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Member #3,998 · 2008-12-28 → 2009-03-10
#944 by Dispatches #1,077 by Author Reads #513 by Thread Reach Member #3,998 AMD OSx86 Voodoo / XNU Kernel NVIDIA GeForce

@Artcool

InfiniteMac community contributor with 8 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (10,597 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 986,642 historical readers.

Dispatches 8 Ranked #944 of 6,691
Author Reads 10,597 Ranked #1,077 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 986,642 Ranked #513 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 3,532 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #3,998 Joined 2008-12-28
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-12-28 → 2009-03-10
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Motherboard ABIT I-N73HD (chipset GeForce7100/nForce630i) , CPU Pentium D 3.2 , 2 Gb RAM, SATA HD , SATA DVD-RW, ASUS (nVidia) EN8400GS , Onboard LAN
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Motherboard FIC VC-11 (chipset Intel 845 / ICH2) , Pentium 4 1.8 , 512 RAM , PATA HD and PATA DVD-RW (both Primary and Secondary Masters) , nVidia GeForce 6200-256 Mb, onboard LAN
Archive Standing
#944 of 6,691 by Dispatches (8 notes) · #1,077 of 3,454 by Author Readership (10,597 reads across 3 dossiers) · #513 by Thread Reach (986,642 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #3,998 · Joined 2008-12-28
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (2) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
7 (88%)
10.X Core
1 (12%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Artcool (3)

10,597 cumulative reads on threads started by @Artcool

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
little
i just upgraded from 10.5.2 kalyway to 10.5.6 (using Netkas method), and all went fine... after this i installed a nVidia EN8400GS (NVInstaller 41) , after some minor things i got the graphics working (change resolution and better…
Leopard 10.54,856 reads
2009-01-21 · 4 notes
Some help on optimizing boot times and upgrade
i have my system running ok (kaly 10.5.2), but i'm having a long boot time (the boot pauses for about 40 seconds in the IOKITwait), is there anything i can do to solve this? Besides this i have a relative good Xbench (about 85.75) output ,…
Leopard 10.53,219 reads
2008-12-28 · 4 notes
boot failed
yesterday i format one of my only disk partition (was in fat 32) to Mac OS Journaled . This disk have 3 partitions (one is OSX boot with leopard 10.5.6, working ; the 2nd and 3rd were in NTFS), well...i decided Erase and format one of this…
Leopard 10.52,522 reads
2009-01-23 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (5)

Direct links into threads where @Artcool contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“just to make shure… you're on AMD...are you aware that you must choose Voodoo kernel when in AMD or SSE2 systems? And in this case you must choose too Seatbelt 9.5 ...”
10.X Core2009-03-04
965,272 dossier reads
OSx86 install works, fails back to BIOS during boot
“i had a similar problem, with iPC 10.5.6 in a P IV (SSE2) FIC VC-11 motherboard, just hanged in the "Using xxxx buffer headers and xxxx cluster IO buffer headers"... it turned out it was a ACPI problem, which i solved choosing the ACPI_fix …”
Leopard 10.52009-03-10
10,773 dossier reads
Some help on optimizing boot times and upgrade
“many thanks for your reply and help, i will try this approach as soon as i get home today! Happy 2009 to everyone! : EDIT. just did the IOATAFamily.kext install, and its solved! now i have 35 seconds from pressing the power button to Deskto…”
Leopard 10.52008-12-29
3,219 dossier reads
Some help on optimizing boot times and upgrade
“i made a signature with my specs, but it just wont become attached , anyway here they are : Motherboard ABIT I-N73HD (chipset GeForce7100/nForce630i) , CPU Pentium D 3.2 , 2 Gb RAM, SATA HD , SATA DVD-RW, video onboard , Realtek LAN (PCI)”
Leopard 10.52008-12-28
3,219 dossier reads
little
“Thank you erick2red and Ianxxx , i will try the applesmbios tip when get home today... :”
Leopard 10.52009-01-21
4,856 dossier reads