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Member #12,066 · 2009-09-08 → 2009-10-14
#617 by Dispatches #63 by Thread Reach Member #12,066 Gigabyte G31M / P35 ALC889a / Audio DSDT

@ju421019

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Member Number #12,066 Joined 2009-09-07
Active Window 2009 2009-09-08 → 2009-10-14
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#617 of 6,691 by Dispatches (12 notes) · #63 by Thread Reach (2,411,300 cumulative reads)
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Member #12,066 · Joined 2009-09-07
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · DSDT (1) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
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10.X Core
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (12)

Direct links into threads where @ju421019 contributed solutions & commentary

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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I would greatly appreciate if someone can help me here. a. Also I have another request, anyone know how I can dual boot windows 7 and SL? Do I need two hard drives? I followed this guide in this thread: http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-14
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I followed this guide in this thread: http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required To get everything working fine, easiest way to install. Only Issue I am having is sound, I can't see the inpu…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-10
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“How do install the dsdt.aml file? I ask this because I installed Snow Leopard using the lifehacker guide for another gigabyte board, it works fine, except some things like audio. Now, I know there is a dsdt file in this guide, how can I app…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-07
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Thanks - I will try this audio trick on a fresh install again tonight. Or can I do it on my existing install, I think i added several kexts to get it work, where is the path to remove them? What are these paths? "get rid of all other sound …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-06
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I have the same problem, no audio devices are showing up, can anyone help? This is my situation exactly. I have everything working, except for audio. None of the kexts seem to work, no matter where I place them. I have tried everything and …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-05
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I need some help, I installed snow leopard using a lifehacker guide, but cant install any kexts using Osx86 Tools. I don't get any sound, i dont see any output device in sound preferences. Using 10.5.8 i was able to install sound kext but w…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-03
1,741,402 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“get the audio kext from this guide an 43.com/osx/ those worked for me. I'm still trying to get my card to work right.”
10.X Core2009-09-08
669,898 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“I seem to have everything working fine with this guide except the graphics driver. I have a geoforce nvidia 7900gs (256mb) card. i selected it on OsX86 tools and tried to apply it, by even putting in my custom resolution 1680 X 1050, but it…”
10.X Core2009-09-08
669,898 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“I solved that part that I posted two posts above, by creating a password and mounting the EFI, that resolved that Issue. I was able to boot without the CD. Now, just need to work on the audio and graphics driver tomorrow. Is it fine to upda…”
10.X Core2009-09-08
669,898 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“But in my scenario - I can connect to the internet, any help with my situation, when i enter in '1' it asks for a password, whats the password.”
10.X Core2009-09-08
669,898 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“I'm in the same situation, and when I enter in "1" for my EFI partition it asks for a password, I never set a password when creating the account at login. I have a Rev 1 board. Any help. For some reason the EFI partition never mounts after …”
10.X Core2009-09-08
669,898 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“my sound output/input are showing no devices - any help? Thanks”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-04
1,741,402 dossier reads