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Member #2,196 · 2008-06-07 → 2008-07-29
#555 by Dispatches #1,624 by Thread Reach Member #2,196 AHCI / SATA AMD OSx86 Gigabyte G31M / P35

@snyder9

InfiniteMac community contributor with 14 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 262,489 historical readers.

Dispatches 14 Ranked #555 of 6,691
Author Reads 0 0 lead dossiers
Thread Reach 262,489 Ranked #1,624 in reach
Lead Dossiers 0 Community contributor
Member Number #2,196 Joined 2008-06-07
Active Window 2008 2008-06-07 → 2008-07-29
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ · MB - DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR · RAM - 2GB DDR 400 (512MB x 4) · HD - 4 SATA 7200rpm HDD · ODD - 1 IDE DVD-RW (Plextor 740-A) · Video - XFX Geforce 7950GT 512MB PCI Express
Archive Standing
#555 of 6,691 by Dispatches (14 notes) · #1,624 by Thread Reach (262,489 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #2,196 · Joined 2008-06-07
InsanelyMac Profile
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Hardware & Kernel Topics
AHCI / SATA (2) · AMD OSx86 (2) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@bhast2 (4) @Puttabong (3) @naquaada (3) @WinLinMac01 (2) @Ianxxx (2) @StealthMode (2) @Voyn1x (2) @pαuℓzurrr. (2) @bajanboy (2) @R0GUE (2) @cgsheen (2) @farcaller @agrafuese @Firewalk

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
11 (79%)
10.X Core
2 (14%)
General
1 (7%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (14)

Direct links into threads where @snyder9 contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“I finally decided to get some Intel hardware. cpus=1 doesn't cut it for me. I have to close every application to run 720p smoothly and I have a lot of 1080p content (which barely runs obviously). Don't want to go back to windows so this was…”
Leopard 10.52008-07-29
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“Unfortunately, the mouse bug has returned - though this one took much longer than usual (some 32 hrs.) cpus=1, here I come.”
Leopard 10.52008-07-12
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“Some observations after I removed my Kingston DDR400 kit and replaced it with a OCZ one. Earlier I was running a OCZ kit (2 x 512mb) and the Kingston (2 x 512mb) in dual channel. Now I'm running four OCZ modules in dual channel (2 x 512mb a…”
Leopard 10.52008-07-12
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“I've tried just about everything mentioned on this thread with no success. Once my CPU undergoes significant load, the various problems start surfacing. But for now, I can live with using one core. I can manage to play 720p with Mplayer OSX…”
Leopard 10.52008-07-08
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“3 days 12 hours uptime with cpus=1. Stable as a rock for me. Using Leo4allv3 10.5.3.”
Leopard 10.52008-06-23
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“cpus=1 is very stable for me. It's not ideal though if I you can't use both cores. I can barely play 720p with one core only. As for the multiplicator, if I change it to 10.5 what else do I have to adjust as my system does not POST on this …”
Leopard 10.52008-06-19
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“@rohitkpatil: @snyder9: Unfortunately about 5-6 hours later, the mouse movement bug reappeared along with some weird behavior in Safari and segmentation errors repeatedly crashing Adium. I changed the ACPI settings to S3 but this …”
Leopard 10.52008-06-18
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“Unfortunately about 5-6 hours later, the mouse movement bug reappeared along with some weird behavior in Safari and segmentation errors repeatedly crashing Adium. I changed the ACPI settings to S3 but this didn't seem to help. Installed the…”
Leopard 10.52008-06-16
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“@snyder9: @seren: On my board its called MPS Version control i have a DFI Ultra-ii-m2 Nforce4-Ultra Same on mine. I got a DFI Lanparty Nforce 4 SLI-DR. Just switched it to 1.1 Will report back on what happens. System running for 3…”
Leopard 10.52008-06-14
134,652 dossier reads
AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
“@seren: On my board its called MPS Version control i have a DFI Ultra-ii-m2 Nforce4-Ultra Same on mine. I got a DFI Lanparty Nforce 4 SLI-DR. Just switched it to 1.1 Will report back on what happens.”
Leopard 10.52008-06-13
134,652 dossier reads
HCL OSx86 AMD 10.5.2 Revision 2
“CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ MB - DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR RAM - 2GB DDR 400 (512MB x 4) HD - 4 SATA 7200rpm HDD ODD - 1 IDE DVD-RW (Plextor 740-A) Video - XFX Geforce 7950GT 512MB PCI Express Works perfectly after flashing bios of the video…”
10.X Core2008-06-07
82,426 dossier reads
10.5.4 is out (Works on AMD, use ASU)
“Upgrade to 10.5.4 and 9.4.0 kernel went smoothly here. (AMD 4200+ X2 using Leo4allv3)”
10.X Core2008-07-02
33,256 dossier reads
Leo4Allv3 Installed - Impressions
“Installed leo4all v3. I can't reset or shutdown properly. I used AppleACPIplatform 1.2.1 during install. I got kexts from the working zephyroth install. So how exactly do I fix this issue?”
Leopard 10.52008-06-18
6,750 dossier reads
My about this mac tiff
“Nice stuff, bhast2. Can you attach the tiff with just the logo and not the text. (For the first two ones you posted)”
General2008-06-26
5,405 dossier reads

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