SalPro Dual Xeon WorkStation: ASUS Z9PE W8 DS - 2x XEON E5 2660 - GTX 590 3GB - 64GB

[TpwUK]

I know there are some problems of booting with two 8-core v2 CPUs.
I made some fix to processor scope of DSDT.aml and make it bootable last year. I'll try these fix to your DSDT.aml, and share how to fix if I can boot El Capitan.

I had it booting fine with two 2680v1 ES CPUs but couldn't get speed step working or turbo either regardless of smBIOS type, that's why i put my old 2620v2 cpus in and it went as easy as it could possibly be, but they are too slow for my rendering so i got greedy and ordered those two 2667v2 chips ... Any how, after all the problems i had yesterday i did some reading of the tech specs for this mainboard and it does say max of 24 cores/threads so you might just have to disable hyperthreadig on the BIOS to by pass the limit whilst setting things up.

Martin

 

[ccx4700]

I haven't tested yet so I don't know whether text below is a help to you, but I can put some information.

I read Processor scope in your DSDT.aml, it is adjusted for 24 cores.

In SCK0 (socket 0)

Processor (C000, 0x00, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...
Processor (C00B, 0x0B, 0x00000410, 0x06) # 12th logical core in socket 0
Processor (C00C, 0x80, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...

I think Cxxx with 0x80 and above are not recognized by OS X.
So you should fix like

Processor (C000, 0x00, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...
Processor (C00B, 0x0B, 0x00000410, 0x06)
Processor (C00C, 0x0C, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...
Processor (C00F, 0x0F, 0x00000410, 0x06) # 16th logical core in socket 0
Processor (C010, 0x80, 0x00000410, 0x06)

Then fix SCK1 like

Processor (C100, 0x10, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...
Processor (C10F, 0x1F, 0x00000410, 0x06) # 16th logical core in socket 1

You also should fix

If (LEqual (CSTA (Zero, 0xXX), Zero))

in Processor scopes.
EDITED 16/05/11 : I made a big mistake. You DON'T have to fix here. Sorry.

I'm not an English speaker, so please tell me if you can't understand my English.

 

[TpwUK]

I haven't tested yet so I don't know whether text below is a help to you, but I can put some information.

I read Processor scope in your DSDT.aml, it is adjusted for 24 cores.

In SCK0 (socket 0)

Processor (C000, 0x00, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...
Processor (C00B, 0x0B, 0x00000410, 0x06) # 12th logical core in socket 0
Processor (C00C, 0x80, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...

I think Cxxx with 0x80 and above are not recognized by OS X.
So you should fix like

Processor (C000, 0x00, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...
Processor (C00B, 0x0B, 0x00000410, 0x06)
Processor (C00C, 0x0C, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...
Processor (C00F, 0x0F, 0x00000410, 0x06) # 16th logical core in socket 0
Processor (C010, 0x80, 0x00000410, 0x06)

Then fix SCK1 like

Processor (C100, 0x10, 0x00000410, 0x06)
...
Processor (C10F, 0x1F, 0x00000410, 0x06) # 16th logical core in socket 1

You also should fix

If (LEqual (CSTA (Zero, 0xXX), Zero))

in Processor scopes.

I'm not an English speaker, so please tell me if you can't understand my English.

Your english is fine - The DSDT would be 24 thread based as I was using the E5-2620 v2 when doing this most recent build

Martin

 

[ccx4700]

I've tested my system with your SSDT-1.aml. Everything worked perfect!
It worked with latest BIOS 5802, annoying random freezes has gone.

I used my own DSDT.aml (only Processor scope patch added) with your SSDT-1.aml, then all 32 threads are recognized, SpeedStep and TurboBoost worked properly.

Your SSDT-1.aml is the last piece of my hackintosh.
Huge thanks! I hope you get your system working with E5-2667 v2.

 

[TpwUK]

I've tested my system with your SSDT-1.aml. Everything worked perfect!
It worked with latest BIOS 5802, annoying random freezes has gone.

I used my own DSDT.aml (only Processor scope patch added) with your SSDT-1.aml, then all 32 threads are recognized, SpeedStep and TurboBoost worked properly.

Your SSDT-1.aml is the last piece of my hackintosh.
Huge thanks! I hope you get your system working with E5-2667 v2.

Awesome, I am really pleased for ya

New motherboard arrives tomorrow so i will get to try the cpu's again tomorrow, if they work I will put up a clean thread for a how to, then i might have to come looking for your Processor Scope as that's new to me!

