vandall Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 I am going to upgrade my machine from a Pentium D 935 3.2 to a Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz, 1333MHz FSB.... My Asus P5B-E will do this FSB with a BIOS update.... However.. I am worried I will balls up my lovely OSX86 setup... am I just being paranoid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjnnz Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 OS X is a lot different than Windows XP. I installed Tubgirl's OS X 10.4.9 AMD release on an Athlon X2 4400 system. I took the hard drive and put it in an Intel system, and it booted up without any problems. Try that on a Windows system (Windows will have a heart attack dealing with the new motherboard /drivers, etc. In all fairness, after about fifteen minutes, it will be fine)! A CPU swap should be of no concern. BIOS updates don't affect OS X either. I updated the BIOS for my Intel system, and the only thing that changed in OS X was the type of CPU in About this Mac screen. I don't believe you have anything to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 I am going to upgrade my machine from a Pentium D 935 3.2 to a Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz, 1333MHz FSB.... My Asus P5B-E will do this FSB with a BIOS update.... However.. I am worried I will balls up my lovely OSX86 setup... am I just being paranoid? Just give it a try, it won't break if it fails to boot, and you are safe to revert back your bios. Good luck anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megnus Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 OS X is a lot different than Windows XP. I installed Tubgirl's OS X 10.4.9 AMD release on an Athlon X2 4400 system. I took the hard drive and put it in an Intel system, and it booted up without any problems. Try that on a Windows system (Windows will have a heart attack dealing with the new motherboard /drivers, etc. In all fairness, after about fifteen minutes, it will be fine)! A CPU swap should be of no concern. BIOS updates don't affect OS X either. I updated the BIOS for my Intel system, and the only thing that changed in OS X was the type of CPU in About this Mac screen. I don't believe you have anything to worry about. changing those things does not affect windows xp either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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