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Member #39,700 · 2011-01-28 → 2011-06-30
#860 by Dispatches #1,105 by Thread Reach Member #39,700 DSDT Chameleon / Boot-132 EVGA / X58

@Mutant_Tractor

InfiniteMac community contributor with 9 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 491,666 historical readers.

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Member Number #39,700 Joined 2011-01-25
Active Window 2011 2011-01-28 → 2011-06-30
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#860 of 6,691 by Dispatches (9 notes) · #1,105 by Thread Reach (491,666 cumulative reads)
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Member #39,700 · Joined 2011-01-25
Hardware & Kernel Topics
DSDT (4) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · EVGA / X58 (1) · ATI Radeon (1) · AHCI / SATA (1)
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Latest BIOS with Chameleon RC5Pre12... seems to me the latest BIOS may have broken it Followed the instructions to the letter.”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-06-30
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Also, I the only thing I have changed from the last time I did this (when it kind of used to work) was the bios, I have also then redone the dsdt to match this, though it shouldn't make a difference as long as the dsdt is patched. I'm proba…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-06-18
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Me again, I am once again trying to install SL on my machine, have followed the guide by the letter (used a mac to install through os) and extracted and fixed the dsdt but every time I go to boot it just restarts, I have used Wait=Yes to tr…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-06-18
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Hi banini, Just as a side note I'm not using the ATI GPUs to set it up for simplicity's sake, I'm using an old 7800 GTX that I found lying around (I've seen NV works much better with OSX than ATI) I'll screenshot the KP once I'm at home (aw…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-30
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“1) (a) Yeah Chameleon RC5 via the installer rev 693 (b) CStates are enabled and PStates are as default (I assume this means disabled) (c) I don't use either so I'm imagining DropSSDT=No is default 2) (a) I'm using a MacBook Pro6,1 - 2.66GHz…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-30
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Im running Vanilla 10.6.6 thanks to your epic guide but there are a few problems, so I'll start with a spec-out: i7-980X EVGA E760 X58 (BIOS 77 - Latest - Supports up to 16 Core CPUs) 2x ATI HD5870's XFire Corsair Dominator GT (3x2GB) 2x Ve…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-28
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Post up the DSDT by any chance?”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-02-11
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Great work dude! What mobo you on?”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-02-11
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EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“@fq360 - Goto console and look at kernel.log”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-02-11
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