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Member #20,114 · 2009-12-13 → 2009-12-17
#1,141 by Dispatches #685 by Author Reads #3,900 by Thread Reach Member #20,114 NVIDIA GeForce

@grandlorie

InfiniteMac community contributor with 7 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (16,384 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 16,384 historical readers.

Dispatches 7 Ranked #1,141 of 6,691
Author Reads 16,384 Ranked #685 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 16,384 Ranked #3,900 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 16,384 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #20,114 Joined 2009-12-13
Active Window 2009 2009-12-13 → 2009-12-17
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#1,141 of 6,691 by Dispatches (7 notes) · #685 of 3,454 by Author Readership (16,384 reads across 1 dossiers) · #3,900 by Thread Reach (16,384 cumulative reads)
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Member #20,114 · Joined 2009-12-13
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (3)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

10.X Core
7 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @grandlorie (1)

16,384 cumulative reads on threads started by @grandlorie

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
GeForce 8600 GT and MAC Support
i Managed to install IPC 10.5.6 on my Toshiba Qosmio G40 2 weeks ago, almost everything is running fine except : The Vidoe Card, GeForce 8600 GT 512MB, i tried all the options included within IPC with no success… all of them are giving me…
10.X Core16,384 reads
2009-12-13 · 17 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (6)

Direct links into threads where @grandlorie contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
GeForce 8600 GT and MAC Support
“I'm not sure whether you have tried it already, however I recommend you do a clean install with NVkush, NVinject selected, do not install any other efi strings or enablers other than the two mentioned, just NVinject may help get maximum sup…”
10.X Core2009-12-17
16,384 dossier reads
GeForce 8600 GT and MAC Support
“you can try, but you may end up reinstalling I posted it already, read one of my posts above, I did manage to get my computer to show my Video RAM as 512 which is great thing, but the resolution still at 1024 x 768 and can not change it. I …”
10.X Core2009-12-16
16,384 dossier reads
GeForce 8600 GT and MAC Support
“Yea that happened to me a lot, then I learned that trick about only putting stuff into the /Extra folder and using something like Empire EFI or myHack to boot. When you use the CD or Thumb drive to boot it ignores the /Extra folder on your …”
10.X Core2009-12-14
16,384 dossier reads
GeForce 8600 GT and MAC Support
“oops i did used EFI Studio to install my graphic card and now i got a blak screen and can not boot”
10.X Core2009-12-14
16,384 dossier reads
GeForce 8600 GT and MAC Support
“" , just use universal osx86 installer " can you please explain more how to do that as i am not that MAC expert. - Also if i installed something (talking video card) and i got black screen. how can i delete that and go back to the previous …”
10.X Core2009-12-13
16,384 dossier reads
GeForce 8600 GT and MAC Support
“First Thanks for you reply. Yes, i tried EFI Studio and i choosed GeForce 8600 GT 512MB from the list and after that i restarted the laptop and booted with -v(and-f) and also started again normally and in all cases what i got is just black …”
10.X Core2009-12-13
16,384 dossier reads