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@will1384
InfiniteMac community contributor with 54 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (399,772 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,058,100 historical readers.
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Joined 2009-12-02
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2009–2010
2009-12-04 → 2010-09-26
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
GUIDE Retail Snow Leopard (10.6.2) Install on Gigabyte GA-EX58-UDR3 · (Core i7), Fully working 100%, ALC888 v1.8.3fc1 Included
(A) Find and download "Taruga’s AppleHDA Patcher version 1.20" · (B) Find and download "VoodooHDA.kext" · (C) Download my "GA-EP43-UD3L_ALC888_CODEC_DUMP.TXT"
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- #134 of 6,691 by Dispatches (54 notes) · #42 of 3,454 by Author Readership (399,772 reads across 2 dossiers) · #477 by Thread Reach (1,058,100 cumulative reads)
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- Member #19,379 · Joined 2009-12-02
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- USA, Arkansas
- Interests
- Computers, Metal working, Anime, Drawing
- Hardware & Kernel Topics
- NVIDIA GeForce (12) · ALC889a / Audio (11) · DSDT (8) · Retail DVD / USB (6) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (5) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (4)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection
Distribution across 4 technical boards
Lead Dossiers Authored by @will1384 (2)
399,772 cumulative reads on threads started by @will1384
| Dossier Title & Summary | Collection | Readership |
|---|---|---|
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 OK, this is not going to be a real guide, just kinda notes, info, and stories on how I installed OSx86 10.6 Snow Leopard on my system. Well lets start with the system specification and background info. -System Specification- Case = Antec… | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 275,689 reads 2009-12-04 · 27 notes |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. Installing OS X on a Asus EeePC 1000HE The beginning I wanted a Netbook that would run OS X without problems, and was easy to make into an Hackintosh, I also wanted "Quality" so I decided to go with Asus, and spent a few days Googling… | 10.X Core | 124,083 reads 2010-07-02 · 76 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @will1384 contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
|---|---|---|
| ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround) “Will, here is the update on how this went. 1. I am getting sound from the Front Center, Front Left, Front Right and the Sub Woofer. 2. The Rear Left and Right do not have any sound at this point. Based on your previous information about Sur…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-13 497,008 dossier reads |
| ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround) “1. If I am patching the AppleHDA do I still need the VoodooHDA enabler? Yes 2. My current DSDT file has pinconfiguration entries in it in the HDEF section. do I leave them there or should I remove them? Patching AppleHDA and using VoodooHDA…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-12 497,008 dossier reads |
| ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround) “I was testing my connectors last night, and sound is only coming thru the orange connector at this point, the green and black and sending no sound. If I switch out the green connector to the orange port, the sound switches to a different sp…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-12 497,008 dossier reads |
| ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround) “I tried this using Ubuntu installed in a Virtual Machine via Sun Virtual Box. Maybe that is the reason I am having the issue. I will try to boot off the Ubuntu CD directly and see if that makes a difference I suppose. When I type the comman…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-12 497,008 dossier reads |
| ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround) “It should work just by typing, and you can always copy and paste "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 > ~/Desktop/codec_dump.txt" and changing the " codec#0 " part as needed like " codec#1 " "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 > ~/Desktop/codec_dump…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-12 497,008 dossier reads |
| ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround) “Thanks Will, I will try that later on tonight. I will need to install ubuntu first though, as I currently don't have an install of that anywhere. No big deal. I will report back on how that goes. One of the things I love about Ubuntu is you…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-11 497,008 dossier reads |
