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Resolved 2006/2007 Mac Pro (1,1/2,1) and OS X Yosemite
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The installer should give you an option to choose which drive or partition to install on.
It would not let me choose hard drive to install on. It said already have Yosemite installed. Which it was on the drive I had started from. I have the hard drive out of the Mac Pro and now have it in an external case and trying running installer you gave me on it with my Mac Book Pro. Then I will put it back in the Mac Pro.
Update:
I was able to install Yosemite 10.10.5 finally. YEAHHHHHHHHH
What I had to do is remove the hard drive, put it in an external Firewire HD case
hooked up to my Mac Book Pro. I then installed the OS on the External HD.
I used @Deepwinter patched installer and WORKED.
Thanks @Deepwinter for your help.
Now my regular Startup drive with all the software installs all work.
I was able to install Yosemite 10.10.5 finally. YEAHHHHHHHHH
What I had to do is remove the hard drive, put it in an external Firewire HD case
hooked up to my Mac Book Pro. I then installed the OS on the External HD.
I used @Deepwinter patched installer and WORKED.
Thanks @Deepwinter for your help.
Now my regular Startup drive with all the software installs all work.
@m-franco co I am not an expert like most the guys here. But you need to message @Deepwinter and he will give you a patched installer and that will make it much easier for you.
Hi, all. This is my first post here. I'll start off by saying thanks to everyone here. I've spent a lot of time here getting my MacPro1,1 working with El Capitan.
That being said, I've run into a bit of a problem. It's been working mostly fine for the last few days, up until this morning that is. I woke up and woke it up like I normally do, checked my email, yotta yotta, went to eat and when I got back, it was showing a black screen with the white apple and nothing else. I figured it had just kernel panicked while I was away and was unsuccessfully booting to the Leopard installation (I somehow broke my Leopard installation while installing El Capitan and was planning on going back to fix it later) so I held the power button until it turned off and then pressed it again to restart, but now, nothing. It won't do much of anything.
When I press the button it seems to turn on, the power light turns on, the fans all turn on, but that's it. It won't output any video, it won't make any sounds, it won't do anything.
So far, I've tried:
rebooting it, many many times
unplugging everything that didn't need to be plugged in
pulling out all but one hdd to try to force it to boot off of that (I tried with both the El Capitan drive and the older Leopard Drive)
pulling out all but the original two 512 MB sticks of memory
pulling out the USB 3.0 card
pulling out the ATI graphics card and putting the original NVIDIA card back in
swapping the port the monitor is plugged into
using a different monitor
booting from a leopard install disk
booting from an El Capitan flash drive
booting from an apple firmware reset disk (or whatever it's called)
resetting the SMC
resetting the NVRAM
booting it without anything connected including keyboard, mouse, and monitor
booting it without the memory risers installed
leaving it unplugged for a long time
leaving it on (in it's zombie-esque state) for a long time
booting it in safe mode
booting it in target disk mode
I've tried everything I could think of and nothing seems to be working or doing anything whatsoever. It didn't even make a sound when I tried turning it on without the memory risers (which it should have). I can't get it to play the boot chime or anything.
Also, none of my keyboards seem to do anything, no matter where they're plugged in. The caps lock keys won't light up at all. Laser mice will light up, but only if they're plugged directly into one of the original USB ports on the Mac Pro, they won't light up if they're plugged into one of the keyboard hubs. I can't even get it to eject the optical drive tray by holding down the mouse button.
I'm sort of wondering if this is a logic board failure, but if so, it doesn't make sense why, because it did successfully reboot (into something) the first time, it wasn't until I manually power cycled it that it started being completely dead.
One last thing; for a while now it's been saying I only have 11 GB of memory installed when I actually have 13 GB (6 x 2 GB sticks and 2 x 512 MB sticks). I tried running diagnostics and memtest on it at the time, but memtest only showed problems when I was using a very old version of the software, the new version passed it with no problems. I rearranged the sticks at the time, and it temporarily went back to listing 13 GB, but shortly thereafter it went back to only listing 11 GB. I'm not sure if this is related or not.
Thanks for any help you can provide, and I'm crossing my fingers that she's not dead because I'll probably cry if so.
EDIT:
For some reason I decided to try pulling out the CMOS battery, long story short, she's alive. I have absolutely no idea what happened so if any of you have any ideas, please let me know. Also, the LED is on for DIMM slot 3 on riser board one, which I'm assuming means that stick is bad. I'm going to RMA it and hopefully this never happens again.
