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Member #90,043,884 · 2012-06-29 → 2013-01-22
#713 by Dispatches #273 by Author Reads #2,555 by Thread Reach Member #90,043,884 AHCI / SATA AMD OSx86 ATI Radeon

@wildebeast

InfiniteMac community contributor with 11 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (38,837 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 71,927 historical readers.

Dispatches 11 Ranked #713 of 6,691
Author Reads 38,837 Ranked #273 · 2 dossiers
Thread Reach 71,927 Ranked #2,555 in reach
Lead Dossiers 2 19,418 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #90,043,884 Joined 2012-06-28
Active Window 2012–2013 2012-06-29 → 2013-01-22
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
PROCESSOR: AMD FX-4100 QUAD CORE 64 BIT · MOTHERBOARD: GIGABYTE GA-M68MT-S2 · GRAPHICS: AMD RADEON 6670 1GB · CPU SOCKET TYPE: AM3+
Archive Standing
#713 of 6,691 by Dispatches (11 notes) · #273 of 3,454 by Author Readership (38,837 reads across 2 dossiers) · #2,555 by Thread Reach (71,927 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #90,043,884 · Joined 2012-06-28
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AHCI / SATA (1) · AMD OSx86 (1) · ATI Radeon (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
2 (18%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @wildebeast (2)

38,837 cumulative reads on threads started by @wildebeast

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
AHCI in Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
I feel that I could be very close to getting my computer dual booted as a Hacintosh and Windows 7 but I just can't seem to figure out how to change the SATA Configuration to AHCI. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2. I don't see any…
Lion – Catalina20,001 reads
2013-01-21 · 6 notes
Mac OS X Lion just shuts down
I am just trying to get some help right now as my Mac OS X Lion isn't working. When I run it in VMWare Player it just says EFI VMware Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0) on the gray apple logo screen, then the screen gets dimmer then it just…
Lion – Catalina18,836 reads
2012-09-25 · 7 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (9)

Direct links into threads where @wildebeast contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
AMD FX 4100 - can't boot into any version of OS X
“just passing this along but i found out that all you have to do is add colors=32 to the boot options and then it works. I am so excited i finally have mac os x 10.6 working now”
10.X Core2012-07-16
33,090 dossier reads
AMD FX 4100 - can't boot into any version of OS X
“i would also like to know how to do this. I am also trying to run Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and am using the Snow_Leopard_10.6.1-10.6.2_SSE2_SSE3_Intel_AMD_by_Hazard.iso. I am trying to run it using VirtualBox. I havent tried any parameters yet a…”
10.X Core2012-06-29
33,090 dossier reads
AHCI in Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
“I would really like to get this working dual booted. I have this working in virtual box but I just can't get it to work as a dual boot option.”
Lion – Catalina2013-01-22
20,001 dossier reads
AHCI in Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
“I am also wondering if Mac OS X will be limited to 2 cores or 4 GB of RAM.”
Lion – Catalina2013-01-22
20,001 dossier reads
AHCI in Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
“Ok. I though with RAID you had to have at least two hard drives though. Also when I did try to set up RAiD it seemed somewhat complicated. Maybe if someone could guide me through it.”
Lion – Catalina2013-01-22
20,001 dossier reads
AHCI in Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
“because of this it keeps saying "waiting for root device" when I attempt to start it up.”
Lion – Catalina2013-01-21
20,001 dossier reads
Mac OS X Lion just shuts down
“i am using the niresh distro now in virtualbox but it just goes to the gray apple logo screen bu just gets stuck right there. should i turn on virualization in the bios or what should i do?”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-26
18,836 dossier reads
Mac OS X Lion just shuts down
“Thanks, but how do I unlock the 4 core like you were talking about? I am not trying to use all 4 cores for the virtual machine, right now I am just trying to get it to actually power on because it shuts down about 5 seconds after starting i…”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-26
18,836 dossier reads
Mac OS X Lion just shuts down
“Does anyone else have any ideas? PLEASE!”
Lion – Catalina2012-09-26
18,836 dossier reads