wow sleep works now

I have one question. I'm running Leopard 10.5.1 with EFI and Vanilla kernel.
This partiton (let's call it 'A') where Leo is now, is too small for me. I need to move (or copy) Leopard to the another HFS+ partiton (let's call it 'B') which is larger.

So, what's the best way to do it? The Partiton A is 15gb large, and the partiton B is 50gb large.

no idea... but i have also a question: Disk Monitor shows a "320KB config disk" which can't be read - i guess this is from partitioning with windows. Is this "config disk" in any way important? Or can it be deleted/initialised so that i get rid of the annoying message after OS X finished booting?

. . do you have an HDD attached to the EZ-Backup ports?

[edit] . . . sleep? Really? What are your BIOS-settings? . . S3 forced? Auto?

no hd to the EZ Backup - i saw this little space on the partition in coronis partition maker when i cretaed partitions and was wondering about it - didn't found out how to get rid of it. but now on the mac it's shown as a real HD

yes sleep works perfect now - i will make pictures of all bios settings... brb

ok - all my settings in bios (version 2302) - who knows maybe some little setting is important for sleep that noone would think of before.

can anyone post the vanilla 10.5.1 kernel with dsmos.kext ?

http://www.speedyshare.com/871489995.html

found one bug with the sleep: after wakeup my primary IDE drive (my tiger partition) shows bad smart status - this will be shown even after reboot in bios but not after a shutdown again... maybe a bios bug?

I can get my machine to sleep and wake up under 10.5.1 vanilla with EFI, but when it wakes up, I only get one display back, the video is blue, and the mouse, while it recognizes clicks, won't move. I've duplicated the BIOS settings that were posted and I'm running 2403. Any ideas?

i have no 2nd display - no idea - everything works fine except this SMART problem with one IDE HD

Turns out the problem is having 2 displays. I think Natit doesn't support waking from sleep with 2 displays yet.

thanks but , are you sure this vanilla kernel is the one from 10.5.1 ??

Edit : thats not the 10.5.1 kernel .. can anyone post it please ?

After countless hours of trying, I found out exactly what it was I needed. Thanks to KoolKal on the OSX86scene forums:

How do i safely apply those real vanilla 'kexts without screwing up my system ????

. . this is seriously duff info.

XP Home/Pro is specifically designed to work best on ACPI platforms, & will install by default as an ACPI Uniprocessor PC . . . & XP Pro will install by default as an ACPI Multiprocessor PC (different XP kernel) if you have 2 or more cores/CPUs.

Because XP was designed to work with all sorts of elderly widgets, it is *possible* to install XP without ACPI [hit F5 at start on XP install, choose 'standard PC'] but this is a much less desirable HAL & the OS performs (even) worse.

For a modern [multicore] PC your only HAL choice other than ACPI is "MPS Multiprocessor PC" - which is wildly undesirable, having vary basic/no powersaving & tiresome interrupt configuration issues.

APIC = another level of h/w PIC specifically designed for SMP (multiprocessor) boxes - it is an extension to ACPI & gives more hardware interrupts to play with. This hardware should always be enabled unless you have a very buggy implementation of it.

ACPI rev 2 [backwards compatible to Rev 1] gives various goodies esp to do with memory configuration - you need this feature to enable memory remapping, & at a more exciting level need it to construct an SRAT if you are/were lucky enough to have a motherboard supporting NUMA [Non-Uniform Memory Allocation] - I remember this as a feature of SMP Opteron boxes giving them 11GB/s plus at a time when Xeon boxes were lucky to have 25% of this sort of memory bandwidth.

Sorry, I got ACPI and APIC confused with ACHI <--- which isn't compatible with XP unless you happen to install while in this mode... which I didn't and is thus incompatible.

Anyone tried the esata port? It doesn't seem to be 'plug-n-play' like USB port. It will recognize my external drive only when I plug it in before power on.

Are there any precautionary steps to take when upgrading to 10.5.1? Any kexts I should backup? My specs are in my sig. Thanks!

Also, I'm running the flat-image of leopard atm (not sure what install). Is it possible for me to just upgrade my current system? I have EFI installed and I'm running the ToH Speedstep kernel. What steps must I take to run the Vanilla kernel? Thanks again!!

Well you should probably try the Vanilla kernel on your current setup since you're running ToH. One thing you can do to test it is name it "mach_kernel.vanilla" instead of mach_kernel. Boot with F8, and where you would normally put "-v" put "mach_kernel.vanilla -v" so it preserves your working kernel. Don't forget to chmod 644 and chown root:wheel the file though.

