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I wanted to do incremental backups of my system drive, but every time I try to configure TimeMachine to use a drive for backup I get this error message: "Time Machine could not be configured. The built-in network interface could not be…

Well I finally got this distro to load. I could not burn the image because of my junky old burner, so I used an old trick from my Windows 98 days. I created a small partition on my new drive and used disk utilities to restore the image to…

Hi guys, I finally enabled QE/CI on my X1650 Pro. I need some advice as to how to smoothen out my DVD playback, it is a bit choppy. Thanks Display: Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 512 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x71c1 Revision…

I am having some problems with installing the 10.4.11 update for Tiger. I downloaded the update from Apple for Intel and I followed all of the instructions posted on the thread " [HOW TO] Seamless upgrade from 10.4.x to 10.4.11 + Security…

Having some issues loading Leopard on my Pavilion ZV5000. Has anyone had any success in loading Leopard on this lappy? And of course I will do my research as expected.

Got a strange issue with my DVD/RW…the system sees it, but when I insert a disk to either burn or an audio cd to play in iTunes, iTunes hangs or if I am using Toast Titanium the disk will not burn..here is what is shown in system profiler…

I downloaded NVinject 0.1.5 for Tiger 10.4.x and made sure I had all of the requisite kexts before installing. I made sure all permissions were set correctly, rebooted with -F and once it reached the gray screen it locked up. I rebooted…

got Leo to load on my old N610c using the IPC distro. Everything works, but alas the QE/CI does not work on the 7500. I have read posts till my eyes bled to see if anyone got it to work, but to no avail. I need to at least get the full…

Hey gang! Thanks for all the help in getting my system working just the way I want it;) Now the only issue I seem to be having is with my sound. As you know I have Tiger version 10.4.9 installed on my P4P800-E Deluxe board and everything…

Hi, I would like to know if I can upgrade my Tiger 10.4.11 install with the Leopard upgrade dvd? I am not sure if this is possible, but I figured it may save me allot of headaches in the long run if I can. The disk is readily available (…

I am having a bit of trouble getting into the bios of my zv5000. Some knuckle head at a repair shop thought it was a good idea to change the admin password to access the system bios. I have been trying for weeks to install OSX on this baby…

Thanks to a post on I found on another site, I have successfully installed this distro on my Compaq N610C, so I thought I would share my experience with all of you who happen to have one of these work horses laying around. The system runs…

I would like to clone my existing install of OS X to a larger hard drive. I am going to be using CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) and was wondering if any members here have used this product to clone their installations? Also is it possible to…

Each time i startup i get "sleepimage has garbage" , "hibernate failed" thus meaning that if i try and hibernate and close my laptop lid, when i restart (press power button) it starts but all i get is a black screen. Any ways to solve this?

Okay tried to upgrade to Leo from Tiger using this distro. I have tried several times to figure out what it is, but not enough information on the net to give me the answer I am looking for. When I boot from the DVD I end up every single…

yeah I know it has been a few months, but I have been busy with school and work...lol Anyway I purchased an Acer all-in one and I am looking to install Snow Leopard on it, Everest Enterprise does not recognize most of the specs of my…

I am having a little problem with my X1650 Pro. I installed modbin's fix and I now have full resolution capability, but I cannot get QE/CI or rotation. The biggest issue I am having is not knowing how to use 0xED to edit the hex files that…

Okay gents, time to move on to Leo now that I have Tiger purring like a kitten. I need a challenge, so I decided to see if I could get Leo to run as well as Tiger does on this box (specs in my sig). Now the big question is which distro…

I am currently running 10.4.6 Tiger on my Intel box and was wanting to upgrade to Leopard, but needed some advice as to weather I should do all of the updates for Tiger first or can I just simply upgrade from this point? The system is…

“Okay I can boot from my flash drive using Chameleon, but once it loads I cannot see my internal hard drive? Any ideas as to why this is happening?”

