Asus K40IN with Snow Leopard 10.6.2
This laptop can installed with Leopard and Tiger, but can’t work the Gforce G102M 512MB. ![]()
So must use Snow Leopard with Nvenabler.kext installed. Dualboot with Windows 7 smoothly
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Specifications of Asus K Series K40IN :
- 14-inch LED-backlit display by resolution of 1366×768 pixels
- Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 CPU at 2GHz
- Up to 4GB of RAM
- Up to 320GB SATA 5400RPM Hard Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce G102M graphics
- ASUS Super Hybrid Engine (SHE) technology
- NVIDIA MCP75L chipset
- Wireless 802.11b/g, UMTS/HSPA 3G network compatibility, and Gigabit-Ethernet LAN port
- DVD burner
- Built-in Web Camera
- Two Built-in Stereo Speakers
- Four USB 2.0 Ports and SD/MMC/MS media card reader
- Battery of 6-cell lithium ion can run time up to 5 hours
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What needed?
- DVD Installer Snow Leopard 10.6.2 by Hazard
How To?
- Set AHCI Mode for HDD on BIOS
- Insert DVD of Snow Leopard 10.6.2 by Hazard
- When Darwin Bootloader appear, Touch F8
- Boot DVD with: -v cpus=1
- Wait for Window Install
- Disk Utility -> Select Partition -> MacOS X extended journaled and Erase
- Close disk Utility and Next, Choose Partition then Next
- Customize Settings ( on left corner below ) :
10.6.2 Combo Update
ChameleonRC3 PC EFI 10.5
Graphics -> NVEnabler
Audio -> ALC662 ( replace by HDAEnabler )
Laptop -> Apple ACPI Battery Manager
Laptop -> Function Flip
Laptop -> Voodoo Battery
Laptop -> Voodoo Monitor
Laptop -> Voodoo Power
Laptop -> Voodoo PS2 Trackpad
System -> Elliot Force Legacy RTC
System -> AHCI SATA Fix
System -> SMBIOS Resolver
System -> UUID
Additional Fonts
X11 User
Rosetta - Wait over 20-30menit depend on your DVD Drive read
- Reboot.
- Set active Windows 7 Partition and Boot Windows 7
- Install EasyBCD 55 Beta for Windows 7 ( Neosmart.net )
- Add MacOS partition and save
- Dualboot done!
What Working :
- Gforce G102M 512MB Quartz Extreme and Core Image for Video and Editing
- DVD Drive
- Touchpad ( scroll too
) - Sound ( still need new patch driver for ALC662 Snow Leopard ) .. Link below
- Ethernet/LAN
- Card Reader
- USB Port
- Webcam ( Snapshot and Photoboth )
Not Working :
- Wifi Chipset ( will swapp with Broadcom BCM43xx like MacBook )
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* Update Customize : because use core2duo processor can use vanilla kernel, so never check kernel option. It’s can save update to lastest with remove sleepenabler.kext before.
* Update Driver Pack : ASUS K40IN – 50IN Driver ( HDAEnabler, DSDT.aml, Extra Folder )