AppleSMBIOSEFI for Tiger and Leopard Options

[macstah]

First and foremost, thanks for this! This is really great.

I have a request: Is there a way you can update the .cpp to plug in the Model Name and Model Identifier as you can with the serial and mem info? I'm running into the same thing as a few of the others with my system now showing as a 'Mac' instead of Mac Pro after updating from 10.5.0 -> 10.5.4.

Cheers,

M

[Jingu]

I am using the latest AppleSMBIOSEFI-28, Chameleon EFI with Leopard 10.5.4 from retail DVD.

I get in System Profiler:

Model Name: Mac
Model Identifier: Aspire 9520
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz

I cannot get System Profiler to display MacPro3,1. How would I do that?
Curiously, XBench and MenuTemperature both see my computer as MacPro3,1. I just cannot get MacPro3,1 to be displayed in System Profiler.

EDIT: Since I have a Notebook, I recompiled the kext to have MacBookPro2,1 as the Model Identifier. I also switched to the original AppleACPIPlatfmorm from the Leopard 10.5.0 retail DVD. Guess what, now I have:
Model Name: MacBookPro 17"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,1
So it looks like it's something with the 1.2.1 AppleACPIPlatform kext that is preventing us from overriding the model names.

[hellboy]

hy !

How did you get your AppleSMBIOS to have MacBook Pro as Model Name ?
do you can explain me the way you did ? or an help ?
Or maybe post your file ?

( sorry for my english, i'm french )

thanks

bye

[hach1r0ku]

it seems that 1.2.1 gets its model name from the dmi sector of the bios
i edited my dmi in the bios using dmicfg
it used to say p5k e as model id
i change the model name in the dmi to mac pro 3, 1
and boom
model id is mac pro 3,1
i have no idea how to change model name tho
as mine still shows Mac

[hellboy]

I just change my AppleSMBIOS.kext to another one, and I get MacBook Air as model name and MacBookAir1.1 as model id and MBA as start-up ROM.
So i think this info are just in the SMBIOS, but nobody get this file from a macbook pro !
( if this file is different from the macbook no-pro's one )

thank you for your answer i'll test that.

[MadGhost]

Hello,

I've seen nothing about DDR3; is it possible to make it works?

It can be benefit to configure it for DDR3 or is it useless? is it only about this Mac visual tweak?

thanks

[samhannan]

Hi,

I have edited AppleSMBIOSEFI.cpp with Xcode.....recompiled...and installed the newly built kext. It does load as my serial number does change to the correct value I set in AppleSMBIOSEFI.cpp...however my Model still say Mac, Model Identifier is blank, and in the top of system profiler it says "Sam Hannan's SomeModelyyyyyyyyyyyyya-c-imanufaturer" - in my MBP it says "Sam Hannan's Computer" in this same place....can I change something to get rid of this garble????

Any idea's why the model and board-id I set is ignored? I did try a few versions of AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 1.0.3 through to current 1.2.1 (as suggested by someone earlier in this thread) but none made a difference...

Any ideas?

Thanks

S

[Dabluest]

Hi,

I have edited AppleSMBIOSEFI.cpp with Xcode.....recompiled...and installed the newly built kext. It does load as my serial number does change to the correct value I set in AppleSMBIOSEFI.cpp...however my Model still say Mac, Model Identifier is blank, and in the top of system profiler it says "Sam Hannan's SomeModelyyyyyyyyyyyyya-c-imanufaturer" - in my MBP it says "Sam Hannan's Computer" in this same place....can I change something to get rid of this garble????

Any idea's why the model and board-id I set is ignored? I did try a few versions of AppleACPIPlatform.kext from 1.0.3 through to current 1.2.1 (as suggested by someone earlier in this thread) but none made a difference...

Any ideas?

Thanks

S

Pretty easy to change what it says at the very top of System Profiler window. Open System Preferences, go to Sharing, and change whatever's in Computer Name at the top to something else.

[samhannan]

Thanks Dabluest!

Thats all that was really pissing me off - I can live with the rest of the info missing as it doesnt affect performance, and I have FCP running like a dream with my Decklink Extreme HD2 card!

Cheers

Sam

[KAIBA]

Is the applesmbiosefi updated to be compatible with Appleaciplatform 1.2.1?

[Mac_Attack12]

How do you Change the Model Name in system profiler?

[Beerkex'd]

Read the thread before asking questions!

You must edit the .cpp file and compile the kext.

Download and install the latest version of XCode from Apple.

[stellarola]

Chun-nan,

Great work. I really prefer your injector above all others. However with the Boot-132 method AppleSMBIOSEFI can't be loaded from extensions.mkext. Any way around this?

Thanks,

-Stell

[awenger]

Great work. I really prefer your injector above all others. However with the Boot-132 method AppleSMBIOSEFI can't be loaded from extensions.mkext. Any way around this?

Having same problem. Would rather use AppleSMBIOSEFI over SMBIOSEnabler.
Is there a way to load this with .mkext?

[steeple]

Chun-nan,

Great work. I really prefer your injector above all others. However with the Boot-132 method AppleSMBIOSEFI can't be loaded from extensions.mkext. Any way around this?

Thanks,

-Stell

hi,
it does work if you copy (not move) the applesmbios.kext into the extra/extensions folder to be alongside the applesmbiosefi

N.B. obviously i'm using the chameleon efi version with an extentions folder inside the extra folder, instead of an extention.mkext

[steeple]

hi
very elegant kext , i'm having just one problem...

i'm using a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R with four 2gb ddr2 memory sticks, i get 8gig shown in "about this mac", but in system profiler they all show as 1gb sticks (all report the right speed though)

is this cosmetic only or will it cause problems?

i have noticed a couple of ram related apps report the 4gb instead of the 8gb, (i've been playing with using ramdisks as photoshop caches )

but my hackintosh does seem to use all the memory when running stuff.

[Lolrus]

hi
very elegant kext , i'm having just one problem...

i'm using a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R with four 2gb ddr2 memory sticks, i get 8gig shown in "about this mac", but in system profiler they all show as 1gb sticks (all report the right speed though)

is this cosmetic only or will it cause problems?

i have noticed a couple of ram related apps report the 4gb instead of the 8gb, (i've been playing with using ramdisks as photoshop caches )

but my hackintosh does seem to use all the memory when running stuff.

Just confirming I have exactly the same setup and get the same issue (4gb vs 8gb)

[GingerPrince]

Hi guys,

I'm trying this and getting nowhere at all. I've installed the 10.5.5 vanilla SMBios and this alongside it. I can see that they're both getting loaded but when I bring up the hardware browser, it just says 'There was an error gathering this information'.


any ideas?

cheers,
Matt

[bigcletus]

if all I want to do is have my cpu speed listed properly, where do I add this info? In the .cpp file? Thanks.

[Tommy]

My processor still reporting as Unknown, is there anyway we can change it?

Thanks,

Tommy