PC EFI v10.5

New in release:

• Automatic detection of pci root uid value(for GraphicsEnabler and ethernetbuiltin options) based on parsing DSDT.aml file (if you dont use custom DSDT.aml, you will need to use -pci1 flag in case you have uid=1) . If booter fails to detect it or you dont have _UID property in pci root(in dsdt) then UID=0 used by default, but, if you have UID=1 and booter fails to detect it, use -pci1 boot flag. Uid detection works really well in most cases.
  
• Added aserebln's patch for better cpu type detection, for example I dont need to add SMcputype key anymore
  
• Better handling of pci slot names if nvidia card present

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Updated, thanks!

Thanks for the info. Updated, works fine.

Works perfectly. No EVOEnabler kext needed. Thanks!

P E R F E C T :-)

Deep-Sleep / Hibernate?? Is it working for anyone?

Last time I had it working was EFI v9...

I just updated to this from PC EFI 10.4, and now it says (in about this mac/system profiler) that I have a quad-core Xeon, is this a big deal and how can I fix it?

Any suggestions for a newbie to perform the update to PC EFI v10.5?
My SL is working great on my two year old build. I used this guide:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...186065&st=0

The guide was so good and automatic, I have no idea how to upgrade.

Thanks for considering.

use the app from Blackosx's guide to reveal the "boot" file. Save it as a back up just in case. Then, with Finder just drop the new "boot" file, copy over it.

I quite like having a Quad-Core Intel Xeon. Thanks Netkas!

Celeron E3200 ( cheapest VT compatible CPU ) is now recognized as Core 2 Duo

personally I'd rather have my processor come up as 'unknown' or put the strings in myself.... It's all purely cosmetic (unless you are installing silverlight...) but why have it showing something it isn't?

That's actually a good thing. Apple never built a Mac with a "Core 2 Quad", but they did build Mac Pro models with the very similar "Quad core Xeon". So as far as any software installers are concerned, you're on a real Mac Pro!

Silverlight finally installed without telling you that your running a powerpc system is much smoother thank you

Hi,

I have an Asus P5 W dh and would like to update the bios to be able to install snow leopard.
Can someone tell me how to update the bios? I just dowloaded PC_EFIv10.5, but I don't know how to work after this... Just for info, my computer has no floppy...

Thanks in advance,

F

Can anyone tell me how to make the self install package work??????
I know about the replace boot

Would you please tell me how to install this boot to my hacintosh, I try to use terminal but no go. thanks in advance.

As long you have the latest chameleon allready installed all you have to do is:
1. open terminal
2. navigate to the directory where you unpacked the zip file
3. sudo cp boot / (This copies the boot file to the root directory)
4. Reboot.

Thank you for your quick respond, but how do i navigate ?. let say i have it unpack to my desktop for example. sorry for being so ignorant.

easyiest way to navigate in terminal is to type cd (for change directory) and then drag and drop the directory on terminal.

works with files too, i always use this to install kexts

Type "sudo cp " first, then drag "boot" from desktop to the terminal. Finally, add "/"

Thank you so much for both Bruce and eject for your hint.

Firefox crashes every time with EFI 10.5 on startup.

Strange! I use EFI 10.5 and FireFox and I haven't noticed any crashes.

@frenchinmunic

it sounds you are a little new here,
updating the bios isnt necessairy for running SL, but a patched DSDT Table can be helpful, but even this is not said to be a must.
In all cases a DSDT.aml file is necessairy for running PCEfi v 10, which offers the most uptodate way to run SL.

Updating the bios is done from the Winowsside, Asus has a tool therefore on their website.

I don't suppose this fixes the latest Chameleon release's issue where it can't read sleepfiles if they are 4GB? Waiting on this to actually use hibernate instead of just sleep...

Answering myself because I tried it- still broken, no deep sleep if you have 4GB+ ram.

thanks for pointing that out, so this is the reason it never worked for me

ok I now know it is possible. I just found out about carotman after some more research.
my ? still floats about the 85 ES3 efi setup though.
thanks.