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Member #936 · 2008-02-19 → 2008-02-20
#1,749 by Dispatches #1,950 by Author Reads #2,426 by Thread Reach Member #936 AMD OSx86 EVGA / X58 NVIDIA GeForce

@optmsprim2

InfiniteMac community contributor with 4 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (5,197 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 79,403 historical readers.

Dispatches 4 Ranked #1,749 of 6,691
Author Reads 5,197 Ranked #1,950 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 79,403 Ranked #2,426 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 5,197 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #936 Joined 2008-02-18
Active Window 2008 2008-02-19 → 2008-02-20
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ · MSI Neo-4F (nForce4 chipset/lan) · 2 GB corsair ram · 1x WD 160 GB IDE HD (Vista) · 2x Hitachi 160 GB SATA HD (Ubuntu on one, OSX on the other) · 1x WD 500GB USB HD · evga geforce 8800 gts 320MB · 1xLG (something) 16x dvd-r/rw · 1x pioneer 111d 16x dvd-r/rw
Archive Standing
#1,749 of 6,691 by Dispatches (4 notes) · #1,950 of 3,454 by Author Readership (5,197 reads across 1 dossiers) · #2,426 by Thread Reach (79,403 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #936 · Joined 2008-02-18
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (2) · EVGA / X58 (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · AHCI / SATA (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@zephyroth @quark @althon @subsonic @bhast2 @DoiX @Puttabong @megaargon1 @WinLinMac01 @akireyev @McDead @1207FX @eard @demigodz

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
4 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @optmsprim2 (1)

5,197 cumulative reads on threads started by @optmsprim2

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Successful install but dreaded "still waiting" on first boot
I've read all the other SATA threads for 10.5.2 here and on insanelymac and haven't been able to see if the problem has been solved yet. Just an FYI i've had completely working installations of tiger 10.4.8 and zeph's 10.5.1 release on the…
Leopard 10.55,197 reads
2008-02-19 · 14 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (3)

Direct links into threads where @optmsprim2 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“freshcuts, i used to think sound didn't work on mine because it was set to 6ch in the Audio MIDI setup in utilities and when i would play something sometimes it would play and sometimes it wouldn't because it seemed to send the audio to the…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-20
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“After getting over some initial bouts of stupidity i found that this release (from th tpb iso) works on my system OOTB completely. installed on a separate SATA HD with a freshly formatted single GUID partition and installed GUID EFI v8. the…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-20
74,206 dossier reads
Successful install but dreaded "still waiting" on first boot
“ha...yeah just got around to fooling around with it again. feel like a complete idiot and missed that on the install. done and done. thanks!”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
5,197 dossier reads