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

[Kabyl]

Dude, I spent 2 days going through and reading and downloading the bios ppl needed fix in this forum. So don't tell me I am changing the subject, your missing the point in general because you think you're right.
-omn

You know what, Screw it.
Site is permanently down, you win. Your right. I'm wrong.
yada yada. I'm done FK'ing around with you.
No, nobody is getting a bios done from me now, I'm done.
and if you would have check the dsdt, you would have saw they where not yours
-OMN
For Full chat log, go HERE

I no longer want anything to do with this. I've removed all my post, sorry to those that will miss out.

For the Original Finding of this Fix, please go HERE for Kably Forum, and for Kably Rom Page go HERE

thanks,
-OMN

.. and I thought you said you're done talking.. ?
You spent 2 days working on... that's nice, no, that's great, and no I'm not missing anything, you seem not understand now, or you became so blind not to see that you actually have no point, you did a mistake and instead of fixing it, you started playing games and talking in public, and then you felt so superior not to admit you did it..
now that you couldn't provide any direct answers that make sense, you're playing the role of a victim, and you want to blame me for stopping.. sorry, but blame only yourself.

and if you would have check the dsdt, you would have saw they where not yours
-OMN

Why didn't you say that at the beginning? now that you removed the files and everything no one can check.. well I did check before I talked, same list, same models, they contain the md5s, and you can't suddenly in few hours do the mods (the same mods I did), you even said you will remove them, now you're saying they are not mine?
Please, do yourself a favor, and stop making it harder for yourself, you just look worse and worse..
There are more lies if someone wants to have fun investigating.. I just don't want to mention everything.

To everyone else, please don't let this stop you from helping others if you can and have the time to. I know, it's sad how this works, unfortunately.

-Kabyl

[OriginalMACNUT]

yep,
like I said your right. I'm wrong.
As for helping other, yes I agree. However, I can not when the likes of you are involved
-OMN

[shalmanaser]

Hi everybody.

Well, this dispute is very sad, because this thread was really helpful for the community.

I do not have much time to learn how to mod a bios right now but I would love to, maybe later.

Anyway, I would like to thank both of you : Kabyl for having found the mod fix, and having used it to fix some bios, and OriginalMacNut for having taken the time to mod the bios of many members.

See you

[TrollMax]

Hi Kabyl, I have a Lenovo 3000 N200 with an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz, but it does not work vanilla kernel. Is there any way to fix this?. Help me please. Thank you.

[AcerOSX]

Hi !

Just stop by to say that I have managed to make a MSI P35 Neo-F to work at full 4 cores using the mod bios.

The version of this board is Made in Brazil.

Thanks a lot !!!

[]s

Max

[dhomi]

Kabyl,

Thanks a lot. u solved my problem. now my asrock conroe d667 bios can support wolfdale e8400 working without error. no need to downgrade to bios 1.3 anymore.

Hi,

Could you tell me which bios you used? You seem to be the only one ( I went through the 49 previous pages) to confirm that it works with this particular board (Asrock Conroe1333 d667 R1). I presume you used kabyl mod bios 1.8 for R2.0.

How does one know which version/revision his motherboard is? I looked everywhere (BIOS, box, can't find the bloody manual...).
Did you absolutely need a floppy disk to flash the Bios?

I'd love to buy a Wolfdale while there's still available, answers would help

Thanks to Kabyl and all contributors.

[alcazardj]

¿can anyone make a bios for me please??? ,,, http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=do...7&type=bios

my laptop is msi ex600 with t7300 , 8400 m gs , western digital hdd , motherboard msi .... thanks 4 alll

[jsl]

Hi, Kabyl, need your help again.
You have modified Asus F8Sa and MSI PR600 for me in the past.
Both laptops work well with duo cores and Leopard 10.5.x now.
Can you modify Asus A6Jc's BIOS for me at:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDownload/...load-19346.html ?
Because it works with Tiger 10.4.8 currently and will boot failure by Leopard 10.5.x.
Thank you very much for your excellent help to so many persons here !

P.S.
This is my second request of Asus A6Jc. I think you must be very busy in the past 3~4 months.
Anyway if you can modify it, I'll be very glad and thank you again !

[TD_D]

Hi Kabyl - great work.

