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Hm can't say - I have never connected speakers to it; just using internal ones.

Audio: see previous page; no c-commander here, have you tried alcid=21 ?

Funny; I still don't fully understand how it works, but I felt ACOS/ACSE part of my previous SSDT was making the difference. Is there a way to increase display brightness via a ssdt (PNLF?) I put an IPS display into the 5570 and its beautiful but could use a little more "power". Apart from that everything is near perfect. I really like the Inspirons, not the most beautiful Laptop but very affordable and the 8250u/8550u`s are quite powerful.

I tried and f11/f12 work still. So that's one patch less, and no more fiddling with Key Values for BRT. Thanks ! Can you explain what the connection is: DefinitionBlock ("", "SSDT", 2, "OCLT", "OCWork", 0x00000000) { External (_SB_.ACOS, IntObj) External (_SB_.ACSE, IntObj) Scope (\) { If (_OSI ("Darwin")) { \_SB.ACOS = 0x80 \_SB.ACSE = Zero } } } and BrightnessKeys.kext ?

Thanks for taking the time - of course I don't want to bore you regarding existing BRT patches. (I tried different versions but could not make it work) I found it interesting that none of the GPIO.SSDT dortania values worked for me and in the end Trackpad worked entirely without it. (this took me some time as I thought GPIO was mandatory...) Then I tried to find a way to eliminate XOSI patch. With BRT6 to BRTX patch in config and the mentioned BKCM.SSDT it worked. (but it maybe its still only because of the values in there ?) I have Brightnesskeys.kext also, I think it did not work without. For Sound I found alcid=21 the best option, no codec commander. Speakers/mic work, after sleep too. I don't have the skills to tell why this combination works in the end - but really everything appears to be fully functional, that's why I posted it. All that said - here's the EFI OC 6.7 (this is from 5770 Version; so there is a disable gpu ssd in there, not needed for versions w/o radeon gpu), OS 11.2.3 If there are ways to optimize further please let me know. EFI 5770.zip

These "previous" methods have worked for my E7250 and E7450 and Catalina. (but not on the Inspiron) I don't know why you have to point at those again - I have no intention to take credit for anything or get into some sort of competition. Thanks for your support, and I hope someone using the Inspiron 5570/5770 can make use of this.

re f11 f12 brightness-keys: I finally found that I don't need SSDT-GPIO, and found another way to enable f11-f12 brightness keys. This is based on SSDT-BCKM from tctien342 on GitHub ,so credits to tctien342; he has commented: // make BRT6 to be called on Darwin // call chain: _Q66 -> NEVT -> SMIE -> SMEE -> EV5 -> BRT6 // in SMEE, EV5 is called only when OSID >= 0x20, and OSID: // if ACOS == 0: init ACOS based on OS version // return ACOS // hence set ACOS >= 0x20 can do the trick, and this trick affects less methods than _OSI renaming patch I am not an expert and deleted some lines I felt I did not need, but this works on the 5570 and 5770 Inspiron; maybe you want to take a look as this could work on other Dell Laptops as well. My EFI setup using OC 6.7. and everything appears to work fine: SSDT-BCKM_DELL.zip

That did not work; but its due to my mistake; I went back and checked the old EFI, and the ssdt I used was "SSDT-BKeyBRT6-Dell.aml" with XOSI-patch, not BRT6. I tried to merge the values but could not fix it (lacking skills...), please see attached ssdt. If you don't have the time that's fine - I can use the brightness slider from the menu of course - its more a "nice to have" now... Thanks again SSDT-BKeyBRT6-Dell.aml.zip

Thanks for looking...:Archiv.zip

I have now transitioned to BigSur using OC 6.7. Everything works fine except the brightness hotkeys; in Catalina I used BRT6 SSDT and XOSI patch method - in BigSur I have dropped the XOSI patch for GPIO.SSDT. Unfortunately I had no luck with "Brightnesskeys.kext"; is there a recommendation to fix this for f11/f12 without karabiner or other app ? Thx

This model has pretty good battery life (thanks to stevezheng cpufriend script), but the screen is not very good. It supports a ssd and nvme drive for dual boot hds which is nice. Not working: Headphones (but internal speakers and hdmi tv work ) sd reader fn11/12 brightness keys (set brightness in sys prefs) wifi (add a dw1560) ONLY USE FOLDER IF YOU HAVE 8250U CPU ! (if not delete cpufriend and "provider" from "other") appleps2controller used for trackpad (I tried to make a minimal setup, but I don't seem to have all the ssdts right) CLOVER insp5570.zip

