Mac Pro 1.1 upgrade with Xeon E5345

I just installed two Xeon E5345's being very careful to follow all the instuctions I found on AnandTech. My computer boots up and recognizes all the cores but does not recognize that these chips are Xeons. Instead says they are 2x2.33 GHZ unknown chips. They also do not boot into 64 bit EFI as I was lead to believe they would do after holding the 6 and 4 keys. I am now using OS v10.6.8. Do I have bad chips?

You cannot boot your MP into the 64-bit kernel because it only has a 32-bit EFI ROM. Adding more cores doesn't change that. This is a hardware limitation of your model, and it cannot be changed. Perhaps the reason you thought it would may have been from reading about later MP models that did have the 64-bit EFI ROMs.
As for displaying the chips as unknown doesn't mean anything, really. As long as it works you should be fine.

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