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Pin screen with Mouse and Keyboard : installing Ventura on Mac Pro 3.1 2008
Hi All, I m trrying to install ventura on my old Mac pro 3.1, which got Sapphire Plus radeon rx 560 installed today, and have 16Gb ram, and SSD in it, im using open core and created a bootable drive and tried NVRM reset with CMD+opt+R+P and it took to to a screen where i have Intsall OS Ventura...- Prudhar
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- mac 3.1 opencore 0.6.6 ventura 13.5
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- Forum: macOS Ventura (13)
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MP 1,1-5,1 Hardware Acceleration on Mac Pro 3,1 with Catalina and RX580
Hello, I have installed the DosDude1 Catalina patcher on my MP3,1 and an AMD RX580 MSI graphics card into the tower. The Mac works flawlessly except for one thing. I am using the setup for editing in FCP and Premiere and would like to take advantage of the card with renders and encoding. For...- MacaroniFish
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- 2008 mp catalina gpu dosdude catalina patcher legacy mac mac 3.1 mp 3.1 rx580 mac
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- Forum: Mac Pro
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MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 3,1 - Red light - no Bootup- No input
I have a Mac Pro 3,1 from the range of 2009-2012, Xeon e5 542 it originally came with a GTX 680 but i replaced it with a GT 740 and worked just fine, i also replaced the hard drive with the OS because it was faulty, the computer seems to have no bios whatsoever, i had an hdd with windows 10... -
Mac Pro 3,1 (early 2008) wont turn on unless i unplug/replug AC
Hi everyone! i got a late 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 that still kicks asses (running patched Big Sur and Windows 11). Tbh since i got my M1 air i barely use it but, when i need it, it doesn't always turn on. I have to unplug/replug AC cable and it will work. I already tried to reset SMC without success...- mys7
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- mac 3.1
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- Forum: Early Intel Macs
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MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 3,1 constantly restarts and boot chimes
Hi everyone, dont know who can help me but i have a 3,1 Mac Pro thats been giving me problems for the past few days. What led up to this problem was me watching a movie in vlc on windows, all of a sudden it just decides to restart. I have switched 10 ram sticks in total, some running the machine...- FreeRacing
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- mac 3.1 mac pro mac pro (2008)
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- Forum: Mac Pro
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MP 1,1-5,1 Diagnosing 2008 Mac Pro graphics card /motherboard issue
A while ago I bought 2 new Samsung monitors to run on my 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 with a GTX770 graphics card. I unplugged the old monitors, plugged in the new ones (using Samsung's supplied HDMI cables, the only ones I've found that will actually run them at their full 144Hz speed). One of the screens... -
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MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 3,1, A1186, EMC2133 - Won't boot-up
Hi Guys, picked up these 3 machines last night. 2 X 3,1 1 x G5 One of the 3,1 A1186, EMC2133 is not moving from grey screen. Boots ok, I can select drive by pressing Option key. However it hands on grey boot screen. Won't go any further. I've removed the memory and just kept two banks as... -
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MP 1,1-5,1 cMP 3,1 Wifi/Airport - what is the actual slot type?
Hi there, I'm searching for the name of the slot connector on the logic board of a cMP 3,1. I bought a genuine apple / broadcom mini pcie card off of marketplace before I bought a cMP 3,1. I think it was for a macbook and I was going to attempt to use it in a hackintosh - the hackintosh project... -
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MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 3.1 rx 5500 xt
Hello everyone, a few months ago, i got a Mac Pro 3.1 2 x 2.8 Ghz Xeon, with 2 Nvidia Quadro FX 4600. First, i tried every method but i can't make the 2 GPUs work toghether, but i thought that even working toghether, i definitely need more GPU power, and in AMD cards, i found a very interesting... -
MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro 3.1 with Catalina and RX580 + 8800GT (revert legacy video patch)
Hi to all, I recently bought an old MP3.1 dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz with 12Gb Ram and 8800GT video card and it came with El Capitan. I managed to upgrade it to Catalina using Dosdude's patch and used the legacy video patch to get some degree of hw acceleration from my graphics card but now I got my...- Fulberti Enzo
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- 8800gt mac 3.1 rx580
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- Forum: Mac Pro
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MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) Freezing, GPU?
Hello all, Shot in the dark here but, I use a Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) with FCP 7 and have been experiencing some upsetting issues with the entire system and machine freezing and becoming unresponsive. The issue has only been taking place while I am editing or playing back HD clips or video. After...- mrbudlightlime
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- gpu failure mac 3.1
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- Forum: Mac Pro
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Mac Pro 3.1 (early 2008) bootstuck
Hi, I suspect I had had beta updates on for some reason and that some recent update bricked my computer. I left the machine on overnight and heard it restarting, the next morning it wouldn’t boot. The mac pro 3.1 is early 2008 that i managed to install Mojave on. Is it possible that my W3XXX...- ferologics
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- mac 3.1 mojave 10.14
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- Forum: Mac Pro
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Mac Pro 3,1 memory riser board issues...or what?
I just got my Early 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 running again by replacing the power supply. It was dead about 3 years. It currently has 4GB RAM, but on boot I found I was only getting 2GB. What worked instantly to give me 4GB was to place the dimms so: A1, B1, A3, B3. Now I'm planning to add 2x4GB dimms... -
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Mac OS installer not booting
Hi everyone, I have a weird issue with my Mac Pro 3,1. I can't seem to load the OSX installer. It just get stuck at the boot screen. It loads about 3/4s of the way then just hangs indefinitely. I have tried this with a patched mojave Installer and an el capitan installer and both do the same... -
Mac Pro 3,1 Powers on but no chime
Hi All, Thanks in advance for your assistance. Was away from my Mac Pro 3,1 for 6 months, came home, set it up, and...nothing: - Power comes on, but no chime (and obviously no boot) - Only diagnostic LED’s #2 (yellow, for trickle power) and #8 (green, for power) illuminate. #’s 7 (GPU) and 9... -
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Patcher tool for unsupported Macs and RX5XX
So, I'm "new" to mac (last mac was in 2012 as a student) and got myself a cheep Mac Pro 3.1 that I'm planing to do some updates to. Mainly I'm going to use it for FCPX for some 4k video - mainly family movies, some work stuff now and then and some light World of Warcraft gaming. Beside that... -
Mac Pro 3,1 upgrade to 4,1 or 5,1
I picked up a new graphics card, a sapphire Rx 560, I have a Mac Pro 3,1 so doing plenty of research thinking it would work be cause I had a hacked version of high Sierra running on it. It failed to run and the suspect is the ancient system bus they have in the Mac Pro 3,1. I haven’t heard... -
New High Sierra Security Patch on 3,1 DosDude patched installs
Apple just posted some new security fixes. Has anybody tried them on Mac Pro 3,1 DosDude patched installs>
