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Member #8,073 · 2009-12-02 → 2012-02-22
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@alltoorobot

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Member Number #8,073 Joined 2009-07-02
Active Window 2009–2012 2009-12-02 → 2012-02-22
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Im looking to update to a core i7 for video editing. I want at least 12g of ram ! · Any suggestions any one? Im also looking to keep it under 600 if possible :-)
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#579 of 6,691 by Dispatches (13 notes) · #167 by Thread Reach (1,741,402 cumulative reads)
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Member #8,073 · Joined 2009-07-02
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · USB / EHCI (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · DSDT (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (13)

Direct links into threads where @alltoorobot contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“1-kakewalk with eg41m settings will install and get a basic system running. 2-remove the dsdt from extra folder 3-restart 4-use dsdt auto patcher (find it..google?) select your make and model mobo 5-i removed cmos reset kext from extra 6-re…”
Snow Leopard 10.62012-02-22
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Ran into something new last night.. I had recently moved my hack to serve at HTPC and had swapped in an nvidia GT240 (using DVI out). All worked fine. Then last night, I rebooted and got stuck with a 1024x768 (I think) screen (on my 1080 TV…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-02-18
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Update for me went smoothly.. removed Sleepenabler, ran ket util, downloaded the 10.6.5 update + audio + new sleep enabler as per the 1st link.. ran the update, rebooted, installed sleep enabler + audio, ran kext util, rebooted again. I not…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-12-24
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I am looking around to see what kind of power supplies people are using with theyre eg31m's. The manual, as far as I know tells you to use a 400 watt PSU. I would like to bump it down as much as possible, get a video card that is passively …”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-27
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Zim2dive How did you over clock your e5200? I have the same board and processor any chance you could do a walk short through?”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-18
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Thanks Zim2dive so i'm running what appears to be a stable 10.6.2. Some how my install never had a sleep enabler to get rid of. I usually install the bare minimum kexts and see if I can run it as vanilla as possible. I did however read care…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-20
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I was wondering if some one who did a successful upgrade could give me they're kextstat from terminal. I want to compare my kexts with yours. And remind me or show me which ones were changed before and after thanks!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-18
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I had one working, I'll let you know if I can get it working again. I switched a few kexts around I have to figure out what was working. I”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-13
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Any one using the old school PATA (IDE?) HD's I have a few I tried to throw in my machine I got one recognized but it hasnt been recognized again. not really sure what the deal is just wondering. ive toyed with the bios too but again im not…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-13
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“You;re confusing USB speeds with disk speeds. USB might be 480mbps (it isn't really), your disks can't output data at those speeds. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, you could have 800mbps Firewire but no disk can work at thos…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-12
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Sorry no, don;'t use HDMI so can't help. Rob. I dont think video cards output sound through their hdmi. I have a 9800gt and I used both hdmi and vga. I didn't have any sound, just get a headphone out to rca from radio shack. Also, I followe…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-12
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“A great suggestion. I've been doing the same thing but have been using Disk Utility. I ran into a problem where it didn't image properly. Do you have Carbon copy on a bootable USB or disk? I have two almost identical 500 gig WD hard drives.…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-04
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I have a 10.6 system following this guide. I never used sleep enabler though. Some people might be interested in the way I test updates now. I use carbon copy to clone my current drive (i was made following this guide). Just reinstall chame…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-02
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