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@seren
InfiniteMac community contributor with 79 recorded dispatches, 6 lead technical dossiers (30,616 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 592,233 historical readers.
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Lead Dossiers
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Member Number
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Joined 2008-02-12
Active Window
2008
2008-02-16 → 2008-07-29
- Archive Standing
- #91 of 6,691 by Dispatches (78 notes) · #350 of 3,454 by Author Readership (30,616 reads across 6 dossiers) · #985 by Thread Reach (592,233 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #722 · Joined 2008-02-12
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- NVIDIA GeForce (5) · AHCI / SATA (3) · AMD OSx86 (3) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1) · Retail DVD / USB (1)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @WinLinMac01 (19) @Puttabong (15) @bhast2 (14) @DoiX (12) @Ianxxx (11) @R0GUE (11) @roisoft (9) @mrburns05 (7) @naquaada (6) @Firewalk (5) @Voyn1x (5) @xx66stangxx (5) @agrafuese (4) @nfoav8or (4)
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 4 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @seren (6)
30,616 cumulative reads on threads started by @seren
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Suggest essential software Lets make a list of those apps you cant go without! Here's my list (in no particular order) Firefox AudiumX Overflow Transmission NetNewsWire AppZapper 1Password Pacifist KextHelper Kavatunes (for gathering album art) istat menu meters… | Software & Kexts | 7,944 reads 2008-04-18 · 21 notes |
| EFI MBR Boots to white screen I just installed leopard then applied the efi patch and when the boot loader normally starts all i see is a very bright white screen. After about 15 seconds my machine reboots. I can boot to my leopard 10.5.1 install with the dvd in the… | Leopard 10.5 | 6,648 reads 2008-02-16 · 4 notes |
| What to use ATI X1300 512mb Or Nvidia 7600GS 256mb I just got from a friend a use but very behaved Nvidia 7600GS 256mb PCIE While I dont game much I would like to know weather i should replace my fully working ATI X1300 512 MB (QE/CI) works perfect. I seen the thread about people with… | 10.X Core | 5,803 reads 2008-03-27 · 3 notes |
| Marvins Utility I cant get Marvins Utility to run; I just freshly installed Rev2 and when I run Marvins Utility I get "Marvins Utility Is Not Supported On This Architecture." | Leopard 10.5 | 3,980 reads 2008-03-24 · 12 notes |
| Fixing the keyboard I want to get all the simple key commands working like home / end there may be others but im at the uni and cant test what doesn't work, also i found this n8g ray.org/blog/2004/05/07/fixing-the-homeend-keys-on-os-x/ . I would like to get… | Leopard 10.5 | 3,252 reads 2008-03-12 · 6 notes |
| Best method to upgrade hard disk. I just bought a new SATA 500gb Drive and intend on migrating my leopard install to this drive. I have 10.5.2 installed with MBR and EFI. Would it be best to use something along the lines of Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner? Would any of… | Leopard 10.5 | 2,989 reads 2008-03-12 · 6 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @seren contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “As far as this issue is concerned I'm one of the lucky ones. I have has sporadic problems with -10xxx errors and the mouse movement. My CPU is a X2 Brisbane 5000+ Black Edition (Unlocked Multi) Stock 2.6GHZ Running at 3.2GHZ with 4gb ddr2 8…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-07-09 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “I have 4gb ram and i had this same problem. I had to turn OFF "Memory Hole Remapping" or Remap Memory Hole some BIOS are different. I found this option in my DRAM setting menu where i set CAS/RAS/TRCD /etc.. [cite] bhast2:its something with…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-01 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “On my board its called MPS Version control i have a DFI Ultra-ii-m2 Nforce4-Ultra” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-30 134,652 dossier reads |
| AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug “Loving those black window decorations how did you change those? i cant find any UI mods for leopard with shapeshifter not compatible. [cite] roisoft:E6850=3.4ghz( 24/7) +400mhz OC, 3.8 (stable), 3.95 my top score, but i don´t want to force …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-28 134,652 dossier reads |