| ALC889a (with analog 5.1 surround) “Here is how I got mine working, not sure if its going to work for you, might give it a try, also I never had much luck with surround sound on Realtek, not even using Windows (1) Find and download " Taruga’s AppleHDA Patcher version 1.20" (2…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-11 497,008 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “Downloading Torrents locks up my Hackintosh I went back to the way my networking was before, apparently the Realtek driver works perfectly, except for one thing, it causes problems with Torrents, and its an issue that even seams to affect r…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-05-10 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “I started looking for a replacement for VoodooHDA, and found an AppleHDA.kext modified for ALC888 from this guide that works well. [GUIDE] Retail Snow Leopard (10.6.2) Install on Gigabyte GA-EX58-UDR3 (Core i7), Fully working 100%, ALC888 v…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-04-13 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “10.6.3 update Apple released the 10.6.3 update, so I updated, everything went well, except one thing, VoodooHDA gave me a kernel panic after update, so I removed VoodooHDA, and everything worked, but no sound. To remove VoodooHDA, you would…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-31 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “Bonjour Problems I just got a KODAK ESP 5250 All-in-One Printer, and just upgraded my dad's PC to the same as mine, and set it up has a Hackintosh, I wanted to share files, and use the printer's WiFi connection to share the printer, problem…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-03-21 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “com.apple.boot.plist readout... EthernetBuiltIn Yes GraphicsEnabler Yes Kernel mach_kernel Kernel Flags Timeout 5 So this is whats default after loading the loader mentioned in the megaupload, I… If you are able to play a movie, the finder …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-01-11 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “I also forgot to ask did you ever get sleep to work? Nope, but I don't use it I noticed a realllll slowdown on copying files from the sata dvd drive. It would take 6 hours. So I think something is wrong. I'll do some research and get back t…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-01-11 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “aha myhack oh man I learned my lesson with that! not to use it. I dont like the bootup screen and when trying to replace it i ended up screwing up the bootloader. and my graphics come in at a whopping 1024 X 768 and thats all i can use If I…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-01-07 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “ok uhm do I need to do any kind of kext repairs or anything?. Well what have you installed, added, or modded on your hard drive, you want it to be as untouched as possible, and any changes or mods need to been in your "\Extra" folder only, …” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-01-07 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “How do I go about using the graphics enabler Its built into the bootloader, you don't need any other files, patches or strings I just copy and pasted the text below from from earlier in my post A) First edit the "com.apple.Boot.plist" in "/…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-01-06 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “I want to start off by saying thank you!. The audio problem was resolved by using the alc88888 and appleHDApatcher. I stopped using using "appleHDApatcher" in favor of just using " VoodooHDA.kext" by its self. Now I think the only problem i…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-01-06 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “Dumping my Video ROM in Windows and converting .bin file to .rom I have found that sometimes a program will take a "BIN" file that's simply renamed "ROM" without any conversion, as should be the case with GPU-Z files and "-useatirom" Also d…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-23 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “I'm using GraphicsEnabler in my ATI 4650 and im just getting output in VGA port. I have full QI/CE. As far as I know there is no ATICAP, but I hope that by using a ROM file along with GraphicsEnabler, it will do what you need. Your "com.app…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-22 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “nice guide.. i have a same mobo.. its so easy to get a working osx with this mobo... lol... If my first and second video cards would have worked, it would have saved me a week of pain and frustration:-/ Oh well, I may re-try them later, alo…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-14 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “If your Nvidia card still does not work correctly You could try this, may not help , but at least it a chance ( 1 ) Its only going to work if you can get video working enough to see the screen ( 2 ) Its only going to fix Video ports that ar…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-14 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “(2) Sound not working, (A) Find and download "Taruga’s AppleHDA Patcher version 1.20" (B) Find and download "VoodooHDA.kext" (C) Download my "GA-EP43-UD3L_ALC888_CODEC_DUMP.TXT" Or make your own in Linux buy typing this into the Terminal "c…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-13 275,689 dossier reads |