I added cpufriend kexts (credit stevezheng GitHub script) for the i5 5300U @ 800mhz, and set plugin-type to 1 and disabled p-c states. Core min shows 0.7 now. I am using Appleps2controller kext, I couldn't find a better (voodoo/drhurt/alps) solution. The only downside being that Brightness keys f11/12 don't work now - help appreciated. Other than that everything is fine for now, here's the Folder for Catalina: CLOVER.zip

I went with MacBook Air 7,1 and adding p-c-states. (Broadwell does seem to support this, and clover generates p and c states according to log) I don't know the exact difference to "plug-in type", but this now gives good sleep / wake up and battery life is ok too. Frequencies over all seem to be smoother (looking at intelpowergadget) The plist is based on Jake Lo`s original (plus the above mentioned changes) Thanks again config_air71copy_add_serial.plist.zip

Big thank you to Osxlatitude for your guides and support. I went for the Virtualsmc guide for the e7250 and e7450, both working very well (Catalina). Trying to improve battery life I found that p- and c-states are not checked in jakes plist. I guess there is a reason for that, but now the CPU throttles down to core min. 1,2ghz only. Checking P/C states in config it comes down to core min. 0,9ghz - but still far off from the 0,5 min value that the bootlog/clover shows to be the min. value next to the turbo values. So far it appears that the macbook air 7.1 with p/c states checked runs best, but still (with hibernatemode left at 3) if I leave it sleeping; the battery of my e7250 empties in two days. So it eats about 2% of Battery/h doing nothing. (And MBPro12.1 with hibernatemode set to 0 drains even faster...) Also the way graphics clocks is different between mbpro and mbair , see pics. (My 7250 has a dw1560, 16g Ram and FHD screen - and just a tiny battery I guess) Is there anything else I could try to improve this - are others experiencing the same ? Thanks...

I don't think RTC fix is needed. Have you checked that your MPro5,1 smbios is up to date (Boot-ROM-Version: 144.0.0.0.0 I think it is in "about this Mac") In clover configurator you can see a Date for the Bios , it should say something like 2019, not 2010. If not choose a random different smbios; and then MPro5,1 again and this will be "renewed". (Note your serial if you like to keep it)

So here goes the T3500 Pack: I took a different approach to minimize effort and only use ssdt, no more DSDT, try attached EFI Folders. ( I added HDEF to DSDT but it did not help and voodoo seems to work better without, as HDA does not load) Only using //Patched: SSDT_LPC.aml to get "pci8086,3a18" loaded for PM/AppleLPC.kext. EFI Folder Voodoo: Sound works, sleep/wake works. EFI Folder ALC : Sound shows icons and values in sysprefs (and AppleHDA is loaded, see pic), but does not actually play sound. (I tried to resolve sound but apparently it is not that simple - at least I couldn't. Lots of info on ALC / AD1984A / Mojave being a problem.) Sleep/wake works too. Hardware is T3500 w W3680 cpu, GB Aorus AMD RX570, ASMedia Sata3 Card w/ 2 SSDs, a TP-Link wifi card , and 24 Gig Ram. I will continue to play with the settings in the plist checkboxes to minimize as much as possible. If you find there are useless settings (or important ones missing) in the config.plist please share your knowledge here. Give it a try...(EFI is from clover r4911/Mojave 10.14.6) Good luck T3500 pack.zip

Hi dm4n, sure I can do that, but first I have to get Audio sorted as I am trying to move away from voodoohda and use Lilu/AppleAlc and Mojave. The T3500 has AD1984A codec but I have the issue that with AppleALC the devices are seen but still no sound is played from them. (Headphones and Lineout, clover Inject 11/13/44) (I`d like to figure this out because then sleep appears to work well, which is buggy with voodoo) The codec has been added to ALC recently but there seems to be some problem with injection in the latest versions, and I have found no solution to it yet. I have no HDEF in my DSDT, so if somebody has a tip on how to add this in I`d like to try. Maybe Hervé has a hint, as AD1984A seems to be common in similar machines like the Optiplex series: 780/760 has AD1984A 755 has AD1984 T3500 has AD1984A would this make sense ? Device (HDEF) { Name (_ADR, 0x001B0000) Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) { Store (Package (0x08) { "built-in", Buffer (One) { 0x00 }, "layout-id", Buffer (0x04) { 0x1C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 }, "PinConfigurations", Buffer (Zero) {}, "hda-gfx", Buffer (0x0A) { "onboard-1" } }, Local0) DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0)) Return (Local0) } } For the BIOS reset Problem I think it could be: CMOS Battery Clover not at 4911 (I use this) Mojave not at .6 version SMBIOS not updated for MP5,1 for the newer BIOS definition (use Cloverconfigurator)

