Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #11,499 · 2009-09-03 → 2009-10-05
#748 by Dispatches #381 by Author Reads #802 by Thread Reach Member #11,499 📍 London NVIDIA GeForce Retail DVD / USB EVGA / X58

@Siro

InfiniteMac community contributor with 10 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (28,945 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 750,757 historical readers.

Dispatches 10 Ranked #748 of 6,691
Author Reads 28,945 Ranked #381 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 750,757 Ranked #802 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 14,472 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #11,499 Joined 2009-09-03
Active Window 2009 2009-09-03 → 2009-10-05
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Ram: Corsair 4 GB DDR II 667 MHZ
Mainboard:Intel D946GZIS
Hard-Drive: 80 GB Seagate IDE,320 GB WD SATA II & 160 GB Maxtor SATA II External
VGA: EVGA Geforce 9500 GT DDR II Dual DVI 512 MB
DVDRW: Sony DRU-820A
Monitor: ACER AL1717-AS
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer! & Audigy 2 NX USB
Keyboard: Apple Pro USB
Mouse : Logitech MX 500,MX 700 & MX 518 Gaming Grade Optical Mouse.
OS: Windows 7 RTM, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1
Archive Standing
#748 of 6,691 by Dispatches (10 notes) · #381 of 3,454 by Author Readership (28,945 reads across 2 dossiers) · #802 by Thread Reach (750,757 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #11,499 · Joined 2009-09-03
Location
London
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (4) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · EVGA / X58 (2)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Snow Leopard 10.6
10 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Siro (2)

28,945 cumulative reads on threads started by @Siro

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Snow Leopard Installation on my Desktop (Specs Provided)
This is my first post here on these forums and I had some important questions to ask before I install a copy of Retail Snow Leopard on my desktop.My specs are listed below: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo e6300 Mainboard: Intel D946GZIS Ram:…
Snow Leopard 10.616,190 reads
2009-09-03 · 11 notes
Need to install 9500 GT drivers properly in Snow Leopard
I have been using Snow Leopard for the best part of 3 weeks and in sheer frustration of not being able to get my vga card working I used EFI Studio and installed the 8600 GT 512 mb card boot plist and got everything working. But with it at…
Snow Leopard 10.612,755 reads
2009-10-05 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (8)

Direct links into threads where @Siro contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Snow Leopard 10A432 Install
“How to go about it, I have no idea how to make a .plist or whatever in order to get my card running via EFI Studio I was so fed up that I installed the 8600 GT one and using that for the time being. Any information will be highly welcomed.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
694,068 dossier reads
Snow Leopard 10A432 Install
“How do I go about installing drivers for nVidia Geforce 9500 GT 512 MB the Efi Strings method results me in getting a boolean error via OSX86 Tools. I am going insane in trying to find a working method to get my card working in some way or …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
694,068 dossier reads
Snow Leopard on 945GZ Motherboard
“I am wondering how to go about a Retail installation of Snow Leopard and my specs are shown below in my signature and I also made a thread recently out if possible .”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
22,227 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Installation on my Desktop (Specs Provided)
“I have got all my problems resolved finally and have a full working Snow Leopard install updated to 10.6.1 without any problems. I appreciate for all the help that has been provided in here and kudos to all of them who were of great help.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-12
16,190 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Installation on my Desktop (Specs Provided)
“I will install Leopard today and follow the instructions provided above. Thanks for the help. Before I go forward with it this is the error I received a few days ago when I booted up after installing the SnowOsx Universal GM v3.5 and the im…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-05
16,190 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Installation on my Desktop (Specs Provided)
“So having a Leopard install is a must I suppose in order for this guide to work I presume!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-04
16,190 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Installation on my Desktop (Specs Provided)
“I have posted my issue on insanelymac as well but to no avail please any replies would be welcomed so I can follow to install Snow Leopard on my desktop.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
16,190 dossier reads
Geforce 9500
“How did you go about installing the drivers for your 9500 GT mine is a 512 mb one and I do not know how to go about OSX86 Tools gives me this error Can’t make "0" into type boolean. (-1700) while trying to add efi strings. Got everything wo…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-12
5,517 dossier reads