Hi all. been searching the threads for a little help here. I have a Mac Pro 6,1 Late 2013, Trashcan, It was running Catalina with 6-core CPU, 1tb SSD from owc, 128gb of memory and the dual AMD Firepro d700s. I thought i would give it a little more beef with purchasing the 12-core cpu off OWC. Install went smoothly but I turned on the computer and the fan was going full blast, huge kernel task load using up all of the CPU and it was very sluggish. I didn't reset my PRAM stupidly, and tried to do a OS reboot from internet recovery. IT failed.
So i took it apart again, reinstalled my 6-core cpu, took off the GPUS and added fresh thermal paste, tried to fire it back up and the same thing happened, massive Kernal Tasks cpu usage. So I keep trying to reset SMC, PRAM, internet recovery, USB boot with Catalina, USB boot with Mojave, I've wiped the HD, put in the original MAc 500gb SSD, and I can't get any install to take. Basically it loads very slowly and then says either "Finishing up in less that a minute" or Finished and now it will restart your computer. Well the computer shuts down and then doesn't start back up on its own.
I ran an Apple Diagnostic test, and it says there is an issue with the SMC. What can I do? there is no apple store within 300 miles and the one repair guy shut down due to covid. thanks everyone!
So i took it apart again, reinstalled my 6-core cpu, took off the GPUS and added fresh thermal paste, tried to fire it back up and the same thing happened, massive Kernal Tasks cpu usage. So I keep trying to reset SMC, PRAM, internet recovery, USB boot with Catalina, USB boot with Mojave, I've wiped the HD, put in the original MAc 500gb SSD, and I can't get any install to take. Basically it loads very slowly and then says either "Finishing up in less that a minute" or Finished and now it will restart your computer. Well the computer shuts down and then doesn't start back up on its own.
I ran an Apple Diagnostic test, and it says there is an issue with the SMC. What can I do? there is no apple store within 300 miles and the one repair guy shut down due to covid. thanks everyone!