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Member #22,113 · 2010-01-15 → 2010-02-19
#952 by Dispatches #1,687 by Author Reads #994 by Thread Reach Member #22,113 NVIDIA GeForce AHCI / SATA Chameleon / Boot-132

@benualson

InfiniteMac community contributor with 8 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (6,188 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 569,038 historical readers.

Dispatches 8 Ranked #952 of 6,691
Author Reads 6,188 Ranked #1,687 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 569,038 Ranked #994 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 6,188 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #22,113 Joined 2010-01-15
Active Window 2010 2010-01-15 → 2010-02-19
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
EVGA x58 SLI
i7 920 @ 3.8GHz
CoolerMaster V8
OCZ Reaper/XMP 9GB Combo (8-8-8-24)
EVGA GTX 260 SC
EVGA GTS 250 (dedicated physX)
WD Caviar 500GB x2
Windows 7 64-bit PRO (MSDNAA)
Rosewill 750watt
Archive Standing
#952 of 6,691 by Dispatches (8 notes) · #1,687 of 3,454 by Author Readership (6,188 reads across 1 dossiers) · #994 by Thread Reach (569,038 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #22,113 · Joined 2010-01-15
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (3) · AHCI / SATA (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @benualson (1)

6,188 cumulative reads on threads started by @benualson

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
iatkos v7 on evga x58 help
This is my first post...looked through the forums & find it necessary to make a new thread! Alright, so i followed this guide to install on iatkos v7 on my build: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=206434 It worked great…
Leopard 10.56,188 reads
2010-01-15 · 7 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (7)

Direct links into threads where @benualson contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Hrmm… Now it doesn't even detect my windows Hard Drive...anyone know what might be going wrong? Neither chameleon nor my bios show the hard drive… Thanks, Ben Problem fixed, was a hardware issue...I had bent sata power wires some how...just…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-19
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Thank you all for this wonderful information, I am now running SL with no problems... One thing: When I try to boot to my Windows 7 drive...i get a Blue Screen, and I know it is because of the AHCI setting for the hard drives…any suggestion…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-27
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Thank you all for this wonderful information, I am now running SL with no problems... One thing: When I try to boot to my Windows 7 drive...i get a Blue Screen, and I know it is because of the AHCI setting for the hard drives…any suggestion…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-27
491,666 dossier reads
(SOLVED) Snow Leopard GTX 260
“I tried to link to the zip download for the efi strings...but it says page is broken… anyone have a good GTX 260 efi string? Ben”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-23
71,184 dossier reads
iatkos v7 on evga x58 help
“A little more detail...I run the enabler, then the driver...and when it tries to boot: It goes to the gray apple loading screen, freezes for a few moments...then black...then a blue background...then a black background w/ mouse…nothing afte…”
Leopard 10.52010-01-23
6,188 dossier reads
iatkos v7 on evga x58 help
“I have done a bunch of research on my GPU…but cannot get it to boot with a driver...maybe I need to take out my gts250? Any suggestions... Thanks for your responses”
Leopard 10.52010-01-22
6,188 dossier reads
iatkos v7 on evga x58 help
“well...i re-installed with no graphics option...and it loads perfectly...how do you suggest I get drivers/files for my video card? Thanks, Ben”
Leopard 10.52010-01-22
6,188 dossier reads