“I'm running retail on a C2D. Most Gigabyte Intel based boards are pretty compatible, the best advice I can give you is to find a mobo that looks good and fits your budget, then search here and insanelymac for other peoples experiences using…”

“Has anyone managed to install a retail copy of Leopard on a Intel system using a dual core CPU right out of the box ? I know it sounds absurd, but I had to ask..I haven't seen any threads stating otherwise. I am getting ready to build a new…”

“I am currently downloading XxX_x86_10.5.6_install_Disc_Universal_Final…is this the correct distro? I am looking forward to giving Leo a whirl. My wife will not use any other file sharing entity other than RapidShare (she has cable and I am …”

“Logitech Cordless TrackMan Wheel...been using one of these since they came out. Would not part with it for any other product.”

“Results 48.15 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.4.11 (8S2167) Physical RAM 3072 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type ST340015A CPU Test 75.76 GCD Loop 126.99 6.69 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 86.35 2.05 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 48.07 1.59…”

“LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! I prepared everything like the GUIDE and download an start the delta update. When he finished he startet automaticly and boot without any steps of the guide! i dont understand this but leopard was booting. very nice Tha…”

“These are the steps I followed to update my installation to 10.5.7, I have no use for 10.5.8 because there is really nothing worth updating for in that version. Anyway this worked for me, so maybe it will work for you as well. Credit goes t…”

“Hmmm...well I spoke to soon, the system became unresponsive after just 2.5 Gigs of the backup completed. Not sure what caused the system to lock up, but I am checking my crash logs to see if there is anything useful in there to lead me to a…”

“Okay that seemed to work..system is backing up as I type. Will not be totally convinced until I need to recover from some sort of catastrophe, but in the mean time I do feel a bit more confident. To bad this trick does not work for my video…”

“Yes I am using PC_Efi v9, so you are correct that it does not utilize the extra folder. Okay I will do a backup of my boot.plist and allow the program to modify my boot.plist file. Wish me luck, this should be interesting. Thanks again Imka…”

“Hmmm…I was looking in my root and found no folder called "extra", so now I have an issue as to where I am going to plug in this newly created boot.plist. I am afraid if I modify the one that is already present I may botch the entire install…”

“Oh man I read some of the posts on this subject and in order to fix my issue I have to do some things that I am way not qualified to do. There has to be an easier way to do incremental updates, maybe with a third party software application?…”

“Okay will give that a whirl and see what comes of it. Sure would like to get this working, just in case. Will post my results as soon as I get it sorted. Thanks ariadri !”

“I would rate mine a 9/10. Simply because I can't get QE/CI or rotation enabled on my X1650 Pro. I finally updated my 10.4.6 which was very problematic to say the least. I am now a proud owner of a 99% fully functional 10.4.11 system. I am n…”

“Worked like a charm my friend..thanks. Now could this have been the problem when I tried to boot with the voodoo kernel? Wasn't I supposed to have removed the " .voodoo " from mach_kernel.voodoo in the plist file before I tried to boot from…”

“com.apple.boot.plist looked like this when I opened it: Kernel mach_kernel.voodoo Kernel Flags Boot Graphics Yes Quiet Boot No Timeout 5 lol...maybe this could be the problem? Not sure how this happened but I am going to see if I can fix it…”

“Well I entered the syntax correctly in terminal and the name was changed back to mach_kernel, but when I rebooted the system still would not boot from Darwin, just hung at the boot prompt. I typed in /mach_kernel and it booted normally. Odd…”

“One other question if I may. I renamed my kernel "working_kernel" just before I upgraded to 10.5.7 and now I want to be able to boot normally without having to type in working_kernel at the Darwin boot prompt. Can I rename it back to it's o…”

“The two files a replacements for those, stored in /System/Library/SystemProfiler Oh, okay, done. Thanks again!”

“Okay installed the fix for finder, but the other fix I am not sure what I am supposed to do with it, there are no instructions on how or where to install it. "about this Mac " reports my CPU and Ram correctly now, thank you, but I still hav…”

“Imkantus to the rescue again! Thanks for the quick response m8 and the files. Will post the results when I get off of work tonight. Again thanks so much for your help!”

