vanguart Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Hello, this is my first post here. I have Dell 670 Dual Xeon 3.40ghz 4gb Ram 400mhz ECC (going to 16gb) Zotan 8600gs DVI & VGA CD / DVD IDE Sata HD. I am using Pro Tools HD3 Accel PCIX, running SL 10.6.8 like a charm , but i need to upgrade it to ML. or 10.9. Please help me with it. thx a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 28, 2014 Administrators Share Posted February 28, 2014 I'm afraid you need SL8MA dual-core Paxville Xeon DP CPUs (and therefore XC837 motherboard) for anything above Snow Leopard. 64bit single core Irwindale will simply not do... All my attempts to boot one of those AMD kernels failed until I swapped my initial Irwindale Xeon processors (3.8GHz, 2Mo L2) with dual-core 2.8GHz Paxville models. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanguart Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 Ok, so i will try to buy the Paxville 2.80ghz is this the right one ? -> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=231171807894&ssPageName=ADME:X:AAQ:US:1123 how can i know if my MB is XC837 ? any app to view ? last question, to change it, i just need to buy the processors , nothing more ? thx for the great support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanguart Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 BIOS AO6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanguart Posted March 8, 2014 Author Share Posted March 8, 2014 Bios updated to A07 my motherboard is XC837 i will buy the Paxville processors. please help me with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted March 10, 2014 Administrators Share Posted March 10, 2014 Just use the regular myHack USB installation process with the bootpack + AMD kernel I posted in the main Precision 670 guide:https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/2061-dell-precision-470-670-workstation/&do=findComment&comment=35008 That workstation will not boot any vanilla kernel so you have to manually call on the AMD kernels or rename them "mach_kernel". It's better to rename the AMD kernel file as 'mach_kernel' in order to successfully rebuild cache in a totally standard and transparent way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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