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2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X El Capitan
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Just found this thread. Trying to get up to speed. Have a Mac Pro 2,1 with a 2 x 3 GHz Quad Core Xeon processor setup running on 16gb RAM 250 gb SATA disk with 120gb free. The GPU/video card is a 256mb NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT.
Questions:
1. Do I need to upgrade anything in the hardware prior to following the steps in the OP?
2. If yes, can you guys please recommend WiFi AC/BT cards and the GPU - budget is moderate since this now is the home computer and is not really used for either gaming or launching rockets to Mars. Mostly streaming videos, music and so on.
3. I am definitely upgrading the storage so will be getting an SSD - any recommendations for those.
Finally, why are there 2 bootloader EFIs? Is it just the boot logo or am I supposed to download the one compatible with my hardware?
Thanks in advance
Questions:
1. Do I need to upgrade anything in the hardware prior to following the steps in the OP?
2. If yes, can you guys please recommend WiFi AC/BT cards and the GPU - budget is moderate since this now is the home computer and is not really used for either gaming or launching rockets to Mars. Mostly streaming videos, music and so on.
3. I am definitely upgrading the storage so will be getting an SSD - any recommendations for those.
Finally, why are there 2 bootloader EFIs? Is it just the boot logo or am I supposed to download the one compatible with my hardware?
Thanks in advance
LOL, just left Miami Springs Friday.
One bootloader has a white background and one has a black background, no other difference.
SSD is the way to go, REALLY kicks the box up a notch.
This is an "example" of what you need for the WIFI/Bluetooth. The actual model number is
BCM94360CD, the letters at the end are VERY important.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/252428497776?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Hello khanam,
You will definitely need to upgrade your graphics card. Apple no longer ships drivers for the 7300. You will still boot and see the display, but without a specific driver you don't get graphics acceleration, without acceleration the performance of the user interface is terrible. I have an XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770. It's a nice compromise of performance, price, and "flashability"....
Hi,
1st of all, I'd like to thank rthpjm for pikify and all the explanations, which are awesome!
I successfully (at least I think) installed El Capitan on my Samsung SSD 850 EVO, thanks to pikify. I was surprised, because I only have 6G of RAM and I thought 12G was the minimum. I had not a single issue though, so I think it worked. My setup is:
MacPro 1.1
2* 2,66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
6G RAM
When I realized that my NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT was not supported by El Capitan, I tried with a NVIDIA Quadro, which seems to work well.
I enabled trim with the trimeforce native command. And I did the following updates:
Security Update 2016-002
iTunes v12.5.3
RAW compatibility v6.21
Safari v10.0.1
I have El Capitan 10.11.6.
The problem is that since the installation, I experience frequent crashes (like every ten or twenty minutes). The Mac restarts without notice. I tried to disable trim and also with the old Geforce back (no acceleration but I can still use the machine) and it also crashed. I join the crash reports (I'm not very familiar with those).
It's worth mentionning that I also experienced a few crashes recently, with my old HD, which OS is 10.6.8. It was freezing. I cleaned the whole machine and it is working very well since 2 weeks. I was suspecting the power supply but didn't change it (it seems not as simple as with a PC!).
If you have any idea about these crashes on El Capitan, it would be great!
Thanks
1st of all, I'd like to thank rthpjm for pikify and all the explanations, which are awesome!
I successfully (at least I think) installed El Capitan on my Samsung SSD 850 EVO, thanks to pikify. I was surprised, because I only have 6G of RAM and I thought 12G was the minimum. I had not a single issue though, so I think it worked. My setup is:
MacPro 1.1
2* 2,66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
6G RAM
When I realized that my NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT was not supported by El Capitan, I tried with a NVIDIA Quadro, which seems to work well.
I enabled trim with the trimeforce native command. And I did the following updates:
Security Update 2016-002
iTunes v12.5.3
RAW compatibility v6.21
Safari v10.0.1
I have El Capitan 10.11.6.
The problem is that since the installation, I experience frequent crashes (like every ten or twenty minutes). The Mac restarts without notice. I tried to disable trim and also with the old Geforce back (no acceleration but I can still use the machine) and it also crashed. I join the crash reports (I'm not very familiar with those).
It's worth mentionning that I also experienced a few crashes recently, with my old HD, which OS is 10.6.8. It was freezing. I cleaned the whole machine and it is working very well since 2 weeks. I was suspecting the power supply but didn't change it (it seems not as simple as with a PC!).
If you have any idea about these crashes on El Capitan, it would be great!
Thanks
Your RAM might be faulty. You don't have any 512 MB modules (good) but your 1 GB may be just so old, it throws errors.
