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Member #1,677 · 2008-03-10 → 2008-05-11
#780 by Dispatches #2,709 by Author Reads #2,115 by Thread Reach Member #1,677 AHCI / SATA AMD OSx86 ATI Radeon

@psychonautuk

InfiniteMac community contributor with 10 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (3,503 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 111,396 historical readers.

Dispatches 10 Ranked #780 of 6,691
Author Reads 3,503 Ranked #2,709 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 111,396 Ranked #2,115 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 3,503 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #1,677 Joined 2008-03-10
Active Window 2008 2008-03-10 → 2008-05-11
Archive Standing
#780 of 6,691 by Dispatches (10 notes) · #2,709 of 3,454 by Author Readership (3,503 reads across 1 dossiers) · #2,115 by Thread Reach (111,396 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #1,677 · Joined 2008-03-10
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AHCI / SATA (2) · AMD OSx86 (1) · ATI Radeon (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
7 (70%)
10.X Core
3 (30%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @psychonautuk (1)

3,503 cumulative reads on threads started by @psychonautuk

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Leopard Zephiroth AMD install EFI8 GUID Screen prob, Cursor then black screen
Well I got it installed to an extent, I had everything ticked bar the laguages and fonts. I have an Nforce board so all relevant boxes were ticked. I did have to fix the EFI though but it is loading to an extent in that I see a grey…
Leopard 10.53,503 reads
2008-03-10 · 12 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (9)

Direct links into threads where @psychonautuk contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Zephyroth Leopard AMD 10.5.2 Rev.2 Issue Discussion
“ah cool, no need to apologise, thats life isnt it! That will teach me to stop being so tight fisted!”
Leopard 10.52008-03-26
35,425 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard AMD 10.5.2 Rev.2 Issue Discussion
“Pefect install, well almost... Single boot EFI8 GUID always fails to install. Dual Boot with OSX on the 1st and XP on the 2nd partition works but I needed to fix EFI ( in the guides on here) ECS GF6100 integrated graphics board mobo thing. …”
Leopard 10.52008-03-26
35,425 dossier reads
Driver for nVidia GeForce 6100 integrated in nForce 430
“Buy a graphics card for £20, err the ATI X1650 will do QE and Core image hardware. I have the same Mobo type with that onboard and its not a programmable card. I have resigned myself to buying one as there are quite a few apps that wont wor…”
10.X Core2008-05-11
22,460 dossier reads
Zephyroth Uploading 10.5.2 Revision 2 (Latest Release), Discuss Here
“Is this the full image, I was under the impresssion Zeph was going to upload a package so you could patch the previous ISO. Did this happen and where can I get it? I dont want to have to download another 4 GB ISO!”
10.X Core2008-03-15
20,157 dossier reads
Leopard Zephiroth AMD install EFI8 GUID Screen prob, Cursor then black screen
“Well just for info, I sorted it. I moved all the ge drivers into a old drivers folder, efectivly disabling them.. Its up and running in normal mode now but no sound, or Lan, which I am working on. Thanks for helping.”
Leopard 10.52008-03-11
3,503 dossier reads
Leopard Zephiroth AMD install EFI8 GUID Screen prob, Cursor then black screen
“my boot help thing is corrucpted and I saw someone mention using -x on boot... Well that worked, and depite having the drivers selected at install I have none is seems so will have to fix that What does -x do anyway? can anyone point me in …”
Leopard 10.52008-03-10
3,503 dossier reads
Leopard Zephiroth AMD install EFI8 GUID Screen prob, Cursor then black screen
“Ah, well I fixed that problem.. it gets past that now it just does that flashing screen thing!”
Leopard 10.52008-03-10
3,503 dossier reads
Leopard Zephiroth AMD install EFI8 GUID Screen prob, Cursor then black screen
“Isnt that the blinking cursor error though? Thats different, to mine, I actually see the OS load, if I use -v it runs through and passes the verbose mode to get to the above mentioned problem. I notice at the bottom of the wiki on how to fi…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-10
3,503 dossier reads
mach_kernel 9.2.2 and 9.2.2 System.kext for AMD
“The xcode fix worked for me, thanks. System far more snappy!”
10.X Core2008-04-06
29,851 dossier reads