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Member #3,749 · 2008-12-27 → 2010-11-23
#840 by Dispatches #395 by Thread Reach Member #3,749 📍 Orem, UT AHCI / SATA Chameleon / Boot-132 DSDT

@JCsHands

InfiniteMac community contributor with 9 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 1,139,913 historical readers.

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Member Number #3,749 Joined 2008-12-11
Active Window 2008–2010 2008-12-27 → 2010-11-23
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
MSI P43 Neo3-F
EVGA 250GTS 1GB
2GBs RAM
750GB SATA HDD - OS 10.6.4 (Software Update)
500GB SATA RAID HDD - Windows 7 64bit
DVD - R/W PATA
Archive Standing
#840 of 6,691 by Dispatches (9 notes) · #395 by Thread Reach (1,139,913 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #3,749 · Joined 2008-12-11
Location
Orem, UT
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AHCI / SATA (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · DSDT (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · EVGA / X58 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

10.X Core
6 (67%)
Leopard 10.5
1 (11%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (9)

Direct links into threads where @JCsHands contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“So I think I discovered part of why my computer was restarting. I have the MSI P43 Neo3-F with an E7300 Core 2 Duo and it looks like the version of the Chameleon that ships on the iPC DVD and the iAtkos DVD seem to instantly reboot. I thoug…”
10.X Core2009-01-09
965,272 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“I have downloaded this ISO and no matter what I try I cant get it to boot. I can try to enter any combination of flags. I looks like it loads the kext files and then when it goes to boot restarts immediately. I thought that it might have be…”
10.X Core2008-12-27
965,272 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 10.5.6 problems/wishes
“So I have found that I have been able to install iDeneb 1.3 on this rig, but I wanted to give iPC another shot. I found that if I boot with cpus=1 it will boot and I am able to install it, woot! I selected Chipset: ICH10 + jmicron Audio: AC…”
10.X Core2009-01-14
100,995 dossier reads
MSI P43 Neo & Snow Leopard it's love...
“And the original question was this... Is it possible to install Snow without having access to a mac? Please do tell me also how to do all that using Windows I am looking into this, I broke my 10.6 install with the 10.6.2 update. I think tha…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-02
52,583 dossier reads
Dell Slimline GX260 (hangups and KPs)
“I had this same system and it seems like I was able to install iPC beta and. iDeneb. I think that one of the iAtkos versions worked but I dont remember which. I would go with iPC, LAN, IDE, Chipset everything worked, minus the video card. I…”
Leopard 10.52009-03-24
5,327 dossier reads
Help i need Modified BIOS for msi p43 neo-f
“Why are you looking for a custom BIOS? This MOBO is very 10.6 and 10.5 friendly. You can do a vanilla install with Chameleon and a DSDT file. If you have installed OS X but do not have a DSDT file created yet use the cpus=1 at start up, thi…”
10.X Core2009-11-21
4,731 dossier reads
Possible to Install Snow Leopard 10.6
“I dont see any reason why SL would not work, other than the IGP. I have never seen anything showing that the 6150 would work, you could buy an 8600 for $30. I found this app to be helpful for finding out if something is supported or not. ht…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-11-23
4,398 dossier reads
What drivers to use for this Hardware
“If you will post your config in your post people will be more likely to help you out. Since I am at work I cant download your text file from Rapidshare, but you could check out what they have at kexts.com to see what they have available.”
10.X Core2010-08-11
3,528 dossier reads
Will OSX work on an older P4
“While I am not sure about the Video Card, I am guessing not, I ran Tiger and later Leopard on a 2.4 GHz P4 with 512, later 786MBs and on an 80GB Hard Drive. It ran with out any problems with Tiger, but Leopard (10.5.1 and 10.5.2) had a kern…”
10.X Core2010-02-24
3,079 dossier reads