Modified BIOS to get all cores working, For ASUS/MSI (and some other) laptops.. Options

[shevek08]

hi all,

i was wondering, has anyone ever modded a bios for that guy who wrote the how to that is referred to in the first post? i think i have the same notebook as him, or one from the same series and possibly the same bios. if i remember correctly, someone else has also asked for a mod for that in this topic, though i couldn't find that post right now.
i have tried to go by the how to that was posted a couple of pages back, but eventually got scared as nothing i did looked anything like what was described in the how to (e.g. could only find one instance of dsdt instead of two and none of the supposed end point...), so i decided not to risk killing my fine notebook (and having to say, yea, it was all my fault, not somebody else's) and seek for help/advice here.
the issues i'm getting are pretty much the same as in the guy's how to. have leo4allv3 running with old acpiplatform, have to boot with cpus=1 etc etc.
so, if that bios has been modded already, i'm just too stupid to find it and someone please point me in the right direction, eh?
if not, my lack of knowledge forbids i try again mod it on my own, but if anyone feels the need to help me (and some of the others with the same notebook),
then here's the link to the bios again

thanks for reading through my whining!
...and for maybe modding the bios

[foxelement]

Kabyl, can you please mod my BIOS? (msi p6ngm) (It's on page 25.) The problem I have is here

I've tried pretty much anything but editing the bios, but I'm afraid I can mess it up myself; Can you please do it?

[izzysanime]

OK,

Ethernet, usb and audio all work now except firewire.

My main issue is that, even though i updated the bios with this one, i have to still type cpus=1 everyboot. I was hopeing that both cores would be noticed, especially since its an intel core2 duo. Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks,
Josh

[jaykk]

Kabyl,

I have an HP Pavilion Elite d5000t ATX CTO Desktop PC, which uses Asus IPIBL-TX ( Q9300 , GeForce 9300). I had the same dreaded ""using xxx buffer headers and xxx cluster IO buffer headers". But after extensive research, I finally got it working, but with one cpu( cpus=1). It will be great if you can modify this bios to use all cores:

HP Pavilion Elite D5000T BIOS

Asus IPIBL-TX / Burbank-GL8E Mother board specs

Thanks in advance.

[HaX0r Jim Duggan]

Anyone else using the modded BIOS for the MSI boards having problems overclocking? It's horsed my overclock so that I can only run 2.60GHz stable down from an easy 3GHz with an e4400 (stock speed 2GHz).

Anyone care to test this?

I know this was ages ago but...

Evidently, I actually used the wrong modded BIOS! Lucky I didn't hose my mobo tbh. Anyone else with an MSI P35 Neo-FR make sure you are using the 1.80 version as opposed to the 1.70 version I initially used.

Everything works a treat now, thank Kabyl you effing GENIUS!

[Order2Chaos]

Kabyl,

I have an HP Pavilion Elite d5000t ATX CTO Desktop PC, which uses Asus IPIBL-TX ( Q9300 , GeForce 9300). I had the same dreaded ""using xxx buffer headers and xxx cluster IO buffer headers". But after extensive research, I finally got it working, but with one cpu( cpus=1). It will be great if you can modify this bios to use all cores:

HP Pavilion Elite D5000T BIOS

Asus IPIBL-TX / Burbank-GL8E Mother board specs

Thanks in advance.

Done.

Attached File(s)

 HP_Pavilion_D5000T_order2chaos.rar ( 615.02K ) Number of downloads: 76

 

[ujen]

any news for dell guys?

[ds_draco]

I am Running an ASUS DSEB-DG mobo with

-two 5460 3.0ghz quad core Xeons
-Nvidia Quadro fx3500
-8gb Crucial ddr2 800

I have four hackntosh running and I have built over 10 other hackntoshs, buy my problem only seems to happen on boards with Xeon procs. I boot the DVD, iATKOS, Kalyway, etc.... and it always hangs after the message:

---------------------------
BSD process name corroesonding to current threa: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
Not yet set

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Sun Mar 2 00:11:08 SCT 2008: made by ToH:xnu-1228/Build/obj/RELEASE_I386
----------------------------

I Have tried installing your modified BIOS, all went well with that. I went from BIOS 1006 to 1003, but it was worth the downgrade if everything worked afterwards. I have been trying to get this system to run OS X for a long time now and I am at a loss of what to do. Please any help would be great.

-Brock

[jaykk]

Done.

Wow, it worked. I can't thank you enough. The community has been great, without which I don't have a fully working (except LAN , which is obvious) hackintosh from a locked-down bios. This BIOS have no setting for ACPI etc.

All four cores are now showing in Activity Monitor / System profiler. Xbench didn't show much improvement, I guess it is not multi-core aware.

Edit : Geekbench score(32-bit): 5251 vs 2574.

Order2Chaos , once again, thank you.

- Jay

[Jakimasa]

hi my english is not so good but i think that you understant.

I have a LGSP23P and i could get almost all working in my hackingtosh. What still not work is the wifi intel 3945 and the processor.
My processor is a Intel T7500 and with 2 cores it doesn't work.
There are any solution for that?

tks guys

[digging 7days 24hours]

I'm extreamly in trouble to installation, I already invest money on board, CPU, Ram or so.
Please help me to fix my problem about bios. I have tried every options to boot installation disk and done with 9 other x86osx versions.

Symtom : I cannot load installation even with lots of options and versions.

Motherboard : G31-M7 TE 6.X
CPU : E2180
VGA : 8600GT
RAM : PC6400 2GB
HDD : IDE 250G (SLAVE)
ODD : IDE COMBO(MASTER)

Would you please help me?

Please help me, I deeply appreciate for your kindness and warm.

