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Member #22,100 · 2010-01-31 → 2010-03-29
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@Methanoid

InfiniteMac community contributor with 6 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 1,741,402 historical readers.

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Member Number #22,100 Joined 2010-01-15
Active Window 2010 2010-01-31 → 2010-03-29
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#1,179 of 6,691 by Dispatches (6 notes) · #178 by Thread Reach (1,741,402 cumulative reads)
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Member #22,100 · Joined 2010-01-15
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ATI Radeon (2) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1) · AHCI / SATA (1) · DSDT (1)
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Now that the OP has "retired" and 10.6.3 is out will someone else experienced be updating the Guide? I see Asere's bootloader is now included - does that mean we no longer need worry that there is a new version of MyHack out?”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-29
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Two problem installs on two machines for me. One got hosed when going to 10.6.2 and when I tried to reinstall it fails to find the HDD. I even reinstalled standard MBR code to it (no change) then wiped it and repartitioned it. Tried with HD…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-18
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“This is a VERY long thread and perhaps I have missed it in the 15 pages I've read but… How do I safely update to 10.6.2 from 10.6? I managed to install 10.6 ok but my card was in VESA as I have a Radeon 4670. So I tried the beta booter from…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-13
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Hi. I was just wondering if anyone knew the proper BIOS settings to get this guide to work. I'm running Rev 2. and get kernel panics(ACPI) during boot. Another thing that is concerning me is that my dvd burner is IDE - could this cause issu…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-05
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“Its a huge thread to trawl thru and the 1st post does seem kept quite current but I'll ask anyway Are there are particular BIOS settings to ensure it works? Can IDE be on or off? HPET on or off? Do I need AHCI enabled or not?”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-05
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Retail Snow Leopard DVD install for G31M-ES2L
“I just wanna report & share that I had successfully installed above said. SL 10.6.1 on GUID partition on Hd2 SL 10.6.1 on MBR partition on Hd1 So basically makes no different if you use the OP method whether GPT or MBR formatted HDD? I also…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-31
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