I cant take all the credit for SSDT-1 either, that came from here based on work carried out by Shilohh - His version is a lot deeper than mine, but i just needed to get past the black sleep screen on installation.

Martin

 

[TpwUK]

Well I am up and running but I can't boot with my uploaded DSDT, i get AppleACPIPlatform panic - ccx4700 can you possibly check my posted DSDT without your Processor Scope edits to see if you get the same error. I have been looking for a how to do scope edits but not found anything i can make sense of yet

Martin

 

[rolandino]

Well I am up and running but I can't boot with my uploaded DSDT, i get AppleACPIPlatform panic - ccx4700 can you possibly check my posted DSDT without your Processor Scope edits to see if you get the same error. I have been looking for a how to do scope edits but not found anything i can make sense of yet

Martin

I have a similar system:
Z9PE-D8 WS BIOS 5802, 2x Xeon E5-2650v2 8-cores, GTX980

I tried a new El Cap installation with your DSDT and SSDT-1.
Applied the processor scope modifications from ccx4700 and it did work with my 8-core-CPUs, no panics.

Actually I am stuck at "DSMOS has arrived" when booting the install USB.
I think that's some issue with the Nvidia 980, had this before.
Which SMBIOS did you use for install? MacPro6,1 or some iMac?

TpwUK: I can send you my modified DSDT tomorrow evening for testing, unfortunately I don't have it here right now.

 

[TpwUK]

I have a similar system:
Z9PE-D8 WS BIOS 5802, 2x Xeon E5-2650v2 8-cores, GTX980

I tried a new El Cap installation with your DSDT and SSDT-1.
Applied the processor scope modifications from ccx4700 and it did work with my 8-core-CPUs, no panics.

Actually I am stuck at "DSMOS has arrived" when booting the install USB.
I think that's some issue with the Nvidia 980, had this before.
Which SMBIOS did you use for install? MacPro6,1 or some iMac?

TpwUK: I can send you my modified DSDT tomorrow evening for testing, unfortunately I don't have it here right now.

Well that's good to know that your install gets further than mine with the processor scope edits applied. I am trying with the Mac Pro 6,1 since it's the same socket/processor types. I am using Clover 3469 at present. My older version was one that insisted on adding rootless and nvid_drv=1 to the boot args. If you are using Clover Configurator then make sure that's up to date too I am on 4.27.1 here, i am still waiting to try 4.28.

Boot flags for installing ElCap are just -v npci=0x2000 cpus=1 dart=0 kext-dev-mode=1

Hopefully i will be fixed before tomorrow evening but i would still like to see your Processor Scopes too. I don't mind admitting i don't have a clue where to start and which to add or remove and there are over 260 of them in the default ACPI DSDT

Martin

** Edit **

Once i had figured where to look and what to change it was a doddle so i am all up n running now with full speed steps and turbo. Will do a GeekBench score and see how it goes with that.

 

[ccx4700]

Now I'm planning to write small script to patch DSDT Processor scope.

Well I am up and running but I can't boot with my uploaded DSDT, i get AppleACPIPlatform panic - ccx4700 can you possibly check my posted DSDT without your Processor Scope edits to see if you get the same error. I have been looking for a how to do scope edits but not found anything i can make sense of yet

Martin

If you see a message like "should have X threads but only found Y" above the AppleACPIPlatform panic, it must be caused by Processor scope issue.
I couldn't avoid the panic without Processor scope edit (or not using 8-core Xeon).

I have a similar system:
Z9PE-D8 WS BIOS 5802, 2x Xeon E5-2650v2 8-cores, GTX980

I tried a new El Cap installation with your DSDT and SSDT-1.
Applied the processor scope modifications from ccx4700 and it did work with my 8-core-CPUs, no panics.

Actually I am stuck at "DSMOS has arrived" when booting the install USB.
I think that's some issue with the Nvidia 980, had this before.
Which SMBIOS did you use for install? MacPro6,1 or some iMac?

TpwUK: I can send you my modified DSDT tomorrow evening for testing, unfortunately I don't have it here right now.

I also think that is the problem of Maxwell GPU.
I couldn't boot UniBeast installer with GTX970 even if I use nv_disable=1, so I had to use GTX760 while installing.
After installing, GTX970 probably works with Web driver and nvda_drv=1, but I haven't tested yet.
I used default smbios setting of UniBeast, so it was probably MacPro3,1. After install, I introduced MacPro6,1 smbios.

 

[ccx4700]

I made some mistake about how to fix DSDT. So I fixed the post above. Sorry.