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Member #21,117 · 2010-01-07 → 2011-03-20
#758 by Dispatches #1,104 by Thread Reach Member #21,117 EVGA / X58 NVIDIA GeForce ALC889a / Audio

@mm2311

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Member Number #21,117 Joined 2009-12-30
Active Window 2010–2011 2010-01-07 → 2011-03-20
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#758 of 6,691 by Dispatches (10 notes) · #1,104 by Thread Reach (491,666 cumulative reads)
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Member #21,117 · Joined 2009-12-30
Hardware & Kernel Topics
EVGA / X58 (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (3) · ALC889a / Audio (3) · DSDT (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2)
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (10)

Direct links into threads where @mm2311 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“I have been trying, but I haven't be able to get it to work yet. Each time I crash my system i have to boot up Windows 7 recopy to NullCPU back in to the Extra folder. I have a Snow Leopard for VMWare that I can boot up and attach my Sata d…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-03-20
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Looks like I resolved it. Just in case your Finder is freezing. Disable any NTFS drives from automounting. I had two read/write entries I set in my etc/fstab file to allow for me to write to my Windows 7 drive and my NTFS USB flash drive. U…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-03-16
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“I have the EVGA X58 Board: 141-BL-E761-A1 BIOS 77 I have been having Finder freezing issue, in which I launch Finder or applications only to hang up. Has anyone played or patched a DSDT for this version. I was just using Airwalk's, but I'd …”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-03-16
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“I have updated to 10.6.4, once again the sound breaks. I kept my legacyhda.kext in the /Extensions/Extra folder and found the updated AppleHDA for 10.6.4. - I removed the Apple HDA.kext file from the Apple 10.6.4 update (S/L/E) - Dragged "m…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-06-17
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Apparently, I had no problem updating to 10.6.3 beside the common audio issue which was fixed with the kext I uploaded. I installed it and then used pfix to set the permissions, disk utility, repair, and then a reboot. However, for some rea…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-04-20
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Here is the file from kexts.com - Binary patched AppleHDA.kext for ALC889 I was messing around, shouldn't have been...lol I got the PC to boot again, however now it only boots in "-x" safe mode? If I attempt to boot normal, I lose the video…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-04-13
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“I have been getting this weird error on startup after the 10.6.3 update I have running Vanilla kernel EVGA X58 i7 -920 3.20GHZ 6GB DDR3 1600MHZ I have followed the guides and been running 10.6.2 forever. I did the 10.6.3 update and whacked …”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-04-09
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Everyone, Thanks for all the valuable information. I got it all fixed up and bootable. Runs like a dream on the i7, I may never go back to Windows again. Here's what needed to be done: 1.) Took my bootable USB flash drive and cloned it with…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-12
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“After modifying my boot file with GUI set to "Yes" I am getting stuck here. I already changed my UUID and removel sleepenabler.kext”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-08
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Guys, I followed the instructions for the installation and was successfully able to create a bootable USB Snow Leopard with 10.6.2. (boots fine but SLOW...lol) However, now I would like to get that working on my SATA drive! I used disk util…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-01-07
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