Mazzimo Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Hello guys, First of all thanks for everybody written something to any other topic here. With your help I managed to install Leo 10.1 quite fine on Sony Vaio SZ1-HP. I installed it with Kalyway -vanilla and Guid. Network work and sound as well. Only problem is that About this mac shows: Model Name: Mac Model Identifier: Mac Pro Processor Name: Intel Core Duo Processor Speed: 1.67 GHz Number Of Processors: 0 Total Number Of Cores: 1 L2 Cache: 2 MB Memory: 512 MB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot ROM Version: Hack.int.0sh My vaio scores about 1500 points on Geekbench so I think this isnt working properly with both cores. I have read that even if it views 0 processors and 1 cores it should work but this is not as fast at it should be. I could not find any solve to this from forum so i decided to ask if any one of you could help. Btw same problem was with 10.4.8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Did you try non vanilla kernel?, try cpus=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzimo Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 Thank you. I just tried install without any extra commands, install was fine again but no 2 cores. At the moment i am trying with cpus=2, I will post results as soon as install ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzimo Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 Installing with option cpus=2 didnt help. Am I doing something wrong here.. All the installations have done shows exactly same "About This Mac". No difference with vanilla or not, cpus=2 or not. How do i know for sure if i have even installed leopard with vanilla? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da11y Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Hello guys, First of all thanks for everybody written something to any other topic here. With your help I managed to install Leo 10.1 quite fine on Sony Vaio SZ1-HP. I installed it with Kalyway -vanilla and Guid. Network work and sound as well. Only problem is that About this mac shows: Model Name: Mac Model Identifier: Mac Pro Processor Name: Intel Core Duo Processor Speed: 1.67 GHz Number Of Processors: 0 Total Number Of Cores: 1 L2 Cache: 2 MB Memory: 512 MB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot ROM Version: Hack.int.0sh My vaio scores about 1500 points on Geekbench so I think this isnt working properly with both cores. I have read that even if it views 0 processors and 1 cores it should work but this is not as fast at it should be. I could not find any solve to this from forum so i decided to ask if any one of you could help. Btw same problem was with 10.4.8. I had exactly the same problem as you a few months back. I also have a Vaio SZ series. Basically go into activity monitor and make sure your on the cpu tab. You should see 2 small graphs indicating two cores. If only one is shown then only one of your cores are working. To fix this problem I had to install Windows Vista and even in there only one core was detected. Then I did a BIOS update from the Sony website and that fixed my problem. Its a long method but it was the only way I found successful on my Vaio SZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzimo Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 hi, Thanks Da11y! I installed XP yesterday and there was only one core graph. Then I tried to update bios with "BIOS Update R0083N0" but i get error "cannot read system information". I really would like to update my bios but it seems to be bit more harder than I thought. Why they cant make bios update like good old days with booting dvd? Err.. Do you know if I have to run Vista to update my bios? I downloaded update under Windows XP section but it wont work. I have also removed my system restore hidden partition so i cant try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzimo Posted February 21, 2008 Author Share Posted February 21, 2008 hi, Thanks Da11y! I installed XP yesterday and there was only one core graph. Then I tried to update bios with "BIOS Update R0083N0" but i get error "cannot read system information". I really would like to update my bios but it seems to be bit more harder than I thought. Why they cant make bios update like good old days with booting dvd? Err.. Do you know if I have to run Vista to update my bios? I downloaded update under Windows XP section but it wont work. I have also removed my system restore hidden partition so i cant try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da11y Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Your getting that error because you need to install all the utilities for your Vaio. Install these utilities : Sony Video Shared Library 3.0.00.06290 VAIO Edit Components 6.2.00.13300 VAIO Event Service 2.3.00.08110 Original Utilities Package VAIO Help and Support Center Update 2.3.1.00 That should about do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazzimo Posted February 25, 2008 Author Share Posted February 25, 2008 Thanks mate! Now my Vaio is working properly after BIOS update. I cant tell you how much i appreciate you effort! If you ever come to finland i will buy you a beer. Thank one more time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da11y Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Thanks mate! Now my Vaio is working properly after BIOS update. I cant tell you how much i appreciate you effort! If you ever come to finland i will buy you a beer. Thank one more time! LoLz no problems mate. Happy to help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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