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Member #120 · 2008-01-13 → 2008-03-01
#102 by Dispatches #353 by Author Reads #1,479 by Thread Reach Member #120 NVIDIA GeForce AMD OSx86 AHCI / SATA

@braindead803

InfiniteMac community contributor with 70 recorded dispatches, 6 lead technical dossiers (30,473 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 304,904 historical readers.

Dispatches 70 Ranked #102 of 6,691
Author Reads 30,473 Ranked #353 · 6 dossiers
Thread Reach 304,904 Ranked #1,479 in reach
Lead Dossiers 6 5,079 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #120 Joined 2008-01-13
Active Window 2008 2008-01-13 → 2008-03-01
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
computer:Gateway MT3422 · processor: AMD Turion 64 Mobile TK5 · Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor · MMX(+), 3DNow!(+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 · Nvidia GeForce Go 6100 · nForce 410/430 MCP · 1 gig of ram
Archive Standing
#102 of 6,691 by Dispatches (70 notes) · #353 of 3,454 by Author Readership (30,473 reads across 6 dossiers) · #1,479 by Thread Reach (304,904 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #120 · Joined 2008-01-13
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (6) · AMD OSx86 (6) · AHCI / SATA (5) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@zephyroth (8) @DoiX (7) @Puttabong (6) @1207FX (5) @naquaada (5) @megaargon1 (4) @WinLinMac01 (4) @roisoft (4) @cgsheen (4) @laxattack (3) @creative_ (3) @zuz242 (3) @Firewalk (3) @althon (2)

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
51 (73%)
10.X Core
18 (26%)
General
1 (1%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @braindead803 (6)

