Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
mac pro (2010)
-
M
MP 1,1-5,1 Upgrading OS to catalina or sequoia?
Hello, i was thinking to upgrade my macos to catalina with opencore as i have purchased a new 5500xt for gaming in windows. Iam curently running a 5,1 macpro with the stock hd5870 for bootscren and the 5500xt. Till now i have been on high sierra 1.13 but the 5500xt isnt suported until 1.15... -
M
MP 1,1-5,1 OCLP 1.5.0 Monterey install, no efi in Boot picker
Morning, Am hoping the forum can help point me in the right direction as I'm trying to upgrade from 11.7.5 to 12.7 via OCLP 1.5.0 on a 2010 MP 5,1. Previously I used OCLP 0.4 to upgrade from 10.5 to 11.7 and everything went as expected after following numerous guides, especially the thread...- MacintoshDude24
- Thread
- big sur mac pro (2010) mac pro 5 1 monterary oclp oclp 1.5.0
- Replies: 17
- Forum: Mac Pro
-
Z
MP 1,1-5,1 Unable to Boot with RX 5700 XT | Mac Pro 5,1 + OpenCore Legacy Patcher on Sonoma
Hi all, I just purchased an RX 5700 XT as an upgrade for my 5,1 which was previously running with an RX 580. I removed the post-install patches using OpenCore Patcher before replacing the GPU, but upon boot, it seems to hang every time around the 35% mark and refuses to boot into the OS no... -
W
MP 1,1-5,1 How to change from OpenCore Legacy Patcher to Martin Lo's Package
Hey everyone. I have been using OCLP for nearly 2 years now. however, I need to switch to Martin Lo's package to use the Titan Ridge thunderbolt card (and accompanying 27" thunderbolt displays) with my mac pro. I have not used Martin Lo's package at all, but with OCLP I have Big Sur and... -
P
MP 1,1-5,1 Stressed with the gpu upgrade for mac pro 5.1
Hello everyone. A few months ago I bought a mac pro from mid 2012, so I started to make hardware upgrades and left the change of graphics card for the end as it was the hardest thing to get (I'm looking for a Rx 580), I am very frustrated about this because, as I have read and seen, only the... -
MP 1,1-5,1 NVME Support for Windows 10 in MP 5.1
Hi gentlemen, I have a Mac Pro 4.1, flashed to 5.1 32GB RAM, single X5690, USB 3 PCI card I have a MacVidCards MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G that supports the boot screen. And I HAD a cheap SATA SSD. It failed on me a week ago. Luckily I was able to make a full backup by making an image with... -
P
MP 6,1 Mac Pro 5,1 Problem Windows Install
Hello Sirs, Newbie here on cmo Mac Pro 5,1 When installing Windows in NVME drive it stops when irs downloading the installation files. It says the drive needs to be formatted to Exfat My unit is a Mac Pro 5,1 with Monterey OS via Open Core at a SSD - trying to install windows on NVME m2... -
Z
MP 1,1-5,1 Losing My Mind Over Open core Boot Issue
(Apologies if this is the wrong forum or thread, I'm new to this site) The past week, I've been attempting to get OS Monterey 12.7.3 on my Mac Pro 5, 1. It has been nothing short of a headache and it's at a point where I don't know what to do. The initial update worked fine enough, however it... -
I
MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 fresh Monterey Opencore install W5700 No Kext Loaded
It's taken the best part of the day but I've now got Monterey installed on my Mac Pro 5,1 with AMD W5700, I pretty much followed the install from 'Opencore Legacy Patcher' however I got stuck in a boot loop and ended up resetting nvram 3 times in a row.. after that it wouldn't boot at all so I... -
D
MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 not starting
I have a Mac Pro 5,1 that stopped booting. (no fans, no chime) plugging / unplugging PSU make red LEDs quickly blink as it is expected. DIAG button only shows yellow 5V LED Power button doesn't do anything. Shorting sys_pwr (vertically or horizontally) doesn't do anything also What I've tried... -
MP All Models CD MP3 Ripping Performance
