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Member #10,436 · 2009-08-26 → 2009-11-10
#446 by Dispatches #2,419 by Author Reads #421 by Thread Reach Member #10,436 AHCI / SATA Retail DVD / USB ASUS P5K / P5Q

@Chrisb27

InfiniteMac community contributor with 17 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (4,007 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,085,181 historical readers.

Dispatches 17 Ranked #446 of 6,691
Author Reads 4,007 Ranked #2,419 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,085,181 Ranked #421 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 4,007 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #10,436 Joined 2009-08-24
Active Window 2009 2009-08-26 → 2009-11-10
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
how to show it correctly? Mine cpu is Q6600 core 2 Quad
Archive Standing
#446 of 6,691 by Dispatches (17 notes) · #2,419 of 3,454 by Author Readership (4,007 reads across 1 dossiers) · #421 by Thread Reach (1,085,181 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #10,436 · Joined 2009-08-24
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AHCI / SATA (3) · Retail DVD / USB (3) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (3) · DSDT (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
1 (6%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Chrisb27 (1)

4,007 cumulative reads on threads started by @Chrisb27

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
AutoSleep - Poll
I was just curious what other people are running into with auto sleep. PleaseSleep worked for me but I was wondering what kind of luck other people are having with auto sleep. Scheduled sleep and wake work for me as well as regular sleep…
Snow Leopard 10.64,007 reads
2009-09-21 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (15)

Direct links into threads where @Chrisb27 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Is there any injector kext instead of editing Apple original kext ? It's not a kext just a settings file - copy it to the desktop, edit, move back to the location. Authenticate. BAM!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Last but not the least. In About this mac, my CPU shown as unknow how to show it correctly? Mine cpu is Q6600 core 2 Quad Thx Snoc posted jmico kext on #191 to show properly in system profiler. Edit AppleSystemInfo.strings that is located a…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I'm by no means and expert. I managed to get my install working by using all the information in this thread. One thing I would say, I doubt you will have much luck using other people's dsdt.aml files. I would suggest the following: 1. Gener…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“This one has all fixes you asked for - works on P5K-E Wifi/AP here. Audio fixes by lancelotu and walterav Extra USB ports and SATA ESB2 by Snoc Hey guys, can I get some advice? I'm using the kexts listed below: AD1988b.Fix.kext AHCIPortInje…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-14
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Used this installation method, hardware is in my sig - downloaded and ran the combo update, no issues with 32 bit thus far. Rebooting to check 64 bit. Edit: Good to go 64 bit as well.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-10
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Just forget the IDE jmicron controller, everything else works on this board, esata + hotswap, comports, firewire usb, all audio in and out, all 6x ich9r sata, sleep/wake etc "system updates". The only thing that makes the system instable is…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-27
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Have 10A432 used this method to perform the install to a T. I used the files included in Archive.zip, also I modified the IONetworking as described earlier. Just working with 32 bit mode, It boots fine the first time to run setup, everythin…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-26
808,277 dossier reads
No Installer Packages ..
“I had the same issue on my system. Installing FROM a running Snow Leopard 432 install and it did not have the issue. Testing another install that had the issue I manually re-installed the BSD.pkg from the install DVD image and that fixed th…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-28
129,123 dossier reads
How to Install OS X 10.6 (10A432) on P5 series mobo.
“Edit your com.apple.Boot.plist with property list editor add "Timeout" and "10" for a value, that should give you the delay to add switches. It should be in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-26
52,013 dossier reads
10.6.2 Released
“Updated to 10.6.2 on my hack with no issues at all from Software update.”
10.X Core2009-11-10
36,667 dossier reads
Snow Leopard *slow* boot
“Yeah - the BIOS wait time as well as the Darwin timeout (depending on your setup) adds alot. From the Darwin prompt it's about 30 seconds until I hit the desktop. Nice and quick.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
22,854 dossier reads
Netkas releases PC EFI V10.3
“Works good for me, using the graphics enabler and the Ethernet built in. I also had to drop the -pci0 in my boot plist.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-22
14,056 dossier reads
Can't get to 32-bit mode
“Information: arch=i386 -legacy : Boots into 32 Bit Kernel Mode AND! 32 Bit App only arch=i386 : Boots into 32 Bit Kernel Mode , 64 BIT Apps can run also So normally use NOT the -legacy ! If I recall arch=i386 wont' work with Chameleon 2 RC3”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-29
13,944 dossier reads
Snow Leopard driving me crazy
“Are you installing on the IDE drive? I had that issue while trying to test it out on an old IDE drive. I would up just making a CCC image of my 10.5.8 install on my 1 TB Sata drive and nuking it. Installed SL on the SATA drive and have had …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
4,240 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Awesome thanks! - It's been so long since I've seen that episode, completely forgot about it.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-27
808,277 dossier reads