From:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...-sleep-wake-freeze-thread-116.html#post605986
I noticed this the other day on the forum! It's a good setup
but I have the BT magic mouse and keyboard.
I shall have to try this, thank you very much! What kind of setup do you have, which version of 10.8, which kexts have you installed for the card?
I'm running a modified bios I made using FTL I think it is called. More information about it below.
I'm running 10.8.3 and given the 550ti 10.8.3 has ran stabler than any of the other 10.8 iterations before it, when the gfx freeze fix is applied.
My MultiBeast 5.3.0 Settings:
Code:
UserDSDT or DSDT-Free Installation
Drivers & Bootloaders
Drivers
Audio
Realtek ALC8xx
Without DSDT (If DSDT is being worked on, else With DSDT.)
ALC892
Graphics
NVIDIA Fermi
OpenCL Patch
10.8.x OpenCL Patch
NVIDIA Retail 304.00 ...
Miscellaneous
FakeSMC v5.1.61 Plugins
Plugins
PS/2 Keyboard/Mice and Trackpads (For emergency fixes.)
Network
Realtek - Lnx2Mac's RealtekRTL81xx
System
AppleACPIPlatform Rollback
10.8.1 Rollback (Chipset and VT-d support.)
Customization
Boot Options
GraphicsEnabler=No (Does not matter.)
System Definitions
iMac
iMac 12,2 (Saves power over MacPro.)
SSDT Options
Sandy Bridge Core i5
TODO:
- Make my own SSDT. The i5 default SSDT will go between 16 and 32 (sometimes 34) for me. I'd like to go down to a speedstep of like 2 or whatever the lowest is for idle, and I'd like to go up to 38 or whatever the highest is for video rendering.
- Test if sleep works. Maybe it already works and I haven't tested it yet. I use my hackintosh as a server too, so sleep isn't an option, but having the ability to sleep is kind of cool.
-Update dsdt.aml. I'm a bit disappointed with all of the work I've put into it and little reward. It seems like doing a dsdt install without dsdt.aml works just as well except the graphics card changes put into the dsdt. I'm wondering if there is anything else that can be done to optimize the system through a dsdt I overlooked.
-Get my IDE CD ROM drive working. The IDE chip on the P8P67 LE runs through a fake raid card. I believe it is identifiable during USB install, but for some sort of reason not from multibeast. It isn't a big deal and a low priority as I never use it. At this point in time I'm considering physically removing my CD ROM drive all together. It is 2013 after all.
-USB 3.0 plugs. If I plug a USB 2.0 thumb drive into one of the 3.0 slots it isn't read. I could care less about USB 3.0 speed as I have nothing that fast, but I'd like to get those two thumb drive plugs working at least.
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-I'm running optical out for sound, not analog.
-My monitor is weird in that only VGA works even if it is a 1080p monitor, so I'm running a dvi to vga converter. Everything works fine. PCIRootUID=0 is a bit annoying during first install though.
-Gigabit ethernet: Copying files over the network from a remote ssd samba share to /tmp here I get max 50MB/s which is almost exactly half gigabit speed. I'm not entirely sure if it is the ethernet drivers or the neighboring computers as none of them have a ram disk or equivalent so testing is pointless. Even if I am limited to 500mbps on the LAN I'm happy with that. Network drivers have been stable so far.
-Case is an Antec Cool and Quiet v1. I've loved this case so much I've held onto it for like 10 years now. Inside over the CPU I've got a minor water cooling setup. It is nothing fancy, but overclocking on Windows runs stable all the way past 4ghz but starts heating the room up a bit too much. It makes me wish I would have sprung for a k version of this CPU.
OH YES! BIOS!
So I had a newer custom bios version than you that I made and it worked wonders. No NullCPUPowerManagement. After that I decided to try to fix the 550ti and so I changed my dsdt.aml that I made on my own to nearly identical settings you ended up with. After doing so everything seemed fine, but it felt like the gfx change was cosmetic. Like the system was the same, so what is the point of the dsdt beyond a minor cosmetic gfx change?
I figured you may have done something better/different and it was worth a try so I made the same BIOS version you posted on your system build thread. This firmware downgrade was unnoticable beyond having to rechange some of the bios settings like putting it in advanced mode.
After I changed the bios version I decided to try your dsdt.aml. After booting up the system felt the same.. identical really. So it was a waste of time.
Right now I'm running your BIOS version with your dsdt file, or the gfx one you posted in the past. Because my system is stable and I'm lazy I'm not going to change it back. I figure in a year when bios versions are updated even more I'll probably update the bios and make my own dsdt again, but in the mean time yours works beautifully. Thank you for sharing it so I could compare, even if we ended up doing all the same things and taking the same route.
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My hard drive setup is such that I have 3 physical drives. One has OSX installed on it, the other has downloads (bit t*****t and what not), and the final one has Windows on it, or will. atm the 3rd hdd has OSX install on it too in case of emergency.
Actually, what should really be done imho is getting a thumb drive and installing not the OSX installer on it, but OSX installed itself in a safe mode default, verbose default, working default. This way if **** hits the fan instead of having another partition or another hard drive with a second install there could be a rescue thumb drive better than what tonymac supplies atm. What do you think? I've got a 32GB thumb drive here. I could put one partition as OSX install and another partition as OSX installed itself. hmm.. What do you think?
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Most important of all! FREEZE FIX!
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...ck-latest-drivers-10-8-3-a-21.html#post604242
I added it to bootup in my user settings and I haven't had a single freeze since. I wish I had a kill-o-watt atm so I could compare watts running it, but so far running it 10.8.3 has been the most stable 10.8 OSX for the 550ti yet. I'm now having 0 freezes, can put the monitor to sleep without problem, no graphic glitches, and screen saver runs fine. I've got full openGL and openCL support. Everything runs smooth. Nothing is choppy. It is nice.
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I think I've covered everything at this point. Of course, feel free to ask any questions and I will be more than glad to help.
even tho I get ±10 fps only in Cinebench