| The GA-EP43-UD3L Motherboard, and how I installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 “I was looking threw the DSDT I was using and noticed that it had the patch for ALC889a audio, and this motherboard uses ALC888, so I decided to make two DSDT files one with no audio hack/patch and one with ALC888 audio, both work with Voodo…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-09 275,689 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “1.) When I try to install the Voodoo prefpane, it tells me that it "Can't get registry-entry path." As far as I know, the VoodooHDA.kext is installed properly into General/Extensions, so I'm not sure what else I should be doing. I had the i…” | 10.X Core | 2010-09-26 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “Did replacing the rt2860 with the apple pci card (plus deleting the old network settings) correct all the Wifi issues? I've just ordered the apple pci card you recommended but wanted to know a couple of things: A) will I be able to use the …” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-27 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “-I am using a 10.6.3 DVD. Could this be the problem? No, that should work just fine You could always try this, at this point we are grasping at straws, but maybe it will help Wireless fails to auto-reconnect After I replaced the "RaLink RT2…” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-17 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “It might be a good idea to update the BIOS, Update the Bios first, before you remove Windows or you will have to find a thumbdrive that works with the built in Bios update program, and format it to "FAT" not "FAT32", to do that, use a small…” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-17 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “So I followed this guide quite closely, and I made it to 10.6.4 just fine. Everything is up and running, except wifi. It occasionally finds networks, but when I enter my password (and before you ask, yes it's the right password, I'm positiv…” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-16 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “Some times I run into problems with OS X, and I need to boot from the USB drive I installed OS X from, so I keep it handy, it "may" help in your case Also, I Goggled and found You still can enter the boot menu still by pressing a modifier k…” | 10.X Core | 2010-08-11 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “clearest guide I've seen for the 1000HE. Thank you. 10.6.1 appears to run much quicker than the base 10.6 SL. Having a bootable backup AND the tweaked install USB are critical because mistakes happen. I had difficulty with 10.6.4 - followed…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-22 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “1-Do I need to use a sleepenabler.kext at all? "SleepEnabler.kext" is not even on mine, and I don't think that it was installed on mine, but it may cause problems, and on another forum, someone with an 1000HE had problems getting sleep to w…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-11 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “Yay! I am typing this on my new 1000he hackintosh, the first I have been able to make work. I also used Allan Kelly's tutorial (allan kelly.info/hackintosh.html) (as I did not have a mac or hackintosh to prepare the install media), but your…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-07 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “I will probably try the upgrade next week. by the way.. do you have also problems with the "sleep" and "shutdown" ? both are not working for me. if you have any solutions.. i'll give a try. tx again I looked in my "/Extra/GeneralExtensions"…” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-06 124,083 dossier reads |
| My Asus EeePC 1000HE and how I installed OS X on it. “for the fist time i was able to put mac osx on my 1000HE i must admit i didn't upgrade to 10.6.4 because i'm not sure i understand everything but it's already perfect like this ! thanks again ! You are welcome, one of the biggest reasons I …” | 10.X Core | 2010-07-04 124,083 dossier reads |
| What mouse are you using with your (Hack)Mac “I have two places to sit and use my Hackintosh, a desk, and at the desk I use a "Logitech Classic Keyboard 200" and a "Logitech Optical Mouse USB" The second place I sit and use my Hackintosh is in front of a projector and for that I use a …” | Hardware & Dev | 2010-01-06 47,452 dossier reads |
| Whats The Best Graphics Card For Snow Leopard “I have Nvidia 8600GT 256 MB, works excellent, just type graphicsenabler yes in boot.plist and it will work, u dont need EFI String. Yea I to tried an old 8600GT, worked great with GraphicsEnabler, but I wanted a new video card, so I got a G…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2009-12-30 32,105 dossier reads |
| How good is your computer “I would rate my system a 9.5 out of 10, everything works, except sleep, and I think I could get it to work, I just don't care Motherboard = GIGABYTE GA-EP43-UD3L CPU = Intel Pentium E6300 Wolfdale 2.8GHz Memory = A-DATA 2 x 2GB DDR2 800 Vid…” | Hardware & Dev | 2010-01-01 18,474 dossier reads |
| Creating a bootable usb/disc on windows, am I stupid “Another update, managed to create the usb (at least I think so) but now I'm getting a "Missing operating system" when trying to boot from the usb... Seriously... I'm soon giving up this shit, too much trouble… Yes I had problems also, but w…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-07-21 16,974 dossier reads |
| Creating a bootable usb/disc on windows, am I stupid “I found this a long time ago OSX install without a Mac and Create OSX86 USB installation drive on a PC May be it will help ? You might want to get an external CD/DVD when you can” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-07-19 16,974 dossier reads |
| Creating a bootable usb/disc on windows, am I stupid “I did some more searching and the reason seems to be that windows doesn't recognize most of the files in the iso. Well, so far neither PowerISO, WinRar nor Daemon Tools doesn't seem to recognize most of the files in the iso(s), but MagicISO…” | Snow Leopard 10.6 | 2010-07-19 16,974 dossier reads |