dell latitude 5401

Fix Coffee Lake Dim Backlight On Sonoma and Sequoia

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The Coffee Lake IGPU was broken since Sonoma and Sequoia. The symptom is booting up to a dimmed backlight. If put it to sleep then wake, it will come back with full brightness backlight or wait for about 3 minutes it will come back full brightness. Thanks to hackintosh community, I found the fix here.

Fix and Replace Dell 5401 Trackpad Click Buttons

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Dell Latitude 5401 trackpad left click button no longer works, I had to replace with a click button board from Aliexpress. I would have tried to fix the button by removing the button and clean the contact but since it’s only $10 new, I bought it and replaced it. Just can’t believe Dell uses such

Dell Latitude 5401 Hackintosh

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I got a Dell Latitude 5401 with i7-9850H for my hackintosh because it has 6 cores and 12 threads, it’s light and has matte screen. Most Dell laptops has some problems for hackintosh, this one also has problems with HDMI. The first one is Micron NVME which prevent any boot without Kernel Panic. This one