neilK Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 howdy, see sig for current config. a friend gave me his hand-me-down e5200 cpu. slight upgrade from the e2200, and the price was right i assume i will need a new ssdt table set. the aida64 app trial window has passed... is there another windows tool that will extract this info for me? am i missing anything else that i haven't thought of? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246189-new-cpu-what-to-know-before-i-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 i assume i will need a new ssdt table set. Maybe. the aida64 app trial window has passed... is there another windows tool that will extract this info for me? Lavalys Everest Corporate or Ultimate Edition. It's been discontinued but you can still download it from their website. Take a look at the screenshots posted here to see how to get all your ACPI tables: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1468558 I haven't tried their new app, maybe it can extract them as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246189-new-cpu-what-to-know-before-i-install/#findComment-1633358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilK Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 hi, and thanks for the reply. aida64 is the new name for the everest app. does the site have a download of the old app for free? i didn't see one and assumed not. so i am past the 30 day trial for the new everest app. maybe i swap the cpu in and see if i need new ssdt or not... but i assumed i would just based on default clock speed (2.5GHz for the e5200 vs the 2.2GHZ in the e2200) edit to add: man i should have learned how to browse a web site after 20 years on the internet. i found the discontinued page, thanks =D edit 2: should i do DSDT table as well? i am guessing yes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246189-new-cpu-what-to-know-before-i-install/#findComment-1633361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 should i do DSDT table as well? i am guessing yes Just get everything, you never know, you might need it for something later. I haven't tried comparing DSDT tables before and after a CPU upgrade, but I would think the processor scope would remain the same. It's necessary to extract DSDT again after adding or removing RAM but CPU....I doubt it. Compare your old DSDT to the new one and post what you find. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246189-new-cpu-what-to-know-before-i-install/#findComment-1633373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilK Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 i will do... i have the current ones saved on the windows side. shutting down now to do the install, and i'll boot direct to windows to get the new ones. brb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246189-new-cpu-what-to-know-before-i-install/#findComment-1633377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilK Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Just get everything, you never know, you might need it for something later. I haven't tried comparing DSDT tables before and after a CPU upgrade, but I would think the processor scope would remain the same. It's necessary to extract DSDT again after adding or removing RAM but CPU....I doubt it. Compare your old DSDT to the new one and post what you find. ok, just stopping in to say that i am back. aftermarket cpu coolers are great but they are also a pain to install/remove. i had to take everything off the motherboard and remove it in order to properly seat the push pins. boot, bios is reset of course, so that is all set. posts fine, bootloader ignores my keypress to interrupt (forgot something in the bios ) so here we go into os x... maybe. boots with the old ssdt and dsdt. sleeps. wakes. shuts down. restarts. go figure. i'm in windows now, will gather tables and compare and post results. i am baffled as to how this would boot with those tables, i thought they were specific to each chip and/or clock, which is why an oc'd chip won't give you good tables for os x to boot with. enlighten me, please! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246189-new-cpu-what-to-know-before-i-install/#findComment-1633405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 i am baffled as to how this would boot with those tables, i thought they were specific to each chip and/or clock, which is why an oc'd chip won't give you good tables for os x to boot with. enlighten me, please! Extract, compare new to old and enlighten us all! Diffmerge is your friend. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246189-new-cpu-what-to-know-before-i-install/#findComment-1633429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilK Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 haven't looked at DSDT yet. just SSDT as this was something i fooled about with on the previous chip, trying to get sleep working on an overclocked CPU. also the files are smaller and i'm a bit pressed for time. i'll get to it in the next couple of days. everest generated the same number of SSDT files - three. i saved them out in the same order as on the previous cpu. ssdt.aml has an extra package in the Method_PSS. ssdt-1.aml is identical for both CPUs ssdt-2.aml is identical except for the line that holds (what i understand to be) the file length of ssdt.aml. the last 2 packages for both SPSS and NPSS, the first number in the set of six is the same. i think but not sure, that this number denotes the cpu speed for that step. the numbers below are close but not identical. i can't say this is information, at least not to me, as without context it can only be data. but maybe someone can learn something from it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246189-new-cpu-what-to-know-before-i-install/#findComment-1633837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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