Hi Kabyl,
appreciate your kindness but there aren't any results
(can't start w/o cpus=1 and some ACPIP errors during the boot)
I've tried to use PBE (v2.2.) but couldn't compile bios after revising ACPIP section
"unable to write TEMP file ASL compiler error" something like that
In idea we can put revised (and working) DSDT table for linux or BSD to ACPIP section
of the bios (am I right?)
What revision of PB editor do you use?
Thanks

Thanks Kalby...
All Core Works Perfectly..

First of all congratulations indeed for the IMPRESSIVE work you're doing and for your researches/results U're doing!

I'll post in a couple of hours a feedback for the already available ASRock 4Core1333-eSata2 mobo (I already was distrusty! ).

If U're searching for other models to test, can U check if the mod can be applied to this notebook model too?

Notebook model: IBM R51
Model type: 2889 W5V

Link to BIOS:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss...ocid=MIGR-55004

If it's possible to mod this BIOS too, another test will be done with relative feedback...

Thx 4 what U're doing, m8!

Asus U1E fix please?

Latest BIOS downloadable from http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/U1E/U1E203AS.zip

Kabyl, you are providing a sterling service, let me add my praise to that of everyone else and say a big thank you very much for your excellent work!

KABUL Could you please make a ASUS 5PK Vannila bios
http://support.asus.com/download/download....SLanguage=en-us
Thanx a lot

can this work with quad-core? asus m3a

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM2/M3A/0802.zip

Thanks a lot.

I work for the geeksquad and get a chance to work tons of laptops. I currently want to get the G1sn but i know it has issues installing kalyway and i know you have modified them to make it work. So if you would be ever so awesome to fix it, you would make the happiest person

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/G1Sn/G1Sn202AS.zip

that is the link to the latest bios update. Please let me know if you can do it. Thanks a million.

http://rapidshare.com/files/105759633/VX2as206_mod.zip.html


http://rapidshare.com/files/105762234/U1E203AS_mod.zip.html


Check your Inbox..


http://rapidshare.com/files/105768058/M3A_0802_mod.zip.html
Feedback needed.


http://rapidshare.com/files/105762425/G1Sn202AS_mod.zip.html

Hi kabyl, can you help me. I have a LG E500 G.A290T notebook.

http://img520.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mybookqe7.jpg

Dude i love you lol looks like i am going to get it today, hopefully there are working drivers for 9500m gs (512 mb) G84

Hi kabyl,

I see you have had some success patching some BIOS's to fix the alias issue. Any chance you might be interested in tackling the missing HPET device in the Dell BIOS ACPI table? At one point I tried hacking the data in via the bootloader but the approach was a long-shot. I wanted to write a kernel extension to manually add the device to the ACPI device list but failed to find the information I needed to do so.

Thanks!

And the a link to the BIOS file..

Hey man sorry to bug you again, but i opted to go all out for the laptop instead... the M50Sv series is disgustingly packed with power. Here are the link to the bios that they have on their page. If you can do it , i'm ordering it today.

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/M50Sv/M50SV207AS.zip


Thanks a million

Andrew

Thx to Kabyl mod to the original 1.40 firmware, now my ASRock 4core1333-eSata2 can smoothly run all the installation steps and complete the setup process: just some errors/kernel panic hangs during 1st reboot, but I'm sure it's just a drivers/kexts problem: with some patience and luck, all the problem will be soon solved!!!

(just considering that before applying kabyl patch, the system was always looply rebooting before showing the first setup screen)

Thx again to kabyl for his indispensable work!!!

Concerning with IBM R51 notebook: after several configuration workarounds and kexts mods, it seems that everything is working fine (after more than one week modding and working on it): so this model of notebook should work with its original BIOS without any additional firmware patch (it's been a little bit tricky, but at the end it works ))
IBM R51 video card is not supported, so it'll only work in VESA mode... but it's a quite old (SSE2) notebook, so it could be ok

This I find interesting, I don't have the other problems with the cpu, but I wanted to change the names in the DSDT to reflect a more macish naming of the devices for my laptop, and maybe that will help some few more subtle problems. So how is this going?

Hey all, Just so everyone knows, Kabyl has made some amazing progress with this common and annoying problem. Especially for anyone using an MSI P35 NEO/NEO F motherboard.
I've just tested his bios patch for said problematic motherboard. The bios flash went without a problem using the USB flash utility found on the MSI forums. I used an iPod video to install this MSI utility to, then booted from the iPod. Started the flash procedure without problem. Turned off the machine and cleared the cmos (the manual and chaps in the msi forum say to short the bios backup jumper, I just yarked the battery out as getting your hand in between an 8800gts and an x-fi fatal1ty is a bit of a squeeze). So, system booted up fine, loaded bios defaults, rebooted, re-entered all my settings, all fine. Booted into vista without a problem. Tried Kalyway Leo... and behold, no switches needed, straight into the installer. So here I am, all four cores and a vanilla kernel.

http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=113295.0 < link to msi bios flash forum and usb flash application
http://rapidshare.com/files/105615821/MSI_...17_mod.zip.html < link to modded bios file


Cheers Kabyl... can I FedEx you a pint? lol

Works fine

can boot the dvd with no cpus=1

now jsut have to get IDE working on it XD

also, as thedood pointed out to me, you have to extract the bios from the zip file and then choose beta bios when you copy it to the usb stick

Hello,
Has someone tried for the inspiron 1505/6400 ?

