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Member #9,859 · 2009-08-28 → 2012-09-14
#87 by Dispatches #29 by Author Reads #339 by Thread Reach Member #9,859 📍 USA, CA NVIDIA GeForce Chameleon / Boot-132 DSDT

@xxxslayeriiixxx

InfiniteMac community contributor with 82 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (512,377 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,465,453 historical readers.

Dispatches 82 Ranked #87 of 6,691
Author Reads 512,377 Ranked #29 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,465,453 Ranked #339 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 170,792 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #9,859 Joined 2009-08-17
Active Window 2009–2012 2009-08-28 → 2012-09-14
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig

APPLE
BIOS:E758_SZ2Z
Motherboard:EVGA x58 132-BL-E758-A1
CPU:Intel Core i7 920 @ 4.0 GHz
OS:Snow Leopard 10J567:x64 Vanilla
Memory:24 GB G.skill DDR3 1333 MHz
HDD:10 x 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
Graphics Card:EVGA Geforce GTX480 1536 mb
Monitor:Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP Rev. A02
Audio: Onboard




Archive Standing
#87 of 6,691 by Dispatches (82 notes) · #29 of 3,454 by Author Readership (512,377 reads across 3 dossiers) · #339 by Thread Reach (1,465,453 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #9,859 · Joined 2009-08-17
Location
USA, CA
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (17) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (15) · DSDT (11) · EVGA / X58 (10) · ALC889a / Audio (6) · AHCI / SATA (5)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@JaE-V (9) @msf5042 (3) @airwalk776 (3) @Snow (3) @x986123 (3) @JFLNYC (3) @banini_jeque (2) @Extremador (2) @ScAwN7 (2) @mormegil (2) @infinitek (2) @thorazine74 (2) @DocShadow (2) @Ianxxx (2)

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Lead Dossiers Authored by @xxxslayeriiixxx (3)

