About This Mac Problem after 10.5.5 update on AMD

Philintosh · #1 12-05-2008, 05:01 AM

I have Amd Athlon X2 4200+ with MSI K9A mobo...i installed zephyroth 10.5.2 for amd efi and i use amd patcher 0.31 to update 10.5.5...luckily i updated it but it says intel core 2 dou and on hardware infos says error gathering informations...i hope someone could help me fix this problem..i tried ATMM installer but didnt fix...

Ali C. · #2 12-06-2008, 01:10 AM

The About This Mac thing could be because you may be using the voodoo kernel. That an ATM modifier didn't change it gives the reason to think this.
As for "error gathering information", that one flies over my head. Maybe someone else can help you with that one. *shrug*

nfoav8or · #3 12-06-2008, 02:19 AM

For both of these: there is no problem. If you read up on the voodoo kernel RC thread, it explains that this is simply asthetics... you need to manually change some string values in

Code:

/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/(Your Language).lproj/AboutThisMac.strings/

modify the area that states:

Quote:

/* The format string used to generate the Processor text field in the About This Mac window */
/* when there is exactly one processor in the machine. The localized string */
/* must include the 2-character sequence "%@" which will be replaced in the */
/* final UI with a description of the processor (e.g. "600 MHz PowerPC G3") */
//"ABOUT_BOX_SINGLE_PROCESSOR_FIELD_FORMAT" = "Processor: %@";
"ABOUT_BOX_SINGLE_PROCESSOR_FIELD_FORMAT" = "AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+";
"ABOUT_BOX_SINGLE_PROCESSOR_L3CACHE_FORMAT" = "%@ L3 cache";

Modify the Green Text. Then it will show whatever you type.

For the second one, this is typical on a Hackintosh. Mine is the same. I'm sure we'll see fixes for this in the future, but for now it does nothing to hamper your system.

Philintosh · #4 12-08-2008, 07:18 PM

I modded my about the mac problem...it works and thank you for your help...i tried today osx86 toolsby pcwiz and now it shows different and i couldnt mod/edit anymore the string...says different texts...i hope you can help me to get back to its original state...and i tried install the latest release of xnu voodoo kernel and system.kext...still the same problem..pls help me once again of what i need to do..and can i know if the voodoo kernel possible to update directly from software update of leo?thank you very much....

nfoav8or · #5 12-09-2008, 07:42 PM

you've simply lost the AboutThisMac.strings file.

I'll PM you a link to mine so you can re-edit it.