mac09hack Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I have been using an older Gigabyte hosted hackintosh since Leopard OS and it is currently running 10.6.8. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 (rev. 1.0) with Intel i7 1366 quad core CPU and 12 GB RAM My problem is that I can not get the App store to allow me to download Mavericks It just tells me that I cannot run mavericks on this hardware (or something like that) What is it that I need to make this download happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Make sure your smbios.plist lists you as a MacPro3,1 or newer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac09hack Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 Thanks for the response. I have checked and attached the simbios.plist text to this post. I wonder if maybe the serial number is causing a problem or how the app store checks to see if this computer can run Mavericks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 try changing the model to 4,1 instead of 3,1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PippoX0 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Use chameleon Wizard to change model and serial See Ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocusOfControl Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I had this problem - been OK since Leopard but only started when downloading Mavericks The problem was that the SMbiosversion and SMBoardProduct had to match - this worked on an ex58-ud5 - then reboot <key>SMbiosversion</key> <string>MP41.88Z.0081.B08.1001221313</string> <key>SMmanufacter</key> <string>Apple Inc.</string> <key>SMfamily</key> <string>MacPro</string> <key>SMproductname</key> <string>MacPro4,1</string> <key>SMboardproduct</key> <string>Mac-F221BEC8</string> 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac09hack Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 I copied your .plist contents to my system and rebooted but no joy! There must still be something that Apple App store sees wrong on my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirnoff65 Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 I had this problem - been OK since Leopard but only started when downloading Mavericks The problem was that the SMbiosversion and SMBoardProduct had to match - this worked on an ex58-ud5 - then reboot <key>SMbiosversion</key> <string>MP41.88Z.0081.B08.1001221313</string> <key>SMmanufacter</key> <string>Apple Inc.</string> <key>SMfamily</key> <string>MacPro</string> <key>SMproductname</key> <string>MacPro4,1</string> <key>SMboardproduct</key> <string>Mac-F221BEC8</string> Thanks for the smbios worked for me on a Siemens Fujitsu V6535 after reboot i downloaded Mavericks without any problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanner Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 I have been using an older Gigabyte hosted hackintosh since Leopard OS and it is currently running 10.6.8. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 (rev. 1.0) with Intel i7 1366 quad core CPU and 12 GB RAM My problem is that I can not get the App store to allow me to download Mavericks It just tells me that I cannot run mavericks on this hardware (or something like that) What is it that I need to make this download happen? Considering that OS X Mavericks is free from the Mac App Store, it may also be obtained by a P2P torrent. If you can now download it by fixing your smbios.plist, that works as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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