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Member #23,133 · 2010-01-30 → 2010-02-26
#834 by Dispatches #170 by Thread Reach Member #23,133 Gigabyte G31M / P35 DSDT Retail DVD / USB

@bgreen

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Member Number #23,133 Joined 2010-01-30
Active Window 2010 2010-01-30 → 2010-02-26
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L · intel core 2 Duo 6700 2.8 · ASUS 8400GS 512M DDR2 Graphics card · SATA DVD writer · 2gb Ram · 1 TB SATA Hard Drive Gigabyte G31M-ES2L · intel core 2 Duo 6700 2.8 · ASUS 8400GS 512M DDR2 Graphics card · SATA DVD writer · 2gb Ram · 1 TB SATA Hard Drive · USB Sound device (Generic) · Ethernet PCI card
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#834 of 6,691 by Dispatches (9 notes) · #170 by Thread Reach (1,741,402 cumulative reads)
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Member #23,133 · Joined 2010-01-30
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Gigabyte G31M / P35 (4) · DSDT (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2)
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (9)

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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I followed this guide, and successfully installed Snow Leopard on my machine. I'm using the mobo from the guide: Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L rev. 2. I reinstalled 10.6, using the same method and thumb drive, but now when I hit f12 to boot into th…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-26
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Does this need to be a complete install? I have burned EmpireEFI_V108.iso to a CD, but can not get it to load even with above instructions. While boot via optical drive shows briefly it then goes to default drive and loads Mac OS. I can not…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-19
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Bruce - do you have any additional storage/drives attached? What are your BIOS settings for boot order? Hi Thanks for the reply. No additional storage devices attached. Boot order is: First boot device CDROM Second device Hard Disk Third Di…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-06
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“When i try to boot following your instructions with Empire, after boot i get verifying DMI pool data… Boot from CD/DVD : \with flashing cursor. As though awaiting input but no response to any key stokes. No input appears possible. Any thoug…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-06
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“when loading, it asks you to click any key on your keyboard to boot from cd... then there will be a 10-20 second delay, before a menu type thing appears on the screen.. you can not even get to that point? Hi No, i am not sure what has happe…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-04
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Does this need to be a complete install? I have burned EmpireEFI_V108.iso to a CD, but can not get it to load even with above instructions. While boot via optical drive shows briefly it then goes to default drive and loads Mac OS. I can not…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-31
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Thanks for the quick response... my mobo is also ver 2. That looks a very straight forward process. Any parts of the process that are not soo easy? So you are suggesting i completely start from the beginning again? Also where do i locate Em…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-31
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I am here to share my success . First of all , thanks to sk1nhd33t and flux84 Yesterday i decided to reinstall the whole things because i couldn't shutdown/restart. I follow every step except dsdt and audio fixed because i couldnn't find "D…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-30
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“And thanks for the great guide. I followed the guide easily until i got to the part of the guide DSDT quick guide: Then i am not sure quite what happened. I would suggest if its possible that some more clarification could go into this part …”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-30
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