I tried booting the Vanilla kernel on my laptop and it goes through ok but hangs on ntpdate. What is that?
Also, does anyone know how to turn virtualization back on once its been turned off?
And one more thing. I'm at bios 2004. What would be the easiest/safest way to upgrade?

. . . change mode & change owner [of a file]

. . what works for me & other cautious geeks is to use a FAT USB stick & to have 2x BIOS' on it.

One is a fallback/rescue known-to-work one [in your case 2004] which you have renamed to 'P5WDH.ROM'

T'other is whichever you want to try, renamed to the short form [8+3].

I suggest the 2403b BIOS, which is available here . . remember this is 1) a beta, 2) is apparently no longer on the Asus ftp . . but it is a great deal better than the official 2302 'final' IMHO - there are posts about it here [post 6466 & later]

I renamed this to 'P5W2403B.ROM' & put it on the same USB stick as the rescue ROM.

Boot up with the USB stick in, enter the BIOS, choose 'Tools' then 'Asus EZ Flash' - using the tab & arrow-keys navigate to your USB stick, then select P5W2403B.ROM

Update, reboot, shut down.

Pull the power-cord out, press the start button [to drain any capacitors], take the side off your PC, remove the battery, just above the LH orange EZ-RAID SATA port you will find the 'CLRTC' jumpers.

Move this jumper from L+Centre to Centre+R . . leave there for about 15 seconds or so. Replace to L+Centre.

Replace battery. Plug in, fire up, enter BIOS, reset everything to the correct settings for OSX86. You will need to reset system time & so on.

. . the main advantage of 2403b over 23xx it that the settings to (say) disable or enable Audio will now 'stick' properly - they don't for many folk with the 23xx series.

NB - this above process is by far the safest & easiest way to properly flash a modern Asus mobo.

Never, ever, flash a mobo from Windows

Clearing the BIOS after an update is very important & failing to do so often/usually explains why folks don't see major changes after a firmware update.

NB2: If you completely bork things, booting with [only] the USB stick plugged in will trigger the BIOS to find any file called

P5WDH.ROM

. . . & auto-flash to your rescue firmware.

thanks for that hint ! have also working sleep now (only one monitor) with 10.4.10.
I played around with the settings - no changes .....it work with almost every config.
so it must be the bios

. . thank you for the info on sleep - yes; it looks like this 2403b BIOS is a major step forward.

I *might* try enabling sleep using a netkas SSE3/sleep kernel; but since a [more-or-less silent] 12v waterpump runs off one of the mobo headers I cannot risk any hint of a hacked S3 sleepstate turning the thing off after some random time - I have of course disabled the autofanspeed malarkey but don't entirely trust this.

(edit) . . durh: will connect the thing to a Molex & give sleep a try. Only snag might be my eSATA external [Time Machine] HDD definitely ain't under OSX spindown control.

Thanks Shoarthing! I have updated the bios before on my mobo and it just fried my chip. I didnt have a USB drive so I had to order a new chip from Asus. Also, I was messing with things last night trying to get my PC to boot the Vanilla kernel and I managed to mess it up
I'm going to try a fresh install with my ToH DVD. Can anyone give me tips on how they got the Vanilla kernel running?

. . these forums have a useful search function to the upper LH of each page, & this question has been asked & answered many, many times.

Basic idea is to install netkas' PC_EFI v5.x [& included AppleSMBIOS.kext]; then to install dsmos.kext & to install the vanilla kernel.

Backup [keep in root] the old mach_kernel renamed as mach_kernel_old - if things go titsup you can F8 then type the kernelname you wish to use

sudo chown -R root:wheel [address/file] any system-thing you install/change;
sudo chmod -R 755 [address/file] any new/replaced kexts; 644 the new kernel.

Delete [before restart]:

/System/Library/Extensions.mkext
/System/Library/Extensions/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches/kernelcache

Reliable guide to installing PC_EFI here

. . don't download any system-files using Leopard, or if you do find out how to remove the com.apple.quarantine extended attribute.

If you don't have an USB stick (like me) you can also do it in windows. I flashed my BIOS 8 times on Windows - just make sure all antivirus and other background applications etc are turned off.

wow! efi_5.1 is working now. sleep is working perfectly too (sleeps either via the apple menu or by holding down the power button & wakes instantly by touching a key on the keyboard). also my machine now recognized as a "Mac Pro".

the key factor must only be the "Execute Disable Function=Enabled" in bios. tried to set the "ACPI 2.0 Support=No or Yes" & "Speedstep=Disabled or Enabled", the machine still booted in Leopard & sleep still worked. disabling the "Execute Disable Function" the machine just keeps on rebooting.

thanks to you all who figured this out! hmm.. why i didn't think of it. well, i really don't think i will be!

