cdummy Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Does anybody knows fix for crashing "about this mac" in Leopard? I tried loginwindow.app from 10.4.11 but system can't boot after that. Does fix for that exists? I can't find it anywhere. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhammerhed Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Hi cdummy, I am having the same problem with about this mac causing the finder to restart. My system profiler works though... Did you ever find a solution to this problem? If so could you share? I have tried to repair permissions both booted from the drive and from the install cd but to no avail. My setup is very similar to yours, same motherboard, celeron D, WD 80GB ide drive, onboard audio, video and sound... Thanks for the help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-563154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdummy Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 I'm still looking. Everything else is working. System profiler too. So I'm not worrying to much. But I'm still looking and asking. Hi cdummy, I am having the same problem with about this mac causing the finder to restart. My system profiler works though... Did you ever find a solution to this problem? If so could you share? I have tried to repair permissions both booted from the drive and from the install cd but to no avail. My setup is very similar to yours, same motherboard, celeron D, WD 80GB ide drive, onboard audio, video and sound... Thanks for the help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-565276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeamp Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Same here. Just installed 10.5.1 (Kalyway) and went to About This Mac to hit up System Profile for my QE/CI results and boom - it crashed. You can get to Profile in Spotlight but About This mac is surely toast and the old fixes that I used on 10.4.8 and again on 10.4.11 don't work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-565864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhammerhed Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 I will keep searching as well... and I'll let you know if I find anything. Did you get sleep working? Mine doesn't. I can only wake the system by hitting the power button, then after about 5 seconds the whole thing goes back to sleep and I have to do a hard reboot to get it back... frustrating... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-566252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
graphic Design Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Maybe the AppleSMBIOS.kext from Netkas will help U? Find it in my signature! ^^ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-566257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhammerhed Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 IT WORKED! I used the applesmbios.kext you suggested and I now have a functional "about this mac"! Thank you very much for the help http://forum.insanelymac.com/style_emotico...ult/biggrin.gif Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-566894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeamp Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Thanks, 'graphic Design'! Works great on Leopard 10.5.1 (Kalyway). http://www.greyhat.org/photos/Hackintosh/Leopard+OS+X.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-567014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ongeloof Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Were do you put the kext? Think Mark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-567197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhammerhed Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I used the kexthelper b7 app to install Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-567720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
graphic Design Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 No problem, guys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-567878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killamangiro Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 How do i install the kext? Im using ToH RC2 Cheers Killamangiro Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-599656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtomek Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 About this mac was always crashing on me. I updated my bios (which included a microcode update) and now all is well. Maybe that fixed it? edit: Somewhere on the forum it stated you have to disable max cpuID limit in the bios, that happened in my default settings and that may have helped too... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-608389 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 another workaround- at least for me- was to use efi v8+grub. very easy to install (if you have grub anyway), and no more crashing.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-608485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
solefald Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 this did not work for me. i've tried 5 different AppleSMBIOS.kext's, including one from my other fully functional Kalyway 10.5.1 install... Weird.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-610732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoomex Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Hi everybody !!! I have the same problem on Amd with Leopard 10.5.1 installed working great expect "About This Mac" gives me a blue screen and exits back to the main leopard window And not showing the hardware info !!! Is there anybody with a solution i tried applesmbios.kext from another friend with amd working version and it still not working Please help !!! thanks all the best :-( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-616280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanLuc7 Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 edit: Somewhere on the forum it stated you have to disable Max CPU ID limit in the bios, that happened in my default settings and that may have helped too... Hi, This "Max CPU ID limit" is responsible for telling the system some CPU features. In addition, I got familiar with the "Report CPU Features for Legacy OS" BIOS feature. With having it enabled, I had a "Intel Core Solo" in the "About this Mac" window and a crash everytime I started the System Profiler. After disabling it everything worked fine and I got my "Intel Core Duo" back. Albeit the Activity monitor showed two processor windows and the speed was normal in this "Core Solo" mode. Best, JL Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77620-1051-about-this-mac-crashing/#findComment-616323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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