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Member #27,445 · 2010-04-16 → 2010-05-07
#611 by Dispatches #570 by Author Reads #3,733 by Thread Reach Member #27,445 NVIDIA GeForce AMD OSx86 AHCI / SATA

@Undiscovered

InfiniteMac community contributor with 13 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (19,577 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 19,577 historical readers.

Dispatches 13 Ranked #611 of 6,691
Author Reads 19,577 Ranked #570 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 19,577 Ranked #3,733 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 9,788 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #27,445 Joined 2010-04-16
Active Window 2010 2010-04-16 → 2010-05-07
Archive Standing
#611 of 6,691 by Dispatches (13 notes) · #570 of 3,454 by Author Readership (19,577 reads across 2 dossiers) · #3,733 by Thread Reach (19,577 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #27,445 · Joined 2010-04-16
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (2) · AMD OSx86 (1) · AHCI / SATA (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@Imkantus (6)

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
12 (92%)
10.X Core
1 (8%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @Undiscovered (2)

19,577 cumulative reads on threads started by @Undiscovered

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
Okay, so here's my story: I've tried installing iDeneb before I turned to iPC. iDeneb went crazy and didn't let me start the installation. It gave me an error that said "Error parsing plist fileLoading Darwin/x86." When I tried -v or ?, my…
Leopard 10.514,208 reads
2010-04-17 · 21 notes
iPC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
Okay, so here's my story: I've tried installing iDeneb before I turned to iPC. iDeneb went crazy and didn't let me start the installation. It gave me an error that said "Error parsing plist fileLoading Darwin/x86." When I tried -v or ?, my…
10.X Core5,369 reads
2010-04-16 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (10)

Direct links into threads where @Undiscovered contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“Which would have a higher chance of working on my machine?”
Leopard 10.52010-05-07
14,208 dossier reads
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“Tried it.. didn't work Is there anything else you know that I could try? Preferably with no cost”
Leopard 10.52010-05-06
14,208 dossier reads
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“K. Is there another device beeing connected to the same cable? 40-Pin IDE cable can connect a master and a slave device at a time - which one of them is beeing used as which is configured using a jumper you'll find on the back of any IDE de…”
Leopard 10.52010-04-20
14,208 dossier reads
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“Still no luck, I'm afraid. After patching the OS, I tried to burn it using Windows Disk Image Burner but it said it wasn't a valid file. I tried burning it with CDBurnerXP and it didn't detect the disk when I booted up the computer.”
Leopard 10.52010-04-19
14,208 dossier reads
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“I finished patching the OSX. Now all I need to do is burn it to a DVD and try installing it again.”
Leopard 10.52010-04-18
14,208 dossier reads
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“You can compare this with running Windows without proper graphic driver. Ouch.. So I'd assume playing online games is out of the question? : EDIT: Do you know if this graphics card would work properly? cgi.eb ay.com/IBM-Nvidia-GeForce-7300L…”
Leopard 10.52010-04-18
14,208 dossier reads
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“Graphics acceleration? Does that mean I can't do anything at all with it? My current situation prevents me from upgrading or buying a new PC.”
Leopard 10.52010-04-18
14,208 dossier reads
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“Can you take me through the steps to apply this patch? I don't see the steps on the webpage you gave me. Other Computer specs: AMD Sempron Processor 3400+ 1.8 Ghz (1 core) NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Graphics card (64 mb) 1.25 Gb of DDR2 RAM EDIT: …”
Leopard 10.52010-04-18
14,208 dossier reads
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“Can you tell me how to get that information? Sorry, but I'm pretty new to all of this.. I have SWI on my computer to tell me the information. Could you tell me if/how I can get the information you require from that program? And sorry for cr…”
Leopard 10.52010-04-17
14,208 dossier reads
PC 10.5.6 "Still waiting for root device" Error
“I have an IDE drive.”
Leopard 10.52010-04-18
14,208 dossier reads