Pier25 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 I'm having some problems using 3 dimms of memory in my hackintosh. System profiler detects 3 dimms, but activity monitor only 2... My mobo is a gigabyte ex58 ud3r Anyway, I decided to flash the bios of the mobo to see if that helps. The thing is I downloaded an exe from gigabyte and I don't have windows installed in my hackintosh. Will I be able to flash the bios from parallels or fusion? Do I have to install windows in a new partition to do that? What about using an ultimate boot cd or something like that? TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdnz01 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Parallels or VMware uses a virtualised enviroment, which means it 'emulates' a real computer, and you cannot flash your BIOS from a virtualised enviroment. What you could do, is to see if the .exe contains files you need to put an a USB drive. Gigabyte motherboards allow BIOS upgrades through USB, check out the Gigabyte site or the manual if you don't know how to do this. As a last note, how much RAM do you have installed in your computer and could you do the following for me: Open 'Terminal' Typ 'top' and press enter. Paste the output of the command here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pier25 Posted May 14, 2010 Author Share Posted May 14, 2010 Yeah I imagined that a virtual machine in a higher layer couldn't do that.... but I wasn't really sure. According to gigabyte the qflash cna only be used from a floppy... if I can do it from a USB then great! Here's the info from top about the memory. As you can see only 8gb, and not 12Gb as it should. MemRegions: 7878 total, 400M resident, 19M private, 188M shared. PhysMem: 804M wired, 512M active, 290M inactive, 1606M used, 6835M free. Edit: I can't flash bio from usb, only from floppy... I haven't had a floppy for years in my computers Reedit: It seems Qflash is not the same version accessing from inside the bios, or from the splash screen... In the one at the splash screen I couldn't load it from a USB either, but I could from a small fat 32 partition I left unused for installing windows at some point. So I flashed the bios with no problems, but still can't use the 12Gb of ram... sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdnz01 Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 It's probably hardcoded in your DSDT, which one did you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pier25 Posted May 14, 2010 Author Share Posted May 14, 2010 Ok so I decomplied my DSDT and opened it in a text editor... Now what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdnz01 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Ok so I decomplied my DSDT and opened it in a text editor... Now what? Post the content here (as an attachment). I'm no DSDT guru though so somebody else will have to take a look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacGanon Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Hmm.. interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pier25 Posted May 15, 2010 Author Share Posted May 15, 2010 The dsdt is in this post http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=218169 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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