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@dustintinsley
InfiniteMac community contributor with 13 recorded dispatches, 5 lead technical dossiers (19,103 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,760,505 historical readers.
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Joined 2009-08-29
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2009–2010
2009-08-29 → 2010-05-31
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- #578 of 6,691 by Dispatches (13 notes) · #579 of 3,454 by Author Readership (19,103 reads across 5 dossiers) · #149 by Thread Reach (1,760,505 cumulative reads)
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- Member #10,923 · Joined 2009-08-29
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- Chameleon / Boot-132 (4) · NVIDIA GeForce (4) · DSDT (2) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (2) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 2 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @dustintinsley (5)
19,103 cumulative reads on threads started by @dustintinsley
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| How to replace Leopard with Snow leopard I am currently running Leopard 10.5.8. I am going to install SL and by all the guides, I see it is best to install to a new HD. As I only have 1 internal HD, I plan on installing to and external HD, if possible. What I would like to do at… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 4,525 reads 2009-08-30 · 2 notes |
| Screen mis-sized.. Help I have a system with a G31M-ES2L m/b and using a Asus 9400GT video card. I was using 10.6.2 with no issues. Well, when 10.6.3 came out, I updated and ever since have had this issue that I can't seem to fix. The screen is correctly sized… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 4,426 reads 2010-05-31 · 2 notes |
| Toshiba a505. Will SL work So I ran into a great deal for this laptop, but would like to know if I could install SL on it before I pick it up. Here are the specs: Energy Star®, EPEAT® Gold compliant Intel Core i3-330M Processor 2.13GHz 3MB L3 cache 4GB DDR3 (max.… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 3,567 reads 2010-02-05 · 1 notes |
| Install freezes at main screen... I am following this guide: here with no success. I get to the main wallpaper screen with the colorful spinner, but after about 5-10 seconds the spinner freezes and nothing after that. I have KPs are anything, so I am unsure what could be… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 3,399 reads 2009-12-10 · 1 notes |
| 10.6.3 display issues I just update to 10.6.3 and was having issues of my display being "oversized". By this I mean that the sides and top/bottom are off the screen causing me to not even be able to see my menu bar at the top and cutting off some of the dock. I… | 10.X Core | 3,186 reads 2010-04-02 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (8)
Direct links into threads where @dustintinsley contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “I just update to 10.6.3 and was having issues of my display being "oversized". By this I mean that the sides and top/bottom are off the screen causing me to not even be able to see my menu bar at the top and cutting off some of the dock. I …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-02 1,741,402 dossier reads |
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “I'm having the same problem, even after installing tonymac's kext. Not sure what else to try Same here. No audio for me either...” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-01 1,741,402 dossier reads |
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “I have the Asus EN9400GT card and also get the message it's not recognised, however it works perfectly well. You don't state what you have done and where the problem occurs, is this during boot, install or after installation. The more infor…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-12 1,741,402 dossier reads |
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “I am following this guide with no success. I get to the main wallpaper screen with the colorful spinner, but after about 5-10 seconds the spinner freezes and nothing after that. I have KPs are anything, so I am unsure what could be the caus…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-11 1,741,402 dossier reads |
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “I am having issues getting this guide to work for me. i have the usb disk setup correctly. i have my com.apple.Boot.plist setup per the guide, minus the GraphicsMode as I am unsure what it needs to be set too. My video card is a ASUS EN9400…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-14 1,741,402 dossier reads |
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “I am trying this new method, but can not get the installer to fully load. i get no kp, but all i get is a blank screen. i am wondering if this is to do with my video card? i am following your directions exactly, but nothing. i have a nvidia…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-11-14 1,741,402 dossier reads |
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “well, i finally got this installed, but i can not get sound working. to get this to install i used chameleon rc1, installing it on an efi hfs partition. so my extra folders is located on a seperate partition which i can setuop to view via /…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-09-02 1,741,402 dossier reads |
| Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L “i have this same mobo, but i do not have 2 internal hd's. i have an external hd i would like to use to do the install, but would like to also install 10.6 on my internal hd that currently is running 10.5.8. how can i install 10.6 over my 10…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-08-29 1,741,402 dossier reads |