Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #10,805 · 2009-09-02 → 2010-12-03
#265 by Dispatches #194 by Author Reads #1,736 by Thread Reach Member #10,805 📍 Queens, NYC AHCI / SATA Retail DVD / USB ALC889a / Audio

@theta

InfiniteMac community contributor with 28 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (53,224 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 201,909 historical readers.

Dispatches 28 Ranked #265 of 6,691
Author Reads 53,224 Ranked #194 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 201,909 Ranked #1,736 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 17,741 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #10,805 Joined 2009-08-28
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-09-02 → 2010-12-03
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 "Yorkfield" 2.66GHz
Gigabyte EP45TUSB3P
EVGA 8800GTS
6 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OS X "Snow Leopard" 10.6.4
Archive Standing
#265 of 6,691 by Dispatches (28 notes) · #194 of 3,454 by Author Readership (53,224 reads across 3 dossiers) · #1,736 by Thread Reach (201,909 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #10,805 · Joined 2009-08-28
Location
Queens, NYC
Interests
BSD, Linux, Python, Django
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AHCI / SATA (5) · Retail DVD / USB (4) · ALC889a / Audio (4) · EVGA / X58 (3) · DSDT (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (2)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Snow Leopard 10.6
28 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @theta (3)

53,224 cumulative reads on threads started by @theta

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
Has anyone had any success with the nForce chipsets? I've got an eVGA 780i board and so far haven't had much luck; previously seemed to stall after it loads the LAN kext, now stalls on, 'AppleNForceATA: Found 0 units'. Note: I'm using an…
Snow Leopard 10.642,819 reads
2009-09-02 · 32 notes
GA-EP45T-USB3P: everything but sound
I installed with a retail DVD following some instructions on LifeHacker with relative ease. Everything works except sound. Has anyone gotten sound to work? Can anyone point me in the right direction? I would really appreciate any help.…
Snow Leopard 10.67,276 reads
2010-09-17 · 8 notes
Optical Drive Issue; Is the Drive Dying
So I've recently set up a new Hackintosh and everything is running nicely. I choose to use the GA-EP45T-USB3P this time around because of the better support for the chipsets. I haven't regretted it. Things actually work like they're…
Snow Leopard 10.63,129 reads
2010-09-23 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (25)

Direct links into threads where @theta contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
I tried to boot 10.6 on my PC but it got panic
“PC EFI10v1 and v2 both fixed this problem for me. (The pictured KP.)”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
85,711 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“All right, let me zip the app for you and attach it here. (Upload is limited to 1.5MiB so here's a link --> data.iuk koth.net/EFIStudio.zip)”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“Great, ty, I'll test it after I reinstall 10.6, I have too many errors, and would like to know how to make an EFI string for my 9800GX2 If you'd like I can also post the app I used to make the EFI string for my card. I'm not sure if the 980…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“Haha, I feel compelled to share a screen! media.iuk koth.net/images/sl.png”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“I'm glad it worked out for you. Now, what video card do you have? and can you post that VoodooHDA? I'm using an EVGA 8800GTS. And yes, let me upload the VoodooHDA.kext. Remember to remove "AppleHDA.kext" before installing the VoodooHDA.kext…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“No problem, just ask if you need anything else, classes are a bit dry of homework right now [luck me], I should be able to answer whenever. Hello from Snow Leopard! Yes that's right, it's working.^^ So far I have tested: Internet (check, wo…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-07
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“SquidLord, thank you for taking the time to detail the install procedure! I'm in the middle of moving to a new house so once I'm moved in I'll follow your guide and report back here. Thanks again!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-05
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“It appears that, 'AppleNForceATA: found 0 units.' may not be the problem after all: I'm currently stalled trying to boot on my Snow Leopard disk with the following error: 'dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dyl…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“I have my 780i board working with ethernet and sata using the vanilla kernel and the "PC EFI 10.1.pkg" as the loader. Works well, except my graphics issue, and now this weird kernel panic referencing "warmd" What kernel extensions are you u…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“What kernel are you using I'm using the 32-bit kernel, booting with "arch=i386".”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“ok i will i try to install the retail osx and start playing with everything fresh give me couple minutes;) i had the beta before All right. Great! Let me know how it goes.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“I'm having the same problems with a Nforce 680i alexdr1, can you post here what kernel extensions you are attempting to boot with and what happens when you try to boot? Thanks!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“All right, it appears yet again the nForce x80i series (I'm guessing, 680i, 780i, and 790i) are not working; I'm guessing it's the SATA issue...”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“I got AppleNForceATA.kext in /Extra and the patched ioatafamily.kext to fix make boot time faster. Any chance you could send me your AppleNForceATA.kext? I'm using an old one from my Leo install and seems to not want to work. (Stalls with A…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-02
42,819 dossier reads
nForce (680i, 780i, et al.)
“Yeah noforce works on Snow Leopard, it works on Dell Inspiron 531, with an mcp61 nforce 4 chipset. Sweet! Can you give me a rundown of the modified kexts you're using? Are you using AppleNForceATA for example?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-02
42,819 dossier reads
Wrong CPU info
“I'm wondering how to change my CPU name? Is it possible? See this picture: media.iuk koth.net/images/sl.png Now it reports as "Unknown" (as shown in the screen)”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-08
20,733 dossier reads
SL OSInstall.mpkg method results in permissions troubles
“I'll have to try this but I'm reluctant to go through the process. So far everything seems stable, but I have the same issue with Disk Utility so soon I'll have to create another partition and give this a shot. Thanks for the posts!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-10
19,005 dossier reads
SL OSInstall.mpkg method results in permissions troubles
“Intall over the first installation of Snow Leopard?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-10
19,005 dossier reads
Upgrade to 10.6 questions, application and process specific.
“that's the point like i said a few posts before. therefore the need for a complete 64bit os is not exactly too great. i'm even running 10.6 in 32bit mode Same here and I'd consider myself a "pro" user, meaning that I'm using my system for d…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-09
12,985 dossier reads
Upgrade to 10.6 questions, application and process specific.
“Windows 32-bit is limited to something like 2.7[some specific decimal]GB of RAM, but in the "About this MAC" window, in Leopard, it does say 6GB for me and my 6GB of RAM. My understanding is that an app that is running in 32-bit mode is lim…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-09
12,985 dossier reads
10.6.1 still alive after update
“yup all well. hi theta: i see your configuration...780/8800GTS what driver, are you using for your video card 8800GTS. do you no if anyone has a patch for asus rampage extreme x48 board, check out my last post about the update, a pics of AH…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
10,251 dossier reads
GA-EP45T-USB3P: everything but sound
“Great! Just tried this out. I can confirm it works in 10.6.5!”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-12-03
7,276 dossier reads
GA-EP45T-USB3P: everything but sound
“I usually am not too bad at doing these sort of things fairly quick. I had Snow Leopard installed on ep45-ud3p board, but it was dying and there were no replacements with as good of specs, that I "thought" would be similar or the same, and …”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-11-21
7,276 dossier reads
GA-EP45T-USB3P: everything but sound
“VoodooHDA finally resolved the issue after some work. I had to remove all HDA "enablers" from the Extensions/Extra folder and instead install VoodooHDA into /S/L/E... Not sure why it doesn't work with the DSDT patch and relevant kexts but i…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-23
7,276 dossier reads
10.6.1 still alive after update
“All systems go here!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-11
10,251 dossier reads