2009 mac pro

I recently got an amazing deal on a 2009 MacPro flashed to 5,1 firmware from a professional music producer who upgraded to a more modern Mac and just wanted to sell his older one fast. The body of this MacPro is literally in near mint condition and even the inside of it only had a moderate to...

Good evening all, my first post here. I recently came into possession of a free 2009 Mac pro 4.1. If you’re interested, the specs are 8 core 2.26Ghz, 20gb of RAM (4x4 and 1x4 which I thought was strange!) and 4TB of hard disk space. I have gone through the steps associated with bringing it up...

Hi Guys, I have tried a newer Mac and hated it so I have gone back to my trustee but really old MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid 2009) I have installed Monterey version 12.6.3 (21G419) as a fresh install it has a 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256...

Hi there guys! I'm wondering how i can dump the Mac Pro's LogicBoard/CPU-Tray SMC's as well. Is there a way to dump the content of both SMC chips, using smcflasher.efi from opencore shell or anything that can be able to do that? I mean from the 3 Mac Pro's 2009/2010/2012? The reason why i want...

Hi Folks. I'm wondering if that's possible to have the Dark mode on my cMP2009. Yesterday I've upgraded the firmware to th 5.1 and then I've installed High Sierra without using any patcher tool (btw thanks @dosdude1). At the moment if I go to the System Settings-> Monitor there is no Night Shift...

I’m wondering if anybody can provide some insight into getting Catalina working on my early-2009 Mac Pro. My machine has two internal SSD drives. One has Mojave installed, and that works fine. I flashed the firmware to 5,1 some time ago. I have a metal compatible Radeon RX 580 video card. I...

Hello everyone, Yesterday I installed an ADATA SX8200 M.2 drive via a PCIe adapter in my 2009 Mac Pro (flashed to 5,1) and have found the read/write speeds to be less than stellar. For a drive that is supposed to get speeds of 3200 MB/s read and 1700MB/s write, I am getting lackluster speeds...

I've been having some strange issues with my Mac Pro over the last couple of days. It seems that after it wakes from sleep, it restarts. But this is not a soft restart and it is not due to issues such as this. The symptoms are as follows: Wake from sleep. Monitors turn on, everything seems...

About 9 months ago I flashed my 2009 8-Core 2.66 GHz Mac Pro to 5,1 firmware and upgraded the processors to x5680s which I bought on eBay and de-lidded. I've been running Sierra 10.12.6. Things were fine until a few weeks ago, when the following symptoms started happening erratically: 1...

Being cautious and not really trusting High Sierra yet, I installed High Sierra (HS) on a new 1TB drive. When It finished I had one of two monitors working. As far as I can determine, HS does not see the installed MSI GeForce GT 730 graphics card. It attempts to put both of my monitors on a...

So i have an 8core 08 mac pro 10gb ram gtx670 2 1 tb HDD. I am starting to see some 09 mac pros at very interesting prices. should I upgrade mine to 32gb ram with a possible dual rx480 setup, or shoot for an 09 8core with the same gpu setup? IFF i do so, will i be able to toss my windows HDD in...