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My specs? Well, ASRock x58 Extreme obviously, Core i7 920, PNY GeForce 9800 GT, Dlink DWA-556 and XClio case. What do you want them for? The only thing in the DSDT should be the motherboard and processor.
or someone else reading haz a asrock x58 extreme?
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Lead Dossiers Authored by @adriangb (4)
112,581 cumulative reads on threads started by @adriangb
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| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. Hi, this is my first post in this forum, but I'm not completely clueless, so be a little patient. First I'll explain my situation: I finally ordered my first build (ASRock x58 Extreme+ i7 920+GeForce 9800 GT 1GB+2x2GB OZC Gold 1600MHz… | 10.X Core | 78,046 reads 2010-01-09 · 140 notes |
| ALC890 on ASRock x58 Extreme I have this board, an have pretty much everything working except sound (without VodoooHDA) and sleep, but I'll leave this last one out for now. My biggest problem with sound is that I don't have any AZAL or HDEF entry in my DSDT , so I… | 10.X Core | 19,704 reads 2010-02-05 · 21 notes |
| CST data, where it should come from and how to get it into the DSDT correctly. I have an ASRock x58 Extreme, and the only thing that I'm missing is getting sleep to work. In my DSDT I have the info for speedsteping on the i7 920, and I'm pleased to say that it works 100%. Along with that goes the CST info, and altho… | 10.X Core | 9,087 reads 2010-03-11 · 8 notes |
| "Pre-Alpha State" Guide for ASRock x58 Extreme Missing lot's of work, links, etc, but I'll post it to get some feedback (which will make it easier to edit when I sit down in a week to do so). At some poing I'll pass it to a proper on-infinite (now it's a PDF) guide. | 10.X Core | 5,744 reads 2010-05-05 · 1 notes |
Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)
Direct links into threads where @adriangb contributed solutions & commentary
| Thread & Dispatch Excerpt | Collection | Date & Reach |
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| Various DSDT mods. “Sorry of reviving this and cutting in @ping99 I have an ASRock x58 Extreme (similar to ASUS boards), and sleep doesn't work OTB. I've been looking around, and it seems I would need to modify Method (_PTS, 1, NotSerialized). I read your post…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-01 625,378 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “It's late and I'm about to crash, but I just had to share that I finally got audio to work. I took Joeboxer's advice and used VoodooHDA from Multibeast. The newest experimental version (0.2.61) worked for me, but it doesn't look like optica…” | 10.X Core | 2010-09-06 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Here is a VERY PRELIMINARY version of my guide. It's probably missing stuff, has errors, etc, etc, but after I get some feedback (and try it fully myself, as in follow it from pg 1 to 30) I'll re-write it, to organize, correct and better it…” | 10.X Core | 2010-05-05 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Oh, now I understand why you can all boot fine without DSDT. Your using NullCPUPowermanagement. That equals=no OSPM (Operating System Power Manegment, everything is handled by the "legacy firmware"). Hence no speedsteping and not native pow…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-23 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Vanilla, that's the whole point of an Intel build... just install OS X and DON'T replace any kernel. If you do, your system may not boot since if the empireEFI cd contains one (I doub't, but can't check right now) it probably also needs its…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-22 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Just a few questions/comments Apart from sleeping, you probably cant restart or shutdown. Do you have all cores enabled? Do you have good temps? Why would you boot in 64b (I doubt you have >32GB of RAM) and doesn't PCEFI 10.6 boot in 64b by…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-21 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “You need to have NO AUDIO KEXTS except the Legacy HDA I posted. Have you repacked you .mkext (or removed the old one?)” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-17 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “The DSDT edit and the kext I uploaded some time ago... an ONLY that. What HDAEnabler does is it tries to "insert audio into the DSDT" (this is technically incorrect, but it works as an explanation), so the problem is that then you would nee…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-16 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “If you use my DSDT fix, you DONT NEED HDAENABLER. Actually, it will make the whole thing not work.” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-16 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Na, I had a cheap CoolMax one that went out one day and took all but my CPU with it. Serves me luck, for buying a cheapy brand like that. Luckily I was able to get replacements for evereything, and got a refund on my PSU. Now I got a OCZ, w…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-09 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “What you say about the atheros card an i7's is interesting: I used to have trouble connecting to a network with mine. Ah, people, it appears that even if using a other persons DSDT might work, it is not ideal as the DSDT may contain calls t…” | 10.X Core | 2010-04-09 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “As others have said, great thread. I've got the ASRock X58 Extreme / i7 920 combo like the rest of you. I've been messing with this for a couple of weeks and have learned a lot, but I still don't have a working rig. Taking all of what I've …” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-25 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “I get that error with all asereBLN boot-loaders, but chameleon. I'll interpret that as "I don't get it with plain Chameleon" . You can't fix that with the com.apple.boot.plist, it must go in the DSDT.” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-25 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Ok, I've heard of that error with aserebln's booter. Did you get that before with Chameleon RC4 or is it new? What kexts are you using?” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-24 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “cpus=1 busratio=20 has a very easy DSDT fix. If you don't want to mess with DSDT, you can use mine or use DSDTSE. All you have to do is transform Scope (_PR) into something like this: Scope (_PR) { Processor (P001, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06) {…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-24 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “I think that's my com.apple.boot.plist . If you need to re-write it "like that one" why not use that one? Download this package tonym acx86.com/Public/Chameleon%20RC4-AsereBLN-1.1.9.zip and select your snow leopard disk (partition) and inst…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-24 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Are Leopard and Snow leopard are on separate drives or partitions?” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-23 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “No, there is no "correct" playlist, it all depends on what boot-loader, kexts, etc you use (so I'd have to "guess" your setup). Do you have chameleon on a USB drive? If you do, just send me a copy of that and your chameleon files (or versio…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-22 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Well, for starters why did you put all the GPU info like that? Why not just use GraphicsEnabler or a regular hex string? I'd remove busratio=20 if you have native power management (it shouldn't be needed), and try booting with -x32 in case …” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-22 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Could any of you post the SSDT's for out motherboard? I'm trying to work on sleep, but it's hard without my rig. You can get them using DSDTSE.” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-22 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “com.apple.boot.plist and NullCPUPowerManagement.kext are unrelated, but if you post your com.apple.boot.plist I'll be glad to se if I can find any obvious errors. It might help if you point out what problems you think you have.” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-20 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “you said your CPU was running really hot... Did you ever resolve that? If you're not running it, you might want to check out NullCPUPowerManagement.kext What that kext does is it returns power manegment to the BIOS. I have resolved the temp…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-19 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “As I said, I will, but since the secret is in the DSDT edits, I'd have to "retrace" my steps, trying to "guess" all the changes I've made!” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-12 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “yes ok, thought this might not be possible What might not be possible? Checking speed-stepping with MSRTools? Or uncomplying? As far as I know you can just download osx 86.es/Archivos/DSDTSE.zip and open DSDT.aml's with that.” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-09 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “I don't know what version you'r using, but use MSRTools to check.” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-09 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Speedstep yes, sleep no. Can't you uncompile it yourself? I don't have my DSDT with me, and I wont until I get my pen drive and own computer with iasl (tomorrow). And I can't test if it uncompiled well or anything! Sorry.” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-08 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “hi... yes win7 x64 did run well ... though some installation issues with a raid card; so normally the board should be ok. but, after a "soft off" the bios doesn't boots correctly and there is no video output. if i pull off the power cord an…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-05 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Have you tried Windows/Linux? If those don't work either, that yes, it's probably the motherboard. It should never be hd(0,2) mach_kernel using a USB stick with Chameleon, unless the kernel is on the same partition as OS X. Chameleon sees i…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-04 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “If you'r in Berlin I guess we aren't that far off (in time that is), I'm in UK now (and that's why I can't be of much help).” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-04 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Try this: plug your HDD's into SATA 1&2 (maybe I'm just paranoid, and think that everything can go wrong?) and the DVD into 3. Then set C-States to C6 and cores to All and activate EHS. Then try to boot with Empire EFI. Edit: My kexts are f…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-04 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “If you have a mac book, you could even create a USB boot drive that is specific for your system before you even install OS X. A key component in this is the DSDT file. The errors you got with the DVD's seem quite "random" (I mean to say I d…” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-03 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Don't confuse Empire EFI with Rebel EFI. Rebel EFI is a rip off that uses other peoples work. Empire EFI is open, free and it credits the contributers. I think I originally used 1.085, but the newest version should be fine (or better). Get …” | 10.X Core | 2010-03-02 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Empire EFI is basically a modified Chameleon (using PC EFI if I'm not mistaken) and a bunch of kexts. It's designed to work on all systems, but not necessarily well. So the answer is, no one should be using Empire EFI as a main boot-loader,…” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-28 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “It depends where you set it in your com.apple.boot.plist (DSDT=/Extra/DSDT.aml). I use a folder with my current kexts and only a mkext on my usb drive, and that's all I have now (I don't know if I posted it on this thread, but I'm in the mi…” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-28 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “There are plenty of guides on installing DSDT's, the general procedure is to put it in (your Chaemaleon partition)/Extra/DSDT.aml. Use the one in this link (and the kext if you want audio, remember to use the needed kexts for the board, fak…” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-28 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Just use my DSDT. There are no guides for the x58 Extreme. Try setting the active procesors to 1 in the BIOS to boot.” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-23 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “My specs? Well, ASRock x58 Extreme obviously, Core i7 920, PNY GeForce 9800 GT, Dlink DWA-556 and XClio case. What do you want them for? The only thing in the DSDT should be the motherboard and processor.” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-22 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Yes, you should be able to use it without problems. You'll need to use GraphicEnabler=Yes or an EFI string.” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-21 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “I'm pleased to announce that I got HD audio (non vooodo) working 100%! Just use the attached DSDT and LegacyAppleHDA” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-16 78,046 dossier reads |
| ASRock x58 Extreme DSDT & optimizing. “Put it on the second partition, and make the first one (well, second counting the EFI partition) something like 100GB, so that you have 60 left to work with (more than enough). Once you've installed OS X on the first partition, you can dele…” | 10.X Core | 2010-02-15 78,046 dossier reads |