The other thing that has been reported in a similar situation (kernel panic and com.apple.xbs) was hard disk problems that are not recoverable from the usual boot, but need booting from recovery parition and repairing the disk not once, but twice or even three times) OR fsck in single-user mode.
The other thing that has been reported in a similar situation (kernel panic and com.apple.xbs) was hard disk problems that are not recoverable from the usual boot, but need booting from recovery parition and repairing the disk not once, but twice or even three times) OR fsck in single-user mode.
Hi, running 10.11.6 on a Mac Pro 1,1 (Thanks a million guys for all the work you have done to make the possible)
A Quick question:
Does installing the Security Update 2016-002 10.11.6 overwrite the Boot Efi files or is it safe to go ahead??
Thanks again
Robin
A Quick question:
Does installing the Security Update 2016-002 10.11.6 overwrite the Boot Efi files or is it safe to go ahead??
Thanks again
Robin
I must have missed something. I have a Macbook Pro (16GB RAM) running 10.11.6 and a Mac Pro 2,1 (32GB RAM) running 10.10.5. On both of them, running pikify3.1v12 results in a non-bootable USB stick. 10.11.6 gave a SIP error, but 10.10.5 just doesn't seem to work. Is there something in the environment that is assumed to be done? like disabling SIP?
Anyone have any issue with their mac not waking from sleep. It crashed the other night we rebooted it looked like it was fine, went to bed then today it wouldn't wake up. Now when we reboot nothing happens. I tried to remote in and its not showing up on the network.
Hello all. Like another poster I apologize for not being more active in this forum. My wife and I have a small business and we each work 70 - 80 hours per week in it. In January of this year I successfully installed El Capitan on my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. It was working fine. As of that install is was supposed to survive updates to the OS. Yesterday I used that machine to rip some families to DVD because ripping them on my late 2012 Mac Mini was causing the processor to run at 97℃ (105℃ is the processor shut down temperature) for the multi-hour time it took to rip them. My old Mac Pro processors were only running at 47℃. Anyway after ripping these movies I updated the OS and now I can't boot my Mac Pro.
My question is where can I find the most recent instructions for installing El Cap to my Mac Pro using a USB drive. The last time I was active in the forum the page number was 53. I am running Sierra on my Mac Mini so I need instructions that don't require that I have El Cap on another computer. Sorry that I am a bit long winded but I take after my Irish ancestors in this regard.
[doublepost=1479919225][/doublepost]One more thing. I noticed a pop add for a website I have visited. If I use this link will it help MacRumors? Also are there Macrumors affiliate links for places like Amazon that can be used by me and other people who want to help Macrumors?
My question is where can I find the most recent instructions for installing El Cap to my Mac Pro using a USB drive. The last time I was active in the forum the page number was 53. I am running Sierra on my Mac Mini so I need instructions that don't require that I have El Cap on another computer. Sorry that I am a bit long winded but I take after my Irish ancestors in this regard.
[doublepost=1479919225][/doublepost]One more thing. I noticed a pop add for a website I have visited. If I use this link will it help MacRumors? Also are there Macrumors affiliate links for places like Amazon that can be used by me and other people who want to help Macrumors?
Hi guys. I installed El Capitan 3 days after it came out last year, and it's been running flawlessly on a mac pro 1.1. I recently (30 minutes ago) accidentally updated to the latest version using the apple updater, it seemed to install fine but then rebooted into windows during the installation. Since then, I have been unable to boot OSX.
I have another partition with windows 7 that still works fine, but I am no longer able to boot from either my main El Capitan drive, or the OSX recovery partition. I can select both in the booting screen, it goes black and stays that way for 5 seconds, then boots right back into Windows 7.
Please help. I will check this daily until I find a fix.
I have another partition with windows 7 that still works fine, but I am no longer able to boot from either my main El Capitan drive, or the OSX recovery partition. I can select both in the booting screen, it goes black and stays that way for 5 seconds, then boots right back into Windows 7.
Please help. I will check this daily until I find a fix.
I think I found an answer to my question. Post #1397 by rthpjm. It shows it was Last edited: Nov 2, 2016 so I should be good.
Surely sometime during the more then a year you've been running El Cap you must have made a backup?
Boot from this backup and copy the boot.efi file over to your non functioning updated install.
The top of the previous page has some instructions by me (page 122). These instructions assume you have a working Recovery HD (should be true if you used pikify to install previously)
Towards the bottom of page 122 there's a short conversation with a user who had a particular set of conditions, but that too may help.
