I hadn't thought of that, thanks for the idea. I just picked up a MP 1,1 a month ago as well for a cheap, already upgraded the to 32G, updated to 2,1, getting ready to upgrade the graphics card and the Processors.
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2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and macOS Sierra
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I hadn't thought of that, thanks for the idea. I just picked up a MP 1,1 a month ago as well for a cheap, already upgraded the to 32G, updated to 2,1, getting ready to upgrade the graphics card and the Processors.
I got 5 of these, all of them under El Capitan and working nicely... Hoping they can make it to Sierra !
I have this idea, call it stupid as I don't have any clue if it is possible at all, but what if it is possible to combine the 1,1 and 2,1 firmware with the 3,1 firmware so the motherboard of the 1,1 and 2,1 are capable or running same CPU's as the 3,1 as far as I know they both use LGA771 CPU's. And with a CPU upgrade to the X5460.
This would mean that the SSE 4.1 CPU requirement would be no problem. Right?
This would mean that the SSE 4.1 CPU requirement would be no problem. Right?
It'd be a cross talk problem probably. 2 different chip sets between the two and even though the boards look pretty similar, they're quite different. Combining the two probably would result in a bricked board. Also I don't think it'd be possible to even inject the microcode into an EFI flash... But Who knows. They've been wanting 64bit efi for years for our Pros, that never happened (and if it did, it still probably wouldn't allow us to install newer OSes with out hacking). I'm not saying it's impossible but we need someone that can crack the code to do it.
A while ago in this thread I think I linked to some mod that adds sse 4.1 support to bios based motherboards by adding microcode for lga 775. It would need to be ported to work with uefi though.
I just downloaded the EFI updater from Apple, he "EFI" file ends in .FD which looks like it's an Insyde BIOS (Intel BIOS) file. Intel BIOSes have never been cracked to even add microcode so if it is an Intel BIOS we have problems.
looks like Pike hasn't given up and he may have something working soon from what I can tell
https://github.com/Piker-Alpha/macosxbootloader/tree/Sierra
https://github.com/Piker-Alpha/macosxbootloader/tree/Sierra
This guy is a freakin' god. Just look what he's going through: https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2016/09/04/recovering-from-lost-hardware/
Hope he finds a way. Happy with El Capitan at the moment though. Running smooth on my 1,1.
which version are you running? I'm on 10.3 and im scared to update to latest one.
10.11.6 work butter smooth on a 1,1/2,1 with sufficient RAM. Throw in a CPU/GPU upgrade and it literally kicks ass.
@hwojtek I think that mikecorp wanted to say that he's running 10.11.3?
MP1,1 came with Tiger preinstalled so he is hardly running Panther on it... Or is he?
@mikecorp , Going from 10.11.3 to 10.11.6 will replace your boot.efi files, so you'll have to have either daemon working, or other OS X to replace those files from.
MP1,1 came with Tiger preinstalled so he is hardly running Panther on it... Or is he?
@mikecorp , Going from 10.11.3 to 10.11.6 will replace your boot.efi files, so you'll have to have either daemon working, or other OS X to replace those files from.
Would he accept a gift if a bunch on here chipped in and bought him a Macpro 1,1 or 2,1 or both?
