[SOLVED] Core 2 Duo detected as Core 2 Solo

[bluntknife]

Hi,

 

Thought I'd share this as I've not seen it in the forums anywhere else.

 

I installed Snow Leopard from original DVD onto my Shuttle XPC Prima, only needed to install the IONetworkingFamily.kext to enable the onboard Marvell gigabit NIC as well as NVEnabler 64.kext for my NVidia gfx card. Other than that no hacks at all.

 

Anyway I'd noticed that my Core 2 Duo CPU was detected as a Core 2 Solo, and I wasn't going to settle for that but I also didn't want to start hacking my clean build. Started changing CPU BIOS settings one-by-one until finally I found that setting 'Limit CPUID MaxVal' to disabled worked and my CPU is now detected by SL as Core 2 Duo.

 

Hope this helps some peeps.

 

TTFN