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Member #7,193 · 2009-06-14 → 2010-09-03
#280 by Dispatches #211 by Author Reads #1,894 by Thread Reach Member #7,193 NVIDIA GeForce AMD OSx86 Voodoo / XNU Kernel

@safmaverick

InfiniteMac community contributor with 27 recorded dispatches, 6 lead technical dossiers (47,859 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 144,333 historical readers.

Dispatches 27 Ranked #280 of 6,691
Author Reads 47,859 Ranked #211 · 6 dossiers
Thread Reach 144,333 Ranked #1,894 in reach
Lead Dossiers 6 7,976 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #7,193 Joined 2009-05-29
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-06-14 → 2010-09-03
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
MSI 945PL Neo-F (2DIMMs) (msi .com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=227)
Intel P4 3.06 GHz 1Mb L2
Gainward GeForce nVidia 7600GS 256Mb 128Bit
2 Gb Kingston DDR2 + 512Mb TwinMOS DDR2
Maxtor 160Gb => Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8 by Hazard
WDC 320Gb => Windows XP SP3
Realtek AC'97 Audio on board
USB Creative SB Connect (ci ao.co.uk/Productinformation/Creative_Sound_Blaster_Connect__6592340) with Logitech Z-5500 (logi tech.com/en-us/speakers_audio/home_pc_speakers/devices/224)
Archive Standing
#280 of 6,691 by Dispatches (27 notes) · #211 of 3,454 by Author Readership (47,859 reads across 6 dossiers) · #1,894 by Thread Reach (144,333 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #7,193 · Joined 2009-05-29
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (6) · AMD OSx86 (3) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (1) · AHCI / SATA (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
12 (44%)
10.X Core
11 (41%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @safmaverick (6)

47,859 cumulative reads on threads started by @safmaverick

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
iPC 10.5.6. freezing
I have iPC 10.5.6. installed for some time and recently it starts to freeze in some occasions. First I thought it was because of Vuze, because it started to freeze when some download finishes. I uninstalled Vuze, but the problem stayed.…
10.X Core12,939 reads
2009-07-31 · 1 notes
Cannot get CI/QE on my Gainward 7600GS PCI-e
Im using iPC OSx86 10.5.7 Universal PPF5 Final version on my Intel P4 3.06GHz, but I cannot find a way to solve problem with Core Image and Quad Extreme for my Gainward 7600GS 256Mb 128bit PCI-Express video card. I tried many NVInject…
Leopard 10.511,410 reads
2009-06-14 · 9 notes
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
I was using Leo about year ago, but unninstalled it because I had some problems with it, so I wonder if there are bug fixes on Snow Leo? Here is my configuration: MSI 945PL Neo-F ICH7 Intel P4 3,06 GHz Gainward nVidia GeForce 7600GS 320Gb…
10.X Core7,015 reads
2010-04-12 · 14 notes
kextload problem
I want to make my sound work on my iPC 10.5.6 but I always got a kextload problem. I used this wiki tread ( http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Audio ) to make my sound work in the past, and it did work. Now when I want to do the…
Leopard 10.56,941 reads
2009-07-02 · 8 notes
Orange HD icon fix
Here is the file with which you can fix orange HD icons. It worked for me. Before: After:
Snow Leopard 10.65,513 reads
2010-05-02 · 1 notes
NTFS issues
I've installed Hazard's SL, everything is working fine, enabled NTFS Read/Write using this method, but somethimes, I don't know how and why, my data on some of NTFS partitions just dissappears. I can see that there is used space, but there…
Snow Leopard 10.64,041 reads
2010-04-27 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (21)

