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Member #9,643 · 2009-08-15 → 2010-03-19
#159 by Dispatches #736 by Thread Reach Member #9,643 DSDT ASUS P5K / P5Q AHCI / SATA

@walterav

InfiniteMac community contributor with 45 recorded dispatches, participating in discussions reaching 808,277 historical readers.

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Member Number #9,643 Joined 2009-08-14
Active Window 2009–2010 2009-08-15 → 2010-03-19
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
DSDT.dsl · *ATI hd2600xt injection for leopard only! · *quick/dirty rtc/hpet fix "not good enough for core2quad I heard" · *Audio injection! · *dtgp #for adding the patches · #see attachment BTW do also have speedstep applied to dsdt? I also heard it was possible also for quads and even corei7...
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#159 of 6,691 by Dispatches (45 notes) · #736 by Thread Reach (808,277 cumulative reads)
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Member #9,643 · Joined 2009-08-14
Hardware & Kernel Topics
DSDT (18) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (16) · AHCI / SATA (8) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (5) · Retail DVD / USB (3) · NVIDIA GeForce (3)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Snow Leopard 10.6
45 (100%)

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (40)

Direct links into threads where @walterav contributed solutions & commentary

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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I may post a list of all patches I used in the near future This is just a summary of several dsdt fixes working for this board. I'm not the one who invented any of these patches, but I don't know the names of all contributors anymore... See…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-19
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“DSDT is configuration specific, it depends on amount of RAM and type of CPU used. I may post a list of all patches I used in the near future, the only thing that may be added is speedstepping and therefor a proper cpu temperature... but I h…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-03-05
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thanks for reply... To be onest I never could think that an adapter DVI-Svideo can be right for a brand and useless for another...But we are here to learn! So I will try with a DVI-VGA adapter on the second plug (I have not two DVI monitors…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-26
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“I have the firdt monitor on the nearest plug and an apple adapter DVI-S-video to trough the second DVI to connect my TV; I can find the double monitor setting but when I check it I just have a "sandy" resolution on first monitor and no sign…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-22
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Sorry for my lousy posting. I don't know how to code quote :'(:'(:'( Its not that important, but its easier than you might think. A lot of forumboards / cms editors of websites have so many icons to manipulate the text you type... I just ig…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-13
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“My friend gave me a hint about DSDT patch for sleep. I try it. It works perfect. Now I have only two kexts (fakesmc.kext & AD1988bFix.kext) in E/E. Restart, Sleep/Wake, Shutdown, Restart after sleep/wake all is good. This is the hack for sl…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-12
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“walterav// I use following kexts in my E/E AD1988b.Fix.kext fakesmc.kext NullCPUPowerMangement.kext PlatformUUID.kext SleepEnabler.kext OSXRestart.kext After I install this bootloader, I remove OSXRestart.kext from my E/E and I put 'Restart…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-09
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“So I have the following Extensions in my Extra/Extensions/ folder: Disabler.kext ---> Quicktime fix EvOreboot Fakesmc NullCPUPowerManagement OSXRestart PlatformUUID SleepEnabler With DSDT fixes you have to get rid of these 3: EvOreboot OSXR…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-09
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thank you for your answer. So, you don't use OsXRestart.kext in E/E anymore ? Where can I get the information about 'the reboot fix "FADT/OsxRestart.kext" built in' ? efix users.com/showthread.php?t=644 It was already there since 1.1.x What…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-09
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“DSDT patched but couldn't manage to recompile the DSDT. I'm using evoreboot.kext instead of osxrestart.kext coz it shuts down completely... and voodooHDA... any ideas on what's making it panic? Why use VoodooHDA? is DSDT + legacy kext not w…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-08
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“walterav // Good job. It works good. I tested on my P5K-E wifi on snowlopard 10.6.2. I removed EvOreboot.kext from E/E, but still I have to use OsXRestart.kext. Did you hear about AsereBLN's bootloader ? I found Booter_AsereBLN_v1.1.8.zip f…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-08
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“OSXRestart does solve the restart after sleep issue, however I can't get Shutdown to work if I remove Ev0reboot. Apparently you can fix this in DSDT - but I have no idea I asked for some extra input. Keep ya updated... Shutdown fix DSDT sol…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-07
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“OSXRestart does solve the restart after sleep issue, however I can't get Shutdown to work if I remove Ev0reboot. Apparently you can fix this in DSDT - but I have no idea OSXRestart.kext indeed only fixes restart and performing a restart aft…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-04
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“what about SPDIF, I have bad sound to, I used VoodooHDA + 1988B kext is it real to fix SPDIF? p.s. analog line out also makes ugly noise Why use voodooHDA and 1988b kext? Thats asking for trouble. You should patch the dsdt with HDEF/HDA sup…”
Snow Leopard 10.62010-02-04
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“shutdown always worked fine for me... only restart after wake needed a hard reset!”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-02
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“ubuntu 9.10 beta amd64: restart after sleep/wake is finnaly working! So now its only something related the osx86. Anyone any progress ?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-02
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Been trying several tut 's. but still my snow won 't boot completely Using a P5K deluxe. Do i have to choose AHCI for my drives or IDE ? Wich are the right kexts ? do i need e DST.aml file ? Since you have a other motherboard, first start c…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-10-01
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“dsdt sata and usb fix: update Restart and shutdown times seems to be normal... I noticed that wake from usb "keyboard/mouse" also works at the moment "10.5.8", no more wrong usb volume eject/unmount when waking from sleep. I also noticed th…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-27
