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- Feb 2, 2013
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- HP Pavilion 14-ce0501na
- CPU
- i5-8250U
- Graphics
- UHD 620
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Hi guys!
I installed Ventura on a Z270-P board, paired with 6700K CPU, and a RX 5700XT card.
Got a genuine Apple airport card on a PCI-E adapter, and am genuinely very happy with the build, considering it to become my daily driver.
I have an issue, though with the SMBIOS. I was going to use iMac17,1, however, Apple have decided it is not worthy of Ventura - and so the installer would not run. iMac18,3 might be well suited I suppose, but iMacPro1,1 has the same gen (Skylake) CPU - rather than Kaby Lake so I went with that.
The system is responsive and the hardware works, but I have not been able to generate a working serial number yet using GenSMBIOS.
I have tried upwards of 100 serials and I either get an existing machine on apple's page, or an "Invalid serial" prompt. I used to get a prompt of the likeness of "We cannot verify ..... " with previous builds - which would indicate the serial number is valid. Has that changed?
I'd like to make a golden build out of this with 100% working hardware and software. Should I just keep trying, or do you think I should use another SMBIOS? ... or another tool to generate it?
I installed Ventura on a Z270-P board, paired with 6700K CPU, and a RX 5700XT card.
Got a genuine Apple airport card on a PCI-E adapter, and am genuinely very happy with the build, considering it to become my daily driver.
I have an issue, though with the SMBIOS. I was going to use iMac17,1, however, Apple have decided it is not worthy of Ventura - and so the installer would not run. iMac18,3 might be well suited I suppose, but iMacPro1,1 has the same gen (Skylake) CPU - rather than Kaby Lake so I went with that.
The system is responsive and the hardware works, but I have not been able to generate a working serial number yet using GenSMBIOS.
I have tried upwards of 100 serials and I either get an existing machine on apple's page, or an "Invalid serial" prompt. I used to get a prompt of the likeness of "We cannot verify ..... " with previous builds - which would indicate the serial number is valid. Has that changed?
I'd like to make a golden build out of this with 100% working hardware and software. Should I just keep trying, or do you think I should use another SMBIOS? ... or another tool to generate it?