Update:
Even on "Max CPUID Value Limit=Disabled", "Virtualization Tech.=Enabled or Disabled" and "Memory Remap Feature=Enabled or Disabled" settings the machine still booted fine & sleep still worked. i'm on 2403 beta bios.

again, thanks to you all!

Update 2:
restarts & shutdowns work without an issue too! i always had trouble with shutdowns when i was using the patched kernels.
my display shutdown but not the system. well, i think this is it!

...and of course, a special thanks to netkas and company. without them, maybe we would still be chasing for a patch everytime an update comes out. but what do you think will happen to netkas work if indeed vmware or parallels hired him?

I know there is a search button but I'm on my iPhone right now and searching wouldve taken hours. Thanks for the reply.

Just checked, here's the current link to the 2403 BIOS file:

ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5W DH Deluxe/2403.zip

HTH

. . hey, good link, & they've taken it out of beta

I just upgraded my bios to 2403b and have tried a variety of bios settings based on the info in this thread, but no luck with wake from sleep. My P5WDH just reboots rather than wake from sleep. I'm running Xeon 3060 (aka E6600) cpu and 10.5.1. I have efi 5.1v2 and both plain vanilla kernel 9.1 0 and ToH 9.1.0. same results. I am using AHCI, but have tried PATA Enhanced as well. More of my specs are in the signature

Any words of wisdom?

. . for sleep experiments, try running your CPU at default GHz & vcore.

i'ts ok to run your cpu at any working ghz. but vcore yes, should be at default like in my case.

additional info, do not change the default "suspend mode=auto". tried to set this to S3, the system won't sleep
and the mouse cursor disappeared. also just leave the "repost video on s3 resume=no". if set to "yes" it sleeps ok
but wakes up without display.

just updated the tiger install (from jas 10.4.8. - 10.4.11 official combo) on 2nd partition. it booted just fine after the update.
it just inherits the pc_efi patch from the 1st partition (leo install). i never thought it was possible.

guess what? sleep is also working on the tiger partition!

i'm just sharing it to you guys. it could give some inspiration.

so im assuming there is no way to keep my raid 0 vista disks bootable and boot os x , and i was wondering if hacked releases before 10.5 allowed to boot off raid disks and os x.

read my specs

lol i completly forgot about the ez raid ports , i remember hearing they're slower than the intel raid controller so i guess i completly overlooked that idea. Oh im assuming the other two you hd's you have soft raided dont need the raid option enabled in the bios, allowing you to select ahci for os x.

shoarthing/koaxial,

Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried setting everything to default/auto but no luck with wake from sleep. It always restarts. I'm sure it is something subtle I am missing. I am using USB keyboard and mouse, so I am thinking that may part of the problem. Are any of you having success with wake from sleep using USB to wake the computer?

My other thought is around the kernel. Most of my testing is vanilla 10.5.1 (9B18). Does that work for you?

This isn't a big deal for me, as I have gotten used to just shutting down. It's more the challenge of getting it to work.

Thanks for any help/

i'm now wondering how many p5wdh deluxe owners out there who managed to get thier system to sleep and wake up flawlessly under the vanilla kernel. i think we should keep this thread alive and post whatever your experiences so far, good or bad, especially with this pc_efi thingie. from what i saw in the other forums, there are still many p5wdh users that are struggling just to install & running the os. unlike the badaxe2 users who are eagerly helping each other and who are almost always bragging thier system. come on guys, p5wdh is better in my opinion. i was about to put this board into retirement and get the gigabyte ga-p35-dq6 or ds4 instead. but i changed my mind when i managed to finally run the vanilla kernel with the help of infos from this thread, of course. not only i'm running it on vanilla but also i'm able to get it to sleep & wake without a single problem. i knew from the start of my hackintoshing, there are a lot of users who are drooling (excuse my word) to get this to work on thier rigs no matter what kind of system they are using, even on amd machines.

now, my answer to your questions. yes, i'm using usb both keyboard & mouse (apple keyboard & mighty mouse specifically) connected at the back of the 23" apple cinema display. i've been through a lot of upgrades lately. i started with asus p5ld2 vm se, 17" lg lcd, ide hard drives, nvidia 7600 gs, etc. and my answer to your 2nd question. yes, the computer wakes up from sleep by touching a key on the keyboard or by pressing the mouse button. already updated to 10.5.1 (online) and yes, sleep is still working.

