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Member #7,960 · 2009-06-27 → 2009-07-02
#1,322 by Dispatches #807 by Author Reads #4,073 by Thread Reach Member #7,960 NVIDIA GeForce AHCI / SATA Chameleon / Boot-132

@nwoolls

InfiniteMac community contributor with 6 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (14,029 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 14,029 historical readers.

Dispatches 6 Ranked #1,322 of 6,691
Author Reads 14,029 Ranked #807 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 14,029 Ranked #4,073 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 14,029 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #7,960 Joined 2009-06-27
Active Window 2009 2009-06-27 → 2009-07-02
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#1,322 of 6,691 by Dispatches (6 notes) · #807 of 3,454 by Author Readership (14,029 reads across 1 dossiers) · #4,073 by Thread Reach (14,029 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #7,960 · Joined 2009-06-27
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (3) · AHCI / SATA (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · EVGA / X58 (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@thorazine74 (3) @Undead Surfer (3) @geiman (3) @sumity

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
6 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @nwoolls (1)

14,029 cumulative reads on threads started by @nwoolls

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
OS X 10.5.6 on an Nforce 680i PC
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I'm trying to get OS X (iDeneb v1.4) on my PC: EVGA nForce 680i SLI: http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/122-CK-NF63.pdf On board audio On board network e-GeForce 9800 GTX KO:…
Leopard 10.514,029 reads
2009-06-27 · 13 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (5)

Direct links into threads where @nwoolls contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
OS X 10.5.6 on an Nforce 680i PC
“I'd still love any direction on getting the iPC release going as it seems pretty comprehensive. However, I have made some good strides with XxX and iDeneb. It seems like the only missing piece was using cpus=1 at the boot prompt. This, alon…”
Leopard 10.52009-07-02
14,029 dossier reads
OS X 10.5.6 on an Nforce 680i PC
“I used iPC for my machine; other than iPC, the only other distro that actually worked for me was the original TOH RC2 10.5 Leopard release; I'm trying iPC 10.5.6 Final. The install goes through fine, but after restarting I get: system confi…”
Leopard 10.52009-07-02
14,029 dossier reads
OS X 10.5.6 on an Nforce 680i PC
“Try using AHCI mode if available, that will let you avoid AppleNForceATA and all its troubles. Is this "AHCI mode" a BIOS setting or a kext or? Sorry, I'm new here Also check your BIOS settings, the last panic mentions APIC, some BIOS could…”
Leopard 10.52009-06-30
14,029 dossier reads
OS X 10.5.6 on an Nforce 680i PC
“Use this NForceATA driver --->> http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127611 Use this network driver --->> http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=125569 Thanks for those - the first sounds promising as I do have…”
Leopard 10.52009-06-30
14,029 dossier reads
OS X 10.5.6 on an Nforce 680i PC
“Nice - thanks for the hints, I'll try those out. Now that you mention the graphics, the only time I think I've seen the desktop was when I tried installing NVinject (but I also got corruption and lock-ups). Since then, because I was having …”
Leopard 10.52009-06-29
14,029 dossier reads