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The website you up loaded the dsdt.dat file is not letting me download it now.

any chance you can up it to rapidshare?

 

i'm willing to do test with opendsdt.kext, i did upload my dsdt.dat on page 54 with the name nx7400.rar

 

i did extract it with registrar registry manager in binary format.

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i'm willing to do test with opendsdt.kext, i did upload my dsdt.dat on page 54 with the name nx7400.rar

 

i did extract it with registrar registry manager in binary format.

 

Okay, can I just get the straight dump of the dsdt.dat file? Not sure why, but I can't open your first file, as iasl say it's not a valid ACPI header. Does it give you options on how to dump the file, as I said, I can't use the getdsdt.

Can you use anything other than a binary dump? as I tried to convert it to a readable hex value, but came corrupted. ;)

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I can't open the bios, though I know I'm sounding like a broken record at this point.

Will you try getDSDT and post the .dat file here for me?

 

Thank You very much for paying attention to my request! I can't find dsdt for my model here http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php?...acturer=Toshiba . But I found an original dsdt of P100-253. This model is COMPLETELY IDENTICAL to mine (253 & 257 both are PSPA0E). CPU speed seems to be the ONLY difference. Here's the post where Whitehorse gave the link http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...3674&st=60# . Archive contains original 4.30 dsdt.dat and his modified dsdt.dsl (direct link http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...t&id=31902). In fact the whole topic http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=113674 is dedicated to the solvation of Toshiba P100|105 Conexant sound chip & ACPI through BIOS modification. The problem seems to be solved partly... In the end of the topic are my posts about what I did to make my sound work. Here's a package that BugsB made for people who is about to modify BIOS http://www.mediafire.com/?yywjg9jmmm1. Here's the interesting link http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/su...-series-531575/.

 

OriginalMACNUT, can You explain WHY my sound disappeared (and Sleep SUDDENLY began to work) just after I changed RAM (I had 512x2 and changed them to 2Gbx2)? The BIOS (I used this one P105-S6024 BIOS 4.00 is the same. What has changed?

 

Hope You'll be able to help me with my sound|ACPI troubles.

 

Thanks.

 

With great respect, jazzminos.

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Thank You very much for paying attention to my request! I can't find dsdt for my model here http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php?...acturer=Toshiba . But I found an original dsdt of P100-253. This model is COMPLETELY IDENTICAL to mine (253 & 257 both are PSPA0E). CPU speed seems to be the ONLY difference. Here's the post where Whitehorse gave the link http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...3674&st=60# . Archive contains original 4.30 dsdt.dat and his modified dsdt.dsl (direct link http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...t&id=31902). In fact the whole topic http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=113674 is dedicated to the solvation of Toshiba P100|105 Conexant sound chip & ACPI through BIOS modification. The problem seems to be solved partly... In the end of the topic are my posts about what I did to make my sound work. Here's a package that BugsB made for people who is about to modify BIOS http://www.mediafire.com/?yywjg9jmmm1. Here's the interesting link http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/su...-series-531575/.

 

OriginalMACNUT, can You explain WHY my sound disappeared (and Sleep SUDDENLY began to work) just after I changed RAM (I had 512x2 and changed them to 2Gbx2)? The BIOS (I used this one P105-S6024 BIOS 4.00 is the same. What has changed?

 

Hope You'll be able to help me with my sound|ACPI troubles.

 

Thanks.

 

With great respect, jazzminos.

 

There are errors in the DSDT, though this is another bios that I can open and even edit, I can't rebuild the rom till I get past Phoenix Bios Editor error, ( Unable to write to temp file, ASL error )

Till I can find how to fix this problem, I'm not able to do anything, but extract the DSDT and that it. I'm guess, but It might be how the acpi is handling the new memory to cause the issue.

 

I attached a picture showing the dsdt error with in the table.

I'm hoping somebody can help me fix the unable to write to temp file, or give me a link, as I've not been able to solve this problem.

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Okay, can I just get the straight dump of the dsdt.dat file? Not sure why, but I can't open your first file, as iasl say it's not a valid ACPI header. Does it give you options on how to dump the file, as I said, I can't use the getdsdt.

Can you use anything other than a binary dump? as I tried to convert it to a readable hex value, but came corrupted. :D

 

i didn't see your reply so i did use getdsdt, and indeed, the file i get is totally different even if the size is the same.

