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11-04-2009 01:56 AM |
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Originally Posted by thorazine74
(Post 38587)
What do you mean only chosmetic? SMBIOS.plist just injects the values so System Profiler displays them, some of them are only of chosmetic value (i.e. RAM speed or Manufacturer or Serial Number) but others like Mac Model seems to be very important because OS X read those valuse and acts different depending what Mac Model you have. Its a good practice to have real data from a Mac Model close to your system specs, though I'm not sure which variables are really necessary apart from Mac Model...
It serves the same purpose as kext-based SMBIOS injectors, though it may not inject the same values as others like Andy's patched one, though arguably most of the values are useless. And it should work in 32 & 64 bits.
If you have a properly filled SMBIOS table About This Mac or System Profiler should not crash. What CPU do you have? I think you may have to edit the CPU and bus speeds in smbios.plist, I'm not sure because I never have to, I think its autodetected but maybe in your case it didnt work?
If you use smbios.plist injecting you probably should use vanilla unpatched AppleSMBIOS.kext and have no other SMBIOS injector kext installed.
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Sorry guys, been away for a couple of days.
I don't know how it differs from other AppleSMBIOS injectors, but as for using a SMBIOS.plist, and it only fixing the System Profiler cosmetically, I was referring to a post I'd read on Prasys's blog, here.
In regards to "About This Mac" crashing, I've tried using a properly filled in SMBIOS.plist, with no other injectors present, and the only difference in the information displayed is what I expect, serial number, Boot ROM version. I've even edited my SMBIOS.plist to match the injector's values on the off chance it might work, but nothing.
When using EFI 10.5, which features a CPU auto detect, it picks up my CPU as a C2D 3.0 GHz, which is wrong, but it's the same as I got before the auto detect patch and also the same as when I boot without using any form of SMBIOS injector regardless of the bootloader being used. With AppleSMBIOSEFI.kext and Netkas's AppleSMBIOS.kext it reports it as a C2D 2.13 GHz, which is correct, and "About This Mac" doesn't crash. |
