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had some troubles installing leopard on my amd machine, but now it works great. maybe this can help somebody else. my machine: asus m2n mcp 61 motherboard athlon 64 x2 5000+ cpu geforce 8600 gt video card usb mouse and keyboard i first…

i posted this in snow leopard forum, but i got no response. maybe it was in the wrong forum, so i will try again here. i get very slow speed on usb transfers, on usb sticks and external hdd. works great from linux on the same computer. my…

the system (10.5.6 ipc) is very slow during disk activiry, like unarchiving a big file or more than 5 running torrents. for example, safari becomes unresponsive, even when entering and address in the address bar. i have 2 sata disks, all…

just had to try the new update all i did was download the file from apple, backed up my kernel, ran the installer, and before the reboot i replaced the new kernel with my old one from the backup. i did not installed the old system.kext ( i…

i've been searching for a while for a solution to this problem. i've got very slow usb speed on snow leopard. i couldn't find a solution, so please if anyone knows something about this, let me know. thanks. PS: i'm using hazard snow now,…

i'm wondering if anyone else encountered the same problem: i installed snow, everything was fine, restart and shutdown worked correctly. then, i noticed then they don't. i searched a bit, and i used the suggestions i found. i deleted…

i'm fairly new to osx (been using linux - gnome - for long time). after i switched to osx, i got hooked, and i have to say i can't use anything else now. well, i can, but i just don't like it there are just a few usability issues i have…

“I have a problem, Everything works so far ..except … when I click "About This Mac" everything refreshed, just not showing the ABOUT panel , any idea ? by the way ..if I am not using any driver within FFP1 or FFP2, do I have to patch the iso…”

“The last post in this thread talked about this but being that your not able to make changes in the BIOS I don't think its going to do you any good. Figured Id pass it along. -day2idle forum.osx86 scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3100 i've alre…”

“i'm trying to install this release on a toshiba laptop model A305D, turion x2 cpu, 3 gb ram, ati video. i get stuck on IOAPIC error. i tried booting with various parameters (i searched teh net for a sollution), but with no luck. i also trie…”

“Hi, I want to update from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6. Is it possible only to use the ipc OSx86 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3, which is includded on the disc, 463 mb? I've tried AMD software updater. But when detecting cpuid, it gave error. you don't nee…”

“for me only works on pentium d on a asus 945gz motherboard with the voodoo kernel. i thought on intel hardware it should work with the vanilla kernel. anyway, it works great with the voodoo kernel, i'm just curios why it does not work with …”

“How do I use PPF-o-matic te replace the din files with these new ppf files? In what directory in my boot DVD must I place thses files? I'm a new member en trying to get Max OS running next to Windows Vista. just run ppf-o-matic, use the sel…”

“ok i was able to fix the dmg issue with the seatbelt fix, but now i over looked my audio..it shows no built in audio. i selected the one i have the ac97 and nothing. also for my wireless card it doesn't even show up in settings so its somet…”

“i didn't try voodoo kernel, i thought on intel it should work with the vanilla kernel. also, i selected some extra drivers, like marvell gigabit ethernet, intel ich sata and some others. i'll try again, i'll post here if i get it right”

“i just finished downloading the release, patched it and the installed it. It works great on my machine, i even managed to get digital audio working on my adi1988 onboard card. i only had some minor problems: - sometimes a really high pitche…”

“do you have anything that you need on the drive you want to install snow onto? if not, it might be easier for you to just repartition the drive again with diskutil, and create uuid partitions.”

“why do you want to restore the image to a hd? do you have 2 disks, one with leopard and another one where you want to install snow? if so, you don't need to restore the image, you can just mount the dmg image and follow exactly the steps fr…”

“anyone has any idea about getting the mic to work on adi1988 using voodoohda? i get an error "couldn't set recording source to microphone" when starting up. it worked perfectly on leopard with taruga driver, but i get a kp in sl, so i'm try…”

“of course the solution was available on this forum also, here: RTL8139 works in 64bit i guess i should read the forum first, and ask stupid questions later. i was probably too excited about the new kitty”

“after some searching, i found a solution for the internet speed problem: replace the original kext with the one found here: cid-8b65993ef55cf014.skydrive.li ve.com/home.aspx also replace realtek kext inside IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/…”

“same with firefox. problem is i have lots of lost packets, and the response time to my dns server has increased from 1ms in leopard to about 15 ms or more in snow. when starting up, i get lots of error on screen about my network chipset, re…”

“taisto, man, thank you, it works, i can't believe i was so stupid to forget to copy the chipset kext. live and learn, i guess only one problem, and i think others have it too: why is the internet so slow? is this because of installing it to…”

“first, thanks for the giude, it's straightforward and easy to understand. i managed to install the new kitty, and it seems to boot just fine with the modbin kernel, but i got the damn still waiting for root device error. i only got that err…”

“could anyone help me for adi1988 card? this guide is for alc soundcard, and since i have a different on i can't find the relevant sections in my dsdt.dsl file. thanks.”

