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another news update... My friend tried to boot the Mini with ethernet, didn't work !! It seems like if there's no wifi or ethernet connection, it will boot. Yet, when I booted it at my place everything works fine using ethernet. I am at a loss for words......:banghead: :mad:

I have some new info which I wanted to share. I really racked my brains out to figure what was different between when I had the system at my place and then when my friend was using it at her place. I forgot that I didn't have the Mini hooked up to any wifi or network, so I told my friend to...

The time machine backup is an SSD hooked up to the USB port.

Thanks for your responses. I told her to unplug the time machine backup before she boots up, will see if that is causing the prob. I will report what kind of result she gets. What happens is that the Mini will work for about a minute or two for her then gets a spinning beach ball, then will...

Hi, I have a very strange error that has come up, I have spent days trying to figure what's going on, maybe someone here who has more experience will know what's going on, maybe there's something simple that I overlooked but I don't what else I can check out. My friend has a couple of older Mac...

Ok, Neon, I tried out your procedure but it didn't work, the SSD just will not boot as the startup drive. This is strange since this SSD has the same files as a drive that does work as a startup. I tried various sata ports to boot from but still wouldn't work. The SSD was the only drive in...

I did take out all of the drives and only had the SSD in the machine, it wouldn't boot, I got the same error but I was already having problems with the bootloader on that SSD. But I just restored the SSD to how it was so I am going to try the procedure again with it's restored state. Will let...

Hi, I recently got a SSD and wanted to integrate that into my system, I am using 10.10.4. If I boot from my regular hard drive, I can choose the SSD from the list of drives from the Chimera menu and it will boot fine but I wanted to automatically boot from the SSD as the startup one...

That's good to know... Since you are using the onboard graphics, what port are you using to drive your display ? Dvi ? HDMI ? Is the sweet spot for GPU price/performance the GTX 650 Ti Boost (or 660) ? I see a lot of folks have that. Any suggestions ? I also wonder what is the cheapest GPU...

Yes, FWP, that is right. The DVI-D connector on the UDh5 motherboard will not be able to drive a VGA even with an adaptor. The thing I wonder about though is if you have a DVI-I (integrated) connector coming off of a discrete GPU card, wonder if that will drive a VGA monitor. I wonder if anyone...

Article: New Intel HD Graphics Boot Flags in Chimera I've been using the revision number as the port number, I am pretty sure that is correct. If someone knows differently, let me know.

I am not sure that adapter will work, take a look at the thin tab connector, there are 2 pins on either side of that. My motherboard DVI connector has a thin tab, there is no room for the small pins on either side of it. Also, I saw there is some kind of issue with with DVI adaptor, some places...

Well, my situation now is I am able to boot into 10.8.5 each time without using safe mode while using VGA output. This is the first time I have been able to do that, I don't know why I couldn't do it before. I used the latest multibeast, did an easy install with just the network drivers, that is...

@psychephylax The info you are giving is good, thanks for your feedback, it gives me something to work with. Here is what happened, I did another fresh install and I did the boot flags -v- x, OK ! I was able to set up ML finally. But there are some strange things going on after I set it...

Thanks for your feedback, this gives me a tiny bit of hope. There are some things I would like to know, what is the version of your motherboard ? Mine is v1.0, What version of the BIOS are you using for your running 10.8.5 system ? Mine is f14 I am NOT using the USB 3.0 ports, I use the...

It's nice that there have been additional updates to Unibeast and Multibeast but none of the software on Tonymac has allowed me to get a working 10.8.5 ML install on my system. I have a z77x-uD5H motherboard, 3750k i5 cpu, and 8GB of DDR3 memory, and a 320 GB hd I had laying around. I do not...

Have you tried doing an "installer update" from Apple ? I could not get a bootable USB drive until I did that, unibeast just would not work. Run apple's installer update on your snow leo's installation, then reboot. Then run unibeast again. As soon I did that update, then I was able to...

Article: OS X 10.8.5 Update Thanks for the reply. Here's what I have done since that post... I had to do that Apple installer update and then had success getting a USB installer with Unibeast 2.0.2. I tried all kinds of flags once I booted with the USB Thumb drive but nothing worked. I...

Hello, I have a gigabyte motherboard GA-Z77X-UD5H with 8 GB RAM, I am using the built in graphics, I got SL 10.6.8 working so I could get into the App store. I just bought ML at the App store last night and tried to make an install USB drive with Unibeast 2.0.1, the installer failed. The same...

JamesBond007, What you have stated is inaccurate, that you cannot install Snow Leopard on a Ivy Bridge system as I have done that ! I have installed Snow Leopard 10.6 on my IB based system and it boots consistently without any problems. The problem I had was getting past 10.6, updating it...