How to disable ASPM on Hackintosh

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How to disable ASPM on Hackintosh

 

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This patch is for PCIe devices

Only disable ASPM if you really need due to instability or other reasons.

 

-Disable with Device Properties

 

1- Download Hackintool HERE

2- Go to PCIe tab and check ASPM propertie in your device. If appear Enable and your device have instability or other reasons and instability is caused by ASPM, you can disable it. Good example is some Wifi Broadcom.

3- Checking PciRoot Device properties

On PCIe tab on Hackintool use Right mouse button and Copy Device Path 

 

4- Apply this patch with correct Device Path in Device Properties / Add tab in your config.plist

Quote

<key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x6,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
            <dict>
                <key>pci-aspm-default</key>
                <integer>0</integer>
            </dict>

 

 

-Disable with ACPI

 

Inject this litlle patch on device. Pay attention with native _DSM Methods inside device.

Quote

Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)  // _DSM: Device-Specific Method
                {
                    If ((Arg2 == Zero))
                    {
                        Return (Buffer ()
                        {
                             0x03                                           
                        })
                    }

                    Return (Package ()
                    {
                        "pci-aspm-default", 
                        Buffer (One)
                        {
                             0x00                                            
                        }
                    })
                }

 

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