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Member #8,464 · 2009-07-15 → 2009-11-29
#128 by Dispatches #19 by Author Reads #391 by Thread Reach Member #8,464 ASUS P5K / P5Q DSDT Chameleon / Boot-132

@lancelotu

InfiniteMac community contributor with 58 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (808,277 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,152,823 historical readers.

Dispatches 58 Ranked #128 of 6,691
Author Reads 808,277 Ranked #19 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,152,823 Ranked #391 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 808,277 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #8,464 Joined 2009-07-15
Active Window 2009 2009-07-15 → 2009-11-29
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
My system : · P5k-E Wifi ap mobo · cpu Q6600 (Core 2 Quad) · 2gb ram 667 · AD1988B sound chip · WG311-t network card · asus sata DVD and HD · Nvidia 7300 GS video 256Mb · Marvell 88E8056 Ethernet Setup: · Asus P5K-E WIFI · E6750 @ 3.4 GHz · 4GB RAM · 250GB SATA HDD · GeForce 7300LE 256mb
Archive Standing
#128 of 6,691 by Dispatches (58 notes) · #19 of 3,454 by Author Readership (808,277 reads across 1 dossiers) · #391 by Thread Reach (1,152,823 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #8,464 · Joined 2009-07-15
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ASUS P5K / P5Q (22) · DSDT (19) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (15) · Retail DVD / USB (15) · AHCI / SATA (6) · NVIDIA GeForce (4)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Snow Leopard 10.6
58 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @lancelotu (1)

