HP Laptop Support ?

[Gerhard Botha 0]

Hi Guys,

 

I have an : HP Envy 15 j163ei notebook and would like to find out how compatible it is with Hackintosh, i've managed to get it loaded with Hackintosh however it seems like there is a lot of problems.

 

• Sound is not working
• Wifi not working
• LAN not working

 

There could be more, if anyone else has this exact same notebook could you please let me know if you got these sorted perpaps or if anyone else has some information that may help ?

 

link to my exact notebook : http://www8.hp.com/za/en/products/laptops/product-detail.html?oid=6894560

 

Thanks in advance...

 

 

 

 

[Daniel Ip 2]

@5pArxz 740m might be supported but not officially, so i think you need to boot with hd graphics first, you are only able to boot with -x is because the nvidia graphics not working properly. try to boot with boot flag: '-v nv_disable=1 "Graphics Mode"="1920x1080x32" GraphicsEnabler=Yes IGPEnabler=Yes IntelAzulFB=XX'(ranging from 0 to 15, usually work with 10-12, just by trial and error) you should be able to boot without safe mode(-x). 

 

edit: oops, i just checked, 740m may not be support in any way now

[Gerhard Botha 0]

Anyone ? up up 

[Daniel Ip 2]

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sound: just use voodoo, and normally you will get a kernel panic, just modify according to this, will be fine

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/267905-voodoohda-common-problems/

lan: you can use niresh's all in one network solution.

wifi: i am using newer model, with different wifi, can't help you. but i remember that someone with j model can use wifi, try to find out on Google

[Gerhard Botha 0]

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Thanks for the support much appreciated. This will be a very noob question but i cannot get lan or wan working obviously so how will i go about getting niresh all in one network solution on my laptop ? as i cannot transfer files from a windows machine ?

 

I've sinse this post re installed windows and am now running maverics 10.9 successfully in VmWare but thats only in fullscreen mode in windows which is not optimal.

 

I'm very new to this whole thing. and have no idea what what is LOL

[Daniel Ip 2]

@

 

Thanks for the support much appreciated. This will be a very noob question but i cannot get lan or wan working obviously so how will i go about getting niresh all in one network solution on my laptop ? as i cannot transfer files from a windows machine ?

 

I've sinse this post re installed windows and am now running maverics 10.9 successfully in VmWare but thats only in fullscreen mode in windows which is not optimal.

 

I'm very new to this whole thing. and have no idea what what is LOL

@ oh you only get 1 computer with you? then you need to download the all in one solution first in windows, then install. i have my envy 15 with dual booting

[Gerhard Botha 0]

@, no i have 2 notebooks. other one is an Acer but how will i get the files from that notebook to the other with mac installed ?

[Daniel Ip 2]

@, no i have 2 notebooks. other one is an Acer but how will i get the files from that notebook to the other with mac installed ?

@ just use a usb, mac can read and write fat and exfat, read ntfs, so all format you used on windows can help you transfer those drivers file

[Gerhard Botha 0]

@ Yes i've tried that initially but if i format the usb mac osx extended or whatever then windows cannot read it and if i format it fat32, exfat or ntfs then mac cannot mount it ? ( at least that is what is happening to me ) because if i can get the Lan working i guess i can get more things going.

 

Thanks for the help  

[Daniel Ip 2]

@ Yes i've tried that initially but if i format the usb mac osx extended or whatever then windows cannot read it and if i format it fat32, exfat or ntfs then mac cannot mount it ? ( at least that is what is happening to me ) because if i can get the Lan working i guess i can get more things going.

Thanks for the help

@ windows cannot mount hfs+ without additional software, but mac can mount fat32 and exfat to read and write, only read can be done for ntfs.

[Gerhard Botha 0]

@ Thanks i will give it another go, else i was thinking of downloading it on my vmware and formatting the usb mac osx, put it on and then load notebook, cause then i will have a mac formatted usb with the all in one solution on it. can you suggest any other post installation software that may / may not help ? as well as boot flags as i mostly only get it working with -x which is safe mode if i remember correctly