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  1. James Murray

    MP 1,1-5,1 Can't change startup disk to bootcamp after flashing rom

    I flashed my rom yesterday but now I get the following error when I try to change the startup disk to bootcamp: The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk The only way I can boot into windows now is if I take out any Hard drives that are formatted for mac os. The Windows SSD still...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 EVGA 960 GeForce 970 Flash back to PC

    Hello all, First time posting :) I have the Mac edition of the EVGA 970, i.e. somebody flashed it using a Windows tool. What I want to know is, is it possible to use an OSX flashing tool to flash it back to Windows. I imagine the tools exist for OSX. Would it be a case of having to find...
  3. M

    This X1950XT just won't work. Please help!

    Hi all, I'm having some trouble flashing a Sapphire X1950XT with the X1900 ROM for G5 and could use some guidance to prevent me from pulling my hair out. I've successfully "flashed" the card in FreeDOS, MS-DOS and multiple versions of ATIflash. I used the file package from this thread...
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    MP 1,1-5,1 End of my wits - Macpro 3,1 Zotac GTX 680 4GB

    Hi, I am trying to give a present of a Mac Pro to someone that needs it to learn video editing during Covid. I bought the card to help them out and am giving them the machine as well. I have a Mac Pro 3,1 running the latest El Capitan which I want to move to Mojave badly. I bought a Zotac GTX...
  5. reukiodo

    APFS ROM Patcher

    Since @dosdude1 released the APFS ROM Patcher utility, has anyone used it to successfully enable APFS in their unsupported Mac's ROM? Has anyone been adventurous enough to try and fail? I've searched and searched and it is hard to find success and fail stories and I hope there could be a central...
  6. M

    Resolved Flashing Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT (specifically the Firmware)

    This is an obscure card for the Power Mac G5, but I have heard of it being done and I know someone here did it by replacing the ROM, but I think I have heard of doing it without having to do that. I bought an unused 7800 GT with 256MB of video RAM. Ignoring I have no experience whatsoever with...
  7. parisinvest

    Some Tests on netkas script's effets after flashing

    AS REQUEST OF EXPÉRIENCED MEMBER, I'D LIKE TO MENTION AT THE BEGINNING, THIS TOPIC IS BASED ON MY OWN TEST, I BOUGHT THESE CARDS, MAKE EFI ROM DIRECTLY ON NETKAS SCRIPT, WITHOUT ANY OTHER MODIFICATIONS, AND FALSHED BACK THEN TESTED ON MAC PRO 5.1, 3.1, SO THIS IS AND ONLY IS A PERSONNAL ADVICE...
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    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 4GB - No Boot Screen / Flashing

    Hey folks, i just got a very good deal on a "Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 4GB GDDR5". I bought it in order to upgrade my Mac Pro 5.1 (Late 2009) GPU from the old crappy GT120. Unfortunately the card won't show up a boot screen. I've read some posts about the RX 580 Pulse Upgrade and hope that...
  9. 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...
  10. J

    Onyx and 5770 boot

    Hi again people, As you may be able to deduce from my recent posts I'm currently playing around a bit with my 2009 4,1 with 5,1 update. I have recently installed a flashed XFX 5770 and despite probs with known issues such as pci fan speed and display port output was pleased with how it was...
  11. SuperKerem

    Flashing A Quadro FX 4500 For Power Mac G5 Compatibility

    Prerequisites: - Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 - PC or Mac Pro with a PCI Express slot - USB flash drive - Access to a Windows installation for Step 1 Download: https://goo.gl/Ow66FG Note: Only the Quadro FX 4500 revision with a metal L-shaped piece on the back of the card can be flashed for...
  12. DrogonMar

    Cant find a rom for gtx 960

    Hello, i got a mac pro 2008 and i had a pc with a PNY gtx 960 with 2gb of vram and i need to flash it for booting into mac OS x and windows, so i looked around and cant find a ROM for that and i dont want to pay for another card, so i want to flash this card myself but no roms, so if you guys...
  13. X

    GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB flashing

    Hi everyone So I've just gone and got myself a G5 quad core 2.5GHz, mostly for nostalgic reasons but that's by the by. Anyway, after doing some digging around the internet, it seems that the very best GPU that this machine can support officially is the NVidia Quadro FX 4500. However, after...