 

thanks in advance, this is the most annoying thing on my laptop, the rest has been fixed slowly but surely by different members of the community.

dsdt.rar

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There are errors in the DSDT, though this is another bios that I can open and even edit, I can't rebuild the rom till I get past Phoenix Bios Editor error, ( Unable to write to temp file, ASL error )

Till I can find how to fix this problem, I'm not able to do anything, but extract the DSDT and that it. I'm guess, but It might be how the acpi is handling the new memory to cause the issue.

 

I attached a picture showing the dsdt error with in the table.

I'm hoping somebody can help me fix the unable to write to temp file, or give me a link, as I've not been able to solve this problem.

 

How can I help You to solve the problem? In previous posts I tried to collect all the valueable information and links (tools etc) on this problem. Maybe Kabyl will help us. I suppose that he made the first modded P100 BIOS. Have You downloaded this tools set - http://www.mediafire.com/?yywjg9jmmm1 ?

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i didn't see your reply so i did use getdsdt, and indeed, the file i get is totally different even if the size is the same.

 

thanks in advance, this is the most annoying thing on my laptop, the rest has been fixed slowly but surely by different members of the community.

 

Okay, try this, but you may aslo need the Voodoo 9.5 beta 2c kernel as well, still needing feedback if the kernel solves the problem, or the new kernel plus the opendsdt patch solves the problem.

You might look over the Commands that theultimo had posted.

 

Please let me know the results :D

thanks,

-OMN

 

hey! forgot about me?

where to find HPET????

how to put the original package?

 

No, I didn't forget about you. Have you tired a different kernel?

as for the HPET, it's not built into your bios :D

 

 

 

 

What I did is add it with kext helper.

 

It still doesn't want to boot normally though, you still need to identify cpuis=2 and -legacy for it to work still. Oddly, its identified as a Core Solo, but Activity Monitor shows 2 cores working.

 

If this is the only way for it to boot, and no problems occur, I would just set the boot flag ( cpus=2 and -legacy ) in the com.apple.boot ( don't think thats correct name, but I hope you know what I'm trying to say ) so you don't have to type this every time :D

 

 

 

How can I help You to solve the problem? In previous posts I tried to collect all the valueable information and links (tools etc) on this problem. Maybe Kabyl will help us. I suppose that he made the first modded P100 BIOS. Have You downloaded this tools set - http://www.mediafire.com/?yywjg9jmmm1 ?

 

D/l it now, I had missed your post, sorry about that.

I hope Kabyl can shed some light on this, though I think he's still mad at me, he's way smarter than me and what I've learn so far was by reading, and for the stuff I can't figure out, I studied his modded rom and learned the rest. :D

 

However, this problem with these rom are driving me nuts because I have nothing to go off of.

@jazzminos,

Thank you. I can now Mod .wph with PBE :) those instructions are great.

 

 

@NHJ

Use the Attached file.

OpenDSDT_1.0.5.kext.zip

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QUOTE(casmsk @ Oct 15 2008, 11:28 PM)

Hi!

 

Can't start without cpis=1 flag on Acer Aspire 5670. Help me please!!

 

BIOS: ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/asp...0/bios/3234.zip

 

CPU: Intel Core Duo T2400 1.8 Ghz

CHIPSET: Intel i945PM Express

GRAPHICS: ATI Mobility™ Radeon® X1600 256 Мб (working)

 

BIG THX!!!

 

 

I'm very sorry, But I can edit this bios, though in Phoenix BIOS Editor it gives me a error, unable to write to temp file.

If there is anyone that knows how to solve this problem in vista, I would be very grateful.

For now, could you try and dump the dsdt with getdsdt for me? as you might have luck with the Voodoo kernel and a opendsdt.kext mod as well.

 

Thanks,

-OMN

 

Here's my dsdt dump. Hope it'll be helpful!!

http://rapidshare.com/files/154788652/dsdt.dat.html

BIG THX!!!

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I'll be back to get these done and check on the latest,

I'm overclocking a friends G4 for him, so he can install leopard, after that is done, I'll get working on everyones Roms :wacko:

Sorry for the Delay, but friend in need at the moment ( That and he hardly ever ask for anything )

 

be back Later :wacko:

-Omn

 

 

 

*Update*

Still at my friends house, Didn't expect it to take all day ( Installing CS3 Premium and other stuff ).

