fernvick Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Every time I open system profiler i get this: There was an error while gathering this information. Any advise on how to fix this?? Thanks!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
x986123 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 I have the same thing. don't worry about it, if you Mac works, be happy! I have iPC too and it doesn't show it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1175654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernvick Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 I have the same thing. don't worry about it, if you Mac works, be happy! I have iPC too and it doesn't show it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1175690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
x986123 Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 I found a fix! It also speeds up your boot. Disable Legacy USB support. It now shows all the info correctly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1176853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernvick Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 How do you that?? Also will it mess up my usb drives??? Thanks a million!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1177005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
x986123 Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 How do you that?? Also will it mess up my usb drives??? Thanks a million!! Its in the bios. it will not mess up USB drives, but It will not let you press any keys while booting besides Bios screen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1177205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliasa_anderson Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Its in the bios. it will not mess up USB drives, but It will not let you press any keys while booting besides Bios screen. A better solution is to use Chameleon 2 rc with smbios patching.It's great... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1177538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmaze Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 A better solution is to use Chameleon 2 rc with smbios patching.It's great... I installed Chameleon 2 rc, but I still get the error. Is there something else I need to do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1206862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Fill out extra/smbios.plist with the correct information. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1206899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Hi all, There is no smbios.plist in my extra folder. How do I create one? I'm on 10.5.8 with Chameleon 2 RC4 Thanks! -Mike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1486382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Read: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=209712 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1486389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Read: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=209712 Thanks for you advise Beerkex'd. I read your guide and added the smbios.plist to my extra folder and restarted. I still get the error in system profiler. About this Mac is fine (was before too). Are the 2 related? or am I fixing the wrong thing? Thanks again for all your help, I have learned so much from you on this forum. if it wasn't for you, I'd still be fighting with 10.5.6 too :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1486436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Yes, they're related. But of course it could be something else that's causing the crash. Is this on the PC in your sig? It's very important that you have no SMBIOS injector kext in S/L/E (I listed most (all?) of them in my guide) and that AppleSMBIOS.kext is unmodified. And make sure you're not spoofing a Mac model that has too different hardware from your PC. Though it's not really possible to get a good match for a P4 with Intel 845 chipset. My P4 with i865 works well with MacPro1,1 info in smbios.plist though. Maybe that'll work for you too. Visit my guide again, I have attached some goodies for you: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1400949 I think there's another "generic" fix for the System Profiler crashing...but I'll be damned if I can remember what it is right now. I'll edit this post if/when I find out. Run Console.app and look around in the logs for anything mentioning System Profiler, maybe there's a clue or two about what causes the crash. Thanks for the compliments! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1486445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Yes, they're related. But of course it could be something else that's causing the crash. Is this on the PC in your sig? It's very important that you have no SMBIOS injector kext in S/L/E (I listed most (all?) of them in my guide) and that AppleSMBIOS.kext is unmodified. And make sure you're not spoofing a Mac model that has too different hardware from your PC. Though it's not really possible to get a good match for a P4 with Intel 845 chipset. My P4 with i865 works well with MacPro1,1 info in smbios.plist though. Maybe that'll work for you too. Visit my guide again, I have attached some goodies for you: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1400949 I think there's another "generic" fix for the System Profiler crashing...but I'll be damned if I can remember what it is right now. I'll edit this post if/when I find out. Run Console.app and look around in the logs for anything mentioning System Profiler, maybe there's a clue or two about what causes the crash. Thanks for the compliments! Yes, It's the PC in my sig. When I use the unmodified APPLESMBIOS I get the "about this mac" finder crash. Is there any way around this or should I just leave it with the Hacked SMBIOS and system profiler error? The funny thing is.....It works on my iPC 10.5.6 drive. It shows it as a Mac Pro with a Core Solo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1490129 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Hmmm that's not supposed to happen Console reveals nothing? Have you seen this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&p=603588 Have you previously used OSX86Tools to modify the 'about this mac' box? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1491218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Hmmm that's not supposed to happen Console reveals nothing? Have you seen this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php.../blockquote> Have you previously used OSX86Tools to modify the 'about this mac' box? I don't see anything relevant in console...... I did not use OSX86 tools to modify "about this mac" I don't think it can be a bios setting because system profiler works correctly under 10.5.6 what do you think? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1493859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 I think you should just use iPC 10.5.6 and update that to 10.5.8! If you really want to get to the bottom of it, start comparing files between the two installations. 'Core Solo' is normal, that's a bit of the Voodoo Kernel voodoo. No Macs have Pentium 4 CPUs so the Voodoo kernel 'fakes' a CPU type that is actually used in Macs. This fixes a compatibility issue with apps that probe for a certain CPU type. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1493863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 I've tried to update the iPC 10.5.6 probably a dozen times. No matter what I do it becomes unbootable. The only thing that worked for me to run 10.5.8 was to do an iDeneb install with some custom kext injection. I've also tried to compare files but there are a lot and I'm not sure exactly which files are relevant to this issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1495824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 most often i've fixed system profiler errors with trying different AppleSMBIOS kexts, either patched or injectors Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1496891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 most often i've fixed system profiler errors with trying different AppleSMBIOS kexts, either patched or injectors do you happen to remember which AppleSMBIOS kext solution you used for your Dimension 8300? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/170389-system-profiler-error/#findComment-1497484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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