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MP 1,1-5,1 Install and config Titan Ridge 2 on Mac pro 5.1
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This does not work and even if Apollo is on, my mac starts p, then reboots itself again and Apollo is connected. Is there any workaround this?
So after messing around more, you can restart and boot off a thunderbolt drive, you can't cold boot into it as you stated. But you can boot off your internal system drive and restart to mount your thunderbolt drive that has Mac OS on it then restart again and select it in the OC bootloader and then your in, running off the thunderbolt drive, not that it really serves a purpose except t o make a backup. I have been having a hell of a time with an EVO 970 pro. I created two partitions and install Big Sur and the other I use for scratch disk. But the system is just unreliable. I wonder if I wipe it and not use partitions if it will behave better.
What devices have you tested with the interface (e.g. mass storage, etc)?
Does it behave similar to Titan Ridge, where for example a soft boot is required to identify connected devices?
The video in the beginning of this thread says that the TR card needs to be installed in slot 4 only. Is that accurate? It won't work in slot 2 with the 16x PCI lane?
Slot 2 might work but would require modification of anything that refers to slot 4 such as SSDT.
TR card is PCIe 3.0 x4. The only reason to put it in x16 slot is if you were installing it in a MacPro3,1 where slot 4 is PCIe 1.0 and you want PCIe 2.0 speed or if slot 2 has a PCIe 3.0 switch to allow PCIe 3.0 speed of TR card (e.g. if you install the TR card in a NetStor NA255A)
So putting it in an x16 PCI 2 slot won't give you effectively the same bandwidth as x4 PCI 3, because the card would only use 4 lanes, regardless of what PCI standard the slot is using?
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Correct, unless there is another PCIe switch in between the TR card and the cMP, which can convert PCIe 2.0 x16 to PCIe 3.0 x8 or PCIe 4.0 x4.
Otherwise, 4 lanes on the card means the connection limited to 4 lanes, PCIe 2.0 on the cMP means the connection limited to PCIe 2.0. So, overall can't go higher than PCIe 2.0 x4.
OK, so I have a Sapphire Radeon RX580 in Slot 1. If I put the TR in slot 4 as recommended, does it make a difference where I place the OWC Accelsior m.2 card and a USB3.1 rev 2 card at all? I believe they're both 4X cards anyway so I'm guessing that it wouldn't matter, but better to check than be sorry.
Also, from what I've ready, if my Titan Ridge card is not flashed for Mac, I have the option of Cold starting from Windows 10 and then restart into Mac OS? Or am I ready all that wrong? I'm not a religious man so all these blessings are foreign to me! 🤣
Also, from what I've ready, if my Titan Ridge card is not flashed for Mac, I have the option of Cold starting from Windows 10 and then restart into Mac OS? Or am I ready all that wrong? I'm not a religious man so all these blessings are foreign to me! 🤣
Well, I went ahead and flashed the card. I've installed it in slot 4. I booted up and... it's not recognized. I'm assuming this is because I need to add some sort od drivers or extension for TB3 or the TR card specifically? The instructions I found all seem to point to Martin Lo's package. I installed OC using OCLP. Are these interchangeable? What do I need to do so that the card is recognized?
In a non-OC system, I have my TR card in slot 3 -16x (Windows soft boot) and it works just fine. Have you tried changing slots? That said, I'm still struggling with my MacPro to find the TR card using OC-Monterey.
Apologies on reviving an old thread.
@tsialex (since you pop up in tons of searches and are seemingly the TB expert here)
I am running a MacPro 5,1 with a TitanRidge (v1) card, flashed with (TitanRidgeNVM23-E64Fr) on Ventura using OCLP 0.6.4 (RX 580 8gb)
I see the devices correctly identified in the PCI section of System Report, however no bus initiated in the TB section.
I am running a Lenovo USB display through the TR card (with the mDP to DP cables) and it works fine.
I have a Sonnet Thunderbolt Dual DP adapter and not sure if that is working, as its not shown when connected.
Quite honestly I'm not sure if it's just not showing as an initialized bus or it's not working. Ideally I would confirm working before ordering any additional TB accessories.