“I do have one other quick question if I may. Ever since I upgraded to 10.5.7 my CPU rating is not listed in "about this mac" correctly. Is there a reason for this or better yet a fix? When clicking on " hardware " in " about this mac " I ge…”

“Okay copied the modified video kexts from my 10.5.5 installation into my new 10.5.7 installation and bingo I now have full resolution capabilities. Guess the only thing left to do now is to browse for a new video card for this old bird and …”

“That did the trick. Mounted the 10.5.7 dmg and I am updating now. Will let you know if it works. Thanks again! ***UPDATE*** Updated to 10.5.7 ! Great work and thank you. The only issue I can see is that I lost the ability to change my video…”

“Thanks...I am still using the 10.5.5 seatbelt kext and updated to 10.5.6 without any major problems, but for some reason if I try to mount the 10.5.7 dmg I get the panic. Will try it again with the 10.5.4 seatbelt kext and see if that chang…”

“Yep working on that now...I do believe I read about that before and thanks for the reminder. I replaced the seatbelt.kext file from my working 10.5.5 installation and plugged it into my backup that I am updating. Had to remove the atiinject…”

“Oh and before I forget, would someone please give me some advice on a replacement video card for my system that is supported natively in leopard. I am tired of crashing my system with all these fixes out there that don't work or partially e…”

“Okay, now that I have acquired the Stage kernel I am going to replace the 9.2 kernel on my cloned installation. Now do I just use the installer you created or do I have to use any special tools, like OSX Tools or something similar? I use Ke…”

“Thanks a bunch for your help Imkantus. I will see if I can do a backup image of my working install and try the new kernel on that..if it works and updates I will do the same on the original. I will have a look at the fixes for my X1650 and …”

“Followed your steps and the installation failed..did not even make it through the update..failed before the update loaded completely. Not sure why but I am going to give it another go with another Kernel..maybe the 9.5 kernel you suggested.…”

“Thanks for the tutorial...saves me a bunch of time searching the web and piecing it all together..much appreciated! Now as far as the kernel issue goes, I tried using the 9.5 Voodoo kernel that is loaded on the XxX final iso, but I ended up…”

“Just wanted to ask if it was possible to update my distro using the combo update 10.5.8 from Apple without breaking my installation? I used the method explained on Isanleymac to upgrade my 10.4.x to 10.4.11. Not sure this will work the same…”

“My first find is this one media fire.com/?fcnylnw24mn it is for Cards with 0x71C7 Device-ID. Maybe that helps you? Make sure to Back-Up you current kext-files before you try it. Nope, thanks though, mine has the device ID of 0x71c1. I will …”

“I agree. Distros cause me nothing but headaches, so I choose to use the retail CD. I have tried several distros and got kernel panics left and right, but when I use the retail CD everything works fine as long as you boot with a mod CD. The …”

“**Bump** Having the same issue updating from 10.5.7 to 10.5.8...I did the entire backup of my kexts and even backed up my kernel, but when I use the delta update to 10.5.8 it hangs on the apple logo screen forever and never loads completely…”

“MY video is fine, accept for DVD playback as far as I can tell. I haven't tried DivX or any other format yet. I will try PLEX Media Center and see if it clears up. The DVD playback is not so much choppy, but stutters, that is best way I can…”

“That could be due to the drivers you are using. Is all video playback choppy? Or just DVDs? The answer may narrow out the cause. Here is my Xbench results for my video card hope this helps in some way: Quartz Graphics Test 39.54 Line 40.95 …”

“I enabled Quartz GL using OSX Tools and that worked, but still no QE/CI, so I opened CallistoHAL.kext and edited the Device ID with my 7500's ID and repaired permissions and I will give that a shot and see if it helps. I read somewhere that…”

“Thanks Imkantus…I have given the post a look see and I am going to give it a shot. If this does not work on my 7500, it may work on my 1650 that I still haven't got to work fully yet. Will keep you posted on the results.”