Hi Here's my dilemma, I have a large number of CDs and I wanted to rip those CDs and store the MP3 files on a classic iPod. I have a 2009 Imac, but due to space it has become a bit of pain to keep set up. I was thinking of buying something like a mid 2010 Mac Pro and using an existing monitor... -
MP 1,1-5,1 Audio recording problem: intermittent repeated sound fragments
Hi, one of my main uses for my Mac Pro is preparing radio shows, which involves voice announcing between tracks. I've noticed that I occasionally have a defect in my voice recordings: when I play it back I'll sometimes find a place in the recording where a fragment of sound repeats and replaces... -
5
Mac Pro 5,1 with Opencore, Windows 11 installer couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one
I’m trying to get Windows 11 installed on my cMP running Monterey with Martin Lo’s OC and I’m stuck with an error saying ”Windows 11 installer couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one” when I’m choosing the drive to install to. I’ve tried formatting the drive but it won’t fix...- 5ibl1
- Thread
- cmp mac pro (2009) mac pro (2010) mac pro (2012) mac pro 4.1 mac pro 5.1 opencore opencore cmp windows 11
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Windows, Linux, macOS, & Others on the Mac
-
C
All Devices Hard Drive formatting in High Sierra
I plan to install two 8tb sata drives in my 2010 mac pro. Will they format to full 8TB with high sierra? Thank you!!!- Chempink02
- Thread
- 10.3.9 format hd mac pro (2010)
- Replies: 0
- Forum: iOS 13
-
T
MP 1,1-5,1 Delidded CPUs on a 5,1 Mac Pro (2010) experiment!
Has anyone ever tried to upgrade CPUs on a 2010-2012 5,1 Mac Pro using delidded CPUs? Reasons could be either thermal performance, recycling a pair of CPUs coming from an older 4,1 Mac Pro (the dual cpu tray needed delidded CPUs), or just for science! I tried this experiment, upgrading a 2010... -
I
MP 1,1-5,1 MP 5.1, RAM and Graphic card and mac os Monterey
Hello everyone, I bought an RX580 8GB saphire yesterday and i wanted to install it yesterday but i noticed my mac pro 5.1 has the firmware password, what should i do? Buy new RAM? Or is that not going to help me? And question, if i unofficially, install mac os Monterey? How will it feel? Has... -
G
MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 VTDecoderXPCService process is over 9000!!?
Ok, not quite over 9000, but I have a Mac Pro 5,1 mid 2010 dual 6 core 2.66 GHz processor and Radeon Rx5770 graphics and 128Gb ddr3 reg ECC ram. I have recently started using FCPX to edit video but when I try to playback multiple simultaneous 4K 60FPS HDR videos (say multi Picture in Picture), I... -
H
MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 2010 5,1 Replaced Logic Board & failed Mojave install.
Hi Macrumours This is my very first post about my My 2010 5,1. 2 x 3.46 GHz 2x6-Core Intel Xeon. Firmware updated to 144.0.0.0.0 with 64gig RAM and a 2 gig metal graphics card. Hopefully, I will get some answers here as the authors on the facebook 5,1 advised me contact you guys. My Mid 2010... -
S
Replacement Recommendations For My Studio Requirements?
Hey all, Ok so, the quick summary is that for almost a decade I have been using a mid-2010 Mac Pro 2.8Ghz Quad Core tower, with three 1TB Hard Drives and 16GB Ram. It's running an older OS, I think it's El Cap. Anyway, it decided to die on me recently. It would sporadically turn itself off...- steveyraff
- Thread
- mac pro (2010)
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
-
M
MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 Not detecting dosdude1 catalina partition
Some time ago I bought the rx 5500xt for my Mac Pro so, can game on windows, but I still keep the hd 5870 for the boot screen. I would like to know if I upgrade to MacOS catalina so I can have rx 5500xt support, if the hd although not having drivers would still display the bootscreen?
