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  1. turluttu

    Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 6GB Vapor-X for Mac Pro 5.1

    Hello everybody! I want to buy a video card Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 6GB Vapor-X for Mac Pro 5.1. Can I flash this card? Please share if you already have it ready. Thank you!
  2. HaypurTiryading

    MP51.0084.B00 Rom Dump Request

    Heya! I saw gilles_polysoft made a miracle and gave our dusty machines to native NVMe abilities. I look at his twitter and he can edit Apple Efi with UEFITool. I am familiar with this kind of editing. I just ask myself to why didn't Apple release efi/bootrom files to public for corruption or...
  3. matiasrengel

    10.11 to 10.11.6 mac pro 1,1

    Hi everyone! I'm trying to upgrade from 10.11 to 10.11.6 without doing a fresh install on my mac pro 1,1. I have a lot of files and software and can't do a fresh install right now. How would I do this? Thank you!
  4. F

    Dual Screens Cause Strange Window Text Highlighting

    I am working on an early 2009 MacPro that has been flashed to the 5,1 firmware version. It is currently running the latest version of high sierra. In a dual monitor configuration, the text within application windows seems to randomly become highlighted in black or a dark grey. Sometimes moving...
  5. N

    MCP 15 2010 constantly freezing only if battery plugged in

    Hallo everyone, i am experiencing a very strange behaviour on this machine: 820-2850 it runs perfectly fine with the magsafe power only ASD is passed without any issue but when i plug the battery in (already tested on other machines), after some minutes i got freezes and i have to reboot. Of...
  6. BayouTiger

    iMac Pro What if....Merging the Mac Pro and iMac Pro Family

    Just a thought...... I've seen very little about what exactly is meant by "modular" for the new MacPro. I was just giving it a little thought and was wondering what that might mean. Assuming the the modular aspect heavily leverages TB3 as it connection means, It seems that a convergence between...
  7. S

    No Chime, No Boot

    Hi, i have looked at several forums with similar issues, but I can seem to find out what the problem is and I hope maybe someone here can give me some ideas. I have a Mac Pro Mid 2010 A1289. The specs are... 3.33 GHz 6 Core Xeon W3680 1TB SSD 32gb RAM Nvidia Quadro 4000 graphics card It was...
  8. bzollinger

    Upgrade mid-2010 Mac Pro or wait for 2018 MP??

    Hello, I've got a mid-2010 Mac Pro that has been running great since I bought it. But lately I've started to run into storage issues and was wondering what peoples thoughts were. The current setup is: 3.2Ghz Quad core 16GB Ram Startup disk is 128GB SSD w/64GB free ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB...
  9. J

    Ultimate MacPro 2008

    Hi guys ! I have an old Macpro 2008 woodcrest 2.66ghz. I try to have many information in order to update with the "ultimate version" of Macpro 2008. Is someone could help me ? BEST CPU ? Is someone test Woodcrest Dual XEON SL9RT B2 3GHZ 80W model 5160, and Do you know tutorial ? SSD ? RAM...
  10. E

    MacPro to Macbook Pro "Upgrade?"

    I'm considering moving from my 2009 4,1 MacPro, which is loaded up with upgrades to a 2016 MacBook Pro as there are suddenly some great deals out there. I work mostly in Photoshop and Illustrator these days, with the occasional bit of not too complicated After Effects work. I need a bit more...
  11. ATB3800

    Another Mac Pro1,1 upgrade

    So I updated my 2006 MP to dual X5355s. In the about this Mac program the system reports 2x 2.66ghz unknown as the processor. It does recognize that there are 8 cores. I’ve tried using the firmware update tool to install 2,1 firmware but haven’t had much luck. From what I’ve read I have to...
  12. V

    Hard drive filled up after High Sierra upgrade on MacPro

    I had about 450GB of free space on my primary drive on Sierra. After the High Sierra upgrade it dropped to 150GB. I used OmniDiskSweeper and the files sum upto about 520GB. I have a 1TB SSD! Can't figure out what's eating the rest of the space. About the mac shows system files as 400GB. That's...
  13. donlic

    Where I can buy/order just the housing of the Mac Pro 2017?

    I want to build myself the ultimative computer and I want to buy just the space gray hosuing of the newest Mac Pro...
  14. davste07

    No display.

    Hey, Having a problem with my 2006 mac pro. The other day the system crashed! It now it boots, chimes but no display! I can still press the caps lock button and it lights, again the light on the front stays there too! The mac is a A1186 upgraded to two quad core processors and 32gb of ram. So...
  15. lucasajackson

    High Sierra Causing Blank Screen MacPro

    Hello, I have the latest MacPro (I use that term loosely). My monitors (there are 2) go black after being idle for a while and won't display anything until I hard power cycle the machine. This started right after I upgraded to High Sierra. Has anyone else ran into this issue, and does anyone...
  16. Project Alice

    Keyboard randomly stops working

    Hi all, I have a 2008 MacPro 3,1 that I just installed sierra on. Everything works fine except the keyboard randomly stops working.. nothing will type, function buttons included. But the mouse, which is plugged into the keyboard continues to work fine. I don't even notice until I go to type lol...
  17. I

    Late 2013 Mac Pro Crash/Kernel Panic

    I have a 2013 3.7 GHzMac Pro Updated OS X to Sierra when it came out. It recently started freezing and subsequently crashing when opening Adobe CC as well as iTunes. Will reboot fine but then when the application reopens on start up, it starts the cycle again. I've tried reseating the RAM to...
  18. gendolfender

    MacPro 1,1 freezes on Windows 8,10

    I have a macpro 1,1 upgraded to 2 quad xeons x5335 10gb ram and mac flashed HD 5770 Problem im facing is that if i install and use Windows 7 it works fine no problems at all However if i install Windows 8 or 10 it randomly freezes at random point during usage and its type of freeze where its...
  19. Djconcise

    iMac 5k vs Mac Pro

    Greetings all, I'm deciding between the following of what to get: 2010-2012 Mac Pro Tower (Grey) (2) 3.46 GHz Westmere Processor 12 Core 64GB Ram GTX 970 Nvidia 4GB Graphics Card 512GB PCIe Flash Storage (4) TB of storage (1TB in each bay) USB C & USB 3.0 PCIe Expansion card (2) Dell P2715Q...
  20. L

    PCIe card -> 6pin 75W

    Good morning all, Like a few others here I didn't check the power requirements before buying the 1080Ti for my Mac Pro 5,1, and have been scrambling to find a solution for powering it which doesn't involve a secondary PSU or overtaxing the 2x6pins. I still have 1 PCIe slot available, and it...