jem.graham

Trying to make the bootable installer through windows. I managed to change the date/time and I cleared the NVRAM but still struggling

yeah this is probably my next way to do it. really struggling with this haha

dont have access to another mac. last time i tried to use a mac in vm i couldn't get the usb passthrough to work

Finally got my 2009 macbook running and I can't get a clean install through the built in recovery as it gives me the "This item is temporarily unavailable" message so I've tried downloading a .dmg image and using transmac to create a bootable usb and its not being recognised in the boot menu. Bit stuck with this and need some help, cheers

Right got you, thanks for that

Ah well I'll guess I'll just hope for the best haha. Sucks I just got the thing too

Will start with a new charger I think. Wondering if there is anyway to see whether the green light will come on the charger without plugging it in like shorting it out with paperclip or something

Yeah, know the battery is crap so not sure whether its just not charging or the system is dead

Hello all, just bought a 2009 macbook a1181 off eBay, came today and had it on for a few minutes trying to get into recovery to reset the OS. First time I tried the charging cable fell out and the laptop turned off due to the battery being very very old. Reconnected power, turned it on, booted into recovery again. Set the laptop down so there was no chance of the cable falling out. Loading into the recovery and the laptop turned off and the green charging indicator turned off. Can't get the charger light to come on anymore so I'd assume the charger is knackered but wonder if there is a chance there could be any other damage to the rest of the system? Cheers all

Fractal Design Define S is pretty good, its a Define R5 without the optical drives and some other features

Ah ok thats cool. Good luck then

Can you hackintosh with skylake? I thought you couldn't yet because of apple not releasing skylake macbooks/imacs

In the monitor settings there is a drop down box to change the refresh rate, make sure it is selected as 144hz not 60

I've ran a Firestrike benchmark and I was getting 34degrees max temps. I've got a 6600k and a H110i GT. Is it just a faulty cpu? or is there something wrong with something else? Thanks Edit: I should also mention that my idle temps are about 18 degrees

I'm really not sure of my room temp, I was just going off average. Maybe my room is just really god damn cold.

Haha, I'd probably find it quite interesting . But I think it could be a temp node in the CPU or water cooler. It happened in my old cpu where I was getting reading of like 6 degrees haha

Don't remember doing that. Might be a faulty temp node within the CPU

Ah, yes I did think about that

NZXT Cam and HWmonitor

I finished building my pc a week ago and my CPU hovers around 16/18 Degrees idle. I really don't know how it can be lower than room temperature as I've only got a H110i GT cooling it. Any suggestions?

The NEX650G

I think I got all the drivers installed. I'm not a novice but I don't really know if I need to install the chipset driver, or if its like the bios updates. I'll try the ram switch. Thanks a lot, Happy new year

Ah, didn't know that. Makes sence

IIRC the only difference is the retail version comes in a fancy box, the oem version is just a plain white box.

You may have to manually set up a network port. It will say in /etc/network/interfaces if you have a network set up (usually including Eth0 or Eth1). If you don't, this should help you. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/