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[JCMunsonII]

What were you trying to accomplish with a DSDT?

 

[brams]

What were you trying to accomplish with a DSDT?

Hi thanks for your reply, nothing specifically I was just trying to put my mind at rest that I wasn't missing something out in the grand scheme of things. The question that I am asking is that nobody is using DSDT's anymore because they are not needed now because Clover can do what the DSDT was doing?

 

[JCMunsonII]

If you use Clover Configurator, DSDT patching gets a bit easier as, yes, Clover handles live patching (see ACPI->DSDT section). You can still use DSDTs if necessary of course. With 200-series motherboards, 10.11, Sierra, and High Sierra, live patching is sufficient (so far that I've seen). I have very limited experience in that area so can't really say that is completely the norm.

 

[brams]

Brilliant, thank you for clarifying this

 

[JCMunsonII]

No problem.

 

[JCMunsonII]

Updated the motherboard BIOS to 1203 from 1009. Bit of a leap I must say. I tried to save my BIOS settings (you can do this under Tools), but, as I didn't fully grock how that worked, I effed that and had to start my BIOS setting from scratch (no biggie). The BIOS setup did freeze on me a couple times - I ended up saving part of the BIOS settings, rebooting, and continuing which cleared up the issue. I did, also, finally figure out how to save BIOS information, so, hopefully this won't happen again.

 

[bombardier]

Updated the motherboard BIOS to 1203 from 1009. Bit of a leap I must say. I tried to save my BIOS settings (you can do this under Tools), but, as I didn't fully grock how that worked, I effed that and had to start my BIOS setting from scratch (no biggie). The BIOS setup did freeze on me a couple times - I ended up saving part of the BIOS settings, rebooting, and continuing which cleared up the issue. I did, also, finally figure out how to save BIOS information, so, hopefully this won't happen again.

How did you save the BIOS information?! I did exactly the same as you and had to do all settings from scratch when I went to 1203!

 

[JCMunsonII]

It isn't in an obvious place, but is under Tools. I can't off-hand remember the exact option, but has to do with saving OC settings... Write them out to a USB device - they are not preserved if you do otherwise and then update BIOS. As long as you don't update the BIOS, you can create a number of settings and save them "internally."

 

[bombardier]

Perfect, thanks! I'll do that in a while. Over the next few days I'm going to change my SysDef to 18,3 and try fixing sound as you have.

 

[Stork]

bombardier & JCMunsonII,

I recommend you keep a written log/diary of you BIOS and other setup changes. I've done that for each of my systems, and it's easy to remember what I did or didn't do. A small, tablet size, spiral notebook will do.