Quad Core Anyone? - Page 10

crimsonredmk · #91 09-10-2009, 01:26 AM

Yep, Snow Leopard 100% working using retail DVD, installed onto 2nd partition as a clean install using OSInstall.mpkg from Leopard. Grab a couple of Kexts from that Windows Skydrive site and such, drop in your DSDT.aml and boot.plist and it'll work great

Even better than Leopard - no kernel panics all week!

crimsonredmk · #92 09-16-2009, 11:55 PM

10.6.1 installed from Software Update, no problems whatsoever. Still using 32-bit kernel because I need MacFUSE for my work. Hurry up Logitech, release updated mouse drivers for 10.6!

bsiv · #93 09-18-2009, 11:35 PM

I too have a Dell Studio 540 and would like to install Snow Leopard on it. While not a beginner, I would really appreciate it if you could post detailed instructions on how you got Snow working on your Studio 540. PLEASE HELP! I know you mentioned airdrive or something, but I have no idea what that is. Can you please attach all relevant kexts, etc. to your reply?

Thank you SO MUCH!
-Ken

uofamis22 · #94 09-26-2009, 09:23 PM

Hey crimsonredmk,

I haven't been back for about a month now. I see you got SL working on your Studi 540. Like bsiv, would you mind posting detailed steps?

xXrkidXx · #95 09-26-2009, 10:16 PM

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 out.

SportsGuy · #96 10-14-2009, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by xXrkidXx

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 out.

we have already gotten all four cores working. also nothing works with the radeon 3450. others probably would work. and i also haven't gotten snow leopard due to already having too many partitions and no external drives...

xXrkidXx · #97 10-14-2009, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by SportsGuy

we have already gotten all four cores working. also nothing works with the radeon 3450. others probably would work. and i also haven't gotten snow leopard due to already having too many partitions and no external drives...

wait... u have the 3450, how do you have video??? and at what res and what else haha

SportsGuy · #98 10-23-2009, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by xXrkidXx

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 filled up, but the resolution isn't at the lowest. ha you know what i mean?

xXrkidXx · #99 10-23-2009, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by SportsGuy

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 filled up, but the resolution isn't at the lowest. ha you know what i mean?

Sort of... You mean you can see OS X and you can boot and use it, without having to buy a new video card? and If all else fails.. im just gonna get an nVidea card... but hopefully thanks to the new iMacs they will give us ATi support

(there going to use ATi cards in them... WOO Straight outta the box!)

riffmaker · #**100** 10-28-2009, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by uofamis22

Dell Studio 540 Installation Guide Using iAtkos v7

In order for this installation guide to work appropriately, you will need to have near similar hardware configurations than what I posted below:

System: Dell Studio 540
Memory: 8GB DDR2_800 DDR SDRAM
CPU Info: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz (7 x 333)
Sound card: Realtek ALC888/1200
Display Adapters: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCI-e
Network Adapters: Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E GBE NIC
CD / DVD Drives: D: PLDS DVD+-RW DH-16A6S
USB Controllers: 10 host controllers.
Motherboard: Dell Inc. 0M017G

Go into the bios and change the Integrated Peripherals from RAID to ATA. Additionally, disable SpeedStep. This is critical, it will not work without doing this.

Load iAtkos v7 Install Disc.

When Darwin boot loader screen appears, press F8 rather quickly.

You will receive a boot prompt, type in the following: -v cpus=1.

Once the screen below shows up, please read carefully.

If a hard drive does not appear under the Select a Destination, click on the following: Utilities > Disk Utility. Select a hard drive > click on erase tab > select Volume Format “Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and click erase.

Now the “Select a Destination” is back and a hard drive should appear. IMPORTANT. You must select Customize. The install disc (iAtkos v7) will have pre-selected drivers. Only install what is listed below for a Studio 540 with the same specs as those noted above:

iAtkos V7 Main System
Chameleon v2
/Extra directory
DSDT
AppleDecrypt
AppleSMBIOS netkas
APIC driver
Disabler
DVI/DVI (nVidia)
Intel SATA/IDE
Voodoo HDA driver
Realtek R1000
Post-Install Actions

Install the Video driver that corresponds to your video card. I had a 1GB Nvidia 9500GT (dual DVI) card and installed the DVI/DVI driver under Nvidia.

