Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #16,445 · 2009-10-25 → 2009-11-17
#1,340 by Dispatches #1,216 by Author Reads #4,527 by Thread Reach Member #16,445 AMD OSx86 NVIDIA GeForce ATI Radeon

@NeilP

InfiniteMac community contributor with 6 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (9,238 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 9,238 historical readers.

Dispatches 6 Ranked #1,340 of 6,691
Author Reads 9,238 Ranked #1,216 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 9,238 Ranked #4,527 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 4,619 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #16,445 Joined 2009-10-24
Active Window 2009 2009-10-25 → 2009-11-17
Archive Standing
#1,340 of 6,691 by Dispatches (6 notes) · #1,216 of 3,454 by Author Readership (9,238 reads across 2 dossiers) · #4,527 by Thread Reach (9,238 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #16,445 · Joined 2009-10-24
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · ATI Radeon (2) · USB / EHCI (2) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@Imkantus (3) @razy60

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

10.X Core
6 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @NeilP (2)

9,238 cumulative reads on threads started by @NeilP

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
How to find out what hardware I have
I have spent two days now with three 6 month old versions of Kalyway, iAtkos and iDeneb disks, done multiple installs, (trying various Customisation options) and all (apart from one iDeneb install,) have failed to install. The one iDeneb…
10.X Core5,023 reads
2009-10-25 · 5 notes
Customisation options on iDeneb...and others
I have been having problems in getting any Hackintosh distro to run on my current hardware, iDeneb has been the only one that I can get to do a complete install. Have tried iAtkos, iDeneb and Kalyway. Any others anyone can recommend I try?…
10.X Core4,215 reads
2009-11-04 · 5 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (4)

Direct links into threads where @NeilP contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
How to find out what hardware I have
“The re boot sequence is: BIOS screen and then Darwin /x86 boot v 5.0.132 - Chameleon v1.0.12 Build date xx xxxx 2047 memory VESA v2.0...16mb ATI RADEON 9600 PRO Press any key for boot options... Loading Darwin x86 Then it jumps to a black s…”
10.X Core2009-11-01
5,023 dossier reads
How to find out what hardware I have
“Your CPU supports SSE3 and I would even try to get it working with the OS X stock / Vanilla Kernel. Great thanks For detailed and usable HW infos, boot up some Linux Live CD like Knoppix and enter "lspci -nn" on Terminal - you might even po…”
10.X Core2009-10-27
5,023 dossier reads
Customisation options on iDeneb...and others
“Thanks Raz, i'll give it a go. Yes you are correct, there is a mistake regarding the graphics card. I took the original video card spec from the sticker on front of the case, but it looks like a different card has been put in at some point.”
10.X Core2009-11-17
4,215 dossier reads
Customisation options on iDeneb...and others
“I have been trying to get a Hackintosh machine to work for 6- 10 months or more, but still not got a working system I had posted the hardware on a different thread, How to find out what hardware I have but did not want to ask a second quest…”
10.X Core2009-11-14
4,215 dossier reads