dual Xeon E5530 : 16 cores whith snow leopard.

[DuBmastah]

greetings all hackintosh addicts.

 

i'm a bit new to this, is there any solution for snow leopard to recognize properly my dual Xeon E5530 procs ? for the moment i only got this in "about this mac" : 2x 2.46Ghz processor unknown.

 

i don't really need a cosmetic fix, i'd really love to make it fully recognize them so i could finish whith my hack pro station ;-)

 

16 cores would be greater than just 2 i guess ....

 

any detailled explanation would be greatly appreciated !

 

many ths in advance.

 

DuBmastah

 

procs : 2x Intel Xeon E5530, 2533 MHz (19 x 133) 

mobo : Supermicro X8DA3 (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x4, 2 PCI-E x16, 12 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN) Chipset : Intel Tylersburg 5520, Intel Nehalem 

memory : 8182 Mo (DDR3 SDRAM) 

BIOS type : AMI (08/08/09)

[justroach]

Hrmm, the E5530 is only a quad-core proc. You say you have two of them? The About This Mac dialog will only show the number of procs not the number of cores.

 

Try clicking on the More Info... button at the bottom of the About This Mac dialog. That should show you all 8 cores in the Total Number Of Cores: field of the Hardware tab.

[geiman]

you could always pull up Activity Monitor and see if it's graph of your cpu usage shows 8 individual graphs. (in order to see all eight, you may need to view the graph separate from the activity monitor window which you can do by double clicking on the graphs.)

[DuBmastah]

Hrmm, the E5530 is only a quad-core proc. You say you have two of them? The About This Mac dialog will only show the number of procs not the number of cores.

 

Try clicking on the More Info... button at the bottom of the About This Mac dialog. That should show you all 8 cores in the Total Number Of Cores: field of the Hardware tab.

yep, the xeon E5530 is a quadcore with 2 units / core.

so the two of them shows up as 16 processors both in win and mac activity monitoring.

 

 

the value in the "total number of cores" is "8" so i guess its correct.

but the type and ID fileds says i own a mac mini ! ;-D

well, this should be better something like "mac pro" or did i loose something ?

 

 

 

 

you could always pull up Activity Monitor and see if it's graph of your cpu usage shows 8 individual graphs. (in order to see all eight, you may need to view the graph separate from the activity monitor window which you can do by double clicking on the graphs.)

 

 

 

 

thx geiman : this works.

i can see the 16 graphs all together.

 

 

how could i help the system to understand those are xeons right there, not "unknown" dual cores ?

[MacUser2525]

yep, the xeon E5530 is a quadcore with 2 units / core.

so the two of them shows up as 16 processors both in win and mac activity monitoring.

 

 

the value in the "total number of cores" is "8" so i guess its correct.

 

Then they are working correctly.

 

but the type and ID fileds says i own a mac mini ! ;-D

well, this should be better something like "mac pro" or did i loose something ?

 

You need to fix whatever you have injecting your SMBIOS settings with the new Chameleon RC3 boot loader for instance in your /Extra directory you can have a smbios.plist file that will do that for you, the example file in the download for it is already setup for a MacPro3,1. You would need to edit this file for the processor, bus, and memory speed plus ram type before using.

 

 

how could i help the system to understand those are xeons right there, not "unknown" dual cores ?

 

That is a cosmetic issue to fix that you can edit as root the /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.strings file as I show with the settings I use in mine. This is from Leopard so hopefully they have not changed the location of it look for the lines with "3.15GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0" these are the ones needing to be changed.

 

   MacUser2525s-Mac-Pro:~ MacUser2525$ cat /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.strings 
  ??/**** About Box Strings and Formatting *****/

  /*The tooltip text for More Info button in About box */
  "MORE_INFO_TOOL_TIP" = "This button opens %@ for more info about the System.";

  /* The tooltip text explaining why the More Info button is disabled in About box */
  "MORE_INFO_DISABLED_TOOL_TIP" = "This button is disabled because there is no System Profiler application.";

  /*The tooltip text for Software Update button in About box */
  "SOFTWARE_UPDATE_TOOL_TIP" = "This button opens %@ to check for updated software.";

  /* The tooltip text explaining why the Software Update button is disabled in About box */
  "SOFTWARE_UPDATE_DISABLED_TOOL_TIP" = "This button is disabled because there is no Software Update application.";	//	CLM

  /* The format string used to generate the Build text field in the About This Mac window. */
  /* The "%@" sequence is replaced by the build number. */
  "ABOUT_BOX_BUILD_FORMAT_STRING" = "Build %@";