I've done my damndest to do this on my own, using both your and Tsu's method - including ensuring that block 10 table is the same size as the original, replacing the _T_1 and _T_0 till the recompiling had zero errors - even decompiled the recompiled version to check whether they matched - they did. None the less - it still bricks the MB every time (relief that there's a restore function).

So - reluctantly - I have to ask your assistance:

Motherboard: MSI p45 Neo (model ms-7519)
CPU: Intel quad core 2.5Ghs, Q9300 (Yorkfield)
Bios Rom - AMI, version 1.6 - http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=do...3&type=bios
Problem statment - same issue as everybody else - just reboots after reaching the kernel. If I turn off ACPI pointing in bios, it gets a little further, and bombs on the mentioned frame buffer 4096 error message.

[Waterboy]

hi, Kabyl.
i met the problem "using 10485 buffer ......", and my motherboard is Biostar tpower i45. when i tried to modify the bios following david tsu's guide on #487, i found that the DSDT was a separate module. normally it 's part of "1B Single Link Arch BIOS ",but this DSDT table is independent named "10 ACPI AML".
following the guide i got a wrong modified bios, and after flashing it my pc counldn't work.

i think the bios of Biostar tpower i45 is a little strange and interesting. could u help me to modify it ?

here is the link: http://www.biostar.cn/upload/Bios/P45AA708.BSP.rar

sorry for my poor English.
thank you!

[karterilla]

Hi all
for anyone interested, I've modded for Asus P5Q3 Deluxe BIOS version 13.06.
I've tried to flash using both Asus Update Utility (Vista x64 and x86, not XP, but should be the same...) and EZ Flash 2.

You can download it here

If you need to install Leo (i've personally used iDeneb 10.5.4) you can take a look at this thread.

Thanks for all the hints to the great Kabyl, david and all the other ones who helped out to understand the BIOS triks...

[q66]

Hi, after 20 instals and weeks of wanting, ive got it installed using the cpus=1 flag
i would be grateful if you'd patch my bios :D
here are my specs:

BandName: HP a6245n (hp specs page)
Processor: Q6600
RAM: 4gb
Motherboard: IPIBL-LA (Berkeley)
Graphics Card: 9800 GT 1024mb
Chipset: ICH9
Link to bios file: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software10/C...7-1/sp37377.exe

Thanks in advance!
ive reinstalled 10000x times so im happy to be a tester if u need.
is there a way to get my graphics card running fast as it should?

ive been stumped with this core limit thing, it is the only thing making my osx slower than vista
Thanks Kabyl!

Francis

Well, I guess the title says it all, after spending a lot of time reading Documentations, Specifications, Forums.. and hunting for testers :P , I finally got tehmachacker (thank you) to test a modified BIOS, and as expected, it worked.

This is the issue that intends this mod to fix:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=78235

Basically, what I'm doing is modifying and fixing errors in the DSDT; removing aliases for the "processor" devices, because the ACPIPlatform kext doesn't like them and treat them as other CPUs.. (it's written for Macs, and Apple doesn't use that in their Firmware's ACPI Tables, actually I don't see why we need them, well..)
I for example change this:

CODE

    Scope (_PR)
               {
                   Processor (P001, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}
                   Alias (P001, CPU1)
               }

into:

CODE

    Scope (_PR)
               {
                   Processor (P001, 0x01, 0x00000810, 0x06) {}
               }

Sometimes I have to fix more stuff.. you should know that when you try to compile your DSDT.

So if you want to get a fixed BIOS, you can PM me post your request here, included with:

• a direct link to the BIOS file,
• your PC specs (CPU, Chipset and Graphics Card),
• and a description of the issues.

Don't PM me with requests, post them in this thread.

You will find some of the modified BIOSes here.

Keep in mind that I take no responsibility for a bad flash or if anything goes wrong..

NOTE: About Dell laptops, I'm still trying to find the cause of the issues, so if anyone has any suggestions, you're welcome :) .

[OriginalMACNUT]

Well, guys I'm back.
Not going to let this keep me down, anyways. I spent the last two days working on these bios for everyone.
Nothing is borrowed, copied. So please feel free to check the DSDT strings if you would like.
There is over 150+ bios at the moment, I still have around 20 to 30 bios to get done, but I need a brake for a couple day from this.

