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Member #22,919 · 2010-01-27 → 2010-02-15
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@UnretroGamer

InfiniteMac community contributor with 9 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 78,046 historical readers.

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Member Number #22,919 Joined 2010-01-27
Active Window 2010 2010-01-27 → 2010-02-15
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
My System: · Diablotek 650W PSU · ASRock X58 Extreme Motherboard · i7 920 D0 · 6GB of G.skill 1600MHz DDR3 RAM · Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS Video Card · I have SATA Hard drives, and one IDE DVD Drive, and one, SATA DVD Drive I really hope this helps others with the ASRock X58 Extreeme around the internet just as me! Here goes nothing!
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#890 of 6,691 by Dispatches (9 notes) · #2,435 by Thread Reach (78,046 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #22,919 · Joined 2010-01-27
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Retail DVD / USB (4) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · EVGA / X58 (2) · DSDT (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

10.X Core
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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (9)

Direct links into threads where @UnretroGamer contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
“Hey I'm back after a while. I have been working on school very diligently (still have to actually) we never did get that thing solved...I'm still where I left off because my windows HDD(160GB) is packed to the brim.. I don't have enough spa…”
10.X Core2010-02-15
78,046 dossier reads
ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
“I don't know how you formated it with Windows, but just to be on the safe side do it in Disk Utility, then recopy those files from windows. When in Disk Utility, what should I format it as to Enable it to be mounted but still be able to cop…”
10.X Core2010-02-01
78,046 dossier reads
ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
“Boot from your iAtkos DVD, and do this: open Disk Utilility, select your pen drive's partition and click the "i" in the toolbar. Take note of your "Disk Identifier" and "Mount Point" . Look at this example: Name : FLASH DRIVE Type : Volume …”
10.X Core2010-01-31
78,046 dossier reads
ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
“I will download the Snow Leopard retail from I know where . But you have to tell me which files I should delete to make it fit on a single DVD, with it still working. After I will burn the result to a DVD, then just load EmpireEFI, stick in…”
10.X Core2010-01-31
78,046 dossier reads
ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
“Thanks, i understand all that. :] I will try it after I'm done eating, the only hitch I've got is, how do I extract the files from the EFIUSB.dmg? I cannot boot into OSX and don't have access to an OSX device. Are those the same files as in…”
10.X Core2010-01-31
78,046 dossier reads
ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
“Oh and I forgot to add one last thing. If I boot with the EmpireEFI. If I remove that DVD and put in lets say an iDeneb or iAtkos DVD (which contain the OS) it says something along the lines of "cannot find mach_kernel" or something like th…”
10.X Core2010-01-31
78,046 dossier reads
ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
“no i dont know...lol, this is crazy confusing. Let me tell you what I have: * I have the Empire EFI v1.085 for Intel Core i7 9xx series. * I have iAtkos v7 burned on a DVD perfectly, no corruption. * I have iDeneb 1.6.158 LITE EDITION burne…”
10.X Core2010-01-31
78,046 dossier reads
ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
“dude thanks for everything sorry that it took me forever to respond its that I posted that thinking you would never answer or something. plus i lost the bookmark to this post. anyways I'm going to try it now, seems a little confusing but if…”
10.X Core2010-01-31
78,046 dossier reads
ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing.
“that's a pretty hefty post you got there...I was wondering, where do I put the "dsdt.dsl" file that you attached? I'm guessing you attached it so that others (like me with an ASRock X58 Extreme) could use it. I got Mac OSX installed onto th…”
10.X Core2010-01-27
78,046 dossier reads