That being said, I've run into a bit of a problem. It's been working mostly fine for the last few days, up until this morning that is. I woke up and woke it up like I normally do, checked my email, yotta yotta, went to eat and when I got back, it was showing a black screen with the white apple and nothing else. I figured it had just kernel panicked while I was away and was unsuccessfully booting to the Leopard installation (I somehow broke my Leopard installation while installing El Capitan and was planning on going back to fix it later) so I held the power button until it turned off and then pressed it again to restart, but now, nothing. It won't do much of anything.
When I press the button it seems to turn on, the power light turns on, the fans all turn on, but that's it. It won't output any video, it won't make any sounds, it won't do anything.
So far, I've tried:
rebooting it, many many times
unplugging everything that didn't need to be plugged in
pulling out all but one hdd to try to force it to boot off of that (I tried with both the El Capitan drive and the older Leopard Drive)
pulling out all but the original two 512 MB sticks of memory
pulling out the USB 3.0 card
pulling out the ATI graphics card and putting the original NVIDIA card back in
swapping the port the monitor is plugged into
using a different monitor
booting from a leopard install disk
booting from an El Capitan flash drive
booting from an apple firmware reset disk (or whatever it's called)
resetting the SMC
resetting the NVRAM
booting it without anything connected including keyboard, mouse, and monitor
booting it without the memory risers installed
leaving it unplugged for a long time
leaving it on (in it's zombie-esque state) for a long time
booting it in safe mode
booting it in target disk mode
I've tried everything I could think of and nothing seems to be working or doing anything whatsoever. It didn't even make a sound when I tried turning it on without the memory risers (which it should have). I can't get it to play the boot chime or anything.
Also, none of my keyboards seem to do anything, no matter where they're plugged in. The caps lock keys won't light up at all. Laser mice will light up, but only if they're plugged directly into one of the original USB ports on the Mac Pro, they won't light up if they're plugged into one of the keyboard hubs. I can't even get it to eject the optical drive tray by holding down the mouse button.
I'm sort of wondering if this is a logic board failure, but if so, it doesn't make sense why, because it did successfully reboot (into something) the first time, it wasn't until I manually power cycled it that it started being completely dead.
One last thing; for a while now it's been saying I only have 11 GB of memory installed when I actually have 13 GB (6 x 2 GB sticks and 2 x 512 MB sticks). I tried running diagnostics and memtest on it at the time, but memtest only showed problems when I was using a very old version of the software, the new version passed it with no problems. I rearranged the sticks at the time, and it temporarily went back to listing 13 GB, but shortly thereafter it went back to only listing 11 GB. I'm not sure if this is related or not.
Thanks for any help you can provide, and I'm crossing my fingers that she's not dead because I'll probably cry if so.
EDIT:
For some reason I decided to try pulling out the CMOS battery, long story short, she's alive. I have absolutely no idea what happened so if any of you have any ideas, please let me know. Also, the LED is on for DIMM slot 3 on riser board one, which I'm assuming means that stick is bad. I'm going to RMA it and hopefully this never happens again.
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Hi, I am sure there was a post on this thread or the El Cap thread where someone had a similar issue with not booting and they also resolved this by replacing the battery. I guess these fail so rarely that it isn't something that gets checked. I didn't even know it had a battery but remember replacing one on my old G4 tower some years ago. Glad you seem to have it sorted. Yes, I think light is to show dodgy RAM - I had this and the power button also flashed - I added 8 x 4gb modules with big heat sinks and been running well.
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I sent you a PM there the installer is not patched for a Mac Book, it's only patched for Mac Pro, 1,1 and 1,2 unfortunately it will not work on a Mac Book.
Hello all,
I want to make sure I am not over thinking this..
so, to get my 1,1 64 bit compatible..i just simply download the file at this site https://mega.nz/#!q1IRFJzK!GUinePUGF3jAAu3oUym-GHBC9doWRTU1p6nnkXkJFdQ....5.31GB Yosemite Installer.dmg.zip...and then restore it to a thumbdrive...install, and voila, my 1,1 is 64 bit capable?? haha, it seems too easy to be true, i feel like im missing a step here!!
I want to make sure I am not over thinking this..
so, to get my 1,1 64 bit compatible..i just simply download the file at this site https://mega.nz/#!q1IRFJzK!GUinePUGF3jAAu3oUym-GHBC9doWRTU1p6nnkXkJFdQ....5.31GB Yosemite Installer.dmg.zip...and then restore it to a thumbdrive...install, and voila, my 1,1 is 64 bit capable?? haha, it seems too easy to be true, i feel like im missing a step here!!
I do not know that installer, and have no information about it, if it's not patched then it wont work it needs to be patched.
I'll send you a pm with a patched installer, that works with Mac pro 1,1 and 2,1's
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ohh okay, it is the file that is in the original post of this thread.....
and it did actually work..well, yosemite installed at least. However, how do I know if it is 64bit capable now? anything to check to make sure it worked?
