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mp5.1

  1. Riot Nrrrd

    MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro 5,1 stops detecting Apple 30" Cinema HD Display after disk filled up

    I have a real head-scratcher here. I have a Mid-2010 Mac Pro 5,1 cheese grater with a AMD RADEON Sapphire HD 7950 Mac Edition video card attached to an OG Apple 30" Cinema HD Display. OS is Mojave 10.14.6. Everything worked perfectly until a couple of days ago, when a combination of creeping...
  2. C

    MP 1,1-5,1 Problem booting Mac Pro 5,1 with linux kernel 6.8.0 – no problems with linux kernel 6.5.0

    I am running a MacPro 5,1 which can triple boot MacOS Sonoma, Ventura and Ubuntu/Linux from separate SSDs. In the past two days I could not boot Linux 6.8.0. MacOS and Linux 6.50 boot fine. I use OpenCore Legacy patcher (OCLP) on the MP 5,1 to select the required boot drive (each OS on...
  3. M

    MP 1,1-5,1 overclocking a mac pro 2010

    Hello i justa was wondering if its posible to overclock a 5,1 mac pro. I've been doing some research and found an old tool named zdnet clock, in some posts people says its broken, i have trayed it but no luck. also i dont know if its because it only supports to 3,1 macs because al threads about...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 OCLP 1.4.2 MP 5,1. Issues at boot picker and keyboard issues e.g. CAPS LOCK and repeat

    In my MP 5,1 has 3 boot drives with: Ventura, Monterey, Linux/Ubuntu. I chose this setup so if I somehow "ruined" one of the disk I would still have a bootable system. Also it should allow me to upgrade the Monterey to Sonoma and if that turns out to be a disaster I should be able to fall back...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 MP5,1 running windows with rx5500xt and hd 5870 not working

    Hello i am running a 5,1 MP with windows, as i use it also for gaming i bought a 5500xt. I also have the stock 5870 as a secondary display and have the boot switcher, but i dont know why the amd pro software and MSi Afterburner wont recognice it, so it just ramps the fan to max all the time as...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 Catalina in MP5,1 does not detect RX5500xt

    Hello. I succesfully installed catalina 1.15.7 on my 5,1 MP (it has some sort of lag and goes slow, i suspect its for the gpu) but that ain't the point. the problem is that catalina only detects the radeon 5870 with the dosdude1 GPU legacy patcher, and wont detect the rx 5500xt, wich was the...
  7. paintstone

    MP 1,1-5,1 How to expand 20tb WFH network 4 machines?

    There is one Mac pro 5,1 a MacBook that is my daily use, a Mac mini, and two older iMacs that are essentially just storage/processors for NLP/ML algotrading machine learning tasks. All of these are networked by a 4 TB time machine that has been great but I don’t have any more ethernet ports...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 Installing Monterey on Mac Pro 5.1

    After much consideration, I have decided to install Monterey on my old Mac pro 5.1. I will take the risk and do it. Everything is set and today I will have a USB that is ready with OpenCore Legacy patcher and Monterey ready to go. My only issue that I need to resolve is how in the world do I see...
  9. S

    rMBP and MP5,1 replaced by M1X?

    I have the first line of rMBP 2012 which I use when traveling, while on a daily basis I use Mac Pro 5,1 "Six Core" 3.33 (Westmere) with updated graphics to RX580 and 32GB 1333 MHz RAM, "patched" Catalina OS and 27" + 24" displays. Both have served me extremely well for many years. Since latest...
  10. Priatnasuardi

    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5.1 boot loop kernel panic Appletymcedriver

    Hello everyone, I having a hard time with my Macpro 5.1, HD5770 Apple Gpu. dual processor xeon e5620 @2.4ghz, memory 16ghz... to make long story short. The main issue surface after i have to replace the backplane and the powersupply at the same time, they are both new, not refurbished. I got...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 Is my BootROM corrupted or valid?

    After having issues with my MP5.1 and it not playing the chime anymore, I followed @tsialex instructions and desoldered the SPI flash, then dumped the BootROM. My plan was to verify and flash the dump or reconstruct if corrupted. I extracted the NVRAM section and it still has SON and UUID...
  12. 1415OH

    my CPU, Ram is Dead?

    It is not a part to be overloaded in Logic, but I saw the CPU state, when I saw the overload coming up 2 X 3.46 6Core = 12core , 24Thread But My Logic CPU Work only 7.... is it Wrong? also i Put 8GB Ram x4 ( 1,2,5,6 Slot) but 5 Slot is Dead and i tried put 2,3,6,7 Slot , 7 Slot Is Dead what...
  13. 1415OH

    MP5,1 do not recognize the Ram 5th slot ...?

    I made 8GB x 4 and made 32GB. One day, I was only 24GB, so I was strange that the 5th slot was still recognized. I cleaned it and tried to swap it with the ram in the other slot, but I do not recognize it ..? Slots 1, 2, 5, 6, I have put in. Is there a way to solve this symptom? - High...
  14. 1415OH

    MP5,1 X5690 Benchmark .. is it wrong?

    https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/12698992 I would guess 23000~32000 but result is 20578 .. (when i tested , open messanger app, chrome app, Mac Fans Control ) Do My MP5,1 Have problem? ( GPU AMD Radeon R9 280X 3072 MB )
  15. gvbento

    Very weird FW audio interface issue

    Hi, my name is Gabriel Bento from Brazil, and I have been trying to wrap my head around this issue for quite some time now and I am completely lost. I'm seeking some help, hopefully someone here will be able to spot something I'm missing. It's quite a long story and I think a very weird one, so...
  16. fhturner

    Quick advice: Stuck in middle of firmware update

    Could use some advice here. While I had an RX 580 handy, I thought I'd throw it in a couple of aux/utility Mac Pros and bring their firmware up to 140.0.0.0.0. On the first one, a 12-core 2.66GHz MP4,1>5,1, I observed the first attempt caused the Mojave installer to hang w/ beachball after...
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    mojave install 4.1(5.1)

    hi, this is my first thread, I hope someone may help me. Current situation: mp 4.1 upg 5.1 6x3.46 w3690 gtx680 flashed 24gb 1333 10.12.6 system disk(s) sonnet tempo ssd pro plus raid 0 2x256 gb 850pro - write 980 mb/s I want to upgrade a little, and change from the raid 0 sonnet system...