Hey th3d00d !

Thanks for the tip,
Everything worked well, got now a nice picture at computer boot instead of the old horrible starship..

But the matter is ... that I still have to boot with cpus=1

Could you please post your bios acpi / apic settings ?
Should I use the original acpi kexts from kalyway 10.5.1 ?

Thx !

everytime i try to install tiger or leopard i get (unable to find drivers for this platform acpi) i have try with platform=acpi , and doesn't work

my motherboard version is MS-6577 ver 4.1

motherboard link -------> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documen...4182&dlc=en

bios link -------> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwar...182&lang=en

if it is impossible to overcome that please tell me, so i don't waste more time with this motherboard

thank you

Hi, everybody, this is my first post in this forum.
This thread is really active and its doing a lot for the whole project.
I've been looking around, waiting for someone to come up with a solution for Dell's models, but couldn't find it yet.

Can someone explain in simple words,
why Dell BIOS can´t be modified?
does someone know if Dells problem is the same your are solving with these modified BIOSes?
Is someone working with the DSDT injection approach for Dells laptops?

Thanks.

Hi Master! Could you please mod ASUS P5PL2 one?

link: http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket...5PL2/PL1805.zip

Thanks!!

Hey lioudow... Odd that you'd still have to do the cpus=1... firstly, did the flash go ok, ie, did it say it a)backed up your original bios erase your bios c) copied the new bios.... then did it say it was ok to reboot the machine.

If this is the case, then the bios settings i used, well, the ones that were relevent,

MPS table version [1.4]
IOAPIC [Enabled]
ACPI [S3]
HPET [Enabled]
EIST [Disabled]
Execute Bit [Enabled]


That should hopefully sort it

Chances are Dells issues are no different. What is different is dells compression algorithm that they use and the fact that their developer tools for their BIOS have not been leaked or reversed engineers thus no one can save Dell through BIOS hacking. Only an on the fly DSDT patch during boot up will solve this problem.... Kabyl had been working on this but I am not aware of its status atm.

We'd definitely need to know someone working in Dell, or maybe they're already reading this and would care to contribute anonymously

*prays*

well, I had to use your settings thedood, but it boots now.

well, gets past the stage where it would stop before anyway...

now it goes into a loop of found a transaction which hasnt moved in 5 seconds on bus 0xfd

no one knows anything about this error do they?

i get it with the dvd aswell

Modified BIOS: "success" then flashing cursor on reboot?



Thanks hugely for the speedy turnaround, Kabyl

I have flashed the laptop with the modified BIOS; that went fine and I went back to trying to install from 1) iATKOS 1.0ir2 with the EqUaTe1 patch, 2) iATKOS 1.0ir2 with the EqUaTe1 patch and the BADBIOS patch and 3) Kalyway 10.5.1i, all of which had failed before on my Asus U1E (the only one of which had worked was Leo4Allv2, but with virtually no hardware components working and a screen resolution of 1024x768 instead of 1366x768).

All three distros now reported no ACPI errors on startup (hurrah!), and all the installations went through OK, each one giving me the big green blob of "installation successful". However, on rebooting, each of these three immediately hangs with a flashing cursor and a lit up hard disc light, not even displaying the Darwin bootloader message, whereas all three had done so before (I have tried all permutations of both x86 and EFI bootloaders, whatever was offered). The only way out is to reinstall Leo4Allv2, which again works, but not with enough hardware support to be satisfactory. Windows XP still works fine - identical before and after installation of the modified BIOS.

Does anyone have any ideas? My apologies if I am posting in the wrong place, but this is related to the updated BIOS (and thanks again, man, for providing such a great service to us all).

Thanks in advance

As I tried to make it boot with 2 cpus yesterday, i totally shot my hackinstosh ...
But i reinstalled it (without cpus=1 to launch DVD), recovered all the lost data, ut still had to boot with cpus=1 even if the DVD was booting without that option.

But with your bios settings, my 2 cores are now running !
ACPI mode was S1,
execute bit was disabled

I think that these are the only differences, if it can help...

Thanks a lot, i'll try to keep my current hackintosh more than a month this time

damn you two! why won't mine work?

dont suppose IDE works now does it?

Hey Starblob, sounds to me like a device has stalled or something silly... Try disconnecting all USB devices from your machine and boot again, see if you still get the same issue.

Also, make sure you have legacy support for USB turned on in the BIOS, I don't think MSI word it like that (they would be awkward) but it's something along those lines.

