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iPC X-DL is now released at the usual places (DO NOT ASK WHERE TO GET IT). It is a combo LiveDVD and full iPC Installer (dual boot DVD) in a dual layer ISO. Please read the following release notes CAREFULLY! iPC X-DL release notes: Use at…

Some of you may have noticed that after a fresh Snow Leopard install, when you try to boot your computer (with a GTX 260 card) you just get a black screen when everything has finished loading. Here's the easiest way to fix this issue and…

Well, I've decided to post this here and on my site because apparently InsanelyMac doesn't want this as shown by the fact that any threads regarding this are deleted. I am the one and only pcwiz and I would like to present my upcoming…

Well you all remember the OSx86 distro I announced earlier. The public beta time is here and the torrent will be available in 1-2 days. Tech Specs: P.S. Who took away my OSx86 developer status on InfiniteMac THANKS Puttabong ISO Size on…

Haven't been active in the OSx86 community for a while now, but recently my trusty Leopard install just broke down randomly and I was not able to fix it, so I went ahead and installed Snow Leopard. After some fiddling around I was able to…

Testers need to have made sure that they know how the EFI partition boot method works, and that the manual method works for them, so they know what to do in the case of a problem. I also require that testers, if the tool does not work, can…

Haven't posted here or done anything on the OSx86 scene for a while, but I have a project that you guys might like, later down the pipeline For now, I just wanted to share the kexts and DSDT that I'm using on my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P (Rev.…

I think you all know of munky's EFI partition method, by using the useless EFI partition on a GUID partition to serve as a boot 132 partition of sorts, allowing non vanilla users to boot retail. The procedure is pretty long winded, and I…

I haven't really been active on the scene for a few years now but I recently had to install OSx86 on my computer again because I needed it for recording/music production. Looking through the forums I still found tons of reference to using…

“PPF5 Released; iPC OSx86 Public Beta PPF5 THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE LAST PPF TO IPC PUBLIC BETA. NO PACKAGES CAN BE ADDED ANYMOREAND I HAVE DONE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO FIX DVD BOOT ERRORS PLEASE APPLY PPF1 2 3 AND 4 BEFORE APPLYING THIS PPF5 MD5…”

“Guys the MD5 for the PPF3 Patched ISO I posted was wrong. Here is the correct one: fb4742db14dcba1892ead2f61b080e4e Sorry for any inconvenience!”

“Sorry for my absence lately, was busy. Now onto the issues. I got a list of stuff here to add for PPF3: pcwiz computer.com/ipcosx86/?p=113 naquaada, If you can send me the working kexts I'd be more than happy to add them for the next PPF. I…”

“There is something called the "PowerManagement Package" underneath the Power Management category. Install this for working battery meter”

“rohizzle121, Try typing "sudo su" instead of "sudo -s" and then run the commands. RMF, thanks, fixed it in the main post”

“DVD has been updated to 10.5.6, ton of new stuff added. Public beta in 2 days: Coming Soon: iPC OSx86 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 (10.5.5)”

“*sigh* I had everything uploaded to send space.com and ready and then horror struck. I encountered some problems with my beta ISO. Upon further inspection of the ISO I discovered the most of the packages were missing or corrupted. I've fixe…”

“Thanks everyone for the interest I'll get to all the beta testers late tomorrow. I'm setting this to upload overnight. Its not going to be a torrent or on newsgroup. I made a highly compressed RAR split into 100MB parts and am uploading it …”

“Yeah, I'll be uploading the beta ISO tonight. And btw I've been promoted from Premium Member to OSx86 Developer. What does that mean?”

“AWESOME! I just switched in the kernel and extensions.mkext from the JaS DVD into mine and it booted perfectly!”

“PM sent to naquaada Here is my kextstat output: The only relevant entry in there in terms of SATA is AppleIntelPIIXATA which is the SATA driver for ICHx chipsets that my computer uses. And that kext is already in the Extensions.mkext for my…”

“nfoav8or, I'll get the kextstat output and post it up here, thanks for the tip naquaada, Hold on a sec while I boot back into my OS X install and I will upload the 71c2 and x1600 package in a zip and pm you the link.”

“naquaada, Do you want me to upload the packages so you can check it yourself? nfoav8or, I have ICH9 SATA and I can certainly add that kext, but do you think adding an nForce kext will solve the ICH9 sata problem? I'm ignorant of the ways of…”

“So I completed my testing and it went great. I had the ISO image of the distro written to a spare HD, installed to a test partition and everything worked out beautifully. So then I decided to write the ISO to a blank DVD and guess what..."S…”

“rpbelentani if you tell me what your onboard LAN is I could tell you if it is supported. I believe the Voodoo kernel will fix your one core issue and it will be included in the final iPC release. I have a nice progress update: I have comple…”

“This release is at a standstill because bhast2 hasn't sent me the files yet, I hope he does it eventually If anyone can get a hold of bhast2 please tell him to contact me.”

