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Member #15,796 · 2009-10-16 → 2009-11-08
#912 by Dispatches #555 by Author Reads #3,693 by Thread Reach Member #15,796 Voodoo / XNU Kernel NVIDIA GeForce DSDT

@bzotter

InfiniteMac community contributor with 9 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (20,413 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 20,413 historical readers.

Dispatches 9 Ranked #912 of 6,691
Author Reads 20,413 Ranked #555 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 20,413 Ranked #3,693 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 6,804 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #15,796 Joined 2009-10-16
Active Window 2009 2009-10-16 → 2009-11-08
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
HP Pavillion Elite e9150t · mobo=pagatron truckee 1.04 · processor=intel core i7 920 · video card=nvidia GeForce GTS 250 · Intel 82567V-2 Gigabit Network Adapter
Archive Standing
#912 of 6,691 by Dispatches (9 notes) · #555 of 3,454 by Author Readership (20,413 reads across 3 dossiers) · #3,693 by Thread Reach (20,413 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #15,796 · Joined 2009-10-16
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Voodoo / XNU Kernel (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · DSDT (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@Imkantus (5) @MonkeyDLuffy @razy60 @DemoNMorph

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
8 (89%)
10.X Core
1 (11%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @bzotter (3)

20,413 cumulative reads on threads started by @bzotter

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Psystar Rebel EFI: The Magical Cure for Hackintosh Problems
Has anyone heard of this/know if it works? The link was on gizmodo today: giz modo.com/5387915/psystars-50-software-lets-you-put-snow-leopard-on-a-non+hacked-pc Since iatkos and ideneb didn't work for my hp pavillion elite, this might be a…
Leopard 10.58,395 reads
2009-10-23 · 4 notes
Boot Failure (with iAtkos 5i on HP Pavillion Elite e9150t - Core i7)
Here's the rundown: Installed iAtkos v5i successfully on a big partition on my hard drive. made windows partition active. booted into vista and added mac osx using to the bootloader using easyBCD. restarted, selected mac osx and it just…
Leopard 10.57,829 reads
2009-10-16 · 10 notes
Some kext help...
I just installed snow leopard on my hp pavillion elite e9600t using the Empire EFI installer, which worked great by the way. I followed a guide and got my nvidia gts 250 video card working, but i'm having trouble getting the gigabit…
10.X Core4,189 reads
2009-11-08 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (6)

Direct links into threads where @bzotter contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Boot Failure (with iAtkos 5i on HP Pavillion Elite e9150t - Core i7)
“Yeah...CPU isn't overclocked so i dunno. The clock options arent even available in my bios settings. I might give ideneb a try i guess unless anyone has any other ideas? Thanks again”
Leopard 10.52009-10-22
7,829 dossier reads
Boot Failure (with iAtkos 5i on HP Pavillion Elite e9150t - Core i7)
“Well, gave it a try with the voodoo kernel option checked in iAtkos 5i (there were several, I just chose the one that looked like the most general option), and it now gets a little farther in the boot process. I have to enter in verbose mod…”
Leopard 10.52009-10-21
7,829 dossier reads
Boot Failure (with iAtkos 5i on HP Pavillion Elite e9150t - Core i7)
“Well go to Customaziation on iAtkos 5i Setup and browse for "9.5.0 Kernel voodoo" select it & install with it. You might not gonna need a patched Kernel any longer once you updated to a higher version or after creating patched DSDT - but I …”
Leopard 10.52009-10-19
7,829 dossier reads
Boot Failure (with iAtkos 5i on HP Pavillion Elite e9150t - Core i7)
“Did you gave the Voodoo Kernel a try, yet? Can you please elaborate a little on what exactly that is and how to go about using it? Thanks.”
Leopard 10.52009-10-19
7,829 dossier reads
Psystar Rebel EFI: The Magical Cure for Hackintosh Problems
“so no one's heard of this/tried this at all?”
Leopard 10.52009-10-24
8,395 dossier reads
Boot Failure (with iAtkos 5i on HP Pavillion Elite e9150t - Core i7)
“no one has any ideas?”
Leopard 10.52009-10-18
7,829 dossier reads