Though, I'm going to this forum to work on this project.

Go here for my most current work

[orsgah]

Hi.
Can you modify my bios
Asus P5ql Pro
Chipset P43 ich10
CPU core 2 quad 6600
GC NV 9600 gso or NV 8600 GTS


link to bios v0601 http://support.asus.com/download/download....odel=P5QL%20PRO

Thanks!

[q66]

Hi, after 20 instals and weeks of wanting, ive got it installed using the cpus=1 flag
i would be grateful if you'd patch my bios
here are my specs:

BandName: HP a6245n (hp specs page)
Processor: Q6600
RAM: 4gb
Motherboard: IPIBL-LA (Berkeley)
Graphics Card: 9800 GT 1024mb
Chipset: ICH9
Link to bios file: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software10/C...7-1/sp37377.exe

Thanks in advance!
ive reinstalled 10000x times so im happy to be a tester if u need.
is there a way to get my graphics card running fast as it should?

ive been stumped with this core limit thing, it is the only thing making my osx slower than vista
Thanks Kabyl!

Francis

Great! just downloaded it from
HP PAVILLION IPIBL-LA 5.13.zip
http://www.osxcores.site50.net/page1/page1.html

work 100% all 4 cores now
thanks

[Avery Bunker]

The search function is giving me an error for somereason, can someone tell me if there is a working modded bios for the acer m5620? I believe it is R01-A0 but not entirely sure.

Did you find a bios for your machine??? I am looking for the same thing and have not found one for the 5620...

BrandName: Acer Aspire M5620-U5210A
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 2.4 GHZ
RAM: 3gb
Motherboard: G33T-AM
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD2600Pro PCI-E 512MB
Chipset: ICH9
Link to bios file: ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/desktop/aspi...R01-A0(721).zip

I am like q66 above after numerous installs I finally have it installed using Kalyway 10.5.1 cpus=1 flag and using the sse2 kernel, the noobs guide to update any 10.5.x to 10.5.5, and now the ATI Dirvers posted by drumthrasher109 yesterday, I now have a fully working machine except the 4 cores.... Thanks again for all your guys hardwork on this and any help you guys can provide on modding my bios above would be greatly appreciated....

[OriginalMACNUT]

Great! just downloaded it from
HP PAVILLION IPIBL-LA 5.13.zip
http://www.osxcores.site50.net/page1/page1.html

work 100% all 4 cores now
thanks

Glad you like it, enjoy

[jazzminos]

Hi. I have a very serious problem with my Toshiba P100-257. I tried to activate my Conexant sound chip. Finally I got my sound working (speakers+headphones). This happened when I used a modded BIOS from P105-S6024 BIOS 4.00 (working on a P105-S6014). This model is practically the same as mine. But it has a fingerprint reader. But the problem is that I got 2 unknown devices in Windows and my sleep function doesn't work both in Leo and in Win. It seems that there are problems with ACPI. Can You help me to correct my BIOS to get my sleep work. Whitehorse solved this problem with Toshiba P100-253. His model is identical to mine. But it seems that he is out of this forum and he doesn't reply privat messages. He also forgot to upload his modded BIOS anywhere

This is the post where he wrote his method http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...&pid=840090 .

Links to original P100-257 BIOS http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2...80804143227.ZIP (win64 - 4.40)
http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2...80804143335.ZIP (win32 - 4.40)

Thanks beforehands for help.

With great respect, jazzminos.

[YoshiFtJ]

BIOS:

http://download1.msi.com.tw/files/download...exe/7380v12.zip

Mother Board:

MSI P7N SLI Platinum LGA 775

CPU:

Intel QuadCore Q6600 2.4 GHZ

Chipset

NVIDIA® nForce 750i SLI

Issue:

Depending on what version I use, I either get (version 4.1) an error where it freezes at;


MAC Framework succesfully initialized
using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Extension “com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatfotmPlugin” has immediate depencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components; use only one style

or if I boot it without -v it sticks at the apple logo loading screen. The wheel spins but ive waited about 2 hours and it didnt load anything.

or (version 1.0i) just restarts my computer.

[freakds]

^^^^^
Yes thats exactly what Im looking for.

Has anyone successfully installed and working Leopard 10.5.2 on MSI P7N Sli Platinum ?