Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
InfiniteMac OSx86 › Contributors › @Acidrain9
Member #500 · 2008-01-31 → 2008-03-31
#808 by Dispatches #1,446 by Author Reads #3,477 by Thread Reach Member #500 AHCI / SATA AMD OSx86 EVGA / X58

@Acidrain9

InfiniteMac community contributor with 10 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (7,568 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 26,453 historical readers.

Dispatches 10 Ranked #808 of 6,691
Author Reads 7,568 Ranked #1,446 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 26,453 Ranked #3,477 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 3,784 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #500 Joined 2008-01-31
Active Window 2008 2008-01-31 → 2008-03-31
Archive Standing
#808 of 6,691 by Dispatches (10 notes) · #1,446 of 3,454 by Author Readership (7,568 reads across 2 dossiers) · #3,477 by Thread Reach (26,453 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #500 · Joined 2008-01-31
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AHCI / SATA (3) · AMD OSx86 (2) · EVGA / X58 (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · ATI Radeon (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@naquaada (2) @cgsheen (2) @Puttabong (2) @R0GUE (2) @roisoft (2) @xx66stangxx (2) @shir266 @Bing @nfoav8or @zephyroth @xan @inwoo @bcw @Ianxxx

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
10 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Acidrain9 (2)

7,568 cumulative reads on threads started by @Acidrain9

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
"You Need to Restart Your Computer."
i keep getting a gray screen that says "You Need to Restart Your Computer." over my desktop. it actually doesn't happen all the time, but i have noticed that it happends when i launch Maya or when i launch the Blizzard Downloader for WoW.…
Leopard 10.53,896 reads
2008-03-25 · 11 notes
IOATAController Error
First things first... I have installed 10.5.1 on my PATA Drive and it works beautifully, however i wanted to boot it on my sata drive so... I finally got Leopard installed on my SATA drive and got it to boot after injecting Medevils nForce…
Leopard 10.53,672 reads
2008-01-31 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (8)

Direct links into threads where @Acidrain9 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
my sata in leopard 10.5.1 not erase
“Bing: how did you solve the "ioatacontroller device blocking bus" issue when booting to your SATA drive?”
Leopard 10.52008-01-31
8,205 dossier reads
blinking cursor - no efi? or why i cant boot
“Xan: if you are still getting just the flashing cursor on boot this worked for me download gparted live cd and boot it changed osx drive to Boot”
Leopard 10.52008-01-31
6,236 dossier reads
Possible issue
“i have the same gray screen saying "you need to restart your computer" i am on a nforce 570 board but i disabled both onboard lans in my bios and i am using a realtek. anyone have any ideas?”
Leopard 10.52008-03-27
4,444 dossier reads
"You Need to Restart Your Computer."
“my pci ethernet works great. i bought a card that was mac compatible (startech) . i had too many problems with nforce ethernet crashing all the time. everything seems stable now. boot time is only about 15-20 sec and i havn't crashed yet. b…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-31
3,896 dossier reads
"You Need to Restart Your Computer."
“ok in case anyone wants to know, it seems that one of my ram sticks was screwing up everything, it was in slot 4 so i removed it and everything works beautifully. not sure if the ram is bad or if osx just doesn't like my 4th slot, but i ord…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-28
3,896 dossier reads
"You Need to Restart Your Computer."
“after reinstalling i figured i would try whatever i could to get this issue to stop. i installed the new NVInstaller .41 and also installed all of the software updates except for the time machine one. no instead of the gray screen my deskto…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-27
3,896 dossier reads
my sata in leopard 10.5.1 not erase
“@ Bing Thanks for the info. Running beautifully now.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-01
8,205 dossier reads
IOATAController Error
“Thanks Bing!Worked Beautifully If anyone else is interested i followed what Bing said Here”
Leopard 10.52008-02-01
3,672 dossier reads