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“About the dsdt sata/usb "builtin/sleep" fix... Is the restart and shutdown time good with this new fix by SNOC, the old dsdt usb fix, had a really long delay? Do all six internal sata ports work, and does e-sata works and still show as exte…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-26
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“But i have one Question left Yesterday, I bought me 2x2GB 1066mhz DDR2 Ram for my Asus P5K Green... I have done the install with 2x1GB 800mhz Rams ... With one 1066mhz Modul Leopard 10.5.8 and Snow Leopard boots very fast. With 2 Ram Module…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-03
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Hello, I read all your posts many-many times, and finally my SnowLeo is working. But one thing do not workiing.. its network. Can you help me with it? I try all kext, but its not working.. I have Asus p5k-E Delux/Wifi AppleYukon2Injector.ke…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Burn the dmg, or open the dmg but don't recover it to a other harddisk. When opening the OSInstall.mpkg, just select the right volume where you can want it to be installed! But before that, you have to Partition it yourself in Diskutility. …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“all is working pretty well -- exepct that osx only sees one of my other internal drives ! P5K Q6600 8GB RAM What kind of harddrive? Sata / IDE ? volume type MBG/GUID? Filesystem type, HFS+ NTFS FAT32?”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-09-01
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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
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thanks again for your help walterav. I have manually installed a boot-loader on my EFI partition - which is now working and honours my com.apple.Boot.plist. I couldn't get Chameleon V2 (using EFI installer option) to read any of my config f…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-31
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“walterav - thanks so much for your help. I have already ordered another couple of SATA drives and a DVD I have attached a zip of my bios shots/settings. Hi, you forgot the most import pages that will lead to the first kernel panic! Or gray …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-30
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Typed in your commands: Snow Leo boots great with -v -f, without KP Ofcourse it boots with -f, thanks for the screenshot it gives us nice information how you do stuff, if all people did that Using the command kextcache also requires 'sudo' …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-30
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“It's been a long road to Hackintosh-ness and my brain hurts. Just wonder if I can pick someone else's brain? MOBO: P5K-E Wifi/AP CPU: Q6600 GFX: GeForce 9800 GT 512 RAM: 4GB DDR2 800 DRIVES: SATA: 2 x 500GB HHD 1 x DVD IDE/PATA: 1 x DVD 1 x…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-30
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Thanks for the clarification. I got sleep to work with your USB patch together with SleepEnabler.kext. However, if I reboot the PC after wakeup from sleep, the system hangs and it couldn't reboot. If I shutdown the PC after wakeup from slee…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-29
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“hej Good News ! I´m writting this Post from Snow Leopard on my internal HDD ! I mixed your tipps: - Installed the newest Chameleon - replaced "boot" again - Insert the new IOATAFamily.kext When this is done, it boots very stable and fast wi…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-29
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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 -configure sata as [AHCI] -CPU configuration : C1 support [Disabled] CPU TM Function [Enabled] Vanderpool technology [Enabled] …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-29
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“i just entered the command you told me, boot and hit -f -v and this screen appears: Tomorrow morning i will try your other guide with install it from the working snow leopard External HDD ! But i can´t see the Drives from the internal Hardd…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-28
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“hehe, after about 1000 installs i can do it blind I will do a new one and will post it here… Okay, well if it took 1000 installs to boot with a verbose option, maybe it will take 1000 more to make it all work Just make sure you write down e…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-28
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“@walterav sorry for my bad information ! i know what you mean… now i get the 0000000000000002 code! all BIOS Settings are ok and the same as you told me ! Leopard 10.5.8 works great with this BIOS Settings and the SL on the USB-Drive, too. …”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-28
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“At first, thanks for your great guide ! I managed to make SL running on my 2,5" External HDD ! Sound, Graphics, W-Lan-LAN, All Cores ... all works ! Now i tried the same steps with my internal 3,5" S-ata drive, i boots (bootloader works...)…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-27
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Have 10A432 used this method to perform the install to a T. I used the files included in Archive.zip, also I modified the IONetworking as described earlier. Just working with 32 bit mode, It boots fine the first time to run setup, everythin…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-26
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“But don't you have the Marvell 88E8056 Adapter on your board ? If yes you can always use the original yukon2 kext Read here About the legacyyukon2 kext, is it true that this kext is empty? If I do show contents I only see an icon of a kext,…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-23
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“From my understanding when you decompile the DSDT, the amount of RAM you have installed is intertwined with the DSDT. So after mods and recompile, the amount of RAM you had installed is incorporated into the DSDT. Yes, I applied the quadcor…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-18
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Anyone with a P5K Deluxe (or similar board with the same Marvell network PHY), I have made my own plist kext for the Yukon2. It works for me in both 64 and 32 bit modes. I can't take credit for it, I used info from several posts from differ…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-18
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Snow Leopard Retail (10A432) on P5K-E Wifi A/P -64 bit mode
“Here you go. Just to let you know, I have 8gb of ram, so my dsdt may cause you issues if you don't have the same amount of ram as me. I have heard that it can cause issues, I don't know tho. Let me know if it works for you. I have applied a…”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-08-18
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