#501 by Dispatches #453 by Author Reads #3,526 by Thread Reach Member #405 ASUS P5K / P5Q NVIDIA GeForce
@arcticsheep
InfiniteMac community contributor with 16 recorded dispatches, 6 lead technical dossiers (24,819 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 24,819 historical readers.
Dispatches
16
Ranked #501 of 6,691
Author Reads
24,819
Ranked #453 · 6 dossiers
Thread Reach
24,819
Ranked #3,526 in reach
Lead Dossiers
6
4,136 avg reads / dossier
Member Number
#405
Joined 2008-01-26
Active Window
2008
2008-01-27 → 2008-02-02
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
7600 GS (PCI-E) 256 · ASUS A8N-E · ATHLON64 X2 2.4ghz · 1gb 400mhz
Specs: · ASUS M2N-E SLi · X1650pro 512 · athlon64 x2 2.5ghz (am2)
- Archive Standing
- #501 of 6,691 by Dispatches (16 notes) · #453 of 3,454 by Author Readership (24,819 reads across 6 dossiers) · #3,526 by Thread Reach (24,819 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #405 · Joined 2008-01-26
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- ASUS P5K / P5Q (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @naquaada (4) @DoiX (2) @nfoav8or @Firewalk @zephyroth @riangeli @gogo @minibuu @WinLinMac01 @cgsheen @Puttabong @roisoft
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 2 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @arcticsheep (6)
24,819 cumulative reads on threads started by @arcticsheep
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| resolution I'm stuck on 1024x768 resolution. I'm using an X1650pro. I'll keep researching & updating Thanks all, Pete | 10.X Core | 6,016 reads 2008-01-27 · 14 notes |
| Ps/2 keyboard doesn't work Even in -s mode! it works when I enter the darwin loader boot options but after that I can't type and my numlock light is off ! this is all happening on the dvd (I'm trying to do the fdisk -e and flag the boot part stuff) Thanks (I don't… | Leopard 10.5 | 5,211 reads 2008-01-28 · 6 notes |
| Kernel panic I just installed mac on my other pc, which has ... 7600 GS (PCI-E) 256 ASUS A8N-E ATHLON64 X2 2.4ghz 1gb 400mhz I get a kernel panic if I don't -s or -x. It says something about com.apple.GeForce(5.1.6)@0x223e9000->0x2246aff and then a lot… | 10.X Core | 3,610 reads 2008-02-02 · 2 notes |
| need sound driver As some of you know from my last post, I re-installed OS X and for some reason this time everything worked fine except my sound (?), which worked flawlessly last time (when my resolution didn't work :S) I have no idea I never touched any… | 10.X Core | 3,607 reads 2008-01-30 · 4 notes |
| bootloader malfunction I just installed time machine to a local harddrive and it worked without any problems (in the beginning). So anyway, I restarted eventually and instead of getting Darwin bootloader I got a flashing underscore! I reinstalled and tried all… | 10.X Core | 3,355 reads 2008-01-30 · 8 notes |
| DNS error preventing boot whenever I try to boot from my hdd or even the install cd for osx, I get this dns error... It's like 10 lines, and it just keeps repeating itself every like 20 seconds ! What do I do?! I havent changed any hardware or bios! Help please !… | 10.X Core | 3,020 reads 2008-02-02 · 2 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (10)
Direct links into threads where @arcticsheep contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| resolution “This is really strange... At the beginning I installed Firewalk's guide and I came to this problem, I somehow managed to break my system and after a reformat I followed the guide again except now I can select any resolution and also there's…” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-30 6,016 dossier reads |
| resolution “there's no way around that? I do have drivers... i'm using (what's it called?) QE/CI, with the semi-transparent menu bar. I don't really know what VESA is but I don't think I'm using it. is VESA the default/standard graphics displaying form…” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-29 6,016 dossier reads |
| resolution “Thanks for the suggestion, naquaada Unfortunately when I tried that it locked me on 1152x864 I don't really have an idea what's going on. is it somehow locked on an aspect ratio? thanks again, peter” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-28 6,016 dossier reads |
| resolution “Ahh thank you so much DoiX ! Okay I tried that boot.plist method I put in 1680x1050x32 but when I boot it's at 1400x1050 ! (It looked a bit stretched and in preferences it said 1400) thanks again” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-27 6,016 dossier reads |
| resolution “thanks a lot people, I'm anxious to try these new methods, but I'm stuck right now Before anyone posted replies I went ahead and installed Callisto. I followed the instructions carefully but when I rebooted (oh no!) kernel panic! I tried in…” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-27 6,016 dossier reads |
| need sound driver “Hmm... just a little update: Is it possible that this guide http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=69345&st=0&p=492434&#entry492434 for installing QI / CE. I think that whatever it did to my sound driver it also did to my mouse dr…” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-30 3,607 dossier reads |
| need sound driver “Thanks for the suggestion I can't seem to find any guides for installing it (at least an english guide) Can you give me a start?” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-30 3,607 dossier reads |
| bootloader malfunction “okay I just installed using mbr and it does exactly the same thing ( blinking cursor ) ! Somebody please help” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-31 3,355 dossier reads |
| bootloader malfunction “My time machine backup was on the same hdd ! And also its the bootloader that isn't working.. Anyways I found out that my drive was guid.. How do i change it back to mbr? I have yet to find out what EDI is...” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-31 3,355 dossier reads |
| bootloader malfunction “I have no idea what guid and efi are. How do i check? Would it be possible to simply overwrite the entire disk with 0s? I heard about this dd command somewhere...” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-31 3,355 dossier reads |