#1,390 by Dispatches #790 by Thread Reach Member #23,905 Chameleon / Boot-132 NVIDIA GeForce EVGA / X58
@rdbram
InfiniteMac community contributor with 5 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 793,811 historical readers.
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Joined 2010-02-12
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2010
2010-07-01 → 2010-11-22
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Edit: Hardware · EVGA X58 SLI · nVidia GeForce GTX 260 · 6 GB GSkill DDR3 1600 · Intel Core i7 - 920
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- #1,390 of 6,691 by Dispatches (5 notes) · #790 by Thread Reach (793,811 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #23,905 · Joined 2010-02-12
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- Chameleon / Boot-132 (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · EVGA / X58 (1) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 2 technical boards
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (5)
Direct links into threads where @rdbram contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “Turns out it was a Chameleon issue. It boots, but fails on trying to go into mac. In -v I get the error USMBSC Identifier (non-unique): 18E3312D81B0 0x18e3 0x9101 0x0 Still waiting for root device Still waiting for root device and it just g…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-07-04 491,666 dossier reads |
| EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation “well this is my first post and my first attempt at a hackintosh. Pretty big problem though: my hard drive won't boot. Followed the instructions in the guide verbatim, generated my EFI string for my card, installed CHAMELEON RC4 to my EFI fo…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-07-01 491,666 dossier reads |
| GeForce GTX 260 in Snow Leopard “An update- As the other posters have mentioned, moving the NV* "problem" kexts, regardless of fixing the permissions, will still result in a black screen (does for me at least) My QE/CL is still crippled, seeing as the Flurry screensaver, S…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-24 273,816 dossier reads |
| GeForce GTX 260 in Snow Leopard “Huge problem. The initial actions were great, booted me right into the GUI. It appears though that the actions taken afterward (which I double checked, to write everything in terminal verbatim) some how rendered my drive unboootable. I now …” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-06 273,816 dossier reads |
| 10.6.5 is avaible via Softwareupdate... “Nooooooooooo Video broke for my vanilla install. QE/CI finally worked for me in 10.6.4 with my GTX 260, now all I get when I boot is a blue screen. :'(” | 10.X Core | 2010-11-22 28,329 dossier reads |