Bios Link
- select G31CM519.BFS by right click to save file
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/mb/bios.php?S_ID=363

[rotflmao]

Hi.

I have MSI P35 Platinum, Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, GeForce 7900GS (i want to change this to ATI Radeon HD4850 soon) and Patriot 4x1GB 800MHz. AFAIK there is always a problem with newest MSI motherboards and Mac OS X and I need modified BIOS. It will be great if anyone can modify this newest BIOS for this mobo which was released one day ago:

MSI P35 Platinum 1.9 BIOS

Thanks in advance.

[Order2Chaos]

I'm extreamly in trouble to installation, I already invest money on board, CPU, Ram or so.
Please help me to fix my problem about bios. I have tried every options to boot installation disk and done with 9 other x86osx versions.

Symtom : I cannot load installation even with lots of options and versions.

Motherboard : G31-M7 TE 6.X
CPU : E2180
VGA : 8600GT
RAM : PC6400 2GB
HDD : IDE 250G (SLAVE)
ODD : IDE COMBO(MASTER)

Would you please help me?

Please help me, I deeply appreciate for your kindness and warm.

Bios Link
- select G31CM519.BFS by right click to save file
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/mb/bios.php?S_ID=363

Can you at least boot with the cpus=1 flag? That's what this is meant to fix.

[digging 7days 24hours]

Can you at least boot with the cpus=1 flag? That's what this is meant to fix.

of course I tried such options, I think DTST Fix is not only fix the problems of CPUs.
I tried with this option advised by jaykk

-v -x -s debug=0x144 io=0xffffffff cpus=1

the result is these,

Thank you for your kind attention, result is these,

1. Leo4All v3
after edit bios option on USB controller to
finally installation boot displayed like these

Mac OS Version:
Not yet set

Kernel Version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0~~~~~
ethernet MAC address : 00:00:00:00:00:00:00
ip address: 0.0.0.0

Waiting for remote debugger connection.
kdp_poll:no debugger device
(Stopped on this status)

2. Kalyway 10.5.2

Mac OS Version:
Not yet set

Kernel Version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0~~~~~
ethernet MAC address : 00:00:00:00:00:00:00
ip address: 0.0.0.0

Waiting for remote debugger connection.
kdp_poll:no debugger device
(Stopped on this status)

[jaykk]

kdp_poll:no debugger device
(Stopped on this status)

if you getting no debugger device, I guess you can't use "debug=0x144 or io=0xffffffff" . Sorry to hear that my suggestions didn't work. I am new to hackintosh scene as well, have just 2 weeks experience.

[Gambitvb]

Hi! I have an asus f3sv laptop with the bios 208 installed, I´ve downloaded the modified bios but the winflash application don´t let me flash with the new bios, because the date is the same. How can I Install the modified bios?

[Order2Chaos]

of course I tried such options, I think DTST Fix is not only fix the problems of CPUs.
I tried with this option advised by jaykk

-v -x -s debug=0x144 io=0xffffffff cpus=1

the result is these,

Thank you for your kind attention, result is these,

1. Leo4All v3
after edit bios option on USB controller to
finally installation boot displayed like these

Mac OS Version:
Not yet set

Kernel Version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0~~~~~
ethernet MAC address : 00:00:00:00:00:00:00
ip address: 0.0.0.0

Waiting for remote debugger connection.
kdp_poll:no debugger device
(Stopped on this status)

2. Kalyway 10.5.2

Mac OS Version:
Not yet set

Kernel Version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0~~~~~
ethernet MAC address : 00:00:00:00:00:00:00
ip address: 0.0.0.0

Waiting for remote debugger connection.
kdp_poll:no debugger device
(Stopped on this status)

I think you need to change some of your bios settings. Specifically the Execute disable bit, I'm fairly certain that's supposed to be enabled. May be other things as well, might want to search for proper bios settings.

[prasz]

hi!

I have asus x80le, works with cpus=1 flag, can enyone help me enable both cores?

Spec: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&...amp;modelmenu=2

thx

[splukutum]

The file you linked to is worthless, it's for windows only and has no ROM file. I had to search around the site to find the proper file. I modded the ROM according to David's guide and I'm almost certain it's done correctly. If anyone would like to check my work to make sure it's correct I have also included the original unmodified SingleLink.dat(as ASROCKSingleLink.dat) for comparison, as well as the MD5 hash of the modified bios file.

Again, I double checked and it looks correct to me. However, you may want to wait for someone more skilled to check it out before you go ahead with flashing to be safe...

hi! thanks for modifying the bios file. thanks also to kabyl for modifying the 1.30 version of this bios.

now the bad news, i still need to put a cpus=1 flag in order to boot. flashing on both version was successful by the way. but on both modified versions, i still need to put a cpus=1 flag in order to use leopard. is there any other setting in the bios that i should enable/disable?

specs:
intel e2160
asrock wolfdale 1333
40gb ide
2 gb ddr2 corsair
kalyway 10.5.2/ 10.5.3 combo update + 10.5.4 through apple (vanilla kernel)



thanks again for the effort!

[Order2Chaos]

hi! thanks for modifying the bios file. thanks also to kabyl for modifying the 1.30 version of this bios.

now the bad news, i still need to put a cpus=1 flag in order to boot. flashing on both version was successful by the way. but on both modified versions, i still need to put a cpus=1 flag in order to use leopard. is there any other setting in the bios that i should enable/disable?

specs:
intel e2160
asrock wolfdale 1333
40gb ide
2 gb ddr2 corsair
kalyway 10.5.2/ 10.5.3 combo update + 10.5.4 through apple (vanilla kernel)
thanks again for the effort!

Are you certain this is the correct bios for your motherboard? There's like 3 different versions called wolfdale1333, the one I made is for the wolfdale1333-D667 specifically.