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Member #4,844 · 2009-02-12 → 2009-02-16
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@LongN3ck

InfiniteMac community contributor with 4 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 91,699 historical readers.

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Member Number #4,844 Joined 2009-02-12
Active Window 2009 2009-02-12 → 2009-02-16
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
ASUS M2N SLI-Deluxe (nForce 570)
Phenom 9850 (x4) Black Edition
2x1GB G.Skill DDR2 800
2x XFX XXX GeForce 8600GT in SLI
2x 500GB Western Digital SATA
250GB Western Digital SATA
Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 DVD RW
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#1,741 of 6,691 by Dispatches (4 notes) · #2,315 by Thread Reach (91,699 cumulative reads)
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Member #4,844 · Joined 2009-02-12
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SLC, UT USA
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Retail DVD / USB (2)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Leopard 10.5
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (4)

Direct links into threads where @LongN3ck contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“run disk utility on the install dvd and dont just format, partition the drive Yes. I've tried that to no avail. It seems to just sit there with the progress bar not moving for 20min every time I try to use Disk Utility. I even tried using D…”
Leopard 10.52009-02-16
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“I'm back, but with bad news. Now I can't get my USB drive to boot anymore - something happened with mounting the GUID in windows and overwriting it with MBR. Now I can't seem to get disk utility to re-format it with HFS+ no matter how I go …”
Leopard 10.52009-02-16
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“have you tried an ide dvd drive also i need to know what message you get when you boot with -v No, I have not tried an IDE DVD drive. I don't have one. The message(s) I get when booting with -v are many... not sure what constitutes an error…”
Leopard 10.52009-02-13
91,699 dossier reads
LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion
“After completing the install of Lawless PPC 10.5.4 I reboot and go through the Darwin bootloader then the Mac logo pops up with a pinwheel. Then it just stops, and eventually I get a message that says I need to reboot (in about 4 languages)…”
Leopard 10.52009-02-12
91,699 dossier reads