quagmire Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 my system is working almost flawlessly, I've just got this weird thing happening where my system profiler reads my p4 3.0ghz chip as running at 3.6 (it also sees my system as an apple development platform.. is that normal?). I was wondering if anyone knew why this is? It would be pretty awesome if running osx just randomly caused me to gain 600mhz (but i know that's totally impossible). Is there a fix for this? my next question is in regards to my ram. I have a gig (2x512) of kingston pc3200 ddr400 ram that is working (obviously as I am posting this using my hackintosh ) but the system doesn't recognize the ram speed. Any ideas? could this potentially affect performance? here is a copy and paste from system profiler on my general system overview and the ram sections: Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Apple Development Platform Machine Model: ADP2,1 CPU Type: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed: 3.6 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM EST Memory: 1 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: 1005.003 (American Megatrends Inc.) -------------------------------------- DIMM0/BANK0: Size: 512 MB Type: SDRAM Speed: Unknown Status: OK ------ DIMM2/BANK2: Size: 512 MB Type: SDRAM Speed: Unknown Status: OK if you notice anything else interesting there let me know Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 To fix it go to /System/Library/Core Services/loginwindow When you get to loginwindow right click -> Show Package Contents From there go to Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.strings Open AboutThisMac.strings with Text Edit Go down to where it says: "ABOUT_BOX_SINGLE_PROCESSOR_FIELD_FORMAT" = "%@"; Change the %@ to what you processor really is. In your case 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 Save AboutThisMac.strings to your desktop Copy it to English.lproj Authenticate and copy the new file Now look at your About This Mac. It should say "Processor: 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4" I hope that helped Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-117388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quagmire Posted May 22, 2006 Author Share Posted May 22, 2006 hmmm... nope... I even tried changing the one above it "processor: ="%@" and it didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks for the help. Edit: Ok I fixed it... I searched throught the aboutthismac.strings file and found a section titled "ABOUT_BOX_double (or multi... something like that)_PROCESSOR_FIELD_FORMAT" = "%@" and changed that and it worked. Thanks!!! Thanks colonels1020 for your help! Any idea what causes the system to read the processor wrong like that? Also, any thoughts on the ram? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-117398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 Thanks colonels1020 for your help! Any idea what causes the system to read the processor wrong like that? Also, any thoughts on the ram? I think it might read the processor wrong because your processor is a lot like the ones in the original developer kits. The ones in the dev kits were 3.6 GHz and you have a 3.0 GHz. OSx86 probably just assumed you were using a dev kit and made the correction. I'm not sure about your RAM problem though. I have that same problem as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-117404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quagmire Posted May 22, 2006 Author Share Posted May 22, 2006 do you think it's adversely affecting the performance of our ram or no? I don't know if what the sytem profiler picks up affects how the sytem runs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-117412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 do you think it's adversely affecting the performance of our ram or no? I don't know if what the sytem profiler picks up affects how the sytem runs. I doubt that it would effect how well our systems run. It's probably just another hackintosh bug. The system profilers weren't designed to be used on various hardware. I guess you could just say they're a little confused. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-117415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westep23 Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 Just some insight. On my Via Chipset Board my Celeron was reported at 4 Ghz but, now I have a board with a 915 Chipset and my processor is reported correct. My ram also say's unknown. Has far as it effecting performance hard to say. But the bios probley handles all that anyway's. And I have 6ch audio but profiler say's none under audio. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-117416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 I doubt the unknown RAM speed is impacting your performance. My understanding of system profiler: it's just a program that does terminal commands to find out what hardware you have. So in other words, it just reads your hardware, not does anything with it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-117440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quagmire Posted May 22, 2006 Author Share Posted May 22, 2006 ....thought i'd have a little fun with my system specs... somethin to show the buds :-) hehe... it kinda goes with my username Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-117875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 I also have 3.6 showing instead of 3.0, i really dont care lol. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-117895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 In what line should be the correction for Pentium D procesors? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-118408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quagmire Posted May 23, 2006 Author Share Posted May 23, 2006 I believe it should be in the "multi" line... as there are two processing cores. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18033-p4-30ghz-reads-as-36-also-no-ram-speed-is-listed/#findComment-118462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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