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moin kabyl

 

do you know if its possible to change speedstep p-states anywhere in dsdt?

my laptops stuck @ 2 x1ghz but capable of 2 x1,83ghz

 

speedstep in leo doesnt work because of the 1ghz limit of the cpu throttler kext,

so changing the lowest to 1,1 ghz would help i think

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Is this Bios Mod will work with the ASROCK Wolfdale1333-D667 R2.0?

 

I installed the Leo4all distro and the only way to run it is with the cpus=1. ;)

 

Greetings...

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can anyone tell me how can i know, if all the cores are working or not.

 

 

Hey, in finder browse to applications/Utilities

Theres a system performace icon in there that will tell you :D

 

 

Oooh, or you can just click on the apple logo, then about this mac, then more info...

 

either will do.

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moin kabyl

 

do you know if its possible to change speedstep p-states anywhere in dsdt?

my laptops stuck @ 2 x1ghz but capable of 2 x1,83ghz

 

speedstep in leo doesnt work because of the 1ghz limit of the cpu throttler kext,

so changing the lowest to 1,1 ghz would help i think

Yes, I believe so, but they are usually defined in the SSDTs (which are a continuation of the DSDT), the kext only replaces the DSDT for now, but it shouldn't be hard (well for the SSDTs it needs some work) to replace other ACPI Tables. A BIOS mod is also an option...

 

Is this Bios Mod will work with the ASROCK Wolfdale1333-D667 R2.0?

 

I installed the Leo4all distro and the only way to run it is with the cpus=1. :D

 

Greetings...

Post a link to the BIOS file..

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Hi Kabyl :

 

this is the link for the bios's ASROCK Wolfdale1333-D667

 

My mobo is running the 1.20 version, but i suppose the 1.30 is better ...(?)

 

"http://download.asrock.com/bios/775/Wolfdale1333-D667(1.30).zip"

 

an thank you very much for your time.

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Hi Kabyl :

 

this is the link for the bios's ASROCK Wolfdale1333-D667

 

My mobo is running the 1.20 version, but i suppose the 1.30 is better ...(?)

 

"http://download.asrock.com/bios/775/Wolfdale1333-D667(1.30).zip"

 

an thank you very much for your time.

http://rapidshare.com/files/104690115/Wolf...0__mod.zip.html

 

Hello, it´s possible for Asus F3Jc ?

The original driver goes here.

http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F3Jc/F3JcAS306.ZIP

 

Thank you very much.

http://rapidshare.com/files/104691693/F3JcAS306_mod.zip.html

Feedback, please :unsure:

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Hi Kabyl, do not know if this is possible.

I'm trying from almost a month to install Leo on an Asus DSEB-DG a dual Xeon MoBo.

There is no way only CPUS=1 and only 10.5.1: no way to upgrade to 10.5.2 with any kernel any AppleACPIFamily.

Always stop at buffers headers and cluster IO and freeze or reboot immediately.

 

Do you think it is possible to apply your method to a "MacPro like" xeon board?

The link to the bios is this:

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket.../DSEBDG1003.zip

 

Thanks

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Kabyl : Thank you very much for your modded bios's ASROCK Wolfdale1333-D667.

 

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First of all , the flash was successful and the Leo4all DVD Installer ran without cpus=1.

 

I installed with vanilla 9.2.2 and the system reboots when trying to load the EFI stuff.

 

I will install it with alternative kernel and later i'll tell you my results.

 

Grretings.

 

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New Edit :

 

Finally i installed the whole Leo4All DVD.

 

ASROCK WolfDale1333-D667 with Modded (by Kabyl) Bios 1.30

Runnning with both cores,

NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS 256MB - Leo4all Drivers.

2GB Kingston 667 - Dual Channel

Azalia Drivers runnning on the internal soundbard

Ethernet : OK (Internal)

 

Alternative Kernel not vanilla.

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Kabyl, I'm desperated, I just bought an Acer 5920G just for Os X (the guys in the shop are not accepting returns), first the notebook completly crashed in the middle of the installation, so I decided install the newest bios.

 

Now the installer halts with :"Extension "com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatfrom" has immediate dependecies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style."

 

I know this failure is related to what your patches fix on the bios, (a couple of days ago used a patched bios from you to install another notebook with the same error message)

 

Can you help me?

 

The lastest bios is: ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/asp...a/BIOS/3811.zip

 

Thanks in advance.

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hay i have a intel duel core 2.6, and am planing to buy a new mother board and a grafix card if needed, my primary objective is to run FCP with duel monitor output can you please suggest a good configuration for the same. thanks a million

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Wow awesome work and service you are doing here, Kabyl, I am deeply impressed!

 

Me and Mentorek, both Toshiba Laptop users, have been trying ourselves to rebuild our Phoenix BIOSes because of faulty entries in the DSDT table, which prevent most of the periphery (LAN, WLAN, sound) to work in non-MS OSes. Toshiba openly refuses to fix this because they only want to support Windows, and our efforts compiling with the latest versions of both Phoenix BIOS Editor and MS ASL Compiler always failed :( .

 

So we would be much more than happy if you could please give inserting the correct DSDT table and compiling the BIOS with it a shot ;) .

 

Here's the link to the latest BIOS 4.2 from the Toshiba site for my Laptop (Mentorek has a slightly different model); the DSDT table as corrected by him is attached to this posting.

 

If you need any more information feel free to let me know, I have links to the postings in the Linux forums where our friends have solved this issue by injecting the corrected DSDT into the kernel itself, then recompiling the kernel.

 

Thank you very much (hoping) :)

 

Cheers,

Bugs

 

PS: Chun-Nan contributes a modded IOPCIFamily.kext which sorts out faulty DSDT entries while our iHacks boot, which fixed LAN and WLAN for me, so now all which remains to be fixed is sound, which seems to rely directly on the DSDT table in the BIOS .. :(

Toshiba_corrected_DSDT_table.rar

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Another happy one... Asus DSEB-DG

 

Kabyl did it again!!!

 

WOW we should put a monument in the main square of our towns just for this guy...

Now "Mac Pro" like MoBo Asus DSEB-DG a dual Xeon board can be added to the working family for x86... no more CPUS=1 and freezes and reboots...

 

The link to the mod BIOS is here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/104792321/DSEB...03_mod.zip.html

 

Thank thank you thank you again... :)

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Please, Kabyl!

Can you do the same fore my Aspire 5580 (ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5580/bios/3508.zip)

And one more, what kind of tools do you use for modding Phoenix bioses?

Thnx

http://rapidshare.com/files/105056789/3508_mod.zip.html

Feedback... :)

EDIT: I use Phoenix BIOS Editor :)

 

Hi, everybody. I have a LG E500 G.A290T (c2d t5550) notebook. I need a bios patch.. Some body help me pls. My cpu working core 2 solo :blink:

Post.. a link to the BIOS file :( and your laptop's specs

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