  /* The format string used to generate the Version text field in the About This Mac window. */
  /* The "%@" sequence is replaced by the version number. */
  "ABOUT_BOX_VERSION_FORMAT_STRING" = "Version %@";

  /* The format string used to generate the Serial Number text field in the About This Mac window. */
  /* The "%@" sequence is replaced by the serial number. */
  "ABOUT_BOX_SERIAL_NUMBER_FORMAT_STRING" = "Serial Number %@";

  /* The string used as a label for the processor information. */
  "ABOUT_BOX_PROCESSOR_LABEL" = "Processor";	// CLM

  /* The string used as a label for the memory information. */
  "ABOUT_BOX_MEMORY_LABEL" = "Memory";	//	CLM

  /* The format string used to generate the Processor text field in the About This Mac window */
  /* when there is exactly one processor in the machine.  The localized string */
  /* must include the 2-character sequence "%@" which will be replaced in the */
  /* final UI with a description of the processor (e.g. "600 MHz PowerPC G3") */
  //"ABOUT_BOX_SINGLE_PROCESSOR_FIELD_FORMAT" = "Processor: %@";
  "ABOUT_BOX_SINGLE_PROCESSOR_FIELD_FORMAT" = "3.15GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0";
  "ABOUT_BOX_SINGLE_PROCESSOR_L3CACHE_FORMAT" = "%@ L3 cache";

  /* The format string used to generate the Processor text field in the About This Mac window */
  /* when there are two or more processors in the machine.  The localized string */
  /* must include the 2-character sequence "%@" which will be replaced in the */
  /* final UI with a description of the processors (e.g. "Dual 800 MHz PowerPC G4") */
  //"ABOUT_BOX_MULTIPLE_PROCESSORS_FIELD_FORMAT" = "Processors: %@";
  "ABOUT_BOX_MULTIPLE_PROCESSORS_FIELD_FORMAT" = "3.15GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0";
  "ABOUT_BOX_MULTIPLE_PROCESSORS_L3CACHE_FORMAT" = "%@ L3 cache per processor";

  /* The format string used to generate the Memory text field in the About This Mac window. */
  /* The localized string must include the 2-character sequence "%@" which will be replaced */
  /* in the final UI with a description of the memory (e.g. "256 MB") */
  //"ABOUT_BOX_MEMORY_FIELD_FORMAT" = "Memory: %@";
  "ABOUT_BOX_MEMORY_FIELD_FORMAT" = "%@%@";

  /* The string used to describe the type of memory for CPUs with built-in memory. */
  "ABOUT_BOX_BUILT-IN_MEMORY" = "Built-in";	//	CLM

[justroach]

yep, the xeon E5530 is a quadcore with 2 units / core.

 

Just curious now . I thought the EX procs with 8 cores were coming out later this year... Are you referring to HyperThreading? I guess I have been out of the hardware business too long .

[DuBmastah]

  You need to fix whatever you have injecting your SMBIOS settings with the new Chameleon RC3 boot loader for instance in your /Extra directory you can have a smbios.plist file that will do that for you, the example file in the download for it is already setup for a MacPro3,1. You would need to edit this file for the processor, bus, and memory speed plus ram type before using.

many thx MacUser2525 ,

 

 

you pointed me in the right direction. finally, i used cpuinjector kext that already done the job for the cpu (or i guess so) and edited a smbios.plist from the chameleon extras for the rest (ram, bus speed).

it looks like i'm done now whith this hack book pro ! :-)

 

 

dunno what i could do better, except maybe triying to fix the raid hardware not recognized yet (LSI Embedded MegaRAID), but i need it under windows, not so much whith the mac so far.

 

yeee-haaaa !! ;-D

 

 

 

Just curious now . I thought the EX procs with 8 cores were coming out later this year... Are you referring to HyperThreading? I guess I have been out of the hardware business too long .

 

 

 

 

well.

 

 

i can't say.

everywhere i go i see that those procs are supposed to be quadcores.

but under windows and osx you can see 16 cpus in monitoring.

and the guy who sold me that also talked about a total of 16 cores for the two procs.

so i don't really have an opinion on this point (this time i trusted a friend instead of building the unit by myself). sorry i can't fill better information.

[MacUser2525]

many thx MacUser2525 ,

 

Your welcome.

 

 

well.

 

 

i can't say.

everywhere i go i see that those procs are supposed to be quadcores.

but under windows and osx you can see 16 cpus in monitoring.

and the guy who sold me that also talked about a total of 16 cores for the two procs.

so i don't really have an opinion on this point (this time i trusted a friend instead of building the unit by myself). sorry i can't fill better information.

 

I can you have HT enabled on the CPU's, 2 threads per physical core x8 cores =16.