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Dsdt
I'm getting ready to install Snow Leopard on a new drive on a P5Q3 Deluxe and
I see a lot of posts here that say you have to modify your DSDT. When I installed Leopard 10.5.6 I do not remember modifying any DSDT file and I have successfully ugraded to 10.5.7 and then 10.5.8 and the system is extremely stable. No issues at all. I consider myself a noob yet so bear with me. 1. Where is the DSDT file on my current system? 2. Can I use a copy of that DSDT to install Snow Leopard? 3. Where is the DSDT file that everyone says you must modify. 4. How do you modify the DSDT? 5. Is there a tutorial on DSDT modification? 6. Is there a DSDT on the Snow Leopard DVD? 7. If there is a DSDT on Snow Leopard, is that the one I have to Modify? 8. Is there a utility to display my current DSDT so I can extract info from there if I need it? Be gentle and thanks for assistance. If you need to move this post to a new section, just let me know where you move it to. ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe WIFI@N Intel core 2 E8500 8gb Gskill dddr3 memory EVGA 9800GT Graphics card 2 SATA II 500gb hard drives 1 Samsung SATA DVD drives Mac OS X 10.6.1, Win Vista 64bit, Win 7 64 bit RC Ubuntu Linux |
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Search for DSDT Patcher by fassl. Just run and it will generate a patched dsdt.aml file which is specific to your hardware. You will need Chameleon PC-EFI9 and above to use it. The reason you've never used it is because your board is very compatible with osx. For example, I couldn't even boot into Leopard without cpus=1 flag. With dsdt override, I don't need it anymore. It also includes other fixes to make pc hardware more compatible with osx. In other words, it is a patch loaded into memory which overrides your hardware settings in bios.
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1. You don't have one unless you created one.
2. Yes you could if you had one. 3. Either in root or /Extra 4. Basic patching to use a DSDT patcher .. I prefer DSDT Patcher GUI over DSDT Patcher, which run in terminal program. More specific patching you use iASLme. 5. Search Forums 6. No ... Macs don't need an DSDT 7. - 8. Yes, iASLme will make a file that you can edit. Gigabyte EX58-UD5 - i7 920 @ 3.2 GHx - eVGA 8800GT Asus P5Q Deluxe - E8400 @ 3.6 GHz - Asus 7900GT iMac 2.2 GHz - 4 MB |
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[HACK P5K] ASUS P5K Deluxe/Wifi [ Q9650 / 8GB OCZ / EVGA 8800 GTX ] Windows Se7en 500GB SATA OSX 10.6.4 (vanilla-EFI) 500GB SATA [HACK EP43] Gigabyte EP43-DS3L [ E6700 / 8GB OCZ / PNY 250 GTS ] Windows Vista 64bit 250 SATA OSX 10.6.4 (vanilla-EFI) 160GB SATA Last edited by OG-Phantom; 09-02-2009 at 06:52 AM. |
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Thanks for the replies. I think I understand a little better now what DSDT is all about.
Since I didn't require a dsdt file when installing Leopard I am going to try and install Snow Leopard without it again. If it works, great! If not I will plunge into DSDT. Again, Thanks ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe WIFI@N Intel core 2 E8500 8gb Gskill dddr3 memory EVGA 9800GT Graphics card 2 SATA II 500gb hard drives 1 Samsung SATA DVD drives Mac OS X 10.6.1, Win Vista 64bit, Win 7 64 bit RC Ubuntu Linux |
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