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In Topic: [GUIDE] Making a DSDT.aml for Dell XPS M1330, XPS M1530, and XPS M1730

26 March 2013 - 11:04 AM

Immo do you have Dynamic Acceleration activated in BIOS when using Clover? I am getting problems with sound when it is turned on (seems like a problem with the audio clock)

In Topic: [GUIDE] Making a DSDT.aml for Dell XPS M1330, XPS M1530, and XPS M1730

23 March 2013 - 05:25 PM

I think the HD is the problem - it is one of the newer 4k sector size "Advanced Format" HDs

EDIT: indeed this was the problem. I just placed the original 250GB HD back into the M1530 and installed clover on it - works like a charm!

Now the question is has anyone got one of those modern drives working with clover and M1530?

In Topic: [GUIDE] Making a DSDT.aml for Dell XPS M1330, XPS M1530, and XPS M1730

23 March 2013 - 09:09 AM

View Postimmo, on 23 March 2013 - 05:16 AM, said:

A15, but mine's an M1330 and the two machines do have significant differences. Does anyone else with an M1530 use Clover? I don't recall anyone commenting that they use it.

Possibly of interest, I first installed Clover V2 R1000 (possibly older), and now use R1151 and have used a couple versions in between. It updates quite frequently.

Immo

I've update to A15 but that does not help. Still same weird problem that it works fine when connected as USB drive. I can't count how often I've reinitialized the HD during the last two days. I'll try an older version of clover now.

Your drive uses GUID Partition table right? Could you please quickly describe step by step how exactly you have installed clover? Maybe I've missed some important step.

In Topic: [GUIDE] Making a DSDT.aml for Dell XPS M1330, XPS M1530, and XPS M1730

22 March 2013 - 06:29 PM

View Postimmo, on 22 March 2013 - 06:20 PM, said:

Couple things to check:
1. Is your bios configured for hard drives in SATA AHCI mode or ATA mode? Mine is in AHCI.
2. In the Clover installer, under customize, make sure you have an appropriate "Clover EFI" option chosen under "Customize". For my machine it's
"BIOS MBR boot0hfs". The "UEFI boot" option will not work on M1330/M1530 because these machines are too old. Even so, I found it selected in the installer once by default when I was installing on top of Chameleon.

Immo

Yes, AHCI and BIOS MBR boot0hfs - what is your BIOS version?

In Topic: [GUIDE] Making a DSDT.aml for Dell XPS M1330, XPS M1530, and XPS M1730

22 March 2013 - 01:50 PM

View Postimmo, on 18 January 2013 - 12:45 AM, said:

Some of you may have noticed if you used a generated serial to get iCloud, iMessages, etc. to work that iMessages stopped working in 10.8.2.  I researched into the issue, and long story short, you can use Clover EFI boot loader in place of Chameleon to fix the issue.

Install using the installer found here:
http://cloverefiboot.sourceforge.net/

I installed it to my hard drive (of which I have a bootable backup) but a safer less obtrusive way is to install it to a USB drive.

Copy your DSDT.aml into /EFI/ACPI/patched/

Edit \EFI\config.plist.
Below is the config.plist I used:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>SystemParameters</key>
<dict>
<key>boot-args</key>
<string>-v npci=0x2000</string>
<key>prev-lang:kbd</key>
<string>en:0</string>
<key>InjectSystemID</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>LegacyBoot</key>
<string>PBR</string>
</dict>
<key>Pointer</key>
<dict>
<key>Speed</key>
<string>8</string>
</dict>
<key>Graphics</key>
<dict>
<key>GraphicsInjector</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>PatchVBiosBytes</key>
<dict>
<key>Find</key>
<data>gAeoAqAF</data>
<key>Replace</key>
<data>gAeoAjgE</data>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>RtVariables</key>
<dict>
<key>MLB</key>
<string>XXXXXXXXXXX234567</string>
</dict>
<key>SMBIOS</key>
<dict>
<key>BiosVendor</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>BiosVersion</key>
<string>MB52.88Z.0088.B05.0904162222</string>
<key>Manufacturer</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>ProductName</key>
<string>MacBook5,2</string>
<key>Version</key>
<string>1.0</string>
<key>Family</key>
<string>MacBook</string>
<key>SerialNumber</key>
<string>XXXXXXXXXXX</string>
<key>BoardManufacturer</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
<key>Board-ID</key>
<string>Mac-F22788AA</string>
<key>Mobile</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>LocationInChassis</key>
<string>Part Component</string>
<key>ChassisManufacturer</key>
<string>Apple Inc.</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Replace the two places that have XXXXXXXXXXX with your Champlist generated serial number.

So far everything seems to work the same as before except my memory speed gets reported as 800MHz (I have 800Mhz ram in there but the motherboard runs it at 667 MHz), and restart seems more reliable now.  However I did find it crashed after letting it sit on for a long time.  I don't know if it's a fluke or if this will continue.

EDIT
Once when I woke my computer up from sleep (I sleep it frequently), USB stopped working until I shutdown and restarted the computer.  It only happened once so far, but it's never happened with Chameleon and Mountain Lion.  I remember that being an issue ages ago (Snow Leopard?)

EDIT 2
Had another crash.  Rolled back to Chameleon and had another crash!  I wonder if the crashes are caused by the new AppleHDA or AppleSmartBatteryManager as opposed to Clover...

EDIT 3
Since re-installing Clover and rolling VoodooHDA back to 2.61, I haven't seen a crash.

Immo

I'm using clover on my P5W DH Deluxe for almost 4 months now and I really prefer it over chameleon. But on the M1530 I have no luck with clover at all.

I tried it several times with new HD installations and also with USB-Sticks - no success.
When booting with USB-Stick the cover menu won't show any of the systems or partitions on the M1530s HD.
When booting clover from the internal HD it just won't reach the clover menu, instead after a while it goes to a "Boot Maintenance Menu".

Immo, is there any secret how to get it working? Something in BIOS settings maybe?



EDIT: weird thing is when I boot from the USB-Stick clover will show the systems on the HD when it is connected via USB  (I pulled the HD out of the M1530 and connect it via USB-Adaptor).

It also works to boot from HD with clover without USB-Stick, when the HD is connected via USB only. It just won't work when it is connected internally. But no problems at all with chameleon - this is really weird and smells like a BIOS setting. But the M1530 BIOS is so limited I can't find anything relevant.

EDIT3: Seems this guy has the same problems - the video shows the menu which shows up on my M1530 when trying to run clover from internal HD:

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