How to get Hack Pro power LED blinking?

[warrenk]

Hi:

Has someone successfully gotten power LED blinking under OSX sleep mode on the front panel of Mac Pro's case? Any diagram, drawing, photo of soldering job, kext or kernel file relative to this issue will be deeply appreciated.

Thanks.

[aquamac]

Hi Warrenk,

Sorry for not replying sooner I have been away from home. The only way I got this to work was to cut the traces on the power switch and then solder a wire either side of the led, then connect that to your motherboard. You must also have a motherboard that supports a blinking power led too. Asus boards do generally, but Gigabyte boards do not with the bios set to S3. For sleep function to work correctly, I have found that hackintoshes work best when set to S3 in the bios.

Here is a link to a movie of sleep working on my hack pro. It is a 5 meg download. Plays back in itunes.

Sleep Led Working

[warrenk]

Hi aquamac:

So the only way to get it done is to solder as you mentioned and also set the suspend mode to S3 in BIOS? What if I set the mode to "Auto"?

Won't I need to use specific kernel or kexts like AppleACPIPlatform.kext, AppleSMBIOS.kext, IOACPIFamily.kext, System.kext or something at the same time? Because I've done some search and found the basic theory how voltage signal on the motherboard may be controlled and sent to the power LED via communication established by power management drivers on both OS side(kexts, kernel) and motherboard side(BIOS).

Thanks.

[aquamac]

S1 does not work properly for me, so I avoid it. My Asus sleeps with the sleep kernel or vanilla kernel. I don't have specific Apple ACPI kexts for sleep, but they are the modded ones available with most distributions. To check your LED works, I suggest you connect any old LED to the appropriate connections of the motherboard and see if this flashes. If it does you can make the Apple LED of your mac case flash. On my Asus P5E3, I use the connection pair marked message+ and message-.