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@todesto
InfiniteMac community contributor with 66 recorded dispatches, 10 lead technical dossiers (60,133 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,506,375 historical readers.
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#90,030,178
Joined 2011-08-29
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2011–2012
2011-08-29 → 2012-09-02
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Moved to INTEL :-|
i5-2500K / GA-Z77-DS3H / HD5770
OS X 10.7.4 all working!
Win 7 ultimate running on Parallel
i5-2500K / GA-Z77-DS3H / HD5770
OS X 10.7.4 all working!
Win 7 ultimate running on Parallel
- Archive Standing
- #109 of 6,691 by Dispatches (66 notes) · #172 of 3,454 by Author Readership (60,133 reads across 10 dossiers) · #331 by Thread Reach (1,506,375 cumulative reads)
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- Member #90,030,178 · Joined 2011-08-29
- Location
- Irvine
- Interests
- computer, hacking, golf
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- AMD OSx86 (29) · ATI Radeon (7) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (7) · Retail DVD / USB (7) · AHCI / SATA (3) · ALC889a / Audio (2)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 4 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @todesto (10)
60,133 cumulative reads on threads started by @todesto
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Are AMD w/ SL doomed AMD can't get lion…which means no iCloud… now NO Messages! I invested so much in my system that I don't want to change to Intel for now…:-| Do we really have to switch over to intel if we want lion or moutain lion? | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 18,971 reads 2012-02-17 · 9 notes |
| What is the trick to hide partition? Hide Partition doesn't work.... Using Hide Partition in Chameleon but it doesn't seem to work. What I want to hide is Mac OS X backup (disk3s1), data (disk3s3) and LION on SSD (disk1s2), so I enter Hide Partition "Mac Data" "Mac OS X backup" "LION on SSD" "data" but only… | 10.X Core | 7,801 reads 2012-06-05 · 6 notes |
| how to every 32bit app run with AMD w/8GB RAM 64bit userland Just as titled, I would like to know if there is a way to run every 32bit app when running 64bit userland. I recently added extra 4GB to my AMD PII 955 / ASUS M4A78T-E / 4GB making 8GB which is running 10.6.7 with nawcom legacy kernel… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 6,315 reads 2011-08-29 · 11 notes |
| ASUS M4A78 VIA 1708S audio, how to show in system profile I have ASUS M4A78T-E board with VIA 1708S audio and having it running with VoodooHDA 2.7.3. It seems to work fine as I hear the sound fine and able to control volume from my keyboard. But it seems only Green output works only. I see there… | 10.X Core | 5,423 reads 2011-09-07 · 1 notes |
| Unknown AHCI controller - ASUS M4A78 board Anyone know how to fix this "Unknown AHCI controller" in system profile? My Board ASUS M4A78T-E is reading every disk hooked up to the board but I wonder if this anything to with its performance. I used Jmiron and tried AHCIportinjector… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 4,486 reads 2012-02-21 · 1 notes |
| Is Graphic Card related to Video Encoding I have a system that I believe it is quite stable as I don't really have panic anymore but it freezes when I run video encoding software also under Windows. I changed power supply and memory (did have 4X2GB, but now 2X4GB and 2X2GB) and… | 10.X Core | 3,628 reads 2012-01-10 · 1 notes |
| Ethernet shows connected - It's not even plugged in Got a strange issue. got me a new Gigabyte Ga-Z77-DS3H with i5-2500K, and it seems to run fine except I have SLOW internet speed most of the time. I have Atheros 9280 card which used work fine when I had Snow Leopard. First of all, 10.7.3+… | Lion – Catalina | 3,586 reads 2012-05-28 · 1 notes |
| Silverlight and AMD in 64bit I have AMD x4 955 w/ 8GB running and seems to work fine. I got nawcom's kernel to run 64bit userland to recognize 8GB ram and all the apps seems to work including facetime, photobooth, iPhoto, garageband. Here is a problem though, Whenever… | 10.X Core | 3,358 reads 2011-11-19 · 1 notes |
| How do you optimize the RAM speed...... Just as titled. I just ran the NOVAbench and turns out my RAM speed is not running optimized, it seems. I have Corsair Dominator 4GB PC12800 DDR3 1600MHz 4x2GB and I think the speed should be faster. When I look at other scores, it is… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 3,327 reads 2011-09-01 · 2 notes |
| iLife update on 3/7/12 I am running arch=i368 -force64 with AMD insn patch to run iLife apps under 64bit. I have not updated with new updates yet and and wonder if this update is safe to do it? Meaning, update and re-patch with AMD insn? Anyone? | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 3,238 reads 2012-03-09 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @todesto contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Lion with AMD “So here's one I just noticed. Okay, here's the weird part: Now that I'm all back up and running on my build with my 10.6.7 drive, everything is back to normal. Except (of course there's an exception) for the fact that my system profiler is …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-25 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “So after you updated from 10.7.2 you had to boot into Safe Mode and then you were able to reboot and it booted normally? With a few flags? Did you have to use them before? yes. when I added -x on -legacy -v npci=0x3000 then it booted. then …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-14 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “And BTW sry for 3 posts in a row... I didnt notice that Who cares? If you can figure out iCloud to work on AMD, you