billuta Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Hello I have a celeron 2.8 on a mother intel915Gux with mac osx 10.4.8 working perfect. it is really stable and i even think of wipe xp out. But now i have the posibility to upgrade the micro. I get a Pentium 4 3.4ghz mod. 650. Now, my question is if the osx will detect the new micro and continue working, or if i gonna need to reinstall everything again?? thanks PD: sorry my english.. its really bad.. btw, im from Argentina Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45050-updating-the-micro/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 By Micro, you mean a microprocessor I assume or a CPU. It depends if your celeron has sse3. If it only has sse2 it would be well worth for speed and stability to reinstall when you get the p4 and check the sse3 option. If the celeron has sse3 (which I dont think it has) then you will be fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45050-updating-the-micro/#findComment-322036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guilliamo Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 billuta: Your English is fine and MUCH better than my Spanish. What you want to do will work fine, and will not require any modifications to your OSX86 installation. Two cautions: 1) Need to make sure that your BIOS will support the faster/newer processor (see attached). 2) Need to make sure that your heat sink & fan support the new processor. G Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45050-updating-the-micro/#findComment-322039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
billuta Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 Thanks both of you for the reply! I made it, install de new cpu. xp works, but osx not start loading and after the grey apple logo, the computer reset. How can i see were the problem is? there is some way to rescue at least the gma900 kext and the sound ones? because y have to trick them when i install for the first time, and i really not remember all what i did that time. It is weird, because the celeron have almost the same specs on multimedia instructions sse2 and sse3 that the pentium 4... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45050-updating-the-micro/#findComment-322694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guilliamo Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Not what I expected...I've upgraded several Intel motherboards running OSX86 from Celerons to P4s, and not had a problem. Weird, as you said! Can you boot OSX86 into safe mode ? (If so could be some extension conflict ??) What do you get boot OSX86 into verbose mode ? I've been using a cheap/small/old hard drive to contain a known good (but older) OSX86 install that I can boot into when I have a problem with my main OSX86 drive. You might try a clean install on such a drive...probably need at least 6GB...before doing any heavy-duty changes to the install you are trying to sort out. G Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45050-updating-the-micro/#findComment-324914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordlex Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Hi, I had a celeron 336 and changed to p4 3,4 one month ago... For me all was working perfect, OSX boots like normal... about 13 sec. You can try -v @ boot to see a verbose output of messages... To boot safe mode boot with -s and add -x to not boot the GUI. ^^ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45050-updating-the-micro/#findComment-324951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
billuta Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 Was not osx problem. the bugger was my evil 915gux mother, apparently is broken, after 2 day the computer went dead, no even start. I gonna buy a INTEL D945 GTPL now.. saddly this become more expensive than i expected. Now i hope the new micro is not also broken. My luck is incredibly bad.. this week i broke my car twice, kill mi pseudo-mac and get a low score on a final test on the university (even when i study) must be bad karma for not get a real mac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45050-updating-the-micro/#findComment-325369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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