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Member #13,578 · 2009-09-21 → 2009-11-09
#875 by Dispatches #522 by Author Reads #1,774 by Thread Reach Member #13,578 📍 NSW, Australia ASUS P5K / P5Q Gigabyte G31M / P35 ALC889a / Audio

@OzSpeedway

InfiniteMac community contributor with 9 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (21,901 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 192,441 historical readers.

Dispatches 9 Ranked #875 of 6,691
Author Reads 21,901 Ranked #522 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 192,441 Ranked #1,774 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 7,300 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #13,578 Joined 2009-09-20
Active Window 2009 2009-09-21 → 2009-11-09
Archive Standing
#875 of 6,691 by Dispatches (9 notes) · #522 of 3,454 by Author Readership (21,901 reads across 3 dossiers) · #1,774 by Thread Reach (192,441 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #13,578 · Joined 2009-09-20
Location
NSW, Australia
Website
australia nspeedwway.com
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ASUS P5K / P5Q (3) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (2) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · DSDT (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@djnitehawk @InteliMacPro @drossxyu @Gurruwiwi @teamka42 @rohizzle121 @flip360 @realpogo @Rampage @flackend @osxfr33k @doonkeykong @daze @framesx2x

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @OzSpeedway (3)

21,901 cumulative reads on threads started by @OzSpeedway

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Best wireless card for Snow Leopard
I have just wasted my money buying two Linksys WMP54G Wireless cards after checking with insanelymacs wiki. I cannot get these cards to work at all under Snow Leopard so… Can anyone suggest a *known* solution for wireless cards that run…
Snow Leopard 10.616,131 reads
2009-10-09 · 9 notes
Weird network issue after reboot
Howdy Was over at my Dad's today and changed the com.apple.boot.plist file. Executed a shutdown and reboot but once the machine came up, the network didn't work. I have the identical motherboard so I checked everything against mine and it…
Snow Leopard 10.63,076 reads
2009-11-08 · 3 notes
Weird screensaver issue
I have just finished a new install of SL on a Gigabyte board (EP45-UD3L) and most things are working fine. However, the screensaver on this one seems to have an issue and resets to default every time I exit the preferences screen. I built…
Snow Leopard 10.62,694 reads
2009-10-12 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (6)

Direct links into threads where @OzSpeedway contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
PRE-INSTALL AUTOMATOR v1.1 For easily installing vanilla snow leo.
“djnitehawk I would like to thank you for this brillant script, it is the ONLY thing that has has managed to install Snow Leopard on an ASUS P5K vanilla system. I tried every option in the book and was just about to trash this board in favor…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-28
155,730 dossier reads
Best wireless card for Snow Leopard
“Thanks everyone, cool info. @MonkeyLDuffy: Brilliant info, I like the idea of using Apple stuff for compatibility reasons. I have a Netgear N wireless unit in the cupboard to try @CyCloBot: I like the sound of the ASUS card for an interim f…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-10
16,131 dossier reads
Best wireless card for Snow Leopard
“The frame of mind I was in I admit I didn't look hard enough before purchasing, I looked again tonight and saw the V1 part. Now I suppose I will just flick them off on ebay or something for the Windoze people. I would still like some pointe…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-09
16,131 dossier reads
How to install Snow 10A394 on P5K-Deluxe in 30 minutes or less
“Site and OSX86 newbie here. I have been running 10.5.4 on my vanilla P5K for about a year and it is now time to upgrade. I am interested in SL and would like to try this method but the files linked in the first post are not available, does …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-21
14,810 dossier reads
Weird network issue after reboot
“Yup, when I built his machine I made a custom DSDT however that has nothing (that I can figure) to do with this problem. The *only* thing I did was to replace his com.apple.boot.plist with mine in an attempt to get his machine into 32bit mo…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-09
3,076 dossier reads
Weird screensaver issue
“Been thinking about this and I suspect it may have to do with the fact that I transferred all info from another HDD in the machine when finishing the install. I am going to do (yet) another install but this time have a shiny clean fresh one…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-13
2,694 dossier reads