30,473 cumulative reads on threads started by @braindead803

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
install without efi bootloader
what would happen if i installed without efi bootloader. would the os run properly or would there be problems.
Leopard 10.59,897 reads
2008-02-29 · 9 notes
install doesn't mount or bless drive (not booting)
during the install everything goes well until about 2 minutes left when the dvd has to bless the system and mount the drive and make it bootable. it doesn't make the drive bootable or mount it. whats going on? im confused. I have tried…
Leopard 10.56,216 reads
2008-02-20 · 37 notes
i'm so freakin frustrated. what am i doing wrong
I am having problems natively running the JaS version of 10.4.8 as well as Zephyroth's 10.5.2. I install all necessary drivers and below are my system preferences. I can't do anything right i guess. i'm doing a clean install every time.…
Leopard 10.55,512 reads
2008-02-25 · 1 notes
upgrading from tiger to 10.5.2 via update
is it possible to update from tiger 10.4.8 to leopard 10.5.2 via the amd update package? or do i have to go through all the steps of installing 10.5.1 and then upgrading to 10.5.2?
Leopard 10.53,623 reads
2008-02-15 · 2 notes
pulling kexts off of the dvd
## Thread has been moved, please do NOT post into the News Category again! i have recently gotten tiger to install on one of my older computers and some of the drivers: sound, wireless, video, are not working properly. i was wondering if…
Leopard 10.52,969 reads
2008-02-24 · 3 notes
is it easier to...
install tiger 10.4.8 and then put in the 10.5.2 dvd and upgrade? rather than create a fresh install?
Leopard 10.52,256 reads
2008-02-23 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @braindead803 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“well im reinstalling now. if it doesn't work i will wipe the drive again and select no kernel so like u said will install. 9.0.0”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“ok i will install right now to see if any difference. what do i do if i get the hanging cursor again? because that is the only thing holding me back. and right when i booted the dvd again i went to disk utility and erased the harddrive and …”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“do i need to check the nvidia 10.5.2 kexts. last install i did it just left me with a hanging cursor. and the install was similar but had more drivers in stalled.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“@zephyroth i whiped the whole hdd. so i could do a clean install of leopard. so i whiped out vista. and formatted to hfs+ journaled. this is the set up i have sitting on my screen tell me if its a go or no. ToH kernel 9.2.0, AC97 Audio Driv…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“do i need to install efi with the 9.2.0 kernel. after my previous 5 installs i get the hanging _ cursor just like did with 10.5.1, what am i doing wrong. I formatted MBR. this is my install options as of sitting on my installer now: ToH ker…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“[cite] Rajmahal783:Hey THeKing hate to break this to you but you didn't have to download everything again? All you had to do is use the orignal par file zeph put up the first one, download Quick par, and with all the files all in one folder…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-18
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“@Puttabong i gotta question. i got all the recent rar files but 28+29 what happened to those? I have updated the group and everything the articles will not show 28+29 so whats up?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-17
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“so i have to compile the .rar files into an iso. or is there a .iso extracted from the rars?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-17
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“im usin grabit downloading at 448 KB/s i have downloaded parts 1-27,30-33. but rar files 28-29 don't show up when i load the group articles. whats goin on? any help would be great. i update the group as well so i don't know whatsup.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-17
74,206 dossier reads
Great News! 10.5.2 Released! 341Mb Total Size, Time For Rev. 2
“so its good to hear that the release will be coming very shortly. is there any torrent tracker that we should be looking for in specific such as the tracker ur first edition was released on (TPB)?”
10.X Core2008-02-12
37,343 dossier reads
Great News! 10.5.2 Released! 341Mb Total Size, Time For Rev. 2
“i hope this week or within the week. would be awesome!”
10.X Core2008-02-12
37,343 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“so its been uploaded for all beta testers to work wit. so a release possibly this week? or in the next few days?”
10.X Core2008-01-25
36,277 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“wow congrats on the upload and the good news on the similar ease like rc1. i can't wait”
10.X Core2008-01-25
36,277 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“JaS 10.4.8 came with a sigmatel driver im gonna boot and see if i can add it in”
10.X Core2008-01-24
36,277 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“(zephyroth) hardware difficulties are as follows: no sound (soundcard): Sigmatel Audio Driver version: 6.10.5337.0 no wireless internet (broadcom): Broadcom Wireless Network Driver version: 4.102.15.61 i need to find the kext files”
10.X Core2008-01-24
36,277 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“darn! so im gonna have to plug into the router now that sucks for me”
10.X Core2008-01-23
36,277 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“ok so how do i figure out what i have? i been trying to find out my sound card from the manufacturer website along with the wireless network driver. i think this is it (Realtek Semiconductor Realtek 8185 Extensible 802.11b/g Wireless Device…”
10.X Core2008-01-23
36,277 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“will this installer recognize wireless internet adapters and soundcards? or ?”
10.X Core2008-01-23
36,277 dossier reads
Rev.2 Beta 2 Test Reports
“so is this gonna be uploaded for open beta testing or still closed? i'd love to beta test on my gateway. specs below: computer:Gateway MT3422 processor: AMD Turion 64 Mobile TK5 Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor MMX(+), 3DNow!(+), SSE, SSE2,…”
10.X Core2008-01-23
36,277 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“we all want to mrxa. including myself. rev 1. didn't work for me so hopefully 10.5.2 rev 1 will”
Leopard 10.52008-02-13
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“what tracker, when released, should we expect to see 10.5.2 on. TPB perhaps since zephyroth released his first edition on there and its still there. ?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-12
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“oh. my bad. i got over anxious. i been trying to prepare my old desktop for mac. but its older than most computers its from 2001. so i don't even know if it compatible. which i am about to check”
Leopard 10.52008-01-22
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“on the test reports for version 2 it says (actually uploading it) does that mean good news or what does that mean?”
Leopard 10.52008-01-22
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“so any news on a release date? its the 15th already 16 more days in january.”
Leopard 10.52008-01-16
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“can't wait for revision 2. i still haven't gotten the first one to work on my amd laptop sadly, i been trying day in and day out to get it to work but i constantly have problems when adding the IONetworkingFamily.kext(don't think this is th…”
Leopard 10.52008-01-13
30,877 dossier reads
10.5.1 Rev.2 or 10.5.2 Rev.1 or 10.5.2 Rev.2 / Clarification
“[cite] megaargon:ETA: unknown, 7 hours? [cite] erei33:[cite] DoiX:Fesob, you are right "Zephyroth's AMD Leopard REV2" Woot! Do any of you guys have a general ETA? I'm so excited =D like you and everyone else. i am waiting patiently for a re…”
10.X Core2008-02-13
26,950 dossier reads
Booting from external HD, the 8600GT, and HDTV
“im going to install 10.5.1 right now hopefully it works just as easy”
10.X Core2008-01-24
16,070 dossier reads
Booting from external HD, the 8600GT, and HDTV
“hardware difficulties are as follows: no sound (soundcard): Sigmatel Audio Driver version: 6.10.5337.0 no wireless internet (broadcom): Broadcom Wireless Network Driver version: 4.102.15.61 i need to find the kext files”
10.X Core2008-01-24
16,070 dossier reads
Booting from external HD, the 8600GT, and HDTV
“can i just say WOW DID THIS REALLY HELP A LOT! installed the JaS 10.4.8 release and works perfect. comes wit all kexts necessary just to boot the system. just need to find a kext for my sound card and for my wireless internet card. if anyon…”
10.X Core2008-01-23
16,070 dossier reads
Booting from external HD, the 8600GT, and HDTV
“was this amd or intel. and does it matter for the external if you install intel or amd leopard? i was gonna try the JaS install on my external and if that works then i'm gonna use the Zephyroth install... im using a Western Digital 160 gig …”
10.X Core2008-01-23
16,070 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update for AMD only, eddie11c
“so there is no way i can update from tiger to this 10.5.2?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-15
13,226 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update for AMD only, eddie11c
“is there anyway to put this onto a bootable cd/dvd so once i install 10.5.1 i can put this into the dvd slot and boot from it and install the update? what comes with your update?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-15
13,226 dossier reads
10.5.2 Update for AMD only, eddie11c
“im downloading just to seed. since i never got 10.5.1 to work on my laptop. so im just waiting for 10.5.2 rev 1. but hopefully my upload speed helps a bit.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-15
13,226 dossier reads
Average Age
“im 19 years old turning 20 march 14. the worst years ever 19-20 because your almost 21 but u can't do the stuff of a 21 year olds likings (legally that is)”
General2008-02-04
10,834 dossier reads
install without efi bootloader
“i read that. doesn't really state if i need it or not. it just says what it is and what the benefits are.”
Leopard 10.52008-03-01
9,897 dossier reads
install without efi bootloader
“is there any way that efi affects the way that leopard is installed on the system.”
Leopard 10.52008-03-01
9,897 dossier reads
install without efi bootloader
“so what your saying is i don't need to install efi with mbr if i just make the drive bootable.?”
Leopard 10.52008-03-01
9,897 dossier reads
Network support on OSx86
“chipset is actually a broadcom wireless adapter. computer is a gateway mt3422”
Leopard 10.52008-01-24
8,023 dossier reads
Network support on OSx86
“i have a realtek wireless adapter and have no clue how to get this working. anyone have any ideas?”
Leopard 10.52008-01-23
8,023 dossier reads
where i can find Leopard 10.5.1 AMD rev2
“can't wait for rev. 2. im gonna install this over my JaS 10.4.8 install on my Western Digital 160 gig external harddrive. I would love this if it worked or detected sound card and wireless internet card.”
Leopard 10.52008-01-23
6,711 dossier reads