Can you assist?
Thanks
Dave
@tsialex (since you pop up in tons of searches and are seemingly the TB expert here)
I am running a MacPro 5,1 with a TitanRidge (v1) card, flashed with (TitanRidgeNVM23-E64Fr) on Ventura using OCLP 0.6.4 (RX 580 8gb)
I see the devices correctly identified in the PCI section of System Report, however no bus initiated in the TB section.
I am running a Lenovo USB display through the TR card (with the mDP to DP cables) and it works fine.
I have a Sonnet Thunderbolt Dual DP adapter and not sure if that is working, as its not shown when connected.
Quite honestly I'm not sure if it's just not showing as an initialized bus or it's not working. Ideally I would confirm working before ordering any additional TB accessories.
Can you assist?
Thanks
Dave
I don't know where you got that I'm a TB expert, I'm definitely not one and I don't own any TB devices besides a GC-TitanRidge and HighPoint 5212 dock.
Said that, you shouldn't run Ventura with a MacPro5,1, even more so to try to debug TB issues.
BTW, this is the correct thread for TB issues with MacPro5,1:
forums.macrumors.com
testing TB3 AIC with MP 5,1
The good folks at egpu.io have had some encouraging results with the latest Gigabyte TB3 add-in card and will be testing in MP 5,1. Will be very interesting to see the results. Hat tip to @itsage. [edit] to correct link
forums.macrumors.com
Anyway, you should debug your issues with Monterey and not Ventura running with OCLP. Ventura require an AVX2.0 supported CPU and the modifications to make it work with an unsupported CPU are extreme - forget Ventura.
Also, to correctly configure a GC-TitanRidge with a MacPro5,1 you need to do manual edits to the OpenCore config.plist and add the SSDT-TBOLT3.aml.
Also, to correctly configure a GC-TitanRidge with a MacPro5,1 you need to do manual edits to the OpenCore config.plist and add the SSDT-TBOLT3.aml.
The Sonnet Thunderbolt Dual DP adapter doesn't contain any PCIe devices so it won't appear in the PCI tab of System Information.app and you don't have the Titan Ridge setup to appear in the Thunderbolt tab (requires SSDT or flashed add-in card or both - I don't know - I've never tried those methods - I just use the Thunderbolt cards for USB and also DisplayPort Alt Mode). The only way to know if the Sonnet Thunderbolt Dual DP adapter works is by connecting displays to it.
Anyone try using a Quest 2 VR set through this card in Windows? I have a Mac Pro 5,1 (8-core 2.4GHz, 96GB RAM, AMD RX 580) dual booting macOS 12 and Windows 11 (windows boots from a SATA SSD) that I'm trying to use as a gaming computer for my daughter (I'm going to get her. real Windows machine next year). The Mac Pro passes all of the Oculus and SteamVR tests with flying colors, but I can't get the Oculus app (and by extension, Windows) to complete the pairing / connection process, so I can then use the VR set with the computer. I'm using a really good [i.e. expensive] USB 4.0 cable that allows the VR set to work in Windows on my 16" Intel MacBook Pro, connected via a USB-C 3.2 compatible card.
The card is kind of cheap, so I'm wondering if a good Thunderbolt card would do the job. Xeons aren't technically supported by the Oculus app, but when I looked up the performance of the 8 core CPU I have (2x 4 core Xeons), it performance better than the minimum Intel i5 that Meta lists for the Oculus app. I can't find anything specific on any feature set that that the i-series chips have that the TV set depends on, so in theory, the Xeons shouldn't be the issue. Especially because the Oculus app said it passed all tests.
Thanks in advance!
The card is kind of cheap, so I'm wondering if a good Thunderbolt card would do the job. Xeons aren't technically supported by the Oculus app, but when I looked up the performance of the 8 core CPU I have (2x 4 core Xeons), it performance better than the minimum Intel i5 that Meta lists for the Oculus app. I can't find anything specific on any feature set that that the i-series chips have that the TV set depends on, so in theory, the Xeons shouldn't be the issue. Especially because the Oculus app said it passed all tests.
Thanks in advance!