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Member #4,698 · 2009-05-16 → 2009-05-28
#1,233 by Dispatches #235 by Author Reads #1,884 by Thread Reach Member #4,698 AMD OSx86 ALC889a / Audio NVIDIA GeForce

@AndreX86

InfiniteMac community contributor with 6 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (43,841 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 147,784 historical readers.

Dispatches 6 Ranked #1,233 of 6,691
Author Reads 43,841 Ranked #235 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 147,784 Ranked #1,884 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 43,841 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #4,698 Joined 2009-02-05
Active Window 2009 2009-05-16 → 2009-05-28
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
SPECS: · Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2G · AMD 3800+ · 1 SATA SAMSUNG Super Write Master · 1 ATA SAMSUNG Super Write Master · PCIE 6800xt 256 · 3 GB @ 677 · iPC 10.5.6
Archive Standing
#1,233 of 6,691 by Dispatches (6 notes) · #235 of 3,454 by Author Readership (43,841 reads across 1 dossiers) · #1,884 by Thread Reach (147,784 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #4,698 · Joined 2009-02-05
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (2) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Releases & News
3 (50%)
Leopard 10.5
3 (50%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @AndreX86 (1)

43,841 cumulative reads on threads started by @AndreX86

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Cannot play DVD's in SATA drive (nforce chipset)
I have a samsung IDE & SATA drive of the same model. The IDE reads everything but the SATA drive only seems to read cd's but nothing else, it recognizes DVD's as blanks. Anyone have an idea on how to resolve or possibly an updated kext? Im…
Leopard 10.543,841 reads
2009-05-28 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (5)

Direct links into threads where @AndreX86 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released
“Im working on one of the bugs now which is the fact that my iPod is no longer mounting and neither are my DMG's but EVERYTHING works so far LOL. I am currently using pacifist to extraxt the IOUSBMassStorageClass kext from my hackint0sh leop…”
Releases & News2009-05-20
99,651 dossier reads
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released
“didn`t worked for me ... i lost everything now Intel® P45 / Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 Ghz / 4GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM / 8500GT 512Mb / 1XDVDRW, 2 x HDD SATA II / iDeneb 1.5.6 I have F'd my system many a time but figured out that you can "Arch…”
Releases & News2009-05-20
99,651 dossier reads
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released
“1) Downloaded standalone install and patched it with zephyroth AMD patcher 3.1 2) After install I rebooted into single user ( -s ) and removed the nvidia drivers (rm -Rf /System/Library/Extensions/NV* & rm -Rf /System/Library/Extensions/Ge*…”
Releases & News2009-05-16
99,651 dossier reads
Cannot play DVD's in SATA drive (nforce chipset)
“I installed the AppleNforce kext from my zephyroth 10.5.4 DVD even though it was the same version (1.0.3) and rebooted, afterwards I can now watch DVD's on both drives. I have not tried burning or anything else but at this point im pretty s…”
Leopard 10.52009-05-28
43,841 dossier reads
Installation Problems
“Have you tried "iPC" distro? You can boot with "-v" and give us some of the error message. I would also try burning the disc at 2x speed and trying agian. You may have to also modify bios settings though this was not necessary for me.”
Leopard 10.52009-05-28
4,292 dossier reads