It's definetly a big step closer to getting it working though

Keep hacking at it and you'll get there.
Not sure if it's much help, but it looks like the genuine mac users are having similar problems. Your not using an external USB hub by any chance?

yeah, sure am...unfortunately its got OS X installed on it

I get the feeling it is that as its been playing up a bit lately...but until IDE works on it im going to have to keep using it.

The only other USB device is the keyboard and mouse, which ive tried unplugging straight after pressing enter.

this is LAMEEE. but yeah, definitely a step closer. its annoying as ive had it working before though

Hey man, just a suggestion, why don't you pick up an IDE to SATA adapter, you can get them for about a tenner at maplins. That'll sort it out as the ICH9 sata controller is pretty much spot on for osx.

Worth a shot anyway

ive come up with a better one...I'll move about 80gigs of stuff from one of my sata drives, put that onto the ide, then with the free space on teh sata, create a new partition, and try installing it on that...hope this works

Good idea mate, let me know how you get on with it

Any update on the modified kext to get both cores working on MSI boards?

Maybe this thread can be of help on understanding the Dell Dual core Issue?
http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,43.0.html
I'm no expert but I have a Dell Latitude D820 and would like two cores badly!
thanks!!
Rob

Great job Kabyl..both cores working on Asus G1S-B2 with the 300 bios.

can u give me modded bios for my mobo MSI VR700..
here is the link for my bios..
http://downloadx.msi.com.tw/files/download...xe/171c_116.zip

hey kabyl can you please try this bios for HP 530 please? i would definately love to work my machine with both cores
Click to view attachment

thanks in advance dude

Modded MSI BIOS works fine as far as being able to use both cores on my E4400. Has caused a couple of issues though as I can no longer overclock to 3Ghz any more. Bit weird but it works fine otherwise.

Hi Could you mod Gigabyte EP35-DS3R one please?

link is here

http://download.jchyun.com:8080/UploadModu...3r_f3b_beta.exe

Thanks in advance!!

This is very cool. One core has been bugging me for a while, but one core in OSX is better than two in Vista. I have a F8sv-b1 laptop...would you please mod my bios at the link below? Both links are the same..thanks so much!!

Asus F8SV-B1 Bios Download

http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F8Sv/F8SV300AS.zip

Hi Everybody!

I am new to OSX86, so be patient with me.

I have one Desktop with an ASROCK Conroe 1333 motherboard with BIOS version 1.30.
I installed Kalyway 10.5.2 and everything works great. The cpu now installed is a Core 2 Duo E4500 and works fine.
The problem is that I have another CPU, Core 2 Duo E8200, which also works but it's not correctly detected by the motherboard, unless I update the BIOS to version 1.80.
When I update the BIOS to 1.80, the CPU is correctly detected by the motherboard, but OSX hangs at the apple Logo.

Is there a way to fix this?

I read in a few forums that Kabyl is making a few miracles. Would he be capable of doing another one?

Thanks in advance for your help...

Nuno Ferreira
nmgferreira@iol.pt
numagf@gmail.com

any updates for dell people?

Thanks for doing this, it's very much appreciated.

Do you mind modding the bios for the Asus P5K-E? I am going to try to install mac os on this in the near future.

http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket...-E/P5KE1012.zip

take care.

The DSDT looks fine, maybe because it's an old board..


No tools to mod it, wait for the kext..


I think that one should work just fine, if not a description of the issue is needed.


It's already done, check your Inbox.


A link to the BIOS file..


Still trying..


This one works just fine, you should try first

P.S.:
For requests, I would like to see

• a direct link to the BIOS file
• your PC specs (CPU, Chipset and Graphics Card)
• and a description of the issues, sometimes it's not from the BIOS..

INCLUDED.

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

i need asus a8sr(a8h233sr) bios !!!thank you,brother.....Hi Kabyl :i need asus notebook a8h233sr bios and asus motherboard k8n-e bios,plase !!!!!i am waiting on the line!!!!!

Sorry, but you have to wait forever.. if you can't read one post just above yours.

QUOTE(spikegotti @ Apr 12 2008, 02:48 PM)
hey kabyl can you please try this bios for HP 530 please? i would definately love to work my machine with both cores
Click to view attachment

thanks in advance dude
No tools to mod it, wait for the kext..


thanks for everything dude, i will wait

believe that i found out a dude in my country is selling macbooks pro for $2495 barbados currency (divide it in half for US currency) two weeks after i bought a new hp laptop. man i could cry now lol

Hi

I would like to know if you could do the same for my bios, Acer Aspire 5520G: this is the link for the original bios : ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/asp.../Bios/v1.32.zip

For the full specs, i have a AMD Turion 64x2 TL-58 1,9Ghz, a nvidia 8600M GS 512VRAM.

For the issue, it blocks at the load of firsts HFS+ Files... with Leo4AllV2... so i think that it's a bios issue and hope you could do something for me

Thanks a lot