Sorry,

-Omn

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Use the Attached file.

 

hi,

 

thanks for the file, i did test it, but there's a trouble it says the file size is 95916 and should be 1743485070 so opendsdt is not able to replace the ACPI table and thus not loaded, if needed i could make a picture with my camera.

 

i flashed my laptop with the latest bios wich seems to be a lot more stable while using two cores, if i can arrive on the desktop, the laptop seems to be stable.

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Hi originalMACNUT!

 

Now I have such situation:

Hi.

 

1. First I flashed 4.30 original BIOS. The result in Mac was the same as with modded 4.30 BIOS by Whitehorse (http://cid-c93a505d3e013605.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/For%20Jazzminos/Bios%20-%20v.4.30.zip). - No sound+Graphics is broken. The screen is blinking. In Windows ALL devices are present.

2. Then I installed the latest ORIGINAL 4.40 BIOS. And I was surprised that graphics in Mac is broken TOO!!! Result is the same. With old memery with this 4.40 original BIOS graphics worked correctly.

 

It seems that the problem is caused by memory. I installed

Original SAMSUNG DDR-II SODIMM 2Gb <PC2-6400> 1.8v 200-pin(for NoteBook)

And the old memory was PC-5300... In Windows EVERYTHING works fine. But in Mac graphics is broken.

BUT!!! graphics works fine in Mac with THIS memory when I use this 2 modded BIOS versions -

BUT!!! With this two BIOSes + new 4Gb memory I have no sound. With p100-102 BIOS ACPI worked correctly (with OLD memory). With P105-S6024 BIOS ACPI was broken and sound worked when OLD memry was installed.

 

I don't understand anything.

 

Here is DSDT that I made using iasl-win. BIOS was 4.40.

http://rapidshare.com/files/155128826/DSDT...iginal.rar.html

 

The information on Toshiba website tells that this BIOS is used in Satellite P100 (PSPA6), Satellite Pro P100 (PSPAH), Satellite P100 (PSPA3), Satellite Pro P100 (PSPAE), Satellite P100 (PSPAG), Satellite P100 (PSPAD), Satego P100, Satellite P100 (PSPA0), Satellite Pro P100 (PSPA4), Satellite P100 (PSPAA)

 

I hope that we can solve the problem.

 

With great respect, jazzminos.

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Hello insanelymac community,

 

I'm new and have some questions about kalyway.

Can someone help me, please?

 

I successfully installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on my PC with the following options:

- Storage Configuration: Configure as AHCI

- ACPI 2.0 Support: enabled

- ACPI APIC Support: disabled (No way to install Kalyway set enabled here)

Install:

- kernel_vanilla_92

- NATIT_For_X2000_X3000_Series

- White_menus_fixe_HD3850_3870x2

- SSE2_Jas1048_ACPI_APIC

- ACPI_SMC_Platformplugin 3.0.0 (Intel Memory Controller)

After restart:

- I had to /movevideodrivers at Darwin's prompt (As written in the readme file)

 

Finish:

- System runs stable (at the moment)

- Shutdown / Restart / Standby works fine

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Problems:

- Processor: 2,5GHZ Unknown / 1 Core only

- 1024 x 768 resolution only, but the graphic card is identified (picture System Profiler attachment)

Console massage: can't create a valid pixel format

- SERIAL ATA is identified as "Unknown AHCI Standard Controller" (but it still works without problems)

- ACPI APIC Support (I have to find a way to let this Bios option "enabled" because otherwise my Win x64 will not boot)

 

1) Does anyone know where I can find a modded Bios for "Asus P5Q PRO" to get all cores running?

2) I know it is an issue in the ACPI table. Is there any way to get all 4 cores working without modding the BIOS?

In Ubuntu 8.04 I extracted the DSDT table and load the DSDT.aml with a tool called "initramfs" during bootup.

3) Is there a way in Kalyway to fix the DSDT and load it from Harddisk like in Linux?

:D

Thanks for help

 

Harry

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laptop ASUS F5SL

 

* a direct link to the BIOS file,

http://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F5SL/F5SL304AS.zip

 

* your PC specs (CPU, Chipset and Graphics Card),

Intel Core 2 Duo - T5450, SIS671DX, SIS968, SiS7001 (USB), ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

 

* and a description of the issues.

macosx boots fine, starts working (loading skype, firefox, etc.), but hangs/freeze in few minutes after

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