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Member #402 · 2008-01-31 → 2008-03-29
#427 by Dispatches #3,388 by Author Reads #1,763 by Thread Reach Member #402 NVIDIA GeForce AHCI / SATA ALC889a / Audio

@sh0td0wn

InfiniteMac community contributor with 18 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (2,304 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 196,599 historical readers.

Dispatches 18 Ranked #427 of 6,691
Author Reads 2,304 Ranked #3,388 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 196,599 Ranked #1,763 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 2,304 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #402 Joined 2008-01-26
Active Window 2008 2008-01-31 → 2008-03-29
Archive Standing
#427 of 6,691 by Dispatches (18 notes) · #3,388 of 3,454 by Author Readership (2,304 reads across 1 dossiers) · #1,763 by Thread Reach (196,599 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #402 · Joined 2008-01-26
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (5) · AHCI / SATA (4) · ALC889a / Audio (3) · AMD OSx86 (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
10 (56%)
10.X Core
5 (28%)
General
3 (17%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @sh0td0wn (1)

2,304 cumulative reads on threads started by @sh0td0wn

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
MACH problems because of ALC883
I can restart, sleep and shutdown my computer BEFORE I installed ALC883.mkpg from http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36520&hl=ALC883 (because the one in the installer didn't work). I do have sound. Everytime I restart, sleep,…
Leopard 10.52,304 reads
2008-03-29 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (15)

Direct links into threads where @sh0td0wn contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Hardware Thread
“OS: Mac Os X Leopard 10.5.1 (Zephyroth), Windows Vista Ultimate Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Motherboard: Asus A8-M2N AM2 (Nodus M) Stock HP Motherboard (nForce 430) - Should I buy one of those Phenoms? Memory: 2x1gb DDR2 PC4200 533mhz…”
10.X Core2008-01-31
46,836 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“Yeah. It was an answer to that. I have the same problem... No QE/CI.. Best bet is to get those cheap nVidia 7xxx GPUs since they are compatible. Just wondering if 8600 GTS is supported in the nVidia installer because I will be replacing my …”
Leopard 10.52008-02-05
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“Hmmm, I don't think there were ever onboard 6150s on real Macs but if somehow can someone can edit the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 or X3100 kexts since they are onboard graphics that use system memory I think. I hope that the new n…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-03
30,877 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard 10.5.1 AMD - Rev. 2 - Discussion Thread
“For sound, get AppleAzalia ALC88x kext, it will work for you since we got the same one. LAN, buy one of those 10$ Realtek cards or find them somewhere if you kept all of your used ones at home. I have no help on your 6150, it seems that we …”
Leopard 10.52008-02-02
30,877 dossier reads
Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant
“I followed this from the Kalyway thread and it worked on Zephyroth DVD/ Boot using "-s" then type "/sbin/mount -uw /" "passwd root" Type any password you want "touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone" "reboot" and login with root and the password you…”
Leopard 10.52008-01-31
23,784 dossier reads
Earth Hour 2008
“I'm participating. I heard that people in Sydney did that and the lights turned off was equivalent to taking off 45,000 cars off the road.”
General2008-03-29
8,990 dossier reads
me ! (A8N-LA (Nagami2L) Motherboard)
“I used the Tulip driver for my ADMtek AN983 cheap card ripped off some Pentium II junk.. Unfortunately, I lag when I try to play games online with it... So I have to plug my ethernet cable to NFORCE to play.”
10.X Core2008-02-19
8,352 dossier reads
me ! (A8N-LA (Nagami2L) Motherboard)
“Uhh, yeah, i have the same problem... 6150 LE is never going to have QE/CI.. And for LAN, forcedeth never worked for me... I took out an old ethernet card and used it for internet.”
10.X Core2008-02-19
8,352 dossier reads
Network support on OSx86
“Realtek RTL8201N? There's a Tiger kext but Leopard isn't fully supported. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=73317&hl=RTL8201N In safe mode, go to /System/Library/Extensions/ and search for GeForce.kext, Ge*.kext, NV*.kext. Re…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-01
8,023 dossier reads
Can anyone
“Are you using an nForce MB? It's not in the DVD and you need to include MeDevil's newer SATA controllers for nForce in it. (Go to the wiki and look for how to add kexts to DVD)”
Leopard 10.52008-01-31
4,827 dossier reads
Very long installation time (3 days)
“Play around with your 80GB IDE primary/secondary slave jumper settings.. That's my problem atm..”
Leopard 10.52008-02-19
3,706 dossier reads
OSX and 4GB
“Go to the Apple Store and configure the Mac Pro.. 32 GB RAM option is there.”
10.X Core2008-02-19
3,114 dossier reads
Member Nationalities
“Filipino... and living in Canada”
General2008-01-31
41,477 dossier reads
Leopard installed, but hanging in the Startup-Assistant
“keep trying again because I had the same problem. It's a solution that will work for sure.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-02
23,784 dossier reads
OSX and 4GB
“lol.. b/c of 32GB RAM of Mac Pro.”
10.X Core2008-02-19
3,114 dossier reads