[SUCCESS] Mountain Lion, GA-Z77X-UD5H, i7 3770 Ivy Bridge, GTX 670

[CoBrA2168]

I tried to get sleep working with the boot0md file. No dice. I'm using Chimera 1.11. I can boot to Windows 7 just fine, but when I try to sleep it just drops to the lock screen.

My windows disk is disk1 so the path I gave for -u is /dev/rdisk1

fidsk440 appears to run fine.

The windows partition is active.

Any thoughts?

I take it you are running more than one hard drive, correct? If so, make sure your BIOS is set to boot into the Windows drive. If my understanding is correct, the modified boot0md which is stored on the Windows drive is designed to check for a valid Chimera installation on any other attached device. If you choose Windows from this method, it is designed to the fix the sleep issue. Booting to OSX will work as if you were booting from the OSX drive directly.

If you instead boot to your OSX drive from the BIOS, you'll be missing the advantages of this modified boot0 loader. Moral of the story is make sure you are booting to your Windows drive in the BIOS

Just wanted to say thanks. I looked into other threads and tried the BIOS settings there, but the damned thing wouldn't work. Tried your BIOS settings (I have pretty much the same thing, except with a Sandisk SSD), and it worked perfectly.

Glad it worked out for ya. I've been tweaking this system since I created it in August, and I've got it working quite well. I did make a recent change - set the XMP profile for my memory. This brings a new issue, where waking from sleep causes mouse and keyboard lag for about 30 seconds. I haven't been able to find a solution, and it's really not that big of a deal for me. I'd rather have the faster RAM.

Hi Cobra,

In the system profiler, can you tell me what your system identifier is? Mac pro 3,1 or something else? I notice you didn't specify a system identifier in multibeast.

thanks

As stork mentioned above, it's at the default (Mac Pro 3,1). I've heard this is the best one for getting good audio, so I've left it alone. I might try switching it to see if it fixes my mouse/keyboard lag issue as described above.

 

[enzo2012]

You are correct, 2 physical drives. I just reread your guide and failed to make note that the windows drive should be the first in the boot order. I will try that this evening. Thanks for quick response.

 

[ioan_popovici]

I have my hack up and running but these problems remain:

1. WOL does not work
2. With WOL disabled from bios my hack still wakes up from time to time and then goes back to sleep again. (ghost in the machine)
In order to solve this two problems I've ordered a USB3 Gigabit Network Card with WOL capabilities and compatible with OSX
3. I have no volume control with my USB Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Card, I have tried sundflower but it's buggy as hell. I cant understand why creative does not use normal USB Post controls for volume control like everyone else. This can't be fixed but I'm open to suggestions for an alternative sound card that supports 5.1 with volume control on mac.


A sugestion:

Do yourself a favor buy a used ir module from a macbook (any module with 4 wires will work) and a cheap flash drive.
With a little tinkering you will get a working ir module inside that flash drive. Plug it in and enjoy putting your hack to sleep and waking it from your apple remote .
If you use the onboard sound without aggregating devices (for 5.1 sound) you will also have volume control... ENJOY

 

[CoBrA2168]

You are correct, 2 physical drives. I just reread your guide and failed to make note that the windows drive should be the first in the boot order. I will try that this evening. Thanks for quick response.

Let me know if that works. I'm betting that's the issue, because I ran into the same thing when I first applied the patch.

I have my hack up and running but these problems remain:

1. WOL does not work
2. With WOL disabled from bios my hack still wakes up from time to time and then goes back to sleep again. (ghost in the machine)
In order to solve this two problems I've ordered a USB3 Gigabit Network Card with WOL capabilities and compatible with OSX
3. I have no volume control with my USB Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Card, I have tried sundflower but it's buggy as hell. I cant understand why creative does not use normal USB Post controls for volume control like everyone else. This can't be fixed but I'm open to suggestions for an alternative sound card that supports 5.1 with volume control on mac.


A sugestion:

Do yourself a favor buy a used ir module from a macbook (any module with 4 wires will work) and a cheap flash drive.
With a little tinkering you will get a working ir module inside that flash drive. Plug it in and enjoy putting your hack to sleep and waking it from your apple remote .
If you use the onboard sound without aggregating devices (for 5.1 sound) you will also have volume control... ENJOY

Very interesting. I'm not utilizing the ethernet ports regularly so I'm guessing that's why I don't experience any random waking. However, make sure you also have the wake-on-lan setting disabled in the energy saver settings.

 

[ioan_popovici]

Very interesting. I'm not utilizing the ethernet ports regularly so I'm guessing that's why I don't experience any random waking. However, make sure you also have the wake-on-lan setting disabled in the energy saver settings.

Pfff. I did not thought to check that. I was under the impression you have to disable it from bios. I'll try this thanks.
Another nerving part is that I have to wait 23 seconds every time I wake from sleep or reboot my hack before I can use the network.

I will post the results from my USB3 Network card when it arrives. I hope it will solve all my problems

 

[Stork]

...A suggestion:

Do yourself a favor buy a used ir module from a macbook (any module with 4 wires will work) and a cheap flash drive.
With a little tinkering you will get a working ir module inside that flash drive. Plug it in and enjoy putting your hack to sleep and waking it from your apple remote .
If you use the onboard sound without aggregating devices (for 5.1 sound) you will also have volume control... ENJOY

There are several threads in the Customization forum section on how to make your Apple IR remote control. I have made several for my systems, and the one I have in my HacHTPC works very well with Plex.

 

[CoBrA2168]

Pfff. I did not thought to check that. I was under the impression you have to disable it from bios. I'll try this thanks.
Another nerving part is that I have to wait 23 seconds every time I wake from sleep or reboot my hack before I can use the network.

I will post the results from my USB3 Network card when it arrives. I hope it will solve all my problems

I have it disabled from both the BIOS and in the energy saver settings. I don't use this feature, so not a big deal for me.

Still having some sleep issues, wake from sleep only seems to work with an evga 8800gts installed.

I tried quite a few other cards: a gtx275, gtx470, gtx570 and gtx680; all will put the system to sleep but upon wake system briefly powers up, then off.

Hmm...odd. I'm having no issues with my GTX 670. However, I was having issues like you're describing before I switched around the SATA ports of my devices (disabled the Marvell controller). But since you're not having that issue when swapping the video cards, I have no clue what that could be.

 

[Stork]

zaphod88,
Some folks are having good luck with "darkwake=10". I've tried both 0 and 10 but it made no difference. YMMV.

 

[CoBrA2168]

zaphod88,
Some folks are having good luck with "darkwake=10". I've tried both 0 and 10 but it made no difference. YMMV.

I forgot to mention - the other day I switched my darkwake to "no" and now my auto-sleep seems to work fine. Not quite sure if there are any other side affects of this change, but haven't noticed anything yet.

 

[SeaGrizzly]

I have pretty much the same build but I am using the marvel ports and don't have an issue with sleep or anything for that matter. I also tried the Darkwake=No thing and it seemed to fix auto sleep.