“Natit, ATIinject, and Titan are all injectors, they serve the same purpose but sometimes they work for different cards and different versions of OS X. Well if 7.5.5 is slow, then I think you can revert back by installing QuickTime 7.5.4 ove…”

“iPC will have NO customizations. No changed bg, no changed About this Mac, just retail Leopard as it should be. Believe me, I don't like customizations either. Takes away from the experience of using Leopard. The DVD uses the official Chame…”

“I've attached an installer package that installs DuNe's drivers for ICHx so installing that may let it recognize it properly. Other than that there is no other drivers for ICH chipsets. Your boot issue doesn't have to do with ICH10R, but I'…”

“I've included some descriptions for the installer options in the installer itself, which should give you a basic idea of what you should install. But as many people say, if you don't know what components are in your system exactly, its not …”

“Show me where the driver is for ICH10R and I can add it. But I think the "Intel ICHx" option on the DVD should sufffice, but I'm not too sure since it hasn't been tested on ICH10R.”

“naquaada, Nope, iPC is based 100% on the Mac OS X 10.5.4 9E25 Retail DVD with minimal modifications so those problems should not exist. I included both packages just in case because it seems that they use different kexts. The 71cx ATI drive…”

“thanks for all the comments. One person I would like to thank immensely is bhast2 for answering all my questions and helping me with my problems Now onto the suggestions. For NullCPUPowerManagement, the final release includes Disabler.kext …”

“Yes there is RT2870. naquaada * Thanks for the tip, I'll add the old Finder as an option * Yes, please upload both QuickTime and the X1600 drivers and I can add them * I will add Zephyroth's set of utils * I have no idea what to do about th…”

“I'm not sure. Its strange that that would happen. Are you sure the HD is partitioned right? GUID partition map?”

“Does this new hard drive have any difference with the one you used before? Also make sure your partition name has no spaces in it”

“Post what you want added in the PPF here: http://code.google.com/p/ipcosx86ppf/issues/list naquuada, if you could give me pointers on how to fix the 2 "Known problems" that would be great Additional Files * PPF3 has 4GB supporting AppleNFor…”

“Chances are that the same DSDT will work for Snow Leopard, but you need to apply the CMOS reset fix to the DSDT for it to work properly in SL.”

“Work on PPF3 is being done rapidly. It aims to fix all previous issues with the DVD. For a complete list of issues that are being fixed for PPF3 see here: http://code.google.com/p/ipcosx86ppf/issues/list?can=1&q=&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Prio…”

“Its available now: iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3”

“Hehe, it wasn't hard to fit everything after removing Printer Drivers, Xcode Tools, Extensions folder, and the Additional Speech Voices (that's the secret, its like 700MB). I left all languages in there. I removed Boot Camp too (I could hav…”

“Thanks for your (mostly) positive responses on this thread. This is the first time I'm really confessing it, but I am 14 right now (iPC started at 13, app programming started at 11) so I don't have nearly as much experience as most think (a…”

“This app doesn't "analyze" your system, you have to create the packages yourself and add them. Of course no disc will be totally compatible, you have to use add on drivers. You can't pop in a disc, install, and expect everything to work the…”

“Found the solution If anyone else is having an issue like this, where their wireless card worked in Leopard but not in Snow Leopard using the same steps, make sure your card is in PCI Slot 2. I had my card in slot 1 and it didn't work, movi…”

“Thanks for all the interest guys I will let any interested testers test after JaS has given me his results (sometime soon). And nfoav8or, you have to keep things separate and select Kexts folder, kernel, and plist. This way keeps it more or…”

“To answer nfoav8or's questions: Yes it assumes that you have it partitioned as GUID, the drives are in the diskXsY format (the app uses 'diskutil list' to grab a list of the drives, finds the ones that are 1st partition with the EFI label a…”

“MoC, dude, you think all this does is apply SArtFiles? Oh no no no...This can apply FULL SYSTEM themes with skins to every app in the computer if necessary. It lets developers easily distribute your themes. Try copying 200 files to their lo…”

“Updated both my MacBook Pro and my hackintosh with the update and everything works fine. The weird thing is that when I updated my MBP using Apple Software Update the update was 9.8MB, but when I downloaded the update from Apple's site to u…”

“OS X will not boot in most virtual machines. I'm not sure if this is an issue with the bootloader, so far the only success I've had in booting an OS X VM is in VMware (which works extremely slowly, and with barely any hardware support).”

“I know the solution to this problem, I'm writing a guide right now and will put in the link in this post when I'm done EDIT: Here's the guide: GeForce GTX 260 in Snow Leopard Follow that and you should be fine”