can post 5 pages. I'd read'em. BTW, I still have not been able to test replacing with legit UUID. What do you know? My graph…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-14 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “iCloud/iMessage will not work on AMD systems, due to the kernel being self-compiled. The only way to get it working is using the vanilla mach_kernel, and you can't do that unless you're running an Intel system. Appstore will work flawlessly…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-13 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “So I really have no idea what did it. I'm on my fourth reboot now and everything is still working fine. I know I got rid of HDAEnabler, AppleHDA & the ALC8xx kexts in S/L/E, and I installed the custom IOUSBFamily.kext I've been using in SL …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-13 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Please keep going, bronzkova. I confirm your kernel working on my system. AMD X4 955 / ASUS M4A78T-E / HD5770. booted without problem, didn't test long enough for xphelper to crash. As expected, icloud doesn't work. :'( That is only reason …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-05-12 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Booting -force 64 seems let all apps works , except for finder(pag40)in some cases Which kernel did you use? What is your system spec? It doesn't crash after 10 min?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-30 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “ATI SB700/SB800 AHCI: Vendor: ATI Product: SB700/SB800 AHCI Speed: 3 Gigabit Description: AHCI Version 1.10 Supported Maxtor 6V160E0: Model: Maxtor 6V160E0 Revision: VA111900 Serial Number: V30D3QJG Native Command Queuing: Yes Queue Depth: …” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-26 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Thank you so much for your work, Bronzovka! I knew there was a way for AMD users. Good thing I held on my system.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-04-04 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “most things seemed to work, but not everything and I couldn't get Finder to work, it said it couldn't find a symbol in the crash log. We all know that. It is only 32bit right now, and that is why. Once Nawcom and AnV and bronzovka updates i…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-03-30 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “WoW, if the picture is real… Would you mind uploading the kernel for us?” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-03-27 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Still no progress on AMD kernel for Lion… anxiously waiting.” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-03-21 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Snow Leopards fine for time being. I'll stick with Amd because they're cheaper and just as good. Agreed. Spending extra $$ just to get Lion or MLion doesn't make sense… I have a feeling kernel for AMD for Lion might come out…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-03-08 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Do you mean apps downloaded from AppStore won't work on amd machine? Where did you get that idea? It works. I use AMD and have bunch of apps from AppStore running.” | Lion – Catalina | 2011-09-07 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “He's giving a link to d/l xcode… For a brief moment, I though some genius from China made a Kernel for AMD to install Lion…Got excited for nothing. :” | Lion – Catalina | 2011-09-06 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Lion with AMD “Just when I though I was out…They pull me right BACK in! (quote from Godfather III ;)) I was gonna stay with 10.6.7 with my AMD system, but now I see the light! Thanks Andy!” | Lion – Catalina | 2011-08-29 1,075,710 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “this major update from apple with iCloud service, it seems Lion is essential… Can't wait for the AMD kernel. don't want to buy Intel system just for that.” | 10.X Core | 2011-10-14 165,733 dossier reads |
| Legacy kernel 10.6.8 with custom dyld and new SSE3 emulator and VIA Nano cpu support “What do you with all the files you downloaded? First post link leads to 37MB file and I see boot files and whole bunch of other stuffs. I guess it's the source for dyld. Do I just replace the kernel only with the one i downloaded? Can someo…” | 10.X Core | 2011-09-06 165,733 dossier reads |
| Support for some HD5000 series GFX cards emerged in MacMini 10.6.4 Image “I have VisionTek HD 5670 and tried the lion ATI ketxt, but got blue screen when booted. When I booted with -v, it shows DSMOS has arrived. I do have GraphicEnabler=Yes, and when I set it No, dual monitor doesn't work, so I had to go back to…” | 10.X Core | 2011-09-02 65,749 dossier reads |
| TIP: If you get PANIC with no CLUES “Thanks for the info. That is why my boot gets stuck at IObluetooth sometimes (booting with -v) then moves on or get panic. I'm gonna remove it. but what does this kext do?” | 10.X Core | 2012-09-02 23,080 dossier reads |
| Asus m4n68t-m le v2 .. “when booting with nawcom CD, try following flag: arch=i386 -force64 busratio=20 -v When booting with Hazard DVD: -v -F maxmem=4096 fsb=200000000 cpus=2 (<- cpus could be optional) both works for me.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-02-26 22,623 dossier reads |
| Are AMD w/ SL doomed “How do you fixed sleep? Sleep is the only thing that doesn't work on my pc (And the IDE channel) Honestly, I don't know how I did it. When I first installed 10.5, sleep never worked, it would try to go to sleep, then it will wake up by itse…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-02-20 18,971 dossier reads |
