Soundcard not recognized. Need to disable ASPM.

[jontah]

Hi!

I have a new soundcard installed into my Hackintosh (its RME HDSPe AES PCIe soundcard) so it's a PCIe one.

I contaced RME since it worked fine the first 2-3 days, then suddenly the audio just dropped out and when restarting the computer the computer doesn't recognize the soundcard at all. sO here I am without audio now. (I'm into music production btw).

RME tells me I need to disable ASPM (PCIe power saving in BIOS). Where do I do this in UEFI BIOS? I can't find it anywhere!

Also: do you know whatelse it could be that makes this occur? I've spent sooooo much money on this soundcard and all of the gear I connect it to, just to make it work. But now this happens, really going nuts here.

Please, any answers is highly appreciated. I want to make this work.

Best,

J

 

[P1LGRIM]

A quick look through Search (a very useful feature BTW) suggests that your card will only work in 32 bit mode.

To confirm this try booting with boot flag arch=i386


Good Luck

 

[jontah]

A quick look through Search (a very useful feature BTW) suggests that your card will only work in 32 bit mode.

To confirm this try booting with boot flag arch=i386


Good Luck

Wow , weird, it works (for now), lets see what happens if it jsut stops working soon again like it did a while ago.

Anyway, how do I add this so it automatically writes the boot flag arch=i1386 everytime I boot?

Also:

How do I know if it got the boot flag arch=i386? when I type it in the bootloader it just goes back without starting the computer. It doesn't give me any indication on that the bootflag is registered, if u understand what I mean?

This is my boot.plist now:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>SSDT</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>npci=0x2000</string>
<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>No</string>
</dict>
</plist>


It was quite a while since I did this, so I can't really remember, do I need to add:

<string>arch=i386</string>
<key>what should I put here?</key>

or how should it look like?

THANKS A BUNCH FOR THIS! You're the best.

Best,

J

 

[P1LGRIM]

Anyway, how do I add this so it automatically writes the boot flag arch=i1386 everytime I boot?

Download Chameleon Wizard and it will do it for you - The 32-bit (i386) option is in the first column at the bottom (just above Device Properties) on the org.chameleon.Boot.plist tab.

Good Luck

 

[jontah]

There is only:

kext-dev-mode=1

Is that the one you mean? because I can't see anything about the 32bit.

Also, do I need to do some kind of installation on this?

http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/28811761/file.html

Here's a picture of it.

Thanks alot!!

 

[P1LGRIM]

There is only:

kext-dev-mode=1

Is that the one you mean? because I can't see anything about the 32bit.

Also, do I need to do some kind of installation on this?

http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/28811761/file.html

Here's a picture of it.

Thanks alot!!

Your Chameleon Wizard is different from mine - Maybe because you're already in 32 bit mode ?

Anyway - Edit it manually and add this :

<key>arch</key>
<string>i386</string>

Right under where you have :

<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>No</string>

So it should look like :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>SSDT</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>npci=0x2000</string>
<key>UseKernelCache</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>arch</key>
<string>i386</string>
</dict>
</plist>


Good Luck

 

[jontah]

Thanks!

Although the audio disspeared now again so it doesnt seem to be this.

Something else is wrong here. Can you please help me?

Thanks.

 

[P1LGRIM]

Although the audio disspeared now again so it doesnt seem to be this.

Something else is wrong here. Can you please help me?
.

Sorry no - All I did was look in search for RME HDSPe and saw that some people said that the card only works in 32 bit mode.

All i can suggest now is that you try search in more depth.

Additionally, as it's an audio issue, you could try a post in the Audio forum.

Good Luck

 

[jontah]

After changing that in the boot.plist it made something weird.. because..

Now I cant even start the computer!! I'm at the bootloader screen now, but when I press "hd (0,2) Mavericks" startup volume and enter. it just redirects me back. I can't get into OSX anymore.

I've tried to boot with -x -f but it doesn't work. Please help!

 

[jontah]

So now I'm stuck at the bootloader. I can't get anywhere, I've tried most of the commands, cpus=1, -f -F -s -x -v npci=0x2000 etc.