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Member #8,584 · 2009-07-29 → 2010-03-01
#504 by Dispatches #327 by Author Reads #25 by Thread Reach Member #8,584 NVIDIA GeForce DSDT Chameleon / Boot-132

@mecanoiz

InfiniteMac community contributor with 15 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (33,046 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 3,531,159 historical readers.

Dispatches 15 Ranked #504 of 6,691
Author Reads 33,046 Ranked #327 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 3,531,159 Ranked #25 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 33,046 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #8,584 Joined 2009-07-17
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-07-29 → 2010-03-01
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
asus p5k e wifi - 8gb ddr2 800mhz corsair - asus gtx275 - q6600
Archive Standing
#504 of 6,691 by Dispatches (15 notes) · #327 of 3,454 by Author Readership (33,046 reads across 1 dossiers) · #25 by Thread Reach (3,531,159 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #8,584 · Joined 2009-07-17
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (7) · DSDT (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (1) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@sk1nhd33t (6) @DocShadow (2) @arsonwells (2) @drbee (2) @[email protected] (2) @estravagancia (2) @fate17 (2) @mitchde @cili0 @Snow @Mac_Dude @zod1988 @saintjoe @mormegil

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
11 (73%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @mecanoiz (1)

33,046 cumulative reads on threads started by @mecanoiz

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
GTX 275 on snow leopard
I've been able to install SL on my G31M-ES2L motherboard. The only problem i've had is with the GTX275. First the screen went black after boot. By removing the NV related kexts following the method described in GeForce GTX 260 in Snow…
10.X Core33,046 reads
2009-09-30 · 16 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (14)

Direct links into threads where @mecanoiz contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I've followed the instructions and cannot get the USB to boot. I have tried many. many things. but, no luck. Need help. I posted the verbose message screen. The screenshot attached is right before the machine reboots. I Leopard 10.5.6 insta…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-01
1,741,402 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“A fews week ago I installed 10.6.2 using this guide. After a day or two everything was okay (most problems were related to getting QE/CI to work on my gtx275). So first: thanks to all contributors of this thread. Not all dsdt patches were a…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-01
808,277 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“I checked the audio midi settings but it doesn't let me configure the audiochannels at all. I do get output on the spdif out though.”
10.X Core2009-08-06
669,898 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“sorry mate if thats giving you a hard time good thing on mine it's perfectly working, try to put the RealtekR1000.kext in /S/L/E if it's not there or if it's /Extra/Extension add IONetworkingFamily + IOPCIFamily if still no luck maybe you s…”
10.X Core2009-08-02
669,898 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“google realtekr1000.kext by psystar, Time Capsule and airport utility is working flawlessly on mine. i've tried using the psystar kext but without any sucses. I've tried a port scan through network utility. 53 domain / 5000 commplex-main / …”
10.X Core2009-07-30
669,898 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“i've installed a retail osx 10.5.7 on this board using chameleon en kexts loaded on EFI partition and everything works except airtunes. I can ping the airport express but the airport util & itunes can't find it. Tried restarting the afp and…”
10.X Core2009-07-29
669,898 dossier reads
GeForce GTX 260 in Snow Leopard
“I've come to the point that i've removed all the NV files and now i can get into snow leopard. But is there anyway to generate a correct hex string for the gtx275 ?”
10.X Core2009-09-26
273,816 dossier reads
GeForce GTX 260 in Snow Leopard
“i have the same probem (no screen output after boot) but with an asus gtx 275. Any chance you can help me out with that?”
10.X Core2009-09-25
273,816 dossier reads
GTX 275 on snow leopard
“estravagancia you made my day, the GTX 275 works just fine now!”
10.X Core2009-10-01
33,046 dossier reads
GTX 275 on snow leopard
“nice! the version i was using didn't show the GTX 275 in the list.”
10.X Core2009-10-01
33,046 dossier reads
GTX 275 on snow leopard
“they did, for the GTX285. And they used to work in osx 10.5 with netkas' injector.”
10.X Core2009-09-30
33,046 dossier reads
What identifies my system as a Laptop to Snow Leopard
“I'm not sure it's the only thing you should do to get those specific system preferences items. Is your system profiler picking up the changes you made on the smbios file ?”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-01
4,720 dossier reads
Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Retail Tutorial
“yup same here… just had to reinstall the audio”
10.X Core2009-08-06
669,898 dossier reads
What identifies my system as a Laptop to Snow Leopard
“that should be edited in the smbios.plist”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-01
4,720 dossier reads