Direct links into threads where @safmaverick contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
How to update iPC 10.5.6 to 10.5.7? me
“I dont have an iPod. Only have WEB camera, and old TV Card, with no drivers for it… And for CI/QE I made a topic for that but nobody answers Cannot get CI/QE on my Gainward 7600GS PCI-e”
Leopard 10.52009-06-16
51,038 dossier reads
How to update iPC 10.5.6 to 10.5.7? me
“There You go : Before you start : Download Andy's 9.6.0 kernel package. search the forum for link. 1. Open the terminal. 2. Browse into main directory of your Mac OS partition. " cd /Volumes/name_of_partition " " ls -l " 3. You should see a…”
Leopard 10.52009-06-16
51,038 dossier reads
Update 10.6.4 Safety
“Hi, I've installed 10.6.4 Combo update but after restart I got this screen and everything stops. Tried verbose to see what is the problem but nothing happened. I think it's a kernel problem. I've backuped kernel via OSxTools and saved it be…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-03
45,436 dossier reads
Cannot get CI/QE on my Gainward 7600GS PCI-e
“nice suggestion, I will keep this on my mind also”
Leopard 10.52009-07-09
11,410 dossier reads
Cannot get CI/QE on my Gainward 7600GS PCI-e
“I made this QE/CI work on my Gainward 7600GS PCI-e 256Mb 128bit... First, I have reinstalled my iPC x86 10.5.6 PPF5 Universal Final version of mac. I installed it without any NVinject nor any other graphic kext that can be installed during …”
Leopard 10.52009-06-29
11,410 dossier reads
Cannot get CI/QE on my Gainward 7600GS PCI-e
“How to do that and where to do that. I was doing some changes that I found, in NVinject on the NVCAP, but than I got connected monitor and cannot change resolution(1024/768)… and I cannot use that... and monitor than works with frequency of…”
Leopard 10.52009-06-17
11,410 dossier reads
Cannot get CI/QE on my Gainward 7600GS PCI-e
“GeForce 7600 GS: Chipset Model: GeForce 7600 GS Type: Display Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0392 Revision ID: 0x00a1 ROM Revision: nVidia GeForce 7600 GS OpenGL Engine [EFI] Display…”
Leopard 10.52009-06-16
11,410 dossier reads
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
“Here it is, almost there. Installation success (Hazards SL for Intel/AMD SSE2/SSE3), there are no kernel panics, boots fast; BUT, cannot get through Welcome startup procedure. I don't understand what is the problem: after boot I get screen …”
10.X Core2010-04-24
7,015 dossier reads
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
“OK, now there is Kernel panic :S Verbose: Regular boot:”
10.X Core2010-04-15
7,015 dossier reads
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
“I spoke to milanca, probably installed wrong kernel, he told me what to install now, let you know the results”
10.X Core2010-04-15
7,015 dossier reads
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
“I've installed Hazard's Snow Leo for SSE2 SSE3 but when I boot it, it stops on apple boot screen, gray with apple on it. What should I do?”
10.X Core2010-04-15
7,015 dossier reads
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
“Could this work? osx86sv.word press.com/2009/09/04/how-to-install-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-on-a-pc-asus-p5-series/”
10.X Core2010-04-13
7,015 dossier reads
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
“So there is no way to install Snow Leo on my machine?”
10.X Core2010-04-13
7,015 dossier reads
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
“I've downloaded Snow Leo with these characteristics: The new version of the assembly for single-layer DVD, which is built onthe basis of Retail Snow Leopard 10.6 + Update 10.6.2 + Safari 4.04. Anassembly can be installed on GUID, and at the…”
10.X Core2010-04-13
7,015 dossier reads
kextload problem
“Thanx for the answer. I tried using VoodooHDA and it didnt work. I got problem solved by milanca, he gave me some newer AppleAC97Audio.kext which worked fine. And, yeah, IOAudioFamily.kext was also missing, and that is probably that depende…”
Leopard 10.52009-07-08
6,941 dossier reads
kextload problem
“Here is my AppleAC97AudioIntelICH.kext Info.plist file. where can I find that dependency? CFBundleDevelopmentRegion English CFBundleExecutable AppleAC97AudioIntelICH …”
Leopard 10.52009-07-04
6,941 dossier reads
kextload problem
“Any suggestions how to deal with it, Im kind a new here ?”
Leopard 10.52009-07-03
6,941 dossier reads
kextload problem
“thanx, but this doesnt help any other suggestion?”
Leopard 10.52009-07-02
6,941 dossier reads
NTFS issues
“What should I use from the options below This one selected is windows volume”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-04-29
4,041 dossier reads
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
“aaaaaaaaaaaaaand new kernel panic”
10.X Core2010-04-16
7,015 dossier reads
Suggestions for installing Snow Leopard
“So how to input vodoo kernel into here?”
10.X Core2010-04-13
7,015 dossier reads