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Member #342 · 2008-01-24 → 2008-03-15
#469 by Dispatches #360 by Author Reads #3,332 by Thread Reach Member #342 AMD OSx86 Retail DVD / USB Voodoo / XNU Kernel

@Kevinl86

InfiniteMac community contributor with 17 recorded dispatches, 6 lead technical dossiers (29,996 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 29,996 historical readers.

Dispatches 17 Ranked #469 of 6,691
Author Reads 29,996 Ranked #360 · 6 dossiers
Thread Reach 29,996 Ranked #3,332 in reach
Lead Dossiers 6 4,999 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #342 Joined 2008-01-23
Active Window 2008 2008-01-24 → 2008-03-15
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Hey Guys, here are my specs. · WD 160 GB SATA HDD · 2GB DDR400 RAM · Gigabyte GA-K8U MotherBoard (SATA ULI M1689 Chipset) · AMD 64 3700+ Clawhammer (sse, sse2 only) --Using sse2 injected .iso · ATI X1950GT AGP
Archive Standing
#469 of 6,691 by Dispatches (17 notes) · #360 of 3,454 by Author Readership (29,996 reads across 6 dossiers) · #3,332 by Thread Reach (29,996 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #342 · Joined 2008-01-23
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@DoiX (2) @roisoft (2) @Anonymous (2) @naquaada @zephyroth @1207FX @Raidz1 @cgsheen @nitzw @freshcuts @eddie11c @gipo @Xxp/TuX @smileyme

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
15 (88%)
10.X Core
2 (12%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Kevinl86 (6)

29,996 cumulative reads on threads started by @Kevinl86

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Disk Utility Does Not Recognize HDD
WD 160 GB SATA HDD 2GB DDR400 RAM Gigabyte GA-K8U MotherBoard (SATA ULI M1689 Chipset) AMD 64 3700+ Clawhammer (sse, sse2 only) --Using sse2 injected .iso ATI X1950GT AGP I have Three partitions, two with my windows stuff and the Third…
Leopard 10.58,678 reads
2008-01-24 · 22 notes
ALC850 AC97 Audio on my Gigabyte GA-K8U
Ok fellas. I've probably done about 3 hours of research and trial and error on this and I can't get my damn audio working for the life of me. I have a Gigabyte GA-K8U Board w/ ALC850 AC97 Audio Codec. (Using Zephs 10.5.2 Rev.1) I must have…
Leopard 10.54,846 reads
2008-02-23 · 4 notes
A couple quick questions (Files in .iso)
after a long time of fooling around I finally edited my AppleVIAATA.kext and was able to make my SATA drives boot. Now what I want to do is throw that .kext into the original .iso and reburn it so I can now install Zephs Leopard on my SATA…
Leopard 10.54,830 reads
2008-02-27 · 8 notes
Mach reboot after installation sse2 issue
I have a sse2 injected .iso of zephys leopard. Install is flawless but when it goes to boot afterwards it keeps doing the mach reboots and I am unable to boot to the OS I was told I need to re-inject the sse2 mach_kernel on the mac…
Leopard 10.54,148 reads
2008-02-12 · 5 notes
Audio not working
I've googled everywhere and tried a lot of different stuff to make this work. I have a Gigabyte GA-K8u with the AC97 ALC850 On-Board Audio. Sound is not working for me. I have everything else working even full vid support on my X1950GT…
Leopard 10.53,801 reads
2008-02-13 · 4 notes
10.5.2 REV 2 .Torrent
Has -Anybody- made a .torrent for this yet? If so, where? I cant get the newsgroups to work because my username and pass has expired from the last time I used the newsgroup from the first 10.5.2 release... bummer
10.X Core3,693 reads
2008-03-14 · 10 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (10)

Direct links into threads where @Kevinl86 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Disk Utility Does Not Recognize HDD
“Yeah the problem DoiX, is that I can't see my HDD in the Disk Utility on the DVD. It does show my IDE CD-DVD Combo Drive, It wont show my SATA DVD Burner Drive Either..”
Leopard 10.52008-01-24
8,678 dossier reads
Disk Utility Does Not Recognize HDD
“I always needed a driver disk to install windows on this particular setup. You're probably right, I wont be able to run it. I'm just going to sell my machine and buy a macbook air lol -Kevin”
Leopard 10.52008-01-24
8,678 dossier reads
ALC850 AC97 Audio on my Gigabyte GA-K8U
“DevID on the Audio is: 0xAE011458 SATA controller M5289 is:B0031458”
Leopard 10.52008-02-24
4,846 dossier reads
A couple quick questions (Files in .iso)
“roisoft, I somehow screwed up my Mac partition.. All I have is windows. Is there a way to do this process with transmac or any other program?”
Leopard 10.52008-03-05
4,830 dossier reads
A couple quick questions (Files in .iso)
“Roisoft: hdiutil[379:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 2008-02-26 17:56:07.996 diskimages-helper[381:1603] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 Giving me that error wheneve…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-27
4,830 dossier reads
A couple quick questions (Files in .iso)
“Already is checked... still can't find it for the life of me. When I add my Realtek AC97 Audio Codec devid to any of the plugin packages my OSX crashes... what the heck. Devid is 0x545510B9 VIAATA Worked great for my sata when I added the d…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-27
4,830 dossier reads
Mach reboot after installation sse2 issue
“ok, mouse and keyb work fine. Now I need to get my X1950GT sapphire AGP card to work. stuck at 1024x768 which kext do I need? Also AC97 Audio codec... my on board audio isnt working at all : /”
Leopard 10.52008-02-12
4,148 dossier reads
Mach reboot after installation sse2 issue
“Okie problem solved. Now i gotta figure out the ps2 mouse/keyb prob”
Leopard 10.52008-02-12
4,148 dossier reads
Disk Utility Does Not Recognize HDD
“Zephyroth, could you please add support for my Mobo/Sata Combo? Thanks man.”
Leopard 10.52008-01-26
8,678 dossier reads
A couple quick questions (Files in .iso)
“Thanks roisoft, ill do that up. Anybody know about the audio issue im having?”
Leopard 10.52008-02-27
4,830 dossier reads