#439 by Dispatches #295 by Author Reads #2,578 by Thread Reach Member #7,383 AMD OSx86 ATI Radeon AHCI / SATA
@nicky9499
InfiniteMac community contributor with 18 recorded dispatches, 4 lead technical dossiers (35,705 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 68,918 historical readers.
Dispatches
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Author Reads
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Ranked #295 · 4 dossiers
Thread Reach
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Ranked #2,578 in reach
Lead Dossiers
4
8,926 avg reads / dossier
Member Number
#7,383
Joined 2009-06-06
Active Window
2009
2009-06-06 → 2009-06-09
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Phenom X3 4580 · Asus M2N-68VM · nForce chipset.
To reiterate my current hardware from the first post: · AMD Phenom X3 4580 · Asus M2N68-VM motherboard · Onboard sound: HDeck HD audio (Azalia) · Onboard networking: nForce PHY Gigabit LAN · Nvidia nForce 630a chipset · ATi Radeon HD4850 1GB · OCZ Camo Edition 4GB DDR2-1066
- Archive Standing
- #439 of 6,691 by Dispatches (18 notes) · #295 of 3,454 by Author Readership (35,705 reads across 4 dossiers) · #2,578 by Thread Reach (68,918 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #7,383 · Joined 2009-06-06
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- AMD OSx86 (4) · ATI Radeon (3) · AHCI / SATA (3) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · DSDT (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @Voyn1x (3) @xXrkidXx (2) @jpppdk @thorazine74 @sincro77 @sunfire523 @Imkantus @LordRaziel @dnyanesh @kameko @LOL_WUT @Vikas @madfilipe @thugnasty
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 2 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @nicky9499 (4)
35,705 cumulative reads on threads started by @nicky9499
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Will iPC run on this I, want to build a completely new SFF machine specially for OSX. Either way you look at it, it'll still be more fun and cheaper than buying an Mac Mini. Currently we have: Intel E8400 + MSI G45M-Digital Kingston 4GB DDR2-800 Hitachi 1TB… | 10.X Core | 14,840 reads 2009-06-09 · 12 notes |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ I'm trying to install iPC final release on: Phenom X3 4580 Asus M2N-68VM nForce chipset. During installation, the list of locations to install to is blank, and thus I am now trying to format a partition on my first drive for OSX. Have XP… | Leopard 10.5 | 10,089 reads 2009-06-07 · 19 notes |
| Trouble getting HD4850 to work. I need a little bit of help with the files on this page; our country's proxies mean that downloading from Rapidshare or such sites is vertually impossible. I would be more than grateful is some kind soul could download the files in… | Leopard 10.5 | 5,947 reads 2009-06-09 · 2 notes |
| iATKOS 10.5.5 and Phenom X3 hardware Kind of had enough of Windows. I have the following, am wondering what to do with the more-than-likely scenario that not all hardware will be compatible with OSX. AMD Phenom X3 8450 2.1GHz ATI Radeon HD4850 Asus M2N-68VM 4GB OCZ DDR2-800… | Leopard 10.5 | 4,829 reads 2009-06-06 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (14)
Direct links into threads where @nicky9499 contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Asus M2N68-AM Motherboard nVidia graphics wont work “Am using M2N68-VM board, very similar to yours. Ethernet has worked out of the box for me but needs to be fiddled with after every boot. USB works also (with appropriate drivers selected during initial install). ATA (DVDRW drive) and onboar…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-09 20,676 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “The OSx86 community is a total letdown. Fine, I'll use the search engines; but over half the results I get contain no solutions at all, but are instead mere threads back here or insanelymac.com that are completely ignored. Kexts.com contain…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-09 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “Maybe I need to rephrase this into simple English or Spanish or something before you guys can understand and respond. It's been 8 hours, no reply, and looked high and low but no comprehensive guide. How. Do. I. Install. And. Remove. Additio…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-09 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “Thank you Von1x. I am now able to boot into OSX. The resolution is terrible however, and at first glance I'm unable to change it. How would I go around adding drivers (primarily getting my graphics to kick in) for the different hardware? Et…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-08 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “Praise the Lord; under AHCI mode the disk partitions properly (and fairly quickly)! Thank you Von1x! A couple of last few questions and we can see light at the end of the tunnel. To reiterate my current hardware from the first post: AMD Phe…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-08 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “Okay, I've erased EVERYTHING off the first drive, so now it's totally blank with no partitions at all. Also worth noting, I've moved the drive in question from SATA0 to SATA1 while the second drive is still disconnected. Now, Disk Utility d…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-08 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “Thank you for your input. Under SATA mode, I get 3 options: SATA mode RAID mode AHCI mode Where else may I find a Legacy setting? It's an American Megatrends BIOS. Nicholas.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-08 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “Anyway, I have removed the second drive. Entered this into diskpart from the 50GB Windows partition: DISKPART create partition id=af Left out the primary size=n to make diskpart use all the remaining space; read this somewhere. Got this: EF…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-08 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “Look here guys, I'm not finding this cold shoulder treatment the least bit amusing after half a day. Is there not a single person here that has any idea what could be the cause? It's not like I'm demanding a solution here. Any input or sugg…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-08 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “Alright, I've wiped the entire drive, and partitioned 50 for XP, 200 for OSX. Diskpart has successfully done the id=af thing and I've set the 200 to active. However, the first drive still doesn't show up in Disk Utilities! What's going on? …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-08 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “I followed the instructions exactly, but diskpart threw up an error which says it cannot create the partition. >select disk 0 >disk 0 is now the selected disk. Now, on this disk there are the above mentioned partitions, the first in line be…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-08 10,089 dossier reads |
| Formatting PARTITION to HFS+ “I tried installing again, but only my secondary (500gb) storage drive appears. The drive with my blank and even the NTFS XP partitions do not show up. To make things clearer: Drive 1: Volumes C,E,F -C (150GB) reserved for OSX -E (50GB) stuf…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-07 10,089 dossier reads |
| Will Mac OS X86 Work on This Hardware “You'll find this more than helpful. pcwiz computer.com/ipcosx86/?page_id=96&cpage=6#comments Cheerio, Nicholas.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-07 9,353 dossier reads |
| Need Some simple help new at this... “Specs wise you've got sufficient. It's not nice to talk about torrents here, but as of now since you're using an AMD processor your best bet would be iPC Final Release. Cheerio Nicholas.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-06-09 3,184 dossier reads |