#248 by Dispatches #450 by Author Reads #1,667 by Thread Reach Member #429 AMD OSx86 ASUS P5K / P5Q AHCI / SATA
@kourosh
InfiniteMac community contributor with 30 recorded dispatches, 5 lead technical dossiers (25,025 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 232,464 historical readers.
Dispatches
30
Ranked #248 of 6,691
Author Reads
25,025
Ranked #450 · 5 dossiers
Thread Reach
232,464
Ranked #1,667 in reach
Lead Dossiers
5
5,005 avg reads / dossier
Member Number
#429
Joined 2008-01-27
Active Window
2008
2008-01-27 → 2008-07-07
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Dell Inspiron 531 · AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ · 2GB DDR2 667MHz RAM · 320 GB Samsung SATA HD · MCP61 Chipset (nForce 430) · nVidia 8600GT · ALC888 Sound
Specs (taken from InsanelyMac sig): · Board: ASUS A8N-E (nForce 4 Ultra) · CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Socket 939 2.2GHz · Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 256MB PCI-E · Memory: 1GB DDR 400 RAM (2x 512MB - Dual Channel) · HDD: Seagate 300GB SATA
- Archive Standing
- #248 of 6,691 by Dispatches (30 notes) · #450 of 3,454 by Author Readership (25,025 reads across 5 dossiers) · #1,667 by Thread Reach (232,464 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #429 · Joined 2008-01-27
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- AMD OSx86 (5) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (3) · AHCI / SATA (2) · ATI Radeon (2) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · Dell Inspiron / Latitude (1)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @naquaada (10) @DoiX (8) @Puttabong (8) @WinLinMac01 (7) @cgsheen (6) @zephyroth (4) @roisoft (4) @Ianxxx (4) @crawle (4) @bhast2 (3) @laxattack (3) @R0GUE (3) @Firewalk (3) @1207FX (2)
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 4 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @kourosh (5)
25,025 cumulative reads on threads started by @kourosh
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Which forum do you visit the most? InsanelyMac or here I haven't been visiting InsanelyMac for a while. Maybe because this place is so AMD focused. So which one do you use the most? | 10.X Core | 6,346 reads 2008-01-30 · 19 notes |
| Overheating I have Leopard installed fine, Leo4Allv3 with 10.5.3 update (manual). My problem: My CPU normally runs at a temperature of 45-50 degrees C (rarely reaches 50) in Windows, doing the normal things, iTunes, Firefox, MSN etc. On Leopard, doing… | 10.X Core | 6,042 reads 2008-07-03 · 9 notes |
| Difference between original OSX and OSx86 (AMD) I was just curious to see what has actually been changed to run on AMD systems, from an original disc. EFI + AppleSMBIOS.kext, CPUIDs fixed, new kernel, added kexts for other hardware... Anything else modified? Just curious | 10.X Core | 5,464 reads 2008-01-27 · 7 notes |
| Change default category Just read the discussion about cleaning the news category. Shouldn't the general category be selected by default when you create a new discussion? Might make things easier. If its possible... P.S. I nearly left it in the news category just… | Leopard 10.5 | 3,613 reads 2008-02-08 · 1 notes |
| Using non-apple remotes with Front Row I have an X10 RF remote, reciever connects through USB I was just wondering if it could be used with OSX/Front Row at all? I highly doubt it (Still waiting for Rev. 2, and also a 64-bit kernel) | 10.X Core | 3,560 reads 2008-01-28 · 5 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (23)
Direct links into threads where @kourosh contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “thanks, i'm using agent anyway, seems to be working just provide an md5sum after so i can see if its downloaded right! i'm off anyway...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “ran out of searches on grabit any other good programs for windows? i'm new to this whole newsgroup thing...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leo4Allv3 released, Tell us what you think “DVD worked flawlessly here, first perfect OOTB experience. Well almost perfect, got stuck at the 'Do you already own a mac screen' thing. ./options fixed this, quick and easy, a very good utility. As for the installed system, boot times are…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-06 17,655 dossier reads |
