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Member #3,131 · 2008-11-01 → 2009-12-25
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@ronoverdrive

InfiniteMac community contributor with 17 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 1,004,597 historical readers.

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Member Number #3,131 Joined 2008-10-31
Active Window 2008–2009 2008-11-01 → 2009-12-25
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#448 of 6,691 by Dispatches (17 notes) · #499 by Thread Reach (1,004,597 cumulative reads)
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Member #3,131 · Joined 2008-10-31
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (4) · DSDT (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · AMD OSx86 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
11 (65%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (17)

Direct links into threads where @ronoverdrive contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
List of NVIDIA GPUs supported in Snow Leopard 10.6.1
“according to your list the Quadro FX 1700 is supported but doesn't want to work”
10.X Core2009-11-30
508,489 dossier reads
iPC X-DL 10.5.6 Release
“today I downloaded iPC X-DL 10.5.6 and burned it to a DL DVD+R. When I tried booting it all went well till i got to the part where you enter bootlive;exit. After pressing enter when it asked me for the RAMdisk size it errors out on line 85 …”
10.X Core2009-06-25
274,027 dossier reads
MSI P43 Neo & Snow Leopard it's love...
“I am looking into this, I broke my 10.6 install with the 10.6.2 update. I think that I saw a tool here on infinitemac that would restore it to a flash drive or HDD. I was also looking into using BootThink, install it on the Flash drive and …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-05
52,583 dossier reads
MSI P43 Neo & Snow Leopard it's love...
“The P45 Neo3-F mobo also works using the same kexts as this one. Only difference is you need to add USBBusFix=Yes to your boot flags for the USB to work properly. Just thought I'd share since I know the P45 Neo3-F doesn't have much info out…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-27
52,583 dossier reads
AMD Patcher 0.2 Beta Test
“AppleScript Error: The variable resourcePathPOSIX is not defined. (-2753) I.E. halts at creating lists of files. haven't tried v0.1 like bhast has so I don't know if the earlier version would have worked. EDIT: I don't know what I did, but …”
10.X Core2008-11-01
34,754 dossier reads
Proplem with Empire EFI
“There's never a guarantee when you're making a hackintosh. Its something that can't be done considering we're using hacks to force install OSX on non-Apple hardware. Quite literally we're forcing a square peg through a round hole with a ham…”
10.X Core2009-12-20
27,484 dossier reads
nVidia GTS250 512MB DDR3 resolution issue
“Honestly I can't find anything regarding the VIA codec your sound uses and OSX so you may end up having to go out and buy a sound card that is compatible. As for your slow boot time I recommend you try patching your DSDT with the HPET patch…”
10.X Core2009-12-25
11,219 dossier reads
nVidia GTS250 512MB DDR3 resolution issue
“Well for that you may be missing a kext somewhere or you need to mod your DSDT.”
10.X Core2009-12-25
11,219 dossier reads
nVidia GTS250 512MB DDR3 resolution issue
“iATKos v7 is Leopard 10.5, the nVidia GTS & GTX 2xx series isn't officially supported till Snow Leopard 10.6.2 so you'll either have to upgrade to Snow Leopard (recommended) or back port the nVidia drivers from 10.6.2.”
10.X Core2009-12-23
11,219 dossier reads
iAtkos v7 on MSI Wind U100... help please...
“I've had success with Iatkos v7 on my Samsung N120, similar hardware netbook. Try this : Samsung N120 - OSX 10.5.7 (Iatkos v7) - fully working 10.5.8 with bcm94321 wifi I'm no great tech, and if that's your case, I think Iatkos is the way t…”
10.X Core2009-11-28
10,747 dossier reads
iAtkos v7 on MSI Wind U100... help please...
“The only success I've had with distros is with the WindOSX and SnowyWindOSX distros, but I recommend doing a retail install. If you search netbook snow leopard kexts you should find what you need.”
10.X Core2009-11-28
10,747 dossier reads
Buildng Quad Core AMD, Suggestions
“I bought AMD for a reason. I like AMD better. Regardless of what you like, you'll have an easier time running OSX on an Intel/Nvidia platform. You don't have to worry about installing custom kernels and CPUID patching at every system update…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-23
6,591 dossier reads
AMD vs Intel
“Yeah stick with an Intel setup. Less headaches because you don't need a custom kernel, patch CPUIDs each update, etc etc. If you're worried about money build it yourself.”
10.X Core2009-12-08
6,164 dossier reads
Boot Iso
“RONOVerdrive and Spalek83 I thank you both for your reply. what i am going to do is the following i will try this bootcd that you gave me the link for and try with a new hdd. and see how far does this empire efi cd will it support icore/5/7…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-23
5,320 dossier reads
Boot Iso
“Try using this version of Empire-EFI: mega upload.com/?d=80GT2A0V The problem is your Boot-132 CD probably doesn't have the 10.6.2 nVidia drivers which adds support for the GT2xx cards. Also if you already have Snow installed just update to…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-23
5,320 dossier reads
Multibooting
“pra sys.co.cc/2009/10/boot-camp-for-hackintoshes/”
10.X Core2009-12-25
3,813 dossier reads
8500GT Problem Snow.
“have you tried using the -pci0 boot flag?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-12
63,406 dossier reads