I clocked the T3500/W3680 up to 4,17Ghz, and I believe it does effect performance/rendering, so far no instabilities or dropouts - we`ll see. The values I tested are: 3.33 (Stock), 4.17 and 4.4 Ghz (just for a try). I`ll see how stable this is @ 4.17 now. 3.33 Ghz Geekbench3 14.500 Cinema 4D 1673pts 4.17 Ghz Geekbench3 18.000 Cinema 4D 2088pts 4.4 Ghz Geekbench 3 19.000 Cinema 4D 2231pts (as "about this Macs" tops out at 4.3Ghz cinema shows the remaining 0.1Ghz here...funny) For 4.17Ghz set clover/CPU "Bus speed kHz" to 166660, that's all. (Base Multipler for W3680 is 25, I had no effect trying to add the "bus ratio" flag) No luck with other smbios`s also, (Performance down 50%; same with iMac 14/15/17/18 and MP6.1 incl. ssdt for GFX1) Try at your own risk - don't forget to strap a 80 or 90mm fan onto the CPU cooler beforehand ! (This seems to be a good idea anyway, even for stock speed). If you have a different processor this value will not work !! Find out your FSB-multiplier and calculate it...(and find out if your CPU is "unlocked" in the first place !!!) So much for that experiment; does not turn it into a intel Platinum 8186 but its (as always) just for the fun of it (and seems to reduce some render time too...) Thx Next

Thanks Hervé, I really don't care about Geekbench or "about this Mac" numbers, just looking if I can improve rendering speed a bit. Thanks for the link and I`ll try out some more options as mentioned. MP6,1 should work for Catalina but I have struggled getting it to boot due to the GFX1/blackscreen issue. (also: Nvidia...) I`ll try adding an extra ssdt for GFX injection for the T3500 to fix that for MP6,1. Thx

Thanks Hervé, yes its only FSB so far, but it seems to work first try, and for the whole system. ( I ran a render test file and it went from 52seconds (Stock 3.33ghz) down to 35 seconds (at around 4,2ghz). That would be quite an improvement for my work, as I was already thinking about buying a new machine; but I have to say I really love the T3500. Do you have knowledge about the other settings available, like : busratio=xx undervolt step min/max multiplier ? (And the smbios for Catalina ?) Thx Next

I always thought there was no way to overclock the Xeon due to locked msr in Bios, but tonight I found I can ramp up my W3680 to over 4,2 Ghz just using clover. This seems to improve rendering times by some 25-30% ! (Geekbench3 bump from 14000 to over 17000). I`ll strap an extra fan onto the cpu and do some testing. I never thought this was possible - has anybody tried this too ? If it doesn't fry it this will be a solid upgrade for zero Bucks (well, a fan...) and Mojave 10.15.6 seems to work really well with the T3500. For Catalina we might need a different smbios one day (using MP 5.1 still here); has anybody had success using something else ? - all I tried (MP 6.1, iMac 13-14 etc.) made my Geekbench drop to 6000 Points. Best, Next

There is a new version of the BCM5722D kext (v2.3.6) on insanelymac. And Ethernet now works after sleep.

Sleep works perfect now - tested on two machines with Xeon W3680, GT640 and GTX760. The only downside to it is that after wake up the NIC does not work anymore. I know thats a common problem (BCM5722D.kext, v 2.3.5) but unfortunately I dont know how to fix this in DSDT, which would make sense as all T3500 seem to have the same NIC. Has anybody been able to solve this ?

Great, pasting the "HACK" part from the DSDT posted in Post 12 into my DSDT makes instant wakeup work. (I have a W3680 and Geforce card) Also when booting clover from a CF Card using the internal card reader and setting "Flexdrive allow boot" in Bios A17 I noticed the "usb did not eject properly" error is gone. I have a second T3500 I will test with and report back. Thanks a lot for the sleep fix.