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Member #31,614 · 2010-07-19 → 2010-07-30
#341 by Dispatches #392 by Author Reads #2,603 by Thread Reach Member #31,614 AMD OSx86 ALC889a / Audio DSDT

@j71rivera

InfiniteMac community contributor with 22 recorded dispatches, 4 lead technical dossiers (28,373 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 67,364 historical readers.

Dispatches 22 Ranked #341 of 6,691
Author Reads 28,373 Ranked #392 · 4 dossiers
Thread Reach 67,364 Ranked #2,603 in reach
Lead Dossiers 4 7,093 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #31,614 Joined 2010-07-19
Active Window 2010 2010-07-19 → 2010-07-30
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
System Specs · GA-MA790XT-UD4P · ATI 4850 HD · 4 Gigs Ram. i have the phenom x4 B50, well dual core unlocked any bios settings i might be missing. i turned on the achi but never turned off the gsata because i needed it for dvd sata that dont work in achi mode.
Archive Standing
#341 of 6,691 by Dispatches (22 notes) · #392 of 3,454 by Author Readership (28,373 reads across 4 dossiers) · #2,603 by Thread Reach (67,364 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #31,614 · Joined 2010-07-19
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (5) · ALC889a / Audio (4) · DSDT (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (3) · ATI Radeon (3) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
3 (14%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @j71rivera (4)

28,373 cumulative reads on threads started by @j71rivera

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
I have a GA-MA790XT-UD4P I have tried many different distros to OSX installed on this System and only 1 comes close. "Snow Leopard Client-Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD" It installs and says successful. Then reboots almost loads and…
Snow Leopard 10.619,277 reads
2010-07-19 · 23 notes
ACL889 + Radeon 4850 Problem. help.
I have a ati radeon 4850HD Video card and the ACL889 sound chip. Only seeing back green when i install VoodooHDA. Find a lot of people saying its because of the ATI card but not finding the solution any place.
10.X Core3,099 reads
2010-07-24 · 1 notes
ACL889 info.plist needed. VoodooHDA
Anyone got their plist configured to allow black/orange/green rear out? Been doing some searching and not found any yet. for any insight.
10.X Core3,030 reads
2010-07-30 · 1 notes
Video Running at X2 with no sound
I just got osx installed and any videos I play seem to be playing at the speed of light. Well not really more like about 2 times what they should be doing or maybe 4 hard to tell. Running blacknights 10.4 kernel and have a Pheonom X2 BE…
Snow Leopard 10.62,967 reads
2010-07-23 · 7 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (18)

Direct links into threads where @j71rivera contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
10.4.0 XNU Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom/AnV/BlackKnight/mucha
“Not sure this is related but i have a Pheonom X2 550 unlocked as a Pheonom X4 b50 and it shows my FSB as 400 when its 200. and oh yea. my videos are running at double time lol So if it is not someone please let me know.”
10.X Core2010-07-23
38,991 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“OH Btw i found out what kext it was. it was the ati radeon 2000 that was doing it. of all things. lol i found another post on the subject so i removed just that and problem resolved”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-22
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“Ok Im not sure the "Exact" kext that was causing the problem because i went in and took out all the NV navida ones and all the ati ones that had nothing to do with my 4850 and the geforce drivers and OMG it booted. Im going to redo my insta…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-21
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“Here you go. Don't care about the "bt(0,0)" in some lines, I'm using hidden partition to store my kernel, DSDT and some other stuff, and it tells the bootloader to load them from this partition. Snow Leopard booted fine without DSDT patched…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-20
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“Just Tried both. -f -x32 and -f arch=i386 same panic.Did you have to patch dsdt or apple.boot.com plist? if you did maybe i could see yours.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-20
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“I just tried this with acc on and off. 3.0ghz. screen shots attached. I even turned off the gsata lost my dvd but since osx was installed i did not see a problem testing that.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-20
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“i ran full tests on the cores and stress tested them after i unlocked them they passed all tests. but i have tried it with acc off. i acidently triggered a bios reset when fooling around with it earlier and did not realize i was on dual cor…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-20
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“I have the Phenom X2 550 BE CPU. witch I unlocked the quad core on to a Phenom X4 B50. I reducued the the fsb to X15 to get under the 3.0 ghz or i would not even install. I have tried it with it as a B50 and a 550 at 3.0 both fail. The erro…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-20
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“I had my settings exactly like that when i tried to install "Snow Leopard Client-Server 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD" I picked just the kernel Knights and EvoLegacyRTC it installs perfectly. its the running after the install. thats the proble…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-20
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“i have the phenom x4 B50, well dual core unlocked any bios settings i might be missing. i turned on the achi but never turned off the gsata because i needed it for dvd sata that dont work in achi mode.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-19
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“Obviously all the wrong ones. lol. i tried using black nights kernal. the cmos fix the ataati going from memory here. usb fix realtek 1000 driver. ati injector. but by retail install. what do you mean? i installed the Snow Leopard Client-Se…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-19
19,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“Side note here i just tried -x and was able to boot into safe boot. but well thats only a slight improvement”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-19
19,277 dossier reads
Video Running at X2 with no sound
“Upon further searching I found a possible solution for this problem. It seems my problem is my ATI 4850 HD has a HDMI also causing the problem with sounds and that mod of the voodooHDA.kext is needed to fix this. But I seem to be failing at…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-25
2,967 dossier reads
Video Running at X2 with no sound
“Ok this missing componets issue seems to be the fact i have a ATI Radeon 4850 Video Card. I been looking but not found a solution for this yet. I have teh ACL889 Chipset for sound. If anyone has the solution i would be soooo thankful.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-24
2,967 dossier reads
Video Running at X2 with no sound
“Ok Here it is. i used naw com.com/osx86/files/10.6/Audio/VoodooHDA/0.2.62/ ive tried the 61 too. here are the only things i see in sound. Digital-out (hdmi) Headphones (green front) Spdif-out (orange rear) & Spdif-out(cd) those are the only…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-24
2,967 dossier reads
Video Running at X2 with no sound
“I went there and all i see is teh didgital one. and a spid err (spelling) on the windows one atm. but i know on the didgital one i would get no sound in windows. ill try again on my lunch break and reinstall the 262 voodoo hda i found a sit…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-24
2,967 dossier reads
Video Running at X2 with no sound
“Seems my video speed problem is gone now. so now trying to figure out why i still have no sound. I hear the click when it boots up like my laptop does. that has sound but when i look in the profiler no sound. the speed problem might of been…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-24
2,967 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on GA-MA790XT-UD4P 4850 HD SOLVED
“it calls itself MacPro3.1”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-07-20
19,277 dossier reads