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Member #22,292 · 2010-03-06 → 2011-02-09
#606 by Dispatches #259 by Author Reads #2,780 by Thread Reach Member #22,292 Gigabyte G31M / P35 AMD OSx86 Chameleon / Boot-132

@hackmac

InfiniteMac community contributor with 13 recorded dispatches, 8 lead technical dossiers (41,167 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 54,170 historical readers.

Dispatches 13 Ranked #606 of 6,691
Author Reads 41,167 Ranked #259 · 8 dossiers
Thread Reach 54,170 Ranked #2,780 in reach
Lead Dossiers 8 5,146 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #22,292 Joined 2010-01-18
Active Window 2010–2011 2010-03-06 → 2011-02-09
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
System Spec. · GA-G31M-ES2L(Mobo) · Intel PentiumD 820 (CPU) · 2GB 667MHz DDR2 (Transcend) · Seagate Baracuda 250GB SATA · RTL 8139C PCI Ethernet Card Specification ... · GA-G31M-ES2L · Intel Core Duo 2.8GHz · 2.5GB RAM · ALC883 Audio (ALCInject.kext) · NVIDIA 8500GT · RTL8139C Ethernet · 250GB SATA HDD
Archive Standing
#606 of 6,691 by Dispatches (13 notes) · #259 of 3,454 by Author Readership (41,167 reads across 8 dossiers) · #2,780 by Thread Reach (54,170 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #22,292 · Joined 2010-01-18
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Gigabyte G31M / P35 (8) · AMD OSx86 (3) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · USB / EHCI (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 4 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @hackmac (8)

41,167 cumulative reads on threads started by @hackmac

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Kernel Panic on 10.6.2 Install
Tried OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Patched DVD for Intel-AMD by Hazard... It installed fine, used 'Legacy Kernel' but after installation while OS X boots up I get "Debugger called " message after loading Apple HDA & TMCey driver or something…
Snow Leopard 10.66,857 reads
2010-11-11 · 3 notes
VMware Fusion problem on Hackintosh....
I'm using VMWare Fusion 3.0.2 for running windows xp on Leopard installation in my pc.. There is a problem in VMWare fusion when I enable my sound device from Virtual Machine settings.. whenever I play any sound in Win XP I recieve an…
10.X Core6,738 reads
2010-04-21 · 3 notes
Can OS X Snow Leopard be installed in my machine
I want to know whether "OS X Snow Leopard" can be installed using patched kernel in my machine which has an old Pentium D 820 proccessor . Can I use 64bit mode as my CPU is of x86-64 architechture ? System Spec. GA-G31M-ES2L(Mobo) Intel…
10.X Core5,804 reads
2010-07-30 · 5 notes
Cannot install kext using 'OSX86Tools' in OS X 10.6.2
I've successfully installed and running Snow Leopard from Hazard 10.6.2 Intel-Amd DVD but I've a new problem. When I try to install any kext using OSX86 Tools I can't do it because all kexts appears grayed out as one I showed in the…
Software & Kexts5,066 reads
2010-11-14 · 1 notes
Strange problem after installing RTL8139C PCI Ethernet Card
I experienced a strange problem yesterday after installing a new RTL8139C PCI Ethernet Card.I have GA-G31M-ES2L rev2.0 mobo which has an Atheros network chip and I used to dual boot Mac OS X 10.5.8 & Windows XP SP2 and access the Mac…
10.X Core4,939 reads
2010-03-06 · 1 notes
Slow Boot after using cpus=1
After installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 (iDeneb) on my machine (spec below) everything worked just fine except I often used to get sytem restart while booting, after the chameleon loader screen. I saw in this forum and modified the boot.plist by…
10.X Core4,328 reads
2010-07-17 · 2 notes
Two 'com.apple.boot.plist' in System Drive
I've installed Mac OS X 10.5.8 on my machine and I'm dual booting it with Windows 7 using Chameleon RC4. Both OS are working flawlessly. But I found that my OS X system drive Macintosh HD has two com.apple.boot.plist files, One in…
Hardware & Dev3,909 reads
2010-07-24 · 2 notes
Boot stops at "ApplePIIXATA .. Still waiting for root device" Message
I installed iDeneb 10.5.8 but after booting it stops saying "AppleIntelPIIXPATA: 80-conductor cable not detected on primary channel ... still waiting for root device" along with a clicking noise in my HDD ... Specifications :-…
10.X Core3,526 reads
2010-07-18 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (5)

Direct links into threads where @hackmac contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Kernel Panic on 10.6.2 Install
“Thanks for all your help ... The CMOS bug gets solved after installing Legacy AppleRTC.kext and no kernel panic on legacy kernel …”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-13
6,857 dossier reads
Installing iATKOS S3 v2 on Gigabyte X58-DS4, Intel Core i7 920, Gigabyte 4870 1GB
“Boot using the command "busratio=20 -v" .. Do not include the (") Give it a try and post the results …”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-11-11
6,726 dossier reads
Dual Boot problem
“Yes … there are various ways to fix your problems … Fixing Time Sync issue with OSX/Windows & Linux Most of us do dual boots with our hackintosh. Windows and OSX , but one thing we realise is that when you fire up Windows. You realise the t…”
10.X Core2011-02-09
6,277 dossier reads
Can OS X Snow Leopard be installed in my machine
“Tried OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Patched DVD for Intel-AMD by Hazard... It installed fine, used 'Legacy Kernel' but after installation while OS X boots up I get "Debugger called " message after loading Apple HDA & TMCey driver or something li…”
10.X Core2010-11-11
5,804 dossier reads
Can OS X Snow Leopard be installed in my machine
“Thanks for all your hel p ):)”
10.X Core2010-08-17
5,804 dossier reads