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Member #12,847 · 2009-09-15
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@christopherl

InfiniteMac community contributor with 7 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 361,892 historical readers.

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Member Number #12,847 Joined 2009-09-14
Active Window 2009 2009-09-15
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#1,068 of 6,691 by Dispatches (7 notes) · #1,378 by Thread Reach (361,892 cumulative reads)
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Member #12,847 · Joined 2009-09-14
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1) · AHCI / SATA (1)
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (6)

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Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Retail MSI X58 Platinum SLI + Pictures 64 BIT
“Ah, just the speed is off. Things seem to be running great now, better than ever, thanks so much for the guide! How were you able to get your audio up and running?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
361,892 dossier reads
Retail MSI X58 Platinum SLI + Pictures 64 BIT
“Latest update: After figuring out how to use OSX86Tools to update the EFI strings for 9800 GTX+, I checked the Hardware Overview and noticed this: Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro2,1 Processor Speed: 2.71 GHz Number Of Processor…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
361,892 dossier reads
Retail MSI X58 Platinum SLI + Pictures 64 BIT
“Fantastic news! I just tried removing the JMicronATA kext and I'm able to boot into Snow Leopard, which is where I'm writing this post from. Things are running a bit slow, but I think that's because I haven't configured the graphics card (9…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
361,892 dossier reads
Retail MSI X58 Platinum SLI + Pictures 64 BIT
“Received all of those during boot, the last was trying with -x. BIOS settings are: HPET enabled, AHCI, Bit Execute disabled, Hyperthreading Enabled”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
361,892 dossier reads
Retail MSI X58 Platinum SLI + Pictures 64 BIT
“Just tried with -x32 -v busratio=20 cpus=1 and I received this: JMicronATA: JMB363 (CMD 0xcc00, CTR 0xc880, IRQ 17, BM 0xc400) panic(cpu0 called 0xffffff80002cbf74): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f80776ae1, type 14=page fault, registers: [...] Er…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
361,892 dossier reads
Retail MSI X58 Platinum SLI + Pictures 64 BIT
“After having a bit of trouble initially from having the dmg on the same partition as the active running Leopard install I'm stuck after it installed successfully. I installed Chameleon and am now not able to get that install to successfully…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-15
361,892 dossier reads