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I have successfully installed SnowOSX Universal v3.6 on my PC.. But

1) I cant see the Mac formatted partitons on the desktop..Only the NTFS partitions can be seen...n the drives are appearing orange in colour...Is it normal..?

2) It is detecting my 2GHz Core 2 Duo as 3Ghz..800MHz RAM as 1066MHz..n HD4670 as HD4890... ;) ..So Is there any fix for it..?

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mrmomoman
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I just installed Universal 10.6.2 v3.6 on my Laptop. The install went well. Had to put in sound with VoodooHDA but unlike the Universal v3.5 with 10.6 my processor is not detected correctly - do I (edit smbios?),

 

RAM is not detected correctly, Graphics Card with NVinject, CoreVidia 1.1/1.2 can't seem to change the display from saying ATI4820 video card. My graphics card is a Nvidia Quadro FX3700M with 1GIG of RAM.

 

With the Universal v3.5 10.6 many things showed correctly. Although with Snow Leopard the QE/CI doesn't show it was working - Preview was working. I ran a Xbench and got 110.7? Don't think that sounds good but the Open GL scored like a 57.

 

The only reason I installed 10.6.2 was to update as my 10.6 to 10.6.2. Software updates would cause KP's that I could not resolve. It would KP before I could even press F8 and when I could get it to let me use commands such as -f -v -s - x, it would still KP. I tried the remove Null, etc. Still KP'd.

 

I have installed OSX SL about 15 times so far to get the right combo. It seems the last install was the best install and should have left it alone and not update. But as it sits right now I have a 10.6.2 running copy that has only a few flaws in regards to the previous 10.6 install.

 

I noticed the 10.6.2 puts the boot.plist into the Extra folder. So when I run the Kext. Tool does it know to find the Extra folder? I am wondering why when I try any injector that I cannot get it to stick.

 

Any ideas?

 

My laptop has two drives. One is for Windows 7 and the other drive is for OSX. I partitioned the OSX drive into 2 partitions and used SuperDuper to clone. I can't get to the second drive without having to insert a USB key and boot from a bootloader. The only problem with that is that the bootloader loads its own kexts and it causes problems. Should I copy my kexts to the bootloader as well? The Universal seems to run a pre-chameleon boot?

 

Noob trying to learn. Thanks for any tips!

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1) Yes, press cmd + , (Finder, Preferences) on the desktop and you should be able to enable Hard Disks to display on the desktop

 

2) If you have an /Extra folder you can edit your smbios.plist :)

 

Okk..Thnx..

But are the drives orange in colour ..? Is it fine..?

And how to edit the Graphics Card's name..? In the smbios.plist, I can only edit the RAM and CPU..

 

Also can you tell me which is better - NTFS 3G or Paragon NTFS..?

Nirbo
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For Video Cards and Snow OSX 3.6, I reccomend using the EFI string tool under Applications > ATools > _System > EFIStudio.

 

I've only ever used NTFS 3G under FreeBSD, and it was pretty spotty to be honest. Sometimes HD writes wouldn't take. NTFS has only ever been reliably read by anything other than Windows for me.

mrmomoman
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For Video Cards and Snow OSX 3.6, I reccomend using the EFI string tool under Applications > ATools > _System > EFIStudio.

 

I've only ever used NTFS 3G under FreeBSD, and it was pretty spotty to be honest. Sometimes HD writes wouldn't take. NTFS has only ever been reliably read by anything other than Windows for me.

 

Thank you. I will try that out.

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you have 1 more and bigger problem to worry about

 

try to run disk utility

 

if you see

 

no installers can be found

 

that means we got the same problem

 

i can't repair permissions

 

No, It isnt showing me such kind of error..n I can repair the permissions too.. :rolleyes:

mrmomoman
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If anyone has any idea please feel free to shoot me in the right direction.

 

Can't take screen shot as preview will crash.

 

Perhaps I need to provide the Extensions.kext to see what I might need to remove so i can get any video injector to work.

 

I tried the EFI strings and what happens is that it will change my VRAM size but thats about it. I can't get 1920x1200 unless i put that string into the boot.plist for bootup and then my screen resolution will then appear as the same. If I remove that string then I can't get any video options outside of 1280x780 default.

 

Even when I do perform an EFI string it will tell me that the Vendor is NVIDIA which is correct. I have a Nvidia Quadro FX3700M 1GIG video card which I heard is the same as the 8800GTX? But the Chipset Model always shows up as ATI RADEON 4890. No matter what I try to inject it won't.

 

I had it working in Universal 3.5 even with QE - it didn't show up in the profiler (well at least from my own testing - PREVIEW was working). It crashed when I tried to update to 10.6.2 even removing DSMOS and Null, etc. it crashed. So I thought I would try the updated 10.6.2 but its been harder to get it to take the Graphics Injectors.

 

Any one know why I can't change the video? No matter which program I use it always shows up ATI Radeon HD 4890.

 

Should I post my kext extentions?

 

Thank you.

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