[solved] Alienware 15 R2 install EI capitan&install Mac Sierra Success

[chickenlittleextremists]

Attach PR files as per FAQ.

Oh yes, sorry, here they are!

 

[RehabMan]

Oh yes, sorry, here they are!

Excess power usage likely caused by Nvidia and NVMe.
You might compare with SATA M.2 and Nvidia disabled.

Also, you can check pstates with AppleIntelInfo.kext.

And look at ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources as you will see there are plists associated with each SMBIOS, and the SMBIOS you have selected has no plist (because it uses X86PlatformPlugin). It might be worthwhile copying a plist such as the one for one of MacBookPro8,x, so it is used for your chosen SMBIOS.

 

[chickenlittleextremists]

Excess power usage likely caused by Nvidia and NVMe.
You might compare with SATA M.2 and Nvidia disabled.

Tried disabling, but no luck. The Issue still persists.

Also, you can check pstates with AppleIntelInfo.kext.

I'm not quite understanding what i can look for here, so im attaching it since you can understand it.

And look at ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources as you will see there are plists associated with each SMBIOS, and the SMBIOS you have selected has no plist (because it uses X86PlatformPlugin). It might be worthwhile copying a plist such as the one for one of MacBookPro8,x, so it is used for your chosen SMBIOS.

You mean making a macbookpro11_1.plist and copying the content of macbookpro8_3.plist into it?
Im not sure if i understood you.
Attaching that file as well, along with the PR files.
Thanks a lot!

 

[RehabMan]

Tried disabling, but no luck. The Issue still persists.

The ioreg you attached still shows active Nvidia and NVMe.

I'm not quite understanding what i can look for here, so im attaching it since you can understand it.

You are getting pstates 8 through 32:

CPU P-States [ 8 9 (17) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 32 ] iGPU P-States [ 7 ]

You mean making a macbookpro11_1.plist and copying the content of macbookpro8_3.plist into it?

Yes.
Or using MacBookPro8,1 plist for a base.
With tweaks as needed.

 

[RehabMan]

I fixed the restart after shutdown changing method _PTS to do this:

Method (_PTS, 1, NotSerialized) // _PTS: Prepare To Sleep
{
// This patch is to fix "restart after shutdown" caused by the xHCI controller.
If (5 == Arg0) {
\_SB.PCI0.XHC.PMEE = 0
}
Else {
If (Arg0)
{
TPTS (Arg0)
\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.SPTS (Arg0)
\_SB.PCI0.NPTS (Arg0)
\_SB.RPTS (Arg0)
}
}

}

This is the "[sys] Shutdown restart (XHC.PMEE) Fix" patch from my laptop patch repo.

 

[davidfa81]

Yes it is. Kudos to you Rehabman.

 

[chickenlittleextremists]

Yes it is. Kudos to you Rehabman.

That doesnt solve it for me. As mine doesnt restart after shutdown, it just doesnt boot after shutdown.
I already have tried that patch, but with no luck.
Thanks though!

 

[davidfa81]

That doesnt solve it for me. As mine doesnt restart after shutdown, it just doesnt boot after shutdown.
I already have tried that patch, but with no luck.
Thanks though!

I use HWP in Clover, so no need for Plugin Type

 

[chickenlittleextremists]

I use HWP in Clover, so no need for Plugin Type

You mean HWPEnable in cpu section of clover right?
But that is just for speedshift, that is not Native power management.
Also if you are doing that then you must be using 13,1 as SMBIOS right?
Kindly shed some more light on this,
Thanks for the reply!

 

[davidfa81]

This is what I do. It pretty much works for me. I used hot patching for ACPI so it should be independent of BIOS version. The sources for the SSDTs are in a folder sibling to "patched" called "sources". You may benefit from taking a look. Regards