@SportsGuy

I have an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (2.83GHz) and every time I boot up, I have to type "cpus=1" I know there is a fix that would type this for me, but I would like to get all four cores working. This should be a very compatible processor,…

I have now gotten iPC 10.5.6 and written it to a dvd (actually, about 5 dvds). I cannot get it to boot up and get to the install. The closest I get is an apple screen that flashes, and then it reboots So I am thinking that it has something…

Does anyone have any recommendations for an affordable USB Wifi Dongle/Adapter or whatever you want to call it? It doesn't have to be anything special, just something that gets the job done

I just installed iPC, and had to use the bootflag "cpus=1" for the disk to start up. Then nothing would boot up. Now I put in a bootloader that allows me to start it up, but when I put in bootflags, (such as "cpus=1 -v -f") and it only…

I have my drive partitioned with Vista on one an another free partition to store things on, and I can't get them to mount, even through disk utility. Any help? I've also tried ntfs-3g

I made this MacOSX.tif for me and all the other Dell users in the OSx86 community. I can change the wording or anything, so if you want just tell me! Enjoy!

I have my iTunes from Windows with all of my music and videos, and i want to keep all of my files in my Windows drive, but be able to use iTunes and sync my iPods from OS X. I have put all of my media into iTunes, but it won't allow me to…

I have been trying for a week now, and cannot figure out how to get my Ethernet working on OS X According to my computer I have this as my Ethernet: Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E GBE NIC I have installed and uninstalled many…

Sorry for being a complete n00b... but we all have to start somewhere (I have been reading around for a while, though). I was wondering which distribution of OSX86 I need for my computer. Here are my complete specs: Dell Studio Desktop…

I finally got my dvd to boot up, and now am looking to install leopard. I made a partition in Windows before, and it is set as unallocated. When I boot up the dvd, there are all of my partitions, but the one I made for os x shows up a…

“I have Vanilla, and these are my two sound things in device manager: High Definition Audio Device Realtek High Definition Audio so... would this work for me?”

“This could be useful... like at school or a friends house”

“I finally gave in and ordered a 9500GT, with a pretty nice 24" Monitor I don't game or anything so its perfect for me”

“wait... u have the 3450, how do you have video? and at what res and what else haha I said I don't have it working, and other video cards would probably work. I can still watch videos, it's just that it looks bad. My whole monitor isn't fill…”

“im looking into buying a Dell Inspiron 545 with almost the exact same specs as SportsGuys comp.. my only concern it the ATi graphics card... any ideas yet? also thanks for the guide on how to get all 4 cores working! i cant wait to try it o…”

“Has anyone with the 540 been able to get the memory card reader slots (or whatever its called) working? or the Radeon 3450, but I also doubt that...”

“what do you mean by this?: after installing NVInstaller (vanilla) and removing the Device ID from Boot.plist”

“If anyone can get the ATi Radeon HD 3450 video card working at full capacity please post detailed steps. As noted above, I have the Nvidia 9500 but I would also like to figure out how to get the 3450 card running. I have no idea how to add …”

“uofamis, did you get all four cores working, and is your VoodooHDA working?”

“Pere from uphuck made me one. but i can't get it past voodoohda... and i still haven't found anything for the Radeon 3450, but i also have been looking for a new card”

“So I got a patched DSDT.aml and put it in, and it seems like it would work, but it randomly freezes while loading VooDooHDA Driver. Has anyone ran into this or have any solutions?”

“Having installed OS X too many times now, I've fine-tuned the guide I posted earlier a bit, so here it is: System is obviously a Dell Studio 540, Intel C2Q 2.33GHz, 8GB RAM. Here's what I did: Disable SpeedStep and make sure SATA operation …”

“So I had to reinstall and kept the voodooHDA kext any my audio is working fine, and I haven't had any kernel panics, either.”

“I'm pretty sure most of us are using iAtkos v7 but I can try iPC again. I still have the DVD”

“Well, I installed this kext for the heck of it: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=132491 Then I rebooted, and it showed up on my whole screen, but all I could get was that light blue screen. So I think I am going to reins…”

“You need to boot into OS X (which works currently with only 1 core active) and run fassl's DSDT Patcher (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=133683) to generate a patched dsdt.aml file… A Terminal window will open…press any…”

“okay, I finally got to view all the files. I put in: killall Finder, in terminal. so simple... ha”

“When you in stall Chameleon it makes a Extray folder on the drive you installed mac on when u double click the harddrive symble the folder is on that main page man. Let me know if this helps i know it did for me I try to reinstall it, but I…”

“I tried it but I couldn't find the Extra directory I think it has something to do with iAtkos. I check it for it to be there, but it wasn't there... is there any way I can add it?”

“I got the Ethernet working on here, too! have you all made any progress on the sound or video?”

“Okay, this is awesome So now, I am going to reinstall iAtkos v7 with the same things you did. Then I will see if I can make any progress, too!”

“i installed the new iatkos and i still cant get anything to work...”

“I still haven't gotten anywhere either. I am still trying many things, though.”

“I have seen that, and tried all of that, many times, actually. I still can't get it to boot up from chameleon, and can't get any drivers working. I feel as I should just give it all up.”

“Sportsguy, Lucky that you posted your screen. A picture is worth a thousand words. You do need Chameleon 2 RC1 and DSDT. Here's why. This is a typical boot screen of most motherboards out there before DSDT. There's a line in BIOS called CPU…”

“It is a Dell Studio Desktop 540, I'm not positive what board it has, but in the setup, it says it is American MegaTrends I have installed iPC many times and have only installed the os, with nothing else Thanks for the support!”

“yeah, thanks, smultron worked great but putting cpus=4 didn't do anything... edit: here's a picture of -v with chameleon from my drive:”

“I know and I can't edit the com.apple.Boot.plist”

“the kernel didn't work... It just does this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96P82QxpTM0 It doesn't work from Chameleon 2 or the installation dvd edit: so when I don't put cpus=1, it reboots quickly after, as in the video”

“thanks SaCleoCheater and for the BIOS thing, I didn't see some of those options, but I tried to do what I could and it didn't work...”

“okay, here is the rundown I have been booting from my install disk, because darwin wouldn't work, then someone told me that chameleon would work, but then I realized it doesn't have the option to type cpus=1. And when I go to /Extra, I try …”

“What happens when you don't enter that flag? It just restarts, and would boot loop. And SaCleoCheater, I will try that and report back thanks alot!”

“Yes! I don't know if i should try the update or not...”

“Is this portable? like you can use it on any computer?”

“I'm not the best at terminal either... Maybe try this?: mount -uw / rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/****.kext”

“I'm really stuck on this guys and I was wondering if you could help me out. I have no experience using the terminal. So, i have the kernal panic issue with the sleepenabler. it wont boot into verbose or single user mode, but it will obvious…”

“Update my G31M-ES2L rev 2.0 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 (using combo update) and got kernel panic, something about SleepEnabler sorry for low quality. *******Fixed**** Booted OSX 10.6 Retail DVD with Empire-EFI, mounted my hackintosh system partition,…”

“If I don't test with the Disk or Open GL, I get a 285, and individually testing, my disk speed is 68, and my Open GL is a 101… I have a 7200 rpm hard drive and a geforce 9500. so why is it so bad?”

“I would swear that my boot time in 10.5 was 10-15 seconds. It was really unbelievably fast. now my boot time for 10.6 is about 25 seconds I don't use voodoohda.kext, which usually takes most of my boot time hey lanceomni, how do you modify …”

“Hazard's worked the best for me, and I'm running Intel Core 2 Quad”