here's my install config. just in case you would asked:

i have 4x320gb SATA drives connected to the board. the 3 sata drives connected to sata1,sata2 & sata4 and the other one is connected to ez_raid1 (recognized as external hd in bios as well as in mac os x). i also have 1tb wd mybook pro connected to the firewire at the back of the board. my mac os x install is on the sata1. partitioned into 2 primaries (mbr) using the gparted magic (but diskutil is just fine as well). first, i installed the tiger on the 2nd partition then leopard on the 1st partition. as a result of this, i have a bootable leopard install courtesy of the previous tiger installation. then grab & apply the brazilmac postpatch, copy the vanilla kernel into the root, repair permissions, put the dsmos.kext & applesmbios.kext in /S/L/E. repair permissions, then booted using the jas 10.4.8 dvd. under the terminal, unmount the leo partition (disk0s1 in my case), apply the pc_efi_v51. restart & booted again to jas dvd and using the terminal, marked the 1st partition as active. reboot. crossed my fingers, pray... then the rest is history.

btw, i'm using an ati x1950xt gfx. a while ago i was at irc.osx86.hu. someone reports that the ati cards suck as they are the ones causing the problem for the system not to sleep. well, i could probed him wrong but i just it let go to keep us from further discussions.

one more thing, you MUST replace the applesmbios.kext after the install and after the postpatch with the one included in the pc_efi pkg.
tried to put the replaced applesmbios.kext back and my system won't sleep anymore. mouse cursor disappears. had to push to reset button to reboot.

sorry for this lengthy post/reply. feedbacks & criticisms are most welcome. happy hackintoshing to you all!

I remember that someone wrote that in a thread - I can´t confirm that.
yes - soft-raid and ahci in bios

can someone give me a hand with my audio issues

cant get the audio to work properly on my system

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=72974

Well I know there is a tremendous amount written about leo installs. But as a p5w user I would love some feedback as to the best approach to take. I have succussfully installed the ToH by first formatting the drive using the kalway bootloader. I have sound working but no dual monitor. I have filesharing between my g4. Also dvd's won't play, even in VLC. I would guess this is a kernel issue?

But I have no idea where to go from here. Some people are using the Brasil mac patch and the Original Leo disk. My head is spinning.

My question is should I follow using the Brasil mac method even though I have the ToH working or should I start over using the Brasil mac, efi from netkas, and 10.5.1, bios update etc...

Thanks everyone.

Koaxial,

Thanks for the info. I am pretty well in agreement with what you have suggested for me to try. However, I'm still not having any luck with wake from sleep. I'm now beginning to think it is my video card (7600GT w/Natit from BrazilMac post install). The other thing is my Leo is on my 2nd partition and Vista on first partition, but I use darwin bootloader.

I'll keep playing. If I get it working I'll report back to this forum.

I just bought a 40" samsung 1080p HDTV and I'm using it as my monitor! Sorry to brag but I'm excited!

how does it feel? do you need a much bigger distance to use it? i'm thinking of this since 1.5 years esp for gaming on the mac - the chinese Amoi 1080p HDTVs got very good tests and i maybe wanted to buy one. but the samsungs with the glossy black case look so cool

I actually sit the same distance away, so I feel emmersed in my games! I have my 360 and my hackintosh hooked up to it. I am loving it! I would recomend not going over 40" though, you will have neck aches from following the mouse! I got this wonderful tv for $1149 on sale from $1899!



Now I'm broke...

NEW BIOS!

Asus hit us with a surprise update from 2403! The new bios is 2406 and can be found here.

Here are the release notes:
P5W DH Deluxe BIOS 2406
1. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
2. Finetune supervisor password control code
3. Finetune HD audio control code

Also, here is a boot logo for use with the ASUS Update Utility. I got this image of of rakis.net, and I love having the Apple logo there when I first boot up! It warms my heart knowing i have an almost perfect Hackintosh...

How does the bios work ? Please, Tell US if you have sleep working and EFI, Please

EFI is fine, but I'm still having sleep issues.

. . suggest anyone with firmware 2403/2403b [same thing] doesn't 'upgrade' to 2406.

Early reports suggest this firmware is less overclocker-friendly, & in a rather sinister move the P5WDH is no longer listed by Asus as 45nm-ready . . . it was listed prior to this release, as were all the i975X workstation mobos.