| LawlessPPC Phenom & AMD 10.5.4 Beta Release Discussion “Just installed LawlessPPC 10.5.4 and it works awesome. One thing that is bugging me is the when i right click an application in the dock that says "Assign Application to ===> TEMP" I have no idea what this is and its a annoyance. What is it…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-07-29 91,699 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “How did you get the forcedeth driver to be stable without running with cpus=1? [cite] zephyroth:Seems good. My setup is ToH kernel 9.2, AC97 Audio Drivers, NForce 2/3/4/5, NVinject 640 + NVIDIA KEXTS (don't forget to check it too) + forcede…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-19 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “To anyone having problems with toast i ran marvins utility found in Applications -> Utilities against my root drive and it foung a lot of cpuid's to patch against. Many of them were related to Toast. Once patched Toast ran perfectly.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-18 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “[cite] WinLinMac01:Encountered my first problem. Restarted my computer for the first time, and boot loader did not automatically show up as Zephyroth previously reported that it would. Instead, now it stay at the Boot from CD prompt, and ca…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-18 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “About those with "Still waiting for root device" Please verify you installed the Drivers for your chipset, video, LAN, audio, via the "Customize" Button Left of the "Install" button. If you are still getting this error. List the Drivers you…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-18 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “The par file is used to repair rars im working on repairing 28 and 29 par is the god of rar archives and usenet binaries edit nope cant recover them not enough par files to recover with should be fine im not worried,” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB) “Dont know what the big deal is. But the newsgroups are the fastest and cheapest bandwidth there is. i get 1.5megs on my server. When the torrent gets up on tbp or anywhere else it will be chugging along with all the lechers and I bet dollar…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-17 74,206 dossier reads |
| What's your average boot up time “its known that running sli wont even start the gui.” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-17 31,845 dossier reads |
| What's your average boot up time “[cite] R0GUE:Some more info here: Hackintosh vs. Mac Pro vs. MacBook Pro Benchmarks (is .gd/6Ah) I think this link further shows how crazy you are WinLinMac01 @WInLinMac01 i boot with 30-35 seconds on a 5000+ x2 @ 3ghz per core w/4gb ddr800…” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-17 31,845 dossier reads |
| What's your average boot up time “popularm echanics.com/technology/reviews/4258725.html?page=2 iMac | $1499 20" Boot Average startup 28.7 sec. Gateway One | $1800 Average startup 1 min. 13 sec. MacBook* (Penryn) | $1299 Average startup 41.6 sec. Asus M51SR | $1299 Average s…” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-16 31,845 dossier reads |
| What's your average boot up time “no im just surprised a 3500+ and a mobo similar to mine out preforms me 5000+ at 3.0ghz with 4gb ddr2” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-12 31,845 dossier reads |
| What's your average boot up time “Dude your so full of your self it makes me sick. no intel macs load the Whole os that fast. Im not here to flame on you but i cant help call you out on that stupid lie. [cite] WinLinMac01:It takes 7 seconds to load the O/S while the White s…” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-11 31,845 dossier reads |
| Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel_Amd (sse2/sse3) EFI V8 RELEASED “Im at school when i get home in about an hour ill look at the script. im pretty handy with shell scripts but i cant make a promise” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-14 29,604 dossier reads |
| Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel_Amd (sse2/sse3) EFI V8 RELEASED “bhast2 open up the terminal type sudo then drag the whatever.command in the terminal then press enter type password at the prompt another way would be doing sudo su - then drag and drop again” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-14 29,604 dossier reads |
| Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel_Amd (sse2/sse3) EFI V8 RELEASED “bhast2 Isnt the new kext from MeDevil working for SATA Cdroms/DVD-rom? I thought it was.. If so will adding it to the dvd work? because there is a install script to add kexts to the dvd. just a thought.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-14 29,604 dossier reads |
| Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel_Amd (sse2/sse3) EFI V8 RELEASED “My expirenct with this dvd was mixed. Durring the instal there was an always repproductive error following the ./dumpemacs.sh script something was causiong the kernel to segfault ont hat script resulting in QE/CI not working. so im back to …” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-14 29,604 dossier reads |
| Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel_Amd (sse2/sse3) EFI V8 RELEASED “this error could mean 2 things 1 your letting the dvd time out ;P 2 your machine cant use efi only way to know is if a different dvd w/ efi has booted for you” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-14 29,604 dossier reads |
| Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel_Amd (sse2/sse3) EFI V8 RELEASED “Whats with the cpus=1 flag is that only for install for best stability? or does it apply to the system once installed? Im going to try this as i have nothing to looas with my lovely time machine backups .” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-10 29,604 dossier reads |
| nVidia 7600GS QE/CI with 10.5.2 anyone? If so, how “I was having so many problems also But i recently reinstalled zephs rev2 and before i was using mt ati card and i was trying to install the nvidia to an existing install. so when in reinstalled in put the nvidia card in and installed with 1…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-15 13,724 dossier reads |
| iPhone 3G revealed at WWDC 2008 “nothing exciting at all about black the 16gb will be available in white thats exciting!” | General | 2008-06-09 12,225 dossier reads |
| Unable to burn cd's... “I have the same drive as the OP and i confirm CD/DVD Burning Reading/ Writing / Erasing of Rewritable work perfect for me.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-14 10,562 dossier reads |
| BrokenStones “rouge / mrburns05 if u have profile links pls post i have 2 left” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-14 9,783 dossier reads |
| BrokenStones “bhast2 wanna trade? i need ftwr baaad ill send anyways” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-14 9,783 dossier reads |
| BrokenStones “one thing though thinking that my account can be banned for what u all do please link some profiles or prove you have good ratios elsewhere.” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-14 9,783 dossier reads |
| BrokenStones “i do have 3 need emails 1st come 1st wold enjoy any trades offered need torrentleach SCT FTN e***o pedros” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-14 9,783 dossier reads |
| BrokenStones “Love brokenstones when i get more invites ill pass them around” | 10.X Core | 2008-04-14 9,783 dossier reads |
| Nforce Lan Freeze Issue “[cite] Ianxxx:Anyone still having this problem give this a try. I have slowed down my memory timings namely Row Cycle time 14 and Row Refresh cycle time 18. This is not an overclocking issue as, Prime 95, memory test 86 and other OSs all ru…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-20 8,430 dossier reads |
| Nforce Lan Freeze Issue “Im running 10.5.2 Thanks to Zeph but i still have this issue. Im going to try some of the kext's found here.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-02-18 8,430 dossier reads |
| Tried Everything, Why wont it Work “No i would suggest using Kalyway 10.5.2 it's new. Zephs wont work with intel. Leo2allv2 will i think.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-16 8,202 dossier reads |
| What is causing this?-Computer must restart message “Do you have Memory hole remapping disabled in the bios, when using 4gb+ ram without having a native 64 bit os you will get hard locks when transferring large files.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-21 7,964 dossier reads |
| Suggest essential software “@ROUGE If you use apptrap check hazel out it has that feature plus it can watch folders for specific rules and organize or label your files according to a pretty extensive set of rules.” | Software & Kexts | 2008-04-18 7,944 dossier reads |
| Suggest essential software “as for the "Adobe Suite" i really didn't want to put all versions of the same software 0_o at least relativity he same” | Software & Kexts | 2008-04-18 7,944 dossier reads |
| AppleSMBIOS-27 for 10.5.2 “AppleSMBIOS.Kext-27 also causes the desktop to restart. I was using the one shipped with rev2 but it displays my ram at 400mhz when its 800. ideas are welcomed.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-04-14 6,190 dossier reads |
| Why are you coming to OS X “I started using Linux back in 1998 with debian. i later moved to gentoo and stuck with gentoo up until this year. I left gentoo because it seems to have lost its track. i tried OS X 10.4.8 and thought it was awesome but, i could not get qe/…” | General | 2008-04-20 5,876 dossier reads |
| Time Machine Error “WOOT! I don't know what the problem was... I went to Time Machine Pref's turned Time Machine to Off, clicked change Backup Disk; selected the same disk and it works! 3/19/08 12:37:11 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[272] Backup reque…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-19 5,840 dossier reads |
| Time Machine Error “Getting the similar error here, this is a fresh install of Rev. 2 I used the IONetworking.kext provided above and that got rid of the MAC Address cannot be found error. 3/19/08 12:31:56 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[179] Backup re…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-03-19 5,840 dossier reads |