I know this thread is very long, but all of these types of questions have been answered multiple times. Please use the search facility, search this thread only, you will find an answer without needing to read all 120+ pages....
Page 1 post #1 has the information about how/where too!!!! There's enough detail in post #1 for most people to figure out what needs to be replaced.
Towards the bottom of page 122 there's a short conversation with a user who had a particular set of conditions, but that too may help.
I know this thread is very long, but all of these types of questions have been answered multiple times. Please use the search facility, search this thread only, you will find an answer without needing to read all 120+ pages....
Page 1 post #1 has the information about how/where too!!!! There's enough detail in post #1 for most people to figure out what needs to be replaced.
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This update is so that others may benefit from my mistake. I am very busy and sometimes get in a hurry. What I forgot to do with my previous install of El Capitan was to follow the instructions that rthpjm supplied in post 1391. This post explains what one needs to do to 'upgrade proof' you El Capitan install. I used pikify3.1.v12.zip for the initial install. Then I followed steps 6-10 in post 1391 using rthpjm's Boot64. After this I installed a security update and my computer restarted without issue.
Again I very much appreciate the hard work of all of the great people in this forum especially Piker-Alpha, rthpjm, 666sheep, MacVidCards, donjames, PeterHolbrook and Mr. Zarinwoop. I think I named everyone who has helped me in the past.
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[doublepost=1480061046][/doublepost]Hello to all, I successfully installed El capitan 10.11.6 on my Mac Pro 1.1 using Pikify3.1 version 8 (version 12 gave me an error). I would like to set it up so that I can update without messing up the efi files. My question is, can I use MD5 (Boot64.v3.mpkg.zip) as outlined in post 1391 by RTHPJM. I am new to all of this and I would like to thank all of you, especially RTHPJM for your work.
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Worked for me.
Seeing as how you're already at 10.11.6 and there should be no more major version updates you should be safe.
Security updates etc. were never a problem.
Seeing as how you're already at 10.11.6 and there should be no more major version updates you should be safe.
Security updates etc. were never a problem.
Hey Guys,
Well i want buy a new GPU for my Mac Pro 1.1 , any one knows if Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC can be flashed to be used in Mac Pro 1.1?
In this video de Guy make unbox of Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC That I want to buy
http://tinyurl.com/zs5kdjx
Well i want buy a new GPU for my Mac Pro 1.1 , any one knows if Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC can be flashed to be used in Mac Pro 1.1?
In this video de Guy make unbox of Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC That I want to buy
http://tinyurl.com/zs5kdjx
Hi,
I just installed windows 10 and am looking for the bootcamp contol panel. I have no luck with the bootcamp drivers. I downloaded the latest drivers through my macbookpro, those didnt work. Then downloaded some others for win7 through the apple web site. Only found 32 bit. These also fail to install.
I still have win7 64 bit on the machine, which runs the bootcamp control panel fine.
Can I somehow move the control panel from win7 to win10 ?
I still have the original firmware. I installed win10 using virtualbox from win7 to a free partition, and was surprised that worked so good and easy.
Still no luck with the nvidia drivers for 1060 and el cap.
Does anyone have a link to bootcamp drivers that I can install from win10. ( i installed win10 home ) and am waiting to activate it until I have it on the right partition on an ssd. ( currently on a hdd )
It runs fine from the hdd I must say. The 32 gig ram must help. All my games are on another ssd.
I just installed windows 10 and am looking for the bootcamp contol panel. I have no luck with the bootcamp drivers. I downloaded the latest drivers through my macbookpro, those didnt work. Then downloaded some others for win7 through the apple web site. Only found 32 bit. These also fail to install.
I still have win7 64 bit on the machine, which runs the bootcamp control panel fine.
Can I somehow move the control panel from win7 to win10 ?
I still have the original firmware. I installed win10 using virtualbox from win7 to a free partition, and was surprised that worked so good and easy.
Still no luck with the nvidia drivers for 1060 and el cap.
Does anyone have a link to bootcamp drivers that I can install from win10. ( i installed win10 home ) and am waiting to activate it until I have it on the right partition on an ssd. ( currently on a hdd )
It runs fine from the hdd I must say. The 32 gig ram must help. All my games are on another ssd.
This is Great! Thank You
So i dont know if you can answer me but, i have some answers about flash GPU.
Whats The best Method to Flash GPU'S? Because I know exist Zeus (For OS X) and WINFLASH (For WIndows)
But I do not know which one I should use
About use Windows, i need flash my GPU On a Windows partition (WIth Bootcamp) our can i use USB boot like Hirens boot our Ultimate Boot DLCD?