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Member #14,407 · 2009-09-29 → 2009-09-30
#1,868 by Dispatches #817 by Author Reads #4,081 by Thread Reach Member #14,407 Chameleon / Boot-132 ASUS P5K / P5Q NVIDIA GeForce

@wziard

InfiniteMac community contributor with 4 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (13,944 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 13,944 historical readers.

Dispatches 4 Ranked #1,868 of 6,691
Author Reads 13,944 Ranked #817 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 13,944 Ranked #4,081 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 13,944 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #14,407 Joined 2009-09-29
Active Window 2009 2009-09-29 → 2009-09-30
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
I have a nearly flawless Snow Leopard installation on my Asus P6T Deluxe V2 system, but it only works in 64-bit mode. This is fine for pretty much everything except one major issue, which is wireless cards... none of them work with 64-bit.
Archive Standing
#1,868 of 6,691 by Dispatches (4 notes) · #817 of 3,454 by Author Readership (13,944 reads across 1 dossiers) · #4,081 by Thread Reach (13,944 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #14,407 · Joined 2009-09-29
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@xXrkidXx (3) @mitchde (3) @Chrisb27

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @wziard (1)

13,944 cumulative reads on threads started by @wziard

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Can't get to 32-bit mode
I have been trying for hours to solve this problem and can't figure it out. I have a nearly flawless Snow Leopard installation on my Asus P6T Deluxe V2 system, but it only works in 64-bit mode. This is fine for pretty much everything…
Snow Leopard 10.613,944 reads
2009-09-29 · 11 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (3)

Direct links into threads where @wziard contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Can't get to 32-bit mode
“What GPU ? It can be that GUI is shown but you cant see it ! What happens if you type in kernel flags arch=i386 -v -x ? So you have an multi system (Leo + Snow Leo) on one HD (2+ partitions) ? If yes, perhaps wrong /Extra conten is used - w…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-30
13,944 dossier reads
Can't get to 32-bit mode
“I tried arch=i386 and arch=i386_x64 boot flags, and both seem to load everything but hang towards the end of boot after loading ethernet texts. Usually the last item is ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin having a timeout error, but I still don't think…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-29
13,944 dossier reads
Can't get to 32-bit mode
“its like I Arch something now... i cant remember though.. Yeah, I installed Chameleon 2 RC3 and tried booting with arch=i386 -legacy. The result was fcsk failing, some messages about kext loading disabled, cpu halted, and then the system sh…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-29
13,944 dossier reads