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Member #18,716 · 2009-11-22 → 2010-01-03
#706 by Dispatches #813 by Author Reads #1,946 by Thread Reach Member #18,716 ALC889a / Audio NVIDIA GeForce AHCI / SATA

@thingsithinkithink

InfiniteMac community contributor with 11 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (13,962 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 134,156 historical readers.

Dispatches 11 Ranked #706 of 6,691
Author Reads 13,962 Ranked #813 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 134,156 Ranked #1,946 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 6,981 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #18,716 Joined 2009-11-22
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-11-22 → 2010-01-03
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Here is what I've found for my system specs so far in terms of my audio: CPU: Intel P4 2.6GHz · FSB 533Mhz · Dell Dimension 4550 · Chipset: i845PE · RAM: 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM · Ethernet: Intel 100/10 (integrated) · VIDEO:Nvidia 4 MX420 (64MB)
Archive Standing
#706 of 6,691 by Dispatches (11 notes) · #813 of 3,454 by Author Readership (13,962 reads across 2 dossiers) · #1,946 by Thread Reach (134,156 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #18,716 · Joined 2009-11-22
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ALC889a / Audio (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (2) · AHCI / SATA (1) · ATI Radeon (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
8 (73%)
Leopard 10.5
3 (27%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @thingsithinkithink (2)

13,962 cumulative reads on threads started by @thingsithinkithink

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Realtek Audio issues
What's up everyone? So I've done a successful install of OSX on one of my Dell desktops and have decided to attempt to get OSX running on my laptop. It's an Acer Aspire 5517-1643. Anyway, the installation was successful, however, I can't…
10.X Core9,343 reads
2009-12-30 · 8 notes
OSX Freeze After iDENEB install, Dimension 4550.
System Specs: CPU: Intel P4 2.6GHz FSB 533Mhz Dell Dimension 4550 Chipset: i845PE RAM: 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM Ethernet: Intel 100/10 (integrated) VIDEO:Nvidia 4 MX420 (64MB) Configuration Options: (Used from the wiki on it HERE) Dell…
Leopard 10.54,619 reads
2009-11-22 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (9)

Direct links into threads where @thingsithinkithink contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Snow Leopard on Toshiba Satellite M305D
“i also have a toshiba laptop, and can't get past the ioapic error, no matter what distro i try. as far as i know, it's because of the crippled bios by toshiba, that won't let me select ahci mode, so i'm stuck with windows. if someone has an…”
10.X Core2009-11-24
13,152 dossier reads
Realtek Audio issues
“Maybe you can post your codec dump here? If this bombs, I'm am going to just give up and go buy a mac. Besides I already have a "hackintosh" running on my desktop. We'll see what happens. I've been learning a lot going through all this tort…”
10.X Core2010-01-03
9,343 dossier reads
Realtek Audio issues
“Looks like this needs to get done in order for my audio to work (unless I go with a usb solution.) I think I'm throwing in the towel on this one if this post below doesn't help me. http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=465&st=…”
10.X Core2010-01-02
9,343 dossier reads
Realtek Audio issues
“You can try if sound is better when using VoodooHDA.kext and setting the Output Format to 16-Bit on Audio & Midi Setup Application from Utilities folder… Already tried and failed with that one... :”
10.X Core2009-12-31
9,343 dossier reads
Realtek Audio issues
“[Update] I removed the voodooHDA kext from my laptop and installed the ALC272 Audio kext. Now I have listings in my sound preferences, however, still no sound.”
10.X Core2009-12-30
9,343 dossier reads
Toshiba satellite pro a200
“I have a A200-1TP with ATI Radeon Mobility 2400 and I can't get it working any way. Please tell me what distro did you get working! Thank you, Try checking the wiki for the OSX86 compatibility list. It has a list of the graphics cards and t…”
10.X Core2009-11-24
8,594 dossier reads
OSX Freeze After iDENEB install, Dimension 4550.
“the ocspd[#] errors are "graphics card" related. I installed a compatible graphics card and successfully installed 10.5.5 with iDENEB v_1.3 Solved on my own.”
Leopard 10.52009-11-23
4,619 dossier reads
OSX Freeze After iDENEB install, Dimension 4550.
“When I loaded with iDENEB V1.3 and use this wiki HERE [Details of the wiki I followed::] Install method: iDeneb v1.3 10.5.5 Processor: Pentium 4 1.8Ghz Intel integrated LAN works (select intel pro ve 10/100) Audio - 4550s apparently come wi…”
Leopard 10.52009-11-22
4,619 dossier reads
Toshiba Laptop Shack ,with Toshiba Laptops
“Have you gotten wifi working yet? Best of luck!”
10.X Core2009-11-24
98,448 dossier reads