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Member #9,921 · 2009-08-18 → 2009-08-19
#1,442 by Dispatches #1,996 by Thread Reach Member #9,921 DSDT Chameleon / Boot-132 Voodoo / XNU Kernel

@elfdood

InfiniteMac community contributor with 5 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 125,997 historical readers.

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Member Number #9,921 Joined 2009-08-18
Active Window 2009 2009-08-18 → 2009-08-19
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
I am using a ASROCK 945GCM-S and I was getting a KP with my IDE confogurtion set to Enhanced, I changed it to Compatible and now it works fine.
Archive Standing
#1,442 of 6,691 by Dispatches (5 notes) · #1,996 by Thread Reach (125,997 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #9,921 · Joined 2009-08-18
Hardware & Kernel Topics
DSDT (3) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · AHCI / SATA (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (5)

Direct links into threads where @elfdood contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
appleintelpiixata ioata panic
“try changing from ACHI mode to a "compatible" mode if one exists in your bios.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-19
98,760 dossier reads
Who succeeded in installing 10a432 without AHCI Mode
“I Only have one sata drive m8, so I cannot test the lost of the secondary ports”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-19
27,237 dossier reads
Who succeeded in installing 10a432 without AHCI Mode
“I am using a modded bios (1.10) from here: osxcores.sit e50.net/ that solved my boot hanging. (I do not need a dsdt.AML for Leopard, but it seems I do for Snow Leopard) Switching to compatible mode gives me both SATA and IDE in both Snow Le…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-19
27,237 dossier reads
Who succeeded in installing 10a432 without AHCI Mode
“I am using: Extra/Extensions: dsmos.kext (Netkas), openhaltrestart.kext, SleepEnabler.kext (insanelymac), intelcpupmdisabler.kext and appleintelPIIXATA.kext (Netkas) System/Library/Extensions: VoodooHDA and VoodooPS2. and a DSDT.aml I built…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-19
27,237 dossier reads
Who succeeded in installing 10a432 without AHCI Mode
“I am using P5K, 8600gt, e6750, and I used 10a222 with SATA Mode - Enhanced about 6 months age. After I Installed 10a432 and when I booted, I always saw the following error message. ------------ Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.132 - Chameleon v1.0.12 B…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-18
27,237 dossier reads