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Member #21,036 · 2010-01-23 → 2010-05-05
#934 by Dispatches #2,449 by Author Reads #160 by Thread Reach Member #21,036 Gigabyte G31M / P35 ALC889a / Audio NVIDIA GeForce

@macdaddy247

InfiniteMac community contributor with 8 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (3,954 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,745,356 historical readers.

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Author Reads 3,954 Ranked #2,449 · 1 dossiers
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Lead Dossiers 1 3,954 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #21,036 Joined 2009-12-29
Active Window 2010 2010-01-23 → 2010-05-05
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#934 of 6,691 by Dispatches (8 notes) · #2,449 of 3,454 by Author Readership (3,954 reads across 1 dossiers) · #160 by Thread Reach (1,745,356 cumulative reads)
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Member #21,036 · Joined 2009-12-29
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Gigabyte G31M / P35 (2) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @macdaddy247 (1)

3,954 cumulative reads on threads started by @macdaddy247

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
G31M ethernet (NIC) issues.
I have spent hours trying to fix this, with no luck, so now I'm turning to you guys for help. I have managed to put together a nice PC, running Snow Leopard 10.6 using the excellent G31M turtorial (Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for…
Snow Leopard 10.63,954 reads
2010-01-29 · 4 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (7)

Direct links into threads where @macdaddy247 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“in the first post, it was clear that Ethernet would not work with rev 2 boards. your fail Yeah... I know... Must have over-looked it with all the excitement...”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-05-05
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Ha ha, Typical! The evening after I posted about my successful sl build, I got home and it wasn't working properly. Sound had vanished again (couldn't get it back for some reason. And every 1 in three restarts would bring up a blank blue sc…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-05-03
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Upgrading to 10.6.2 is easy, lots of comments on this thread. Upgrading to 10.6.3 is more of an issue with kexts and external USB, see my previous comment. Just out of interest, is there anything in the updates that is crucial to its smooth…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-04-30
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Well, it wasn't easy, but I have finally got my G31M ES2L Rev 2 system fully working. Here's the hardware: - Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L Intel G31 Video/Sound Socket 775 mATX Motherboard - Intel Pentium Dual Core E5400 2.7GHz 'Wolfdale' 2MB Cache…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-04-30
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Yes, sorry it's rev 2. The onboard ethernet is completely dead and not recognised by SL. So I added the card, and everything started off fine -SL picked up the ethernet card in "about this mac. But, when I try to connect to the net, it tell…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-23
1,741,402 dossier reads
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Would really appreciate some help. I followed the above install, and it has gone pretty well, apart from the sound, which I'm going to tackle later. Anyway, more importantly is the ethernet. I am using a small case and am limited with PCI s…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-23
1,741,402 dossier reads
G31M ethernet (NIC) issues.
“Yep, still haven't figured it out. Anyone got the answer?”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-29
3,954 dossier reads