InfiniteMac OSx86 - View Single Post - AnV AppleSMBIOS Version 10 (X) based on AppleSMBIOS-33

naquaada · 04-29-2009, 06:43 PM

Haha, me again.

I tested the new AppleSMBIOS (for MacPro3.1) on my Opteron system with is using an Asus A8N-SLI Premium board, and it works fine. Secreenshot is here. Xbench says it's a MacPro3.1, Geekbench still detects it as hackintosh, but this may be because the system has an AMD cpu.

But then I tested it on my Athlon 64 system which uses an Asus A8N-E FM/s board, this is an Fujitsu-Siemens OEM board. The board works perfectly, a system installed on the Premium which be restored by a .dmg works without changes. But the AppleSMBIOS.kext works a bit different. In System Profiler it's recognized as MacPro3.1, I used it in the macmodel= boot option like on the Premium board. But Xbench detects it as MacBookPro4.1

And like all other AppleSMBIOS.kext, Enabler and Resolver it doesn't show a RAM speed in About This Mac, System Profiler shows unknown and Geekbench shows 0 MHz. It's working fine with 10.5.3.

For testing purposes I deleted AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext, after I rebooted the system logged out and in again when I wanted to use 'About This Mac'.

Actually upgrading to 10.5.6 seems not to be a good idea. Both systems are slower using 10.5.6, the Opteron system 105 points and the Athlon system 79 points in Geekbench. The CPU gets hotter, system is slower, computer information wrong detected on some boards... not good.