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Member #949 · 2008-02-22 → 2008-03-25
#1,331 by Dispatches #966 by Author Reads #4,258 by Thread Reach Member #949 AHCI / SATA AMD OSx86 NVIDIA GeForce

@trandal

InfiniteMac community contributor with 6 recorded dispatches, 4 lead technical dossiers (11,939 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 11,939 historical readers.

Dispatches 6 Ranked #1,331 of 6,691
Author Reads 11,939 Ranked #966 · 4 dossiers
Thread Reach 11,939 Ranked #4,258 in reach
Lead Dossiers 4 2,985 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #949 Joined 2008-02-18
Active Window 2008 2008-02-22 → 2008-03-25
Archive Standing
#1,331 of 6,691 by Dispatches (6 notes) · #966 of 3,454 by Author Readership (11,939 reads across 4 dossiers) · #4,258 by Thread Reach (11,939 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #949 · Joined 2008-02-18
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AHCI / SATA (2) · AMD OSx86 (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
5 (83%)
10.X Core
1 (17%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @trandal (4)

11,939 cumulative reads on threads started by @trandal

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
keyboard and mouse frozen at installation
i have a compaq presario laptop and ive been able to get to the install screen where you choose your language. however, the mouse and keyboard are frozen. even if i plug a usb mouse in, it doesnt do anything and just sits there. ive…
Leopard 10.53,300 reads
2008-03-20 · 2 notes
how long to wait for installation
i have a compaq laptop here (v3118au), nforce4 sata chipset (mpc51). thing is, how long is it supposed to take to get to the installation screen? the hard drive is connected via sata obviously but still has windows on an ntfs partition on…
10.X Core3,137 reads
2008-02-22 · 1 notes
Finalizing Disk installation issue - includes installer log
my installation was able to get to the bit where the installation says: finalize disk "MacOSX86 (my volume name)" but for some reason, the installation just doesnt finish. after that, there is a bunch of errors, so i assume thats got the…
Leopard 10.53,054 reads
2008-03-24 · 2 notes
OSX will not install - software cannot be found
ok, ive got to the stage where i can install mac os x, my hard drive is seen, everythings been partitioned, all the right stuff has been added then when it tries to install, it says: Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer The…
Leopard 10.52,448 reads
2008-03-22 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (2)

Direct links into threads where @trandal contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Finalizing Disk installation issue - includes installer log
“actually is there an answer to this somewhere? please redirect me if there is so”
Leopard 10.52008-03-25
3,054 dossier reads
OSX will not install - software cannot be found
“please ignore this post”
Leopard 10.52008-03-25
2,448 dossier reads