Will I be able to install Windows 7 64 bit now that the 32 bit limitation has been lifted? last night, it wouldn't let me install 64 bit windows 7...after research, people say it has to do with the windows OS being 64 bit and the mac limited to 32bit.
Your machine is made of all 64bit capable hardware besides the ROM that is on the board, that is 32bit. That is what causes the problem with OS X but it does not affect Windows.
Installing Windows 64 but has nothing to do with OS X and it has always worked without a hitch. If you can't install Windows x64 then there is something wrong with your Windows installer.
Yosemite is 64bit only so that is how you know it is running in 64bit.
That installer is the one I made a long time ago. It is patched for a 1,1 and 2,1 and installs 10.10.0.
yup, and it works great..unfortunately, I can not really use Yosemite..because I still have the 7300GT....it wont even load past the login screen
I have a MSI NX8800GT OC..but it doesn't work for some reason....when I install it and turn the mac on, the video wont even come on at all..not even a black screen, the monitor wont even turn on...sure wish it would work!
yup, and it works great..unfortunately, I can not really use Yosemite..because I still have the 7300GT....it wont even load past the login screen
I have a MSI NX8800GT OC..but it doesn't work for some reason....when I install it and turn the mac on, the video wont even come on at all..not even a black screen, the monitor wont even turn on...sure wish it would work!
Did you add the power cable? If you have the 7300GT it doesn't need any so you wouldn't have them unless you bought them separate. That card should take one 6pin power connector.
Also, don't forget to install PikeYoseFix BEFORE you try to update past 10.10 using the App Store or you will have to take further action to sort the boot.efi files.yup, and it works great..unfortunately, I can not really use Yosemite..because I still have the 7300GT....it wont even load past the login screen
I have a MSI NX8800GT OC..but it doesn't work for some reason....when I install it and turn the mac on, the video wont even come on at all..not even a black screen, the monitor wont even turn on...sure wish it would work!
Yep, I have the power cord plugged into it...I even tried a 7900GS that I also had laying around, and nothing...but the 7300GT works normal. I am about 99% positive the 8800gt is a good card...
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Yup, thanks
This is just a temp setup, at the moment...I have two Samsung 850 Pros that I'm gonna install it on permanently, tomorrow.
But, I still have to get a video card...not sure which one to get, though. I just want a card that can play diablo 3 on high settings.
I found a Radeon 7950 on eBay for 190....but may be a bit overkill for what I need it for.
I may just end up going with the 8800GT.
I had a 7300GT and it will work really slowly...if I recall it said 8 MB on the system screen, anyways this should enable you to at least install an Nvidia driver like I was able to...get the best GPU you can afford for 10.10.5 and thanks to DeepWinter eternally!
Yep, correct. It shows 8MB and is slow.
What do you mean by getting a nvidia driver? For what card? 7300?? How would I install the driver, if you're talking about another card besides my installed 7300??
What card do you recommend for right about a 200-225 budget?? Id guess the 7950 flashed is the best for that price??
There is no support for the 7300 GT in Yosemite or El Capitan web drivers or not. It doesn't support the OpenCL needed for the UI.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...27WA0A05WISQI&psc=1&ref_=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl
Get a six-pin adapter and forget the boot screen (keep the 7300 GT if you have trouble) this is the best bang for your price range, once you use Nvidia you will kick ATI to the curb!
Get a six-pin adapter and forget the boot screen (keep the 7300 GT if you have trouble) this is the best bang for your price range, once you use Nvidia you will kick ATI to the curb!
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I had a 970 SC, it was an awesome card.
So, this is my first Mac pro..and still learning about it. Will the 960 work without me having to flash it?? Simply plug and play??
I do have a mini 6 pin to normal 6 pin..so I'm good there.
I had a 970 SC, it was an awesome card.
So, this is my first Mac pro..and still learning about it. Will the 960 work without me having to flash it?? Simply plug and play??
I do have a mini 6 pin to normal 6 pin..so I'm good there.
It will work w/ your 6-pin and apple drivers in Yosemite but install this:http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/89538/en-us
BEFORE you put in the GPU in slot 1 16X then boot up and install these latest Cuda drivers:http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-7.5.25-driver.html
Why did you get rid of the 970, you could be rockin' it right now!!
BEFORE you put in the GPU in slot 1 16X then boot up and install these latest Cuda drivers:http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-7.5.25-driver.html
Why did you get rid of the 970, you could be rockin' it right now!!
A 960 will work but it requires the Nvidia Web drivers. OS X 10.11.3 introduced some basic support so you no longer have to boot with nv_disable=1 until you get the drivers installed.
That being said a 1,1 has PCIe gen 1.0 slots so a 960 will be very bottlenecked by that and the processors.