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  1. M

    MP 1,1-5,1 My 2008 3,1 mac pro only boots with a DVD

    Hey guys, I recently picked up a 2008 3,1 mac pro with a gtx 770 24GB of ram and dual quad-core Xeon at 2.8gz. it came with macOS 10.9 installed and I want to put windows on there, so I made a bootable windows disk and selected the DVD as the startup disk in system preferences, the windows 10...
  2. S

    cMP 2,1 Black screen / No Startup Chime / Diag LEDs clear

    All, I've recently hit a dead-end diagnosing what has happened to my MP 2,1. For the past 2-years all has been running well on 10.11.6 via the boot.efi hack and an EVGA 560 GPU; however, last week (after some power outages) my mac was non-responsive. Pressing the power button does spin up the...
  3. lindyman77

    Now High Sierra can't find my SSD startup disk...but booting externally

    Super weird issue going on. Upgraded my 13" 2011 MBP with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD to High Sierra. (Automatically upgraded to APFS with TRIM enabled) Last night it wouldn't boot showing only a flashing folder/question mark. Did all of the usual stuff PRAM, Recovery Mode, repaired permissions, etc...