808,277 cumulative reads on threads started by @lancelotu

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
T hanks to all the wonderful users of this community I have now a nearly perfect vanilla, up-to-date, 10a432 hackintosh My system : P5k-E Wifi ap mobo cpu Q6600 (Core 2 Quad) 2gb ram 667 AD1988B sound chip WG311-t network card asus sata…
Snow Leopard 10.6808,277 reads
2009-07-15 · 368 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @lancelotu contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“lancelotu, can we talk about Speedstep here? My board is P5K-P, with E5200 cpu. The cpu always runs at full speed. I have no idea how to make it Speedstep enabled. Anything related to P5K Series is welcome”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-29
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“firstly, thanks to the OP. You have helped many! Can someone help me on my issue using Vanilla on P5k-e? I have had a beautiful 10.6.1 installation until i updated to 10.6.2. Now i get an instant Kernel panic as soon as i select OSX in the …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-20
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“when i create a DSDT. i have several errors, i can 't seem to fix. Intel ACPI Component Architecture ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20080926 [Oct 4 2008] Copyright (C) 2000 - 2008 Intel Corporation Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0a…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-15
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“... I can't seem to get chameleon to boot anymore. I can boot up using a bootthink usb stick but Chameleon gives me a KP as soon as it starts. Far as I can tell, -f and -x flags are not helping, and there doesn't seem to be anything obvious…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-08
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Magic Mouse works flawlessly incase anyone was wondering ! I was wondering... Is it strange to use ? Did you get used quickly with the new way of using the mouse ?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-07
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Yes, i have SleelpEnabled.kext in /S/L/E. I can restart the system without any issue… but i can't restart after computer comes from sleep… Sleep/Wakeup work ed. Did you tried the EvOreboot.kext (thanks to EvOTeam)”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-07
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“If anyone can help with the jmicron showing up as "Unknown AHCI Standard Controller" I would appreciate it! I think you need this :”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-07
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I I tried to install my 4670 but got errors and put up a post on insanelymac hoping netkas will see it and comment. So you have already seen this and it doesn't work ? Because I was thinking to buy one for myself”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-04
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“A vanilla install has meant going from a simple distro to Chameleon bootloader and DSDT patching. I'm pretty happy with the results. Here's where I'm at now: Asus P5K-e (bios 1202) 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo 4GB 800MHz DDR2 disabled JMicron ATA in…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-11-02
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Outside of this issue, I don't think I am having any problems other than the mouse lag issue. For some reason I can't get that resolved Sounds crazy but did you already seen this, this and this ?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-26
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thanks lance! I also attempted what you asked me with VLC and unfortunately it produced the same results in Console. Thanks again everyone Ok what if you change in VLC/Preferences/Video/Output modules "Default" to "OpenGL video output? And …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-25
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thanks so much for the help you've already provided. I am now running mostly functional vanilla installation of 10.6.1. I have a new set of challenges however that I've yet to find answers for. After much searching, I thought I might just a…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-24
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thanks man! Sorry for late reply, I was offline for some time. I managed to fix it, but still I have some warnings and remarks. But its working. Thanks once again. Cheers! If someone know how to get rid of those warnings and remarks, please…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-17
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thanks. I got it. But i can not boot os with your dsdt. I think ram is problem. I have 4gb (2x2). Where in dsdt i can change this settings? Of course you can't, my dsdt.aml is only there for comparison. Always use your dsdt and maybe copy o…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-12
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“This is the updated version of snow essentials. If something is missing or should be added or modified, please let me know. I don't have much time lately and since my system is working, I didn't changed anything in a while. Get the snow ess…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-12
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I have a question for the users of the ASUS P5K-E wifi, does your jmicron controller recognize the IDE devices? if yes, what kexts are u using and what BIOS version and settings...THX Yes this JMicronATA.kext recognize both my IDE HDs . put…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-11
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thank you all for your contributions to this guide. I have been able to follow it piece by piece and now have a sometimes-functional SL install on my P5K-E. I am having a couple problems that I don't seem to be able to find answers to here,…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-11
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I thought it was just me, I am experiencing this same issue. I am still looking for a fix... Many thanks all of you from this post. I have an annoying minor problem starting from using leopard. The Asus P5K-E wifi/ap has two eSATA ports whi…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-21
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Hello! I have followed some of your guide and got my network to run(THANKS :-* ). It all seems to run stable at 64bit. However, I can not get the sound working. I have installed snow loepard using Chameleon RC2 v3 and used these Kext : AD19…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-16
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“What other method ? Edit AppleYukon2.kext's info.plist directly ? i.e System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleYukon2.kext/Contents/Info.plist Yes that one .Did you booted with -f option ? Did you check your S…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-14
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I'm using the same motherboard p5k-e wifi/ap. I installed SL and boot into desktopsuccessfully. Then I extract attached file AppleYukon2Injector.kext.zip posted from 1st post and put under /Extra/Extensions/ and reboot Now, SL can recgonize…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-14
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I got a quick question, so the DSDT SATA ESB2 FIX will work on ICH9 as well? I'm not on ICH9R. So I can get rid of BlockStorage and AHCIPort kexts. Thanks Yes it works with ich 7/8/9”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-13
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“First of all thank you all very much for all the info. I managed to install SL on my P5K-E Wifi/AP, all devices are working as they should (including network, sound, graphics, etc). However, I have a very big problem. Maya is not working --…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-12
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I try to install Snow leopard, got it to install and when I reboot setup my info, see my desktop, a few minutes I get kernel Panic Screen. I have leopard 10.5.8 working on another 500gb hard Drive. What do I need to do to fix this. I use in…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-10
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thanks for your help . . I also have some of those extensions, but I thought the idea of patching DSDT was so that you didn't need plist only injector kexts. My drive icons are OK because I'm still using the injector . . but I'd like to get…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-10
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“now could anybody tell me how I can get system profiler and about this mac to show correct processor speed? I suspect that I have to edit some file to get it to show 2.4 GHz instead of the wrong 3.8GHz its currently displaying. (cpu-x shows…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-02
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“no, just reinstalled it, as in your guide, replaced the IATAFamily... then entered, after booting in Snow Leopard this commands: sudo chown -R root:wheel /Volumes/YourSnowVolume/System/Library/Extensions/* sudo chmod -R 755 /Volumes/YourSno…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“First of all thank you all very much for all the info. I managed to install SL on my P5K-E Wifi/AP, all devices are working as they should (including network, sound, graphics, etc). However, I have a very big problem. Maya is not working --…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“funny that this guide works for lancelotu . For me its not working… What exactly doesn't work ? do you still have the "still waiting for root device " problem ?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-31
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I mixed your tipps: - Installed the newest Chameleon - replaced "boot" again I didn't wanted to use Chameleon RC1 and RC2 because of this -f option won't work with Chameleon RC1 and 2 when you run kextcache command doesn't give any error ?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-30
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“error by using kextutility 2.3.2 It's because Snow Leopard keeps his Extensions.mkext in another place, before with leopard, it was in /System/Library/ , now it's in System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/ Kext utility is looki…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-30
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Finally we see some progress here Now that we know what's the problem the solutions would be : FIRST OF ALL ! Please make sure again that in your bios/sata configuration is set to AHCI ! If is set to AHCI, then I think your problem is your …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-29
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I think I know why you can't boot... Since you didn't repaired the permissions dsmos.kext didn't loaded ... Sure, a lot of errors were displayed: Whats my Mistake in Terminal ? you have to do this commands as root so add "sudo" in front of …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-28
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“doesn't work for me when i open package content seems no plist file in the kext ?!? can you repost it ? But don't you have the Marvell 88E8056 Adapter on your board ? If yes you can always use the original yukon2 kext Read here”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-20
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“here is my bios setup : (bios version 0903) i have P5E but i think the P5E and the P5k are the same bios setting Wow, thanks for the precise reply , I did tried something like your sleep method, but, as I said before, it doesn't work for me…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-20
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Sleep work for me with this method : http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=168014 I did that also and couldn't see any changes ( I thought I did something wrong but now seeing your DSDT the USB0 TO USB6 section it's the same …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-20
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“here is a solution for fix sleep issue http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=178468&view=findpost&p=1227751 Thanks but doesn't want to "sleep" with my system .”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-17
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Maybe a stupid question but does your frontpanel sound works in Windows/Linux? Yes it does work in Windows and Linux with jack sensing. I also flashed to 1202 but nothing changed ... Last hope is XyZ if I catch him online and in mood to hel…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-17
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Did my audio.zip package fix your front panel headphone connection/detection? Did sleep never worked on your p5k? hello walterav, thanks for your response and I am sorry for not answering sooner but I am still testing various DSDT modifies …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-17
808,277 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Would you be able to post your DSDT? I've got a P5K Deluxe too, it might help me fix my no sound issue, it's the only thing still not working. DSDT.dsl It's in the attachment (audio)”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-17
808,277 dossier reads