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Member #2,153 · 2008-07-19 → 2008-10-12
#1,297 by Dispatches #1,366 by Author Reads #3,267 by Thread Reach Member #2,153 NVIDIA GeForce AMD OSx86 ASUS P5K / P5Q

@SashaSki

InfiniteMac community contributor with 6 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (8,142 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 31,763 historical readers.

Dispatches 6 Ranked #1,297 of 6,691
Author Reads 8,142 Ranked #1,366 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 31,763 Ranked #3,267 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 4,071 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #2,153 Joined 2008-05-28
Active Window 2008 2008-07-19 → 2008-10-12
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
System is: · Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI SE · CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3800 · Gfx: PNY Geforce 7300GS
Archive Standing
#1,297 of 6,691 by Dispatches (6 notes) · #1,366 of 3,454 by Author Readership (8,142 reads across 2 dossiers) · #3,267 by Thread Reach (31,763 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #2,153 · Joined 2008-05-28
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (3) · AMD OSx86 (1) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
5 (83%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @SashaSki (2)

8,142 cumulative reads on threads started by @SashaSki

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
2 minute black screen at every boot
I just upgraded to 10.5.4 and now everytime I boot up after the lines of text my monitor will go into standby for 2 minutes and then come up and the desktop will load. I've tried everything to fix it, different kernels, QE/CI is working.…
Leopard 10.55,362 reads
2008-07-20 · 9 notes
After update to 10.5.4 system won't boot
I used Zeph's ASUpdater to install 10.5.4 on my 10.5.2 system, first I installed the 9.4.0 kernel without the update and the system worked fine, but after downloading and patching the 10.5.4 update and installing the boot hangs at this…
Leopard 10.52,780 reads
2008-07-19 · 5 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (4)

Direct links into threads where @SashaSki contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
October Desktops
“Here's my screenshot, 10.5.5 everything working perfect including my graphics card (Geforce 8400 gs) no nvinjects or titen kexts just straight EFI strings That's a great wallpaper, mind sharing it?”
Software & Kexts2008-10-12
23,621 dossier reads
2 minute black screen at every boot
“Hey thanks for your reply, I'm not using NVInject or NVKUsh, I was using Natit, I did as you suggested and added my Nvidia 7300 GS 256MB to the boot.plist but the same thing happens.”
Leopard 10.52008-07-22
5,362 dossier reads
2 minute black screen at every boot
“Thanks for replying, I'm currently using the 9.4.0 Kernel and System.kext and tried your other suggestions with no luck! I'm beggining to run out of ideas as to why this is and how to fix it. Is there anything else I can try? Thanks.”
Leopard 10.52008-07-21
5,362 dossier reads
After update to 10.5.4 system won't boot
“No matter I managed to fix it after fiddling with some kexts. But now I have another problem, everytime I boot my system after all the lines of text my monitor goes black and into standby mode and then after about 2 minutes it will turn on …”
Leopard 10.52008-07-19
2,780 dossier reads