“hi, i followed your giude, and now have a patched applehda.kext. problem is, when i load it with kextload, no devices show up. my card is adi1988. i tried to follow the guide to patch the dsdt file, but since that applies to another card (a…”

“i've been trying for ages to install osx on this machine…without any luck. i'm stuck at this: ioapic: version 0x21 vectors 0:23, no matter what distro i try. i tried all the flags, cpu=1, cpu-2, etc, even tried the "plug usb stick when ioap…”

“i installed system.kext 9.5 with kext instalelr and it's ok now. also installed applesmbios.kext from 10.5.5 and system profiler works now. here are system.kext 9.5 and applesmbios from 10.5.5 in case anyone needs them dr op.io/6o3tek9”

“I'm on an AMD w/ Voodoo 9.5 Kernel and I am posting from 10.5.6. I downloaded and installed the Universal OSX86 Installer (ihackintosh.blog spot.com/2008/12/how-to-use-universal-osx86-installer.html) and selected Install PC_EFI v9. After th…”

“works perfectly for me, with the 10.3.0 kernel from this thread: 10.3.0 Legacy Kernel for INTEL/AMD by qoopz/nawcom”

“Hey Lemn... I wasn't trying to tear you down earlier. Sorry if it came across that way. I've just seen too many people pass through trying to get their name out there without actually doing much to help out. I'm glad to see you are contribu…”

“as they say, a picture is worth 1000 words sorry for my poor photoshop skills. PS: you should also try the newest distro available, iPC osx by pcwiz. there is a thread on this forum about it, from what i've read it should be very easy to in…”

“first I would like to say thanks for telling me what to do and giving me some suggestions to help me install OSX. Im going to try to install Leo4allv3 as soon as it downloads. Is there anything else that I need to do so I can dual boot vist…”

“regarding your thread... there are other ways of doing this... like getting the voodoo kernel running with the proper kexts, then installing the updates (without needing to patch) via the Apple Software Update. i know...but on the voodoo ke…”

“check out my post here, it might help you: how to update to 10.5.5 on amd”

“Hi, I install Snow on AMD platform, it starts very slow. please tell me how to patch IOATAFAMILY.kext to boot more quickly ?, thanks ! i would also like to know that, thanks.”

“if this was a cpuid patch issue, i think dashboard will kp on me with modbin kernel, but it doesn't. this kernel works (for me) only with fakesmc, it kp at start with dsmos. with fakesmc 2.5 dashboard crashes, with this kernel and modbin (k…”

“maybe this: how to update to 10.5.5 on amd might help.”

“snow works very well for me on amd (except usb2). i use hazard leo, but i tried the install method from this post: Snow Leopard 10A432 Install and it worked very well. still no usb 2 though overall, snow is a big improvement over leo, so yo…”

“i also have a toshiba laptop, and can't get past the ioapic error, no matter what distro i try. as far as i know, it's because of the crippled bios by toshiba, that won't let me select ahci mode, so i'm stuck with windows. if someone has an…”

“well, i got my dsdt.dsl file with dsdt patcher and iasl. since this is my first ever dsdt edit, i really have no idea of what i need to do. i couldn't find any beginners guide to edit the dsdt file, all the posts with patches or hacks assum…”

“Well done brave warrior ! Keep us updated. But what do you mean by "did not install old system.kext" ? Do you mean System/Library/Extensions folder? I suppose if apple changes anything, they will also update caches in the process before reb…”

“the first line says "version mis-match between kernel and cpu", so i think you should try another kernel, maybe the one that used to work for you before the update. 10.4 update installs a new kernel, so maybe that's the problem.”

“quote from the voodoo-xnu kernel site: "Duke Nukem Forever was never released but Voodoo 2.0 will be"”

“working good so far, thanks for your work.”

“using this kernel, i get a kernel panic when using the dashboard. any ideas? thanks.”