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Member #11,331 · 2009-09-02 → 2010-06-17
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@BlaSTiWi

InfiniteMac community contributor with 18 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 2,411,300 historical readers.

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Member Number #11,331 Joined 2009-09-01
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-09-02 → 2010-06-17
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#404 of 6,691 by Dispatches (18 notes) · #61 by Thread Reach (2,411,300 cumulative reads)
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Member #11,331 · Joined 2009-09-01
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Chameleon / Boot-132 (4) · NVIDIA GeForce (3) · DSDT (3) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (2) · Retail DVD / USB (1) · ALC889a / Audio (1)
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (18)

Direct links into threads where @BlaSTiWi contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Where did you get your DSDT file? Just wonderin' 'cuz the size of my DSDT is 16K (from the OP zip on the 1st pg) and your DSDT in the zip you provided is 20K ... I wonder what's the diff. in it. Tkx! Here's everything I have, thought it'd b…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-06-17
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Tkx! What's L1 & L2 stuff? Which particular one to use? In case someone missed out, there is a kext to enable onboard ethernet with the ar8131 chipset. Ethernet is working great on my ES2L v2 with 10.6.3 but sound is a biiiig problem. Look …”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-06-14
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“What audio kext are you using? I seems to lost only audio while the rest seems to be good ... no more output listed in audio pref. ... Try using the NVEnabler kext. Flawless upgrade to 10.6.3. DVI to HDMI fully working.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-31
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“What video card are you using? I seems to recall some issue w/ nVidia 7xxx series on 10.6.2 if you have another video card try to swap it out to see if its any better ... GL! Hi, As you may see, I'm new to the hackintosh scene. I updated to…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-15
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Try using http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=140647 How!? How does one rebuild the kext cache?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-03
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Try this RTL8139 works in 64bit ... it works great w/ me ... Anybody tried adding an additional Ethernet NIC card? I added a Realtek 8139D which should run natively in OSX but for some reason, it does not show up in Snow. Could this be caus…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-18
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Is it safe to update? Anybody update to 10.6.2 yet?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-10
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Great! Quick Q ... does the myHack installer put stuff into EFI partition? Tkx! guide updated again to base an RC3+PCEFI 10.3 install and updated kext.. made a short guide too in creating your own DSDT using DSDT-SE.. credits to all who fou…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-11
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“My thought exactly ... have you try to choose the non-menu bar option (floating window) then go to preferences-> accounts and you'll have the option to see what app that auto-run when login automatically and make hidden? That way it'll be m…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-25
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“@sk1nhd33t I think I'm using RC2 w/ your original 10.1 then upgrade to 10.3 ... I'll try your link to chk for QE/CI support AFAIK some people said if Chess, Front Row & DVD works then more than likely QE/CI in use and I got them to work. Ye…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-23
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“@sk1nhd33t I'm a bit confuse ... I thought swappin' the "boot" file is basically switchin' the binary ... If I recall correctly I'm using RC2 as the base install since it's the only one that has ability to use EFI partition while the RC3 ha…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-23
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“@sk1nhd33t I started to use the Netkas 10.3 EFI & also the newest fakesmc kext everything working as before but my system profile didn't show like yours ... my PCI list is empty ... and I have to switch back to use EFI string for my nVidia …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-22
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Turned out it seems to be related to Leopard 10.5.8 I'm using (dunno why) ... When I did it w/ Leopard 10.5.7 (AiTKOS v7 based) all went thru fine w/ all RC1, 2 or 3. As i said in my post chameleon wouldn't install, this is what happened. D…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-14
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Another question ... I got SL to install on another SATA HD, then when I bring back Leopard to install Chameleon the installer stuck at "Installing Core (writing package receipt)" screen & never complete ... the only way out is to force qui…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Ahhh OK ... Tkx Voyn1x! I actually based my Leopard on your guide ... Didn't know I can do the same w/ SL w/ minor adjustment. Tkx so much to all who took time & created the great guides! You replace the contents. The EFI partition method i…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Quick question ... not very clear o the OP guide ... do we replace or merge the content of "Extensions" folder created by Chameleon with the OP pkg on both the USB install & the main SL HD? Also, how do we do this using the hidden EFI way? …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
1,741,402 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“I got "Invalid Argument" error when I tried to execute the EFI-Partition-Mounter script ... help ... seems that I'm missing something in mount_hfs command line but not sure what ... tkx!”
10.X Core2009-09-02
669,898 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Anybody try PC EFI v10.4.1 yet?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-20
1,741,402 dossier reads