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@ulysses_609
InfiniteMac community contributor with 21 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (65,974 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 65,974 historical readers.
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Joined 2008-12-22
Active Window
2008–2009
2008-12-22 → 2009-01-06
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ Socket AM2
ECS Nettle 2 Motherboard
NVIDIA nForce 430 chipset
North Bridge NVIDIA MCP61 Revision A3
South Bridge NVIDIA MCP61 Revision A3
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N SATA CdRom Device
1- 320 gb SATA HD (running vista)
2- 320 gb SATA HD (running OS X 10.5.6 using iPC)
3- 320 gb external HD (used for media)
ECS Nettle 2 Motherboard
NVIDIA nForce 430 chipset
North Bridge NVIDIA MCP61 Revision A3
South Bridge NVIDIA MCP61 Revision A3
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N SATA CdRom Device
1- 320 gb SATA HD (running vista)
2- 320 gb SATA HD (running OS X 10.5.6 using iPC)
3- 320 gb external HD (used for media)
- Archive Standing
- #363 of 6,691 by Dispatches (21 notes) · #158 of 3,454 by Author Readership (65,974 reads across 2 dossiers) · #2,620 by Thread Reach (65,974 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #3,907 · Joined 2008-12-22
- Location
- California
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- AHCI / SATA (5) · AMD OSx86 (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · ALC889a / Audio (1)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @nfoav8or (10) @LawlessPPC (5) @McMadd (3) @lemn @teflonrico @zuz242 @yangaes @lanceomni @delian7 @xiozio
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 1 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @ulysses_609 (2)
65,974 cumulative reads on threads started by @ulysses_609
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine Before I get started...yes i did search and im sorry if my problem/question has been asked before. Ok, so I have been trying to install OSX for a while now...I have tried Kalyway and I get the waiting for root device error. I just want to… | Leopard 10.5 | 52,947 reads 2008-12-22 · 40 notes |
| Internet and sound problems Ok I got a working install on my machine (finally) using the iPC distro..but now I need to get my internet working and hopefully my sound. Also I would like my PS/2 mouse and keyboard to work. I have a USB mouse and keyboard for now. I… | Leopard 10.5 | 13,027 reads 2008-12-31 · 20 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (19)
Direct links into threads where @ulysses_609 contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “OMG! I finallly got it working! With much help from nfoav8or, lemn, LawlessPPC, & McMadd who helped me find the right distro. Ok now that I've got a working install can someone help my get me internet, sound, and my PS/2 mouse & keyboard wo…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-29 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “most probably if you have a usb lying around you can plug in at any time yeah i went out and bought a usb mouse and keyboard. so hopefully it will work now” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-29 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “ok I finally got to the Mac OS X installation screen with the purple background and the language select screen using the iPC distro with the nforce patch. But I cant use my mouse or my keyboard? Is it because it is PS/2 or what is it?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-29 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “is it not due to the fact its a sata dvd drive on an nforce chipset do you not have an ide/ata dvd drive to try it with no I dont..im a little tight on money right now.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-28 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “Since you seem to have the same chipset as I have you can try the following: This is based on my experience with the iPC Public release but you might find the same options in other distro's. I have no complete system yet but at least this g…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-28 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “Ok I still cant get this to work. Ive tried Both kalyway and Leo4allv3 and I still cant get it to install. On kalyway I get the waiting for root device error. and on leo4all it says something about not being able to mount the disk or someth…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-27 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “what do you mean by sata1? How do I put the hd I want to put Leo on sata1? And what about the DVD drive?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-24 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “Your DVD device is a SATA device right? is the BIOS option for AHCI turned on? Yeah the DVD device is SATA..How do I turn that on? I've never really messed with the BIOS” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-24 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “yeah I booted with those flags but I got that error. It also said something about not being able to mount the disk or something like that” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-24 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “Can someone The install was going fine it was going through all the white text with the black screen and it got stuck at: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=144 [lssave] clearing CS_VALID” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-23 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “ok its done downloading. now im burning the iso.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-23 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “well this wasn't quite what I meant. here is a different method... You can use the windows bootloader to select at startup which system to boot. Copy the chain0 file from /usr/standalone/i386/chain0 on your OS X HD to your windows drive's r…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-23 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “Right now, probably nothing except keep researching your system components and double-checking throughout this forum and others to see how people got issues resolved. Since you are going to be booting these from separate Hard Drives, does y…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-23 52,947 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “first I would like to say thanks for telling me what to do and giving me some suggestions to help me install OSX. Im going to try to install Leo4allv3 as soon as it downloads. Is there anything else that I need to do so I can dual boot vist…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-23 52,947 dossier reads |
| Internet and sound problems “Ok now one other problem. I was downloading the iPhone SDK and it was almost done and I got a kernel panic. Was it because of the size of the file? It was 1.57 GB. I also got a kernel panic after installing the audio kext it asked me to res…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-01-06 13,027 dossier reads |
| Internet and sound problems “I can't remember if we determined this (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00906137#N258) was your board... if it is, look for the ALC888 package within the install DVD's /System/Installation/Packages/ f…” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-01-04 13,027 dossier reads |
| Internet and sound problems “ok so I got my internet working. but can you guys help me get my sound working too? also my display isn't very nice its kind of slow when scrolling through things on the internet and moving windows around. Is there any way to fix this?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2009-01-03 13,027 dossier reads |
| Internet and sound problems “I havent tried any kexts yet..So do I just drop the entire unzipped file in to the extensions folder? or how do I do it?” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-31 13,027 dossier reads |
| Installing OSX on and AMD Athlon machine “ok, thanks now im just waiting on the download.” | Leopard 10.5 | 2008-12-23 52,947 dossier reads |