| Sleep on AMD - report your experience “I may try it on the non-sleep one then... Btw, do you experience slow boot-ups with Leo4All v3?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-13 10,079 dossier reads |
| Sleep on AMD - report your experience “I'm using 10.5.2 Rev.1 on the non-sleep computer. Leo4all v3 on the other...that works...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-13 10,079 dossier reads |
| Sleep on AMD - report your experience “@ naquaada A8N-E Targa Edition What that means, I have no idea... My Computer Spec” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-13 10,079 dossier reads |
| Sleep on AMD - report your experience “Same as p-J for the Dell, similar system, perfect sleep. As for the other one (Athlon64 3700+, A8N-E, nForce4, Radeon X1600), no sleep. Well it does sleep, but it doesn't come back.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-05-06 10,079 dossier reads |
| Which forum do you visit the most? InsanelyMac or here “[cite] naquaada:I have 241 posts in insanelymac since 22 March 06 and 294 here in 22 days... does this answer your question? Yes The AMD topic deters me, so many pages, and so many people asking the same questions. I haven't had Leopard for…” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-30 6,346 dossier reads |
| Which forum do you visit the most? InsanelyMac or here “I use InsanelyMac for the news basically. And a lot of the random stuff!” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-30 6,346 dossier reads |
| Overheating “Hmm It can't be that theres something drastically wrong with the hardware, since it runs nice and cool and stable on windows. Its an OSX problem, need to track it down though. I'll mess around a bit with different configurations (kernels/Ap…” | 10.X Core | 2008-07-03 6,042 dossier reads |
| Overheating “Wow... Couldn't say about flash, probably using it im not sure... Next time I'm on OSX I'll monitor the CPU usage with Activity Monitor, and see whats happening etc. Specs (taken from InsanelyMac sig): Board: ASUS A8N-E (nForce 4 Ultra) CPU…” | 10.X Core | 2008-07-03 6,042 dossier reads |
| Installed but with a few problems “Boot with "Graphics Mode"="640x480x32", it'll skip the whole wizard. http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues#toc9 Always check the wiki.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-28 5,571 dossier reads |
| Will this work? Adding Mac OSX to GRUB. “I have a quad boot system with Windows XP, Slackware 12.0, Ubuntu 7.10 (Now LFS in progress), and Mac OS X 10.5.2 Did that ages ago with grub, easy stuff for me...” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-15 5,520 dossier reads |
| EFI with MBR “Every time I see this I keep wondering... What about AppleSMBIOS.kext? I replaced mine with the one from the EFI package. How come you don't do this? Should I not be doing this?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-02 4,553 dossier reads |
| Using non-apple remotes with Front Row “Lidl PC Targa Ultra AN64II 3700+... Can Apple Remotes work with PCs? Does it work through bluetooth?” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-28 3,560 dossier reads |
| to be filled by O.E.M. “http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=91448&st=0&p=652342&#entry652342 As Superhai said, "It is the DMI data in your SMBIOS. You need an app to edit that." Found DMIScope, tried it, need a registered version, plus it could be dan…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-07-07 3,058 dossier reads |
| Account Creation Hangup “exactly it can be quite annoying to repeat over and over again” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-01-30 2,876 dossier reads |
| Member Nationalities “North East of England!” | General | 2008-01-27 41,477 dossier reads |
| What do our usernames symbolize “my first name, elaborate innit?” | General | 2008-06-01 14,759 dossier reads |
| New Desktop & About This Mac Thread “I like it alot: Best out of my three OSs” | Software & Kexts | 2008-01-30 12,930 dossier reads |
| Difference between original OSX and OSx86 (AMD) “so all other kexts are vanilla?” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-27 5,464 dossier reads |
| EFI with MBR “Actually, what is needed for full EFI?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-08 4,553 dossier reads |
| Using non-apple remotes with Front Row “Thanks, I'll check them out!” | 10.X Core | 2008-01-28 3,560 dossier reads |