a DIY Apple intel DTK Developer transition kit

[LightBulbFun]

You probably know about this already: 10.4.4 to 10.4.6 also default to reading out the brand string if they don’t recognise the CPU.

indeed, it was a common patch to use their loginwindow I think it was, to get 10.4.7+ to behave the same way also

you will see it if you play with a period tiger hackintosh distro as one of the patches in the install options

as otherwise you would either get "Unknown" for the CPU type, or worst still the window server would crash if you went to about this mac

 

[Amethyst1]

as otherwise you would either get "Unknown" for the CPU type, or worst still the window server would crash if you went to about this mac

Ah yep. 10.4.7 Server's System Profiler has the "Dual Core Intel Placeholder" bit:

 

[LightBulbFun]

but going back around to the DTK this is what I mean by there is a Formatted "Pentium 4" string just not sure what I need to do to trigger it on an actual Pentium 4 LOL

well well well!! I most recently got ahold of a HP Pavilion ZD8000, massive chunky thing of a laptop, proper desktop replcement sort, down to having a desktop i915P chipset and LGA775 Pentium 4 CPU, so of course I shoehorned tiger onto it, and I was most surprised to see that in About this Mac, "Pentium 4" was properly formatted!

and what desktop LGA775 Pentium 4 CPU is this exactly ? well not the exact Pentium 4 661 used in the DTK, but it is a Prescott-2M which is the same family of CPU used in the DTK, and low and behold it seems that, that is what is needed to trigger the formatted string in about this mac, I guess there is some sort of "if CPUID is exactly this then show formatted Pentium 4 string, if not, then just pull string directly from CPU"

and here I was thinking it must of been some sort of specfic SMBIOS setting/thing in the DTK's own BIOS, although that being said, I have not tried a Presscot 2M CPU in my own DIY "DTK" or seen someone try a non-2M CPU in a real DTK, so it would be good to see that done before I declare exactly what it is thats needed to trigger the formatted string, but its certainly is looking like it might be a Presscott-2M CPU thats required, unless this HP Laptop also so happens to have the just right SMBIOS info to trigger the "Pentium 4" in about this mac