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@uwannacookie
InfiniteMac community contributor with 67 recorded dispatches, 4 lead technical dossiers (17,659 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,002,577 historical readers.
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Joined 2010-04-02
Active Window
2010–2012
2010-04-08 → 2012-08-21
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Desktop: Mobo: G41/ICH7 | CPU: C2D E6320 | Mems: 2Gb DDR2 | Graphics: X1650 512MB | HD: 250GB SATA2 (Clean) + 320GB IDE (Win7 HP SP1)
Laptop: K50IN / T5900 / 4GB DDR2 / 250 gb Sata / G102M 512mb / Atheros 9285 Wifi / RTL8139 / OSX 10.6.4 . EVERYTHING WORKS , only media keys not working.
Playing: Counter-Strike Source , GTAIV , Resident Evil 5, Call Of Duty 4.
XLIVE Gamertag: xuwannacookiex w/o Live Gold sub yet =(
Laptop: K50IN / T5900 / 4GB DDR2 / 250 gb Sata / G102M 512mb / Atheros 9285 Wifi / RTL8139 / OSX 10.6.4 . EVERYTHING WORKS , only media keys not working.
Playing: Counter-Strike Source , GTAIV , Resident Evil 5, Call Of Duty 4.
XLIVE Gamertag: xuwannacookiex w/o Live Gold sub yet =(
- Archive Standing
- #105 of 6,691 by Dispatches (67 notes) · #630 of 3,454 by Author Readership (17,659 reads across 4 dossiers) · #500 by Thread Reach (1,002,577 cumulative reads)
- InfiniteMac ID
- Member #26,703 · Joined 2010-04-02
- Location
- Portugal FTW!
- Interests
- CS:S , Phone calls , hangin out
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- ASUS P5K / P5Q (10) · NVIDIA GeForce (6) · Retail DVD / USB (4) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (3) · ATI Radeon (2) · DSDT (1)
- Frequent Thread Collaborators
- @flip360 (8) @Imkantus (4) @bayuaditya (4) @scififan68 (2) @jhernandez (2) @anderstand (2) @haze295 (2) @thorazine74 @shawn0694 @RGGG @mao_red @kokozedman @Buhgalter @Clubber_77
Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 3 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @uwannacookie (4)
17,659 cumulative reads on threads started by @uwannacookie
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| Why ASRock G41M-GS does not work in Leopard / Snow Leopard I have Snow Leopard Retail , an image of iDeneb 10.5.8 Lite and Psystar Rebel EFI bootloader. The case IS: I insert the bootloader CD , choose Install Mac OS X, remove the bootloader CD, end inserted iDeneb. problem: kernel panic at cpu 1;… | 10.X Core | 5,071 reads 2010-04-08 · 1 notes |
| What's Your Hackbook ? - OFFICIAL THREAD As I'm very interested in this forum , I created this thread to you all send a picture or the video link of your Hackbook running OSX. In pictures, send a picture of your hackbook with osx86 forum in the browser behind, and the "About this… | 10.X Core | 4,757 reads 2010-07-24 · 1 notes |
| K50IN(NForce MCP79) and iDeneb 1.6 Lite Edition Heya Guys (and probably girls, but i doubt it...). I am already DLing iDeneb from FTP (can I post FTP links here?), and I need some kexts if someone can post it here :] ALC662 sound Atheros AR9825 WIFI Cabled i think it includes...… | Leopard 10.5 | 4,467 reads 2010-04-24 · 1 notes |
| SL Vanilla install on ASRock G41M-GS Before reporting if it's working, i'm gonna throw away the hardware specs: - Asrock G41M-GS - Pentium Dual Core E2160 - 2 Gb DDR2 800mhz - Ati Radeon X1950 PRO - 2x 80gb Hard Drives IDE - Samsung Writemaster 18x Sata - 420w Power Supply I… | 10.X Core | 3,364 reads 2010-07-27 · 2 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @uwannacookie contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Asus K50IN “Whoa, this is still up! Hey! My laptop is on his end of life, for a while i returned to Windows because of thermal problems, my cpu was always at 95ºc.. Changed the copper fins, changed CPU to a quad core, it's cool now . Which version does…” | 10.X Core | 2012-08-21 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Okay, I am back! Installed and with everything but wifi out of the box , the sound is buggy , as you know, but , gonna update now to 10.6.4, put nullcpu stuff , and put all kexts from man_of_the_oak =) Okay , from this point , I spent 3 hou…” | 10.X Core | 2010-09-21 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “As soon as I get @Home , gonna reinstall SL and installing all the stuffs again OMG Thank you so much <3 @man_of_the_oak if you still had me on msn you could tell me , i removed osx on the day wifi got compatible” | 10.X Core | 2010-09-21 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Hey guys! I'm back, and with beginning of school and working on programming, I gave up on OSX because of the wireless needs . My wireless stick was disgusting me. So I restored Windows 7 until we have working WiFi or changing it . So, good …” | 10.X Core | 2010-09-20 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Wow... Align for PCs: Atheros AR9285 The Atheros AR9285 single-chip PCI Express (PCIe) solution enables PC OEMs to cost-effectively migrate their 11g-based notebooks to the enhanced, future-proofed performance of Align. This solution target…” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-15 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Got answer from my email sent to Atheros Company: Thank you for your interest in products containing Atheros Communications' technology. However, we do not offer the cards or drivers that you're inquiring about. Atheros typically sells chip…” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-10 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “I have ASUS K50IN (Intel C2D T8100) with 2GB RAM. And your config is 4Gb. Shall I make any changes if using your files (DSDT etc..)? What's your chipset ?” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-09 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Yeah , i needed 32-bit mode for my TMN internet pen and i cannot use it , :\ EDIT: Sent an e-mail to Atheros info to give us the kext of AR9825 fixed for Snow Leopard , gonna wait for response.” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-09 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “thanks for quick reply, BTW sometimes after booting i got touchpad mess around when touched, but sometimes its works normally and my asus k40in still cant wakeup from sleep, restart and shutdown was normal. i use patched SL 10.6. Idk that i…” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-04 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “That's why i'm stuck on the installation. My bios doesn't have an upgrade bios option. There is not specific info on the internet (at least after few google searches) for bios upgrade for this laptop. The file available on ASUS webpage is K…” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-03 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “how to boot in 32 bit kernel mode please? sorry its a stupid question. keep pressing F8, when you get into the chameleon boot menu , you have to put " -arch=i386 " and press enter to boot. If you want to check if it has booted in 32bit mode…” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-03 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “And our wifi problem is the same as the real macs after update to 10.6.2 .” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-29 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “@flip360 : can you help me with making country stuff ? My locale is ETSI , and country code is PT. atheros 9285 was recognized (not fully) since 10.6.2 , you have to force your own country to have the wifi working EDIT : It's currently unkn…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-29 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Wait until someone asks for me, i'm the newer here on successful hackintoshers.” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-27 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “I have told , i'm the last one to install the upcoming update” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-26 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “@flip360 I spent... 20 hours per day for 4 days making the pc to work the retail . enough for who was running into incompatibilities ?” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-24 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “One more hackintosher over this world (: TY man_of_the_oak for your support !” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-23 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Only stuff remaining is the sound, and I have a perfect hackintosh too (gonna buy a wifi for 15€)” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-23 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “I don't know what I did, but I have full resolution even on apple logo booting” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-23 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Everyone's sleeping ? Finally got my laptop running a distro. Now I'm gonna make teh restore usb and after that , gonna install the retail one . TY man_of_the_oak for your support!” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-22 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “did you overclock your processor? i have the same one but it shows 2.0 GHz, also about the logic board, you said that its nVidia MCP75L where mine is nVidia MCP79 which is used in older macbook`s and its 100% compatible, maybe thats causing…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-19 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “btw, PRO5DIN = K50IN . i dont think so, asus must changed something, they have so many models of K50 its immpossible to have the same logic board in it I have MCP79 chipset family, then it works. Mine was just some refurbish because of CPU.…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-19 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “I want to report that iMac 10.1 uses Atheros 9285 Wifi. Than with some coding we can get our K50IN wifi to work” | 10.X Core | 2010-06-12 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Did you used the Extras folder uploaded by flip360?” | 10.X Core | 2010-05-31 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “btw, PRO5DIN = K50IN . i dont think so, asus must changed something, they have so many models of K50 its immpossible to have the same logic board in it But I have NVidia MCP79 chipset ;D . I found a dvd in the dvd drive of an imac in a reta…” | 10.X Core | 2010-05-19 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “btw, PRO5DIN = K50IN . flip, according to my problem I think it's an ACPI problem. because it starts to load the Extensions.mkext (default kexts) and it just reboots. I tried to force it to load ALL kexts using -f and -v to see the progress…” | 10.X Core | 2010-05-12 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “can someone test counterstrike source results via steam (RELEASED TODAY FOR OSX)?” | 10.X Core | 2010-05-12 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “On my sister's laptop, it boots fine , CI/QE at installer. On my desktop , i only see an apple and on verbose it gets stuck on AppleDecrypt. On my laptop... Nothing. Gonna Try with K50IN bootcd” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-30 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Almost downloaded, after burning I give you (negative) results” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-30 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “flip , can I try hazard's distro? PM me if it is from external P2P or something.” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-28 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Is it better if i go to Apple Store and bu y the freaking DVD ? It saves me many time..” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-28 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “As far as I know, Macbook Pro has MCP79 board, then this notebook supports DDR3. It's just a matter of changing wifi and having a macbook clone.” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-27 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “I have used a downloaded copy of original Snow Leopard and burned in DVD DL , and used the K50IN bootcd. the problem is... it simply does not show the apple, nor even doesn't move. in my sister's Toshiba L300 , only with rebelefi , it has E…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-27 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “And i read the results at insanelymac not by me, since i am freaking out, it's impossible to me to install snow leopard , i have thrown the downloaded copy and deleted the iso . IF someone can help me installing it... [email protected].…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-26 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “I am almost giving up... I need live help from someone of you it has a working SL installation on K50IN nvidia one” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-26 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “At least Leopard works ... Anyway , AR9285 worked on 10.6.2 but no success at 10.6.3 , in InsanelyMac forum. AS I start understanding about kexting, i will make a working kext for atheros wifi” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-24 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “I'm gonna stick with Leopard, since is VERY compatible and too patched and kextful.” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-20 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “Not Installed. btw, My mobo is MCP79, is this like yours flip360?” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-20 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “My laptop came today , gonna install with help of Rebel EFI” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-12 606,173 dossier reads |
| Asus K50IN “@flip360 I will buy it as soon as i can and report it, if it works, it's good cause we can use original Apple wifi card in PCs. @Abraxas maybe you have to copy some files from the boot cd to system... If I am wrong ... Search” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-08 606,173 dossier reads |