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    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac pro 4.1 not booting after cpu upgrade

    Hi guys, Ive got (what once was) a working mac pro 4.1 flashed to 5.1 and bought a pair of used x5690s on ebay. I wanted to upgrade the stock CPUs to the x5690s on my dual cpu mac pro. Im aware that these must be delidded to avoid thermal problems, however, prior to delidding i wanted to test...
  2. jazzgruv

    MP 1,1-5,1 Mid 2012 Mac Pro tower - Drive bay 2 doesn't see hard drive

    Hello - I am using a mid 2012 mac pro tower in my studio. I use all 4 bays with 2 tb hard drives to store all of my plugin orchestral sounds. The drive in bay 2 disappeared from the desktop and finder - so I assumed it was a bad HD. I replaced with a new HD, (intending to restore that drive from...
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    MP 6,1 Mac Pro (2013) Display Cables for LED Cinema Display and Display Cable for Macbook Pro (2015).

    Hi all, I have recently purchased a trash can mac. I currently have two 27" LED Cinema Displays and I am curious which cable/s I need to run from the Mac Pro to these dual monitors. I also would like on a separate occasion use my Macbook Pro (13") in target display mode with the Mac Pro, is this...
  4. WilliApple

    Why the M2 MacBook Air won't come at WWDC

    Alright. It did end up coming at WWDC. I was wrong :( I have been trying to avoid leaks and rumors a lot, but I keep accidentally seeing more than ever M2 MacBook Air at WWDC!!! Reason 1: Not out of stock Now one of the first reasons people said were, the M1 MacBook Air is out of stock. I...
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    Home Office / Music Studio Storage Solution

    Setting up an office/music studio with a couple of 1st Generation Mac Pros, a 2018 256GB MacBook Air, and a 2019 256GB MacBook Pro. Want to put the laptops in cool looking stands and run them in clamshell mode if possible. Not sure due to the fans. Will likely be picking up a Mac Studio in the...
  6. MattJones

    Magic Keyboard with Touch ID compatibility with Intel Mac Pro 2013

    Sort of a specific question, but my old keyboard just failed me and I want to get the new Magic Keyboard with Touch ID. I currently have a Mac Pro 2013 running 10.15.7. I understand of course I will get NO touch ID usage with it. However, would the rest of the keyboards functionality work? FN...
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    MP 7,1 noobish ram question :)

    A little noob question , I have a Mac Pro 7.1 ( standard and updated -- ) with 192gb 12slots ram 2666mhz ddr4 ( bough this seperatly 2 years ago ) +putted a radeon VII in I need a beast to work with my Hasselblad files and large productions for video. now I want to update my processor to...
  8. SPØØK

    Purchase Suggestions?

    I’m looking to buy a Mac that I can use to backup my phone, nothing further beside browsing the internet and backing up my phone. I’ve been using my 2019 MacBook Pro but these backups have taken up plenty of space that I’ve since purged. I’ve been looking at either Mac Pros or Mac Minis, maybe...
  9. quadra605

    Use Airport Express as an Ethernet Switch?

    My Airport Extreme died & I replaced it with an ASUS router: all good. My apt. building is old & wireless coverage is not great, so the way I had connected to my Roku in the living room from the internet access point in the 2nd bedroom was as follows: Cable modem-->router-->MoCA adapter...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 MacVidCards Europe Radeon RX 6800/RX 6600XT for Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 benchmarks

    Radeon RX6800 16 GB is now the fastest card for Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 with standard EFI boot screen. You can see EFI boot screen even without any HDD/SSD installed at all. macOS Monterey 12.2.1 works natively without any patches. You just need to either move Monterey from supported Mac or install it...
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    MP All Models Random kernel panic Mac Pro 2013

    Hey everyone, Currently running into a constant issue with my work desktop Mac Pro 2013 that we've tried several times to fix but keeps persisting. The model is a Late 2013 Mac Pro with a 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 Processor and 32GB 1866 MHz DDR3 Memory (2x16GB sticks). Since I began...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 single processor suddenly wont start *red light*

    tried looking at different posts about this but got no hope. so my mac just suddenly stopped working when i boot up theres a red light on the tray and the fan just spins super loud and thats about it. I press the diag button to check on the power supply and it seems fine, tried removing all...
  13. aaron321

    *EMERGENCY* Dying, but not dead hard drive!.. What is the best recovery software?

    I desperately need help with an attempt to get all files copied over from a 8Tb dying hard drive. I do not know how long I have. I do know it's important to describe the drive's current status, so I will do so here: 1) Drive was starting to slow down during a copying process, now copying a...
  14. Mezelluf

    Mac Wallpapers I made.

    I'll be posting all the Mac wallpapers I make here and you can also make a request, enjoy! :)
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    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 stock bluetooth card backward compatible with the 3,1?

    Hey. So I have a mac pro 1,1 3,1 and 4,1 at my job. Recently upgraded the wifi card of the 4,1 so we can get handoff/airdrop. I don't want to buy another card for 3,1 or 1,1 if I don't have to. Don't need handoff for either machine, just want to be able to use the apple keyboard and mouse...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 5770 boot problem mac 1.1

    hello I have a problem with my mac pro 1.1 I bought an ati 5770 graphics card and I flashed it then I started my mac and the screen stays on the apple logo what to do? system el capitan
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    MP All Models Transitioning from Internal to External drives

    Any experience and advice on transitioning from a Mac Pro with internal SATA drives to a Mac Desktop without user accessible internal drives? My 2008 Mac Pro is sadly past it's prime and I've been looking into options to replace it to use for storing/editing photos/videos as well as normal...
  18. B S Magnet

    At last, a use-case which has nudged me into wanting a wider (or more) display(s)

    I’ve no idea whether this was running on a 10.5.8 or 10.6.8 setup (I’m leaning toward 10.6.8 for no better reason than when this clip was posted and how Dropbox is still showing as working), but it looks like Pro Tools 8. What I know is: to be able to view the imported multi-track breakdown of...
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    MP 7,1 Monterey 12.1 vs Catalina 10.15.7 on nMP

    For the past few weeks I've been experimenting with a NVME Monterey 12.1 Boot Disk inside my 2019 24 core Mac Pro (Vega II 32GB GPU). Today, I booted back into my MAIN (apple) Catalina Boot disk and was struck by how much faster certain visual GUI operations are. As a music composer, I spend...
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    All known component upgrades for Early Intel Macs, 2006–2012 (and select 2013s)

    All known component upgrades for Early Intel Macs, 2006–2012 (and select 2013s) WikiPost created: 25 January 2022 Last updated: 19 June 2023 OVERVIEW Some time back, I started a WikiPost for ExpressCard/34 expansion items one can, feasibly, use in their early Intel Macs equipped with an...