9. Once installed you will need to boot off of the hard drive with the OSX. Hit any key once Cameleon starts to load. Until you patch the OS, you will have to boot into the OS each time by using the following commands: cpus=1 –v or you can probably boot using cpus=2 –v as well.

10. Now you should be in the OS. You will need to patch the DSDT.aml file which is hidden under your root drive. To unhide folders/files, go into your root drive and within the search, type in hide. You should be provided with an Application called Show-Hide Files. Click on this to show hidden files.

11. Now you will need to download the DSDT_Patcher. You should be able to find the patcher at the following site: http://uphuck.ggrn.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2987
Within, there is another link to directly download the patcher: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php? ... t&id=38192
At the time of this tutorial I used DSDT Patcher 1.0.1e version of the patcher. If you are having trouble finding this file you could probably run a Google search. When you open the DSDT Patcher folder, you should have the following files/folders:
- DSDT Patcher (you will also here this called the Parcher)
- Readme
- Tools
Open up the DSDT Patcher file, a terminal will launch. Next it will say, Press any key to continue. Go ahead and press Enter on your keyboard. Now the last line will state the following: Which OS to Emulate [0=Darwin, 1=WinXP, 2=WinVista]. Go ahead and hit 0 for Darwin and press Enter again.
Now if you go back to the DSDT Folder where the three files were originally located (the DSDT Patcher, Readme and Tools), you will notice two additional files/folders were created:
- Debug
- dsdt.aml
Go ahead and open up the Debug folder, locate a file called dsdt.dsl. Right click on this file and open it with TextEdit (this is an application located within the Applications folder). Once this file is open, locate the Alias CPU section (just run a search and type in the word CPU). For my computer, there were only two results which looked like this:
{
Processor (P001, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}
Processor (P002, 0x02, 0x00000000, 0x00) {}
Alias (P002, CPU2)
Processor (P003, 0x03, 0x00000000, 0x00) {}
Processor (P004, 0x04, 0x00000000, 0x00) {}
Alias (P004, CPU4)
}
Go ahead and delete/clean the Alias lines so the end result should look something like this:
{
Processor (P001, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}
Processor (P002, 0x02, 0x00000000, 0x00) {}
Processor (P003, 0x03, 0x00000000, 0x00) {}
Processor (P004, 0x04, 0x00000000, 0x00) {}
}
Go ahead and save the file and close it. Now drag and drop the dsdt.dsl file to your desktop, or anywhere else for that matter. Go back to your DSDT Patcher folder, delete the Debug folder and the dsdt.aml file (NOT the dsdt.dsl file you just saved to your desktop).
Double click on your hard drive and go to Applications and find the Terminal (just type in Terminal in the finder if you have having trouble). Before opening the Terminal application, make sure the DSDT Patcher terminal has been closed. Now open the Terminal application. Now drag and drop the DSDT Patcher file which is located within your DSDT Patcher folder in the Terminal. Hit the spacebar and drag and drop the dsdt.dsl file (the one you saved to your desktop) into the Terminal. Now hit Enter, it will not look like much happened and you will be back to a similar terminal window that you saw when you first opened up the DSDT Patcher terminal. It will ask you to Press any key to continue. Go ahead and hit enter and then select 0 for the Darwin OS to emulate and hit enter again. Now if you don’t have any errors you should be good to go. Lets go ahead and open up the new dsdt.aml file which has been created within the DSDT Patcher folder once again in TextEdit. Run a search on the word CPU, you should not find anything. My current version, the unpatched version of the DSDT.aml file which is located (hidden) within the root drive looks like this on the fourth line:
ñ L _PR_[É P001 [É P002 P002CPU2[É P003 [É P004 P004CPU4 DP80

Our new patched file looks like this:
ñ 9_PR_[É P001 [É P002 [É P003 [É P004 DP80
Notice CPU has been removed. Okay, now take the patched version of the dsdt.aml file located within the DSDT Patcher folder and rename it to DSDT.aml. Go to your root drive and delete the DSDT.aml file and drag and drop the new, patched DSDT.aml file.
Now restart your computer, you should not have to enter any commands and it will boot automatically using 4 cores.

Thank you so much uofamis22!! I used your guide and now have all four cores working!

I have Q9450 Quad Core CPU and ASUS P5Q-E mobo... Leopard is now fully working

One last step is to run Snow

Thank you very much and all others on this forum whom post helped me