot  :D

Did you try to an Adapter  DVI to VGA

I do not have a DVI to VGA adaptor. I have it straight VGA or straight DVI. Would it make that much of a difference to adapt DVI to VGA vs straight VGA?

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This is the sound of my Dell at start up and finishing to boot  :D

Did you try to an Adapter  DVI to VGA

OMG, that sounded so loud from the beginning.  Where exactly do you have your precision setup? Mine is in my room so it's pretty quiet in my room so therefore, noise will be easily recognized especially if i've never had such a big machine like P690 before.

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OMG, that sounded so loud from the beginning. Where exactly do you have your precision setup? Mine is in my room so it's pretty quiet in my room so therefore, noise will be easily recognized especially if i've never had such a big machine like P690 before.

 

Not really the microphone is Right on top of the pc

you can ear after the boot is prety muttch quiet .

I do not have a DVI to VGA adaptor. I have it straight VGA or straight DVI. Would it make that much of a difference to adapt DVI to VGA vs straight VGA?

I do not have a DVI to VGA adaptor. I have it straight VGA or straight DVI. Would it make that much of a difference to adapt DVI to VGA vs straight VGA?

Try DVI and boot on verbose -v

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Chris thank you very much for the dsdt it works perfect to my precision 490 !!!  i was wondering if i have to start a new thread for the precision 490 or if will be ok to stay here and ask some things....

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You can stay here of course


Chris thank you very much for the dsdt it works perfect to my precision 490 !!!  i was wondering if i have to start a new thread for the precision 490 or if will be ok to stay here and ask some things....

What is the exact specs?

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Not really the microphone is Right on top of the pc

you can ear after the boot is prety muttch quiet .

Try DVI and boot on verbose -v

chris1111, I still cannot get past a black screen when I try to boot from MacUSB. I have not been successful in booting in verbose mode either with DVI.

 

I appreciate your time.

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Hey chris, I love my Precision 690. I've put a lot of work into it but it's still not perfect. The reason is, the fans are too loud.  Coming from a personal computer in my room which was an old hp Compaq pavilion  with dx7500 motherboard, which was reasonably quiet.  Now, with this precision the fans are so loud it's becoming unbearable.  Every time the computer goes to sleep, it's a relief honestly.  How would I go about swapping out the fans with some quiet ones from corsair or some sort?  I assume some cable modification would be required.

Frankly speaking the fans of my dell precision 490 are horrible loudly. I try to find solutions. I will change the memory fan which is the number one suspect for the noise with some second hands i own. Of course i must cut the original cables and make modifications. Also in my mind i have a water cooling solution.

 

You can stay here of course

What is the exact specs?

Thanks for the hosting!

Specs: one only one  :( XEON 5160 (Yes just one processor at the time), Nvidia GT610 1024MB, 4 GB RAM 633 DDR2, SSD 240 PATRIOT BLAST, HDD 160 GB WD 7200 8MB CACHE, HDD 1T WD 7200 RPM 64MB Cache, HDD 1T Seagate 7200RPM 64MB Cache, Firewire 1394 (original Dell) PCI card, DVD ROM HL DATA STORAGE (original Dell). 

1st question: Have anybody try a hackintosh with 2 Xeons 5365? 

2nd question:I have QE/CI with VGA cable. With HDMI cable either i have not QI/PC or if i change config.plst i have black screen at the time the video kext are loading. 

Can somebody tell me the settings for the config.plst for HDMI with full QE/CI for my card?

P.S. NVIDIA GT 610 is a rebranded NVIDIA GT 520

P.S.2 Sleep mode with VGA works perfect. I never tried with HDMI.

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Ok i will definitely do it.

Ok, I'm looking forward to it.   BTW, does anyone else witness that after wake from sleep on the Precision 690, that external usb drives seem to be ejected?  I've noticed that for the past couple nights with an external usb hard drive and usb thumb drive.

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Dear brother Blangah I have the same problem with my dell 690 and with hp z800  

 

Actually what i want to say that i have never seen one single hack with perfectly working USB

 

i wish someone  can help us with right dsdt patches for working usb

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