| Are AMD w/ SL doomed “near as I can tell you just need a motherboard and Intel processor. All your other stuff should go right onto it. Done right, that might run you 200 bucks. I am still hoping Anv will be able to come up with an AMD kernel for Lion, and hopef…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-02-19 18,971 dossier reads |
| Asus M4A78T-E AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Help “you are not going to be able to boot with 8GB without patched kernel. maxmem=8096 will not let you boot. you need to boot with maxmem=4094 then patch your kernel followed by amd patches (search in this forum about booting 64bit with AMD) to…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2011-09-14 16,201 dossier reads |
| 32bit apps on real 64bit AMD. Possible “I added a link to how to patch the files needed to allow all apps to work. Last night, I saw that link and tried to follow the direction, but it was too confusing for a newbie like me. first of all I d/l amd-insn-patcher, extracted in my de…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-08-30 10,692 dossier reads |
| 32bit apps on real 64bit AMD. Possible “Full 64bit and 32bit apps will not work on AMD. You have to run with -force64, for all 64bit apps to work as well as 32bit ones. I wish it were that simple. but without proper patch and right kernel, some of 32bit apps do not run on 64bit u…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-08-30 10,692 dossier reads |
| 32bit apps on real 64bit AMD. Possible “I followed that link and instruction. Also there is another instruction by akimoa osx 86.co/f57/amd-and-legacy-t7263/ I ran those in terminal but had a problem on last command "update_dyld_shared_cache" as it kept saying command not found. …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-08-30 10,692 dossier reads |
| Any good written and or video guides to update from Hazard Hackintosh Snow Leopard “It froze again, this time at the chameleon screen. :'( Are you not using latest chameleon?” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-03-06 9,442 dossier reads |
| Any good written and or video guides to update from Hazard Hackintosh Snow Leopard “Edit: Do I repair Permissions in Disk Utility after doing this or no that doesn't matter or could repairing Permissions mess with it? I didn't have to do it. I suggest you follow the instruction on LeoHazard and update to 10.6.7 first.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-03-06 9,442 dossier reads |
| Any good written and or video guides to update from Hazard Hackintosh Snow Leopard “If you are able to run 10.6.6, you should be able to run 10.6.8. There is a specific thread on how to update to 10.6.8 in leohazard. I followed that instruction and have no issue. Basically you just don't reboot after installing update. you…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-03-06 9,442 dossier reads |
| Help request: AMD OSX “i think it is your graphic card that preventing you to proceed further. HD5500 is supported natively from 10.6.6 or 7, I think. I suggest you get another graphic or use the mainboard graphic to start.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-10-02 9,002 dossier reads |
| i'm a new member and new Hackintosch User “Easiest way to replace boot file is to delete the boot file from the root, then copy / paste with new boot. Can't replace the boot file.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-08-30 7,773 dossier reads |
| i'm a new member and new Hackintosch User “yep, there are tons of tutorial for installing SL on AMD. As far as Hazard on AMD goes, it works best when you choose blacknight kernel with PC-EFO10.5 bootloader first when installing. with proper option selection, it will most likely boot…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-08-30 7,773 dossier reads |
| is Resolution maximum 1280 x 1024 “Chipsets Supprted by NVDANV40Hak.kext 0040 NV40 [GeForce 6800 Ultra] 0041 NV40 [GeForce 6800] 0042 NV40.2 [GeForce 6800 LE] 0043 NV40.3 [GeForce 6800 XE] 0044 NV40 [GeForce 6800 XT] 0045 NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT] 0046 NV45 [GeForce 6800 GT] 00…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-02-22 7,248 dossier reads |
| is Resolution maximum 1280 x 1024 “initially the desktop screen display resolution was 1024 x 768 after changed it to 1680 x 1050 or a higher value ; it only displays 1280 1024 maximum resolution. You need to be little more specific on what graphic card you use. Also it soun…” | Lion – Catalina | 2012-02-21 7,248 dossier reads |
| Need some files from retail SL install “I am sorry for the mis info, it's been a while. Paste the whole folder AboutThis Mac.nib in "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources". Drag the folder "AboutThisMac.nib" (in the attachment) into the window that pops …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-02-21 6,599 dossier reads |
| Need some files from retail SL install “I think you need this file. Put whole folder in /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2012-02-21 6,599 dossier reads |
| Installation on amd pc “Well hazards 10.6.2 apparently doesnt like my laptop. If I boot with -v I get to waiting for device with a uuid of something - something- something and it locks up. Any ideas? didn't see that you are installing on your laptop…have you made …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-09-16 6,376 dossier reads |
| Installation on amd pc “I would start using -x -v -F cpus=1 and try it. for my system to get it started, I used -x -v -F cpus=1 maxmem=4094 fsb=200000000” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-09-09 6,376 dossier reads |
| Installation on amd pc “Try Hazard edition 10.6.2, it seems to work well with most AMD machine. Retail might be hard.” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2011-09-08 6,376 dossier reads |