smbios.plist Assiatance!

Have upgraded my 1.1 Mac Pro with a matched pair of Intel X5355 Quad Core 2.66GHz processors. All went well and works very well. Only little hitch is Apple System Profiler reports Processors as 2.66GHx Unknown. Have read to change this one requires the smbios.plist to be edited and installed.

Have downloaded the Text Edit File. How does one firstly edit the file, and where is it installed for APS to read Processors 2.66Xeon Quad Core? Further Information reads correct showing 2 Processors, 8 cores with 8MB L2 cache.

Full instructions if possible please?

Hi Harry:

Don't know if this will help you or not..... Sometime ago one of our members needed to change an item in his system profiler. Someone came up with a web site that had instructions for doing so using Text Edit.

I just went to the site and verified that it's still up. The instructions are not all that hard to follow and since you know more about what should be reported in what category, give it a try.

Don't be surprised by the site name and header though. Hope it helps you out. Here is the LINK.

Thanks charlie.

No joy however as about this Mac still reports the machine as Processor 2.66GHz Unknown. However Hardware Overview still shows as 8 cores 8MB L2 cache per processor.