512,377 cumulative reads on threads started by @xxxslayeriiixxx

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
OSX LION 10.7.2 INSTALLATION http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=169&t=36909&p=232859#p232859 From 10.6.0 to 10.6.6 Other tutorials/useful links: 1. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=198294…
Snow Leopard 10.6491,666 reads
2009-08-31 · 478 notes
EVGA x58 snow leo audio problems
I have a fully working evga x58 32/64 bit vanilla install, but audio doesnt seem to be working. It shows the specifications in system profiler, but no audio out detected in system preferences. i used the kext from electro's post.…
Snow Leopard 10.611,308 reads
2009-08-28 · 14 notes
Chameleon RC 431 wont install within Snow Leo
Alright, I have another hardrive that has Snow in it. The problem i was trying to solve was the installer packages error occuring on Diskutility. What i was trying to do was install Snow Leopard within a snow leopard system so the…
Snow Leopard 10.69,403 reads
2009-08-29 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @xxxslayeriiixxx contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“anybody update directly from 10.7 to 10.8 succesfully? Getting a clean install is too much of a hassle because i have too many files to transfer.”
Snow Leopard 10.62012-09-14
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“I have posted a tutorial that follows my steps for a flawless Lion 10.7 fresh install here (http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=169&t=36909&p=232859#p232859). I invite any of you to add comments or suggestions. If you have any photos …”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-11-10
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Nice! Share that smbios! here you go. Copyright SMBios by 7ender @ InMac.org Created with Champlist.app SMbiosvendor Apple Inc. SMbiosversion …”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-10-23
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“After 2 days i finally got icloud and appstore working. I updated to the latest chameleon using CHAMPLIST. (chameleon v2.1 VS 1642) and generated a new SMBIOS thru champlist (macpro3,1) and the most vital part, i generated a ethernet efi st…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-10-21
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“btw an idiot admin banned me at the kexts.com website for pointing out that an OSX86 website already exist. They changed thier website from kexts.com to osx86.net”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-10-21
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“wassup! the solution is simple. You need to generate a new gtx285 string. btw im A_RocC on Insanelymac When you get the files from aquamac for your GTX285, change the in.plist before you generate your EFI string. I just followed this method…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-10-21
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“i also used this method to update to Lion. i had some trouble at first, but after 30 minutes of messing around, i figured it out. http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/07/xmove-multibeast-install-os-x-107-lion.html i had these files in my ext…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-09-24
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“i have it running fine, go back to page 40 and read my post, i have an updated extras folder as well if anyone needs it hey jaE-V, good lookin out for the EVGA x58 hackintosh community. Can you post up the updated EXTRA folder? ill update t…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-07-26
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“So has anyone gotten 10.7 installed? I followed the instructions here: http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/07/xmove-multibeast-install-os-x-107-lion.html But when it comes to rebooting to the "Installer" partition you make, my computer rebo…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-07-22
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“thats good to know. cant wait to install it after the final release.”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-05-06
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“10.6.7 Update is safe. just had to reinstall my graphics driver for gtx480.”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-04-01
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“i would suggest to create your own DSDT.aml, but you could always try. also change your smbios.plist according to your hardware specifications like RAM, the mac model you want, etc...”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-20
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“UPDATED tutorial with new links. DSDT creation. added "Intel Speed step, turbo boost note". added quotations for better organization of steps. For people wondering what the latest kext are after the "power management kext, speedstep fix" he…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-12
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“AND heres the other option that i havent tried. this looks promising, but not sure about the mac version mov avi.com/videoconverter/ Convert Video 800% Faster Optimization for NVIDIA® CUDA™ results in 8x gain in video processing speed on PC…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-12
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“you will need a CUDA enabled GPU, if your not aware of it already. Ive been transcoding/encoding through premiere pro cs5 and it shows significant time changes. I used to transcode videos for about 1-2 hours before. Now it only takes 10 - 1…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-12
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“netflix is working for me. Also i just upgraded to 24GB ram, finally i can work with After Affects CS5 with no ram problems... i also haven't booted on my windows install since CUDA is working now.”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-11
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“@farksi im assuming you have a dual boot setup using chameleon. this is the reason why i chose to dual boot in a different way. i have both installations in separate HDDs. i have windows setup with IDE then Mac with AHCI. whenever i need to…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-10
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“@neptunet is it set to AHCI? it should work by default. [enable] [enable] [AHCI mode] [AHCI mode]”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-10
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“UPDATED to 10.6.6 safely. had some minor issues with the GTX480, but i was able to fix with the nvidia official drivers. make sure to keep your AppleHDA.kext if your going to use a combo update. i was in 10.6.5 then just did the apple softw…”
Snow Leopard 10.62011-01-09
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“i just updated mine. no problems at all. all vanilla kext, except for some GPU files for my GTX480 which supports CUDA now and no more vsync issue.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-12-22
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“if you use your roommates macbook pro just install snow leopard on the enclosure.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-10-11
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“im not entirely sure but it should work installing it through an enclosure via macbook pro. just remember to install chameleon in the right drive path (the enclosure).”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-10-11
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“it should work right away without any extra kext. idk whats happening to your keyboard”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-10-09
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Where did you plug it in? the red sata ports? if you did just turn it on in BIOS”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-10-08
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Slayer how is your new card? I was thinking of going the ati route, still on the fence The card works smoothly so far. the most important feature that i really needed is not supported which is CUDA. i was hoping CUDA worked, but im on a wai…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-30
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“So for overclockers in here, what do you guys use to stress the CPU if its stable or not? i just type this "yes > /dev/null" in terminal. like 15 terminal windows. i dont know if its an accurate way of stabilizing the overclock, but ive had…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-20
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“ill guess ill go that route, so ill have no problems with chameleon. airwalk do you have sleep working?”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-19
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“anybody here dual boot windows 7? im getting tired of a slow workflow with video editing. i want to take advantage of mercury playback with my gtx480. if anyone here has a dual boot, how you do it? using chameleon”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-18
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“you guys are awesome! definitely lower temps with my 4.0ghz overclock. using thermalright ultra 120”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-18
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“sound doesnt need to be disabled in the system, you just need to deselect the sound kext that is going to be installed from Aqua macs installer. Im assuming you have an EVGA x58 motherboard since your in my thread because the sound kext is …”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-13
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“takeout old nvdia injectors in extra folder or system extensions folder before you do the install if you used one”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-12
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Download this and install the drivers. s155158671.websi tehome.co.uk/aquamac%20Fermi%2010.6.5%20Fix.zip *REMEMBER TO DO CUSTOM INSTALL and deselect the sound kext in the options Generate the your GFX string here http://www.insanelymac.com/f…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-12
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“i guess, netkas' bios will help you with the 5870 http://netkas.org/ . im just going to splurge on the GTX 480, it sucks though that i cant have a vanilla system anymore when i intall it.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-09-07
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“if anyone has any interesting/important info just message me what to add on the IMPORTANT NOTES. well i just updated the thread, but i havnt actually updated my system yet. and Airwalk thx alot for helping the community, and also thx to fel…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-08-17
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“my bad guys for not updating the thread yet. i want to update it as soon as i get 3 TB of space, im a little short on the money. i actually baught a MacBook Pro, starting my first year in a university in a few days. For people who want to u…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-08-17
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“ill make the changes soon. im still in 10.6.2, ive been busy lately. ill have to refresh my mind on how to do this thing again. it'll be modified in a couple of days when i buy my extra hardrives.”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-06-20
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“i been trying to work on sleep but no luck at all”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-12-13
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“Sound works natively with Airwalk's dsdt.aml and LegacyHDA.kext located in the EXTRA folder that is provided. Also you must have 10.6.2”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-26
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“**NOTE upgrading to 10.6.2 if you use Final Cut Pro 7 unexpectedly quiting using the Log and Transfer problems with Cameras and iMovie camcorder import. AVCHD UPDATE Nvm, i found out the problem. Transfering AVCHD files, you need an intel-b…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-18
491,666 dossier reads
EVGA X58 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Installation
“i actually have a problem now. my final cut pro and imovie 09 quits while importing videos from my sony AVCHD cam. its connected through usb and its a HDD camera.”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-17
491,666 dossier reads