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Resolved Mac Pro 1,1 Firmware upgrade issues
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Sounds good! Wish me luck and Im going to start the process now!
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Well Gents, I got lucky and this worked on the first try!
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From what I have read you have to be in an older OSX like Lion for this to fully work!
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>>>UPDATE: 2020-04-22
(EDIT to Entry 11 above)
5. Instead of rebooting through the apple menu just hold down the power switch until it shuts down.
6. Then press and hold the power button until the light flashes and you hear the tone.
7. The dvd/cd trays will eject and you'll see at the apple logo and a loader.
My Mac Pro had the exact same boot rom. You need to manually modify the patch file with a hex editor:
- Inside MacProEFIUpdater2006.patch there are 4 strings related to boot rom, look at the 2nd and 4th string, replace with yours. Don’t insert, don’t touch the 1st and 3rd.
So I tried this, it didn't work. And it isn't going to, there are issues.
" hdiutil detach '/Volumes/Mac Pro EFI Update/' "
I've tried both with this line left in, and also with it deleted, neither works.
But I continued, just on the off chance.
I have tried it in Leopard, in Snow Leopard and in Lion. The bios is MP11.005C.B08 on both machines, both have the genuine apple 7300GT graphics cards, and no other PCIe cards, I've tried a couple of different ram configurations, and I've tried flashing in safe mode, curiously, neither machine would boot into safe mode in Lion. HDD has been tried in slot 2 and slot 3, in case that's relevant to anyone.
When I tried just running the Firmware Tool it created the RAM disc successfully and then gave me the 5530 error.
Quite frankly I'm coming to the conclusion that despite a lot of people claiming otherwise, this cannot be done, not at home by an average DIYer.
I am dyslexic, reading is not something I find easy, but having spent more than a month reading thru around 100 pages across several forums, plus a couple of other how-to write ups, not to mention watching more how-to videos than I care to remember. None of it works, this machine stubbornly refuses to accept 2.1 bios.
I've run out of thermal grease, and I've ordered some more, when it arrives, this pair of X5365 (SLAED) will be swapped out for the original X5150's. The fan noise is driving me crazy.
In case you are wondering, those X5365's will most likely have an appointment with a sledge hammer. Just at the moment, I am that p155ed off.
This appears to have been nothing but a wholly pointless waste of time and money.
Given the post truth world we live in, I wouldn't be surprised if this was all just a hoax, or just possibly a scam to sell Clovertown processors.
:,(
Except this line doesn't exist, the closest is...
" hdiutil detach '/Volumes/Mac Pro EFI Update/' "
I've tried both with this line left in, and also with it deleted, neither works.
Terminal auto fills in N (= no) without any opportunity to type anything.
But I continued, just on the off chance.
Should "just keep trying until it works!!!!!!!" ring alarm bells, or am I just being paranoid?
Not here, not on either of the 2 machine's I tried.
I have tried it in Leopard, in Snow Leopard and in Lion. The bios is MP11.005C.B08 on both machines, both have the genuine apple 7300GT graphics cards, and no other PCIe cards, I've tried a couple of different ram configurations, and I've tried flashing in safe mode, curiously, neither machine would boot into safe mode in Lion. HDD has been tried in slot 2 and slot 3, in case that's relevant to anyone.
When I tried just running the Firmware Tool it created the RAM disc successfully and then gave me the 5530 error.
Quite frankly I'm coming to the conclusion that despite a lot of people claiming otherwise, this cannot be done, not at home by an average DIYer.
I am dyslexic, reading is not something I find easy, but having spent more than a month reading thru around 100 pages across several forums, plus a couple of other how-to write ups, not to mention watching more how-to videos than I care to remember. None of it works, this machine stubbornly refuses to accept 2.1 bios.
I've run out of thermal grease, and I've ordered some more, when it arrives, this pair of X5365 (SLAED) will be swapped out for the original X5150's. The fan noise is driving me crazy.
In case you are wondering, those X5365's will most likely have an appointment with a sledge hammer. Just at the moment, I am that p155ed off.
This appears to have been nothing but a wholly pointless waste of time and money.
Given the post truth world we live in, I wouldn't be surprised if this was all just a hoax, or just possibly a scam to sell Clovertown processors.
:,(
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So, time for an update...
Found some SLAG9's (Woodcrest, Dual core 5160 3GHz, 65W max, 8W idle) slight speed bump, lower power consumption, all good things.
I installed Mac Pro 3,1 CPU heatsinks, extending the wire on the lower processor by snipping of the cord from a 1.1 heatsink, cutting off the plug from the 3.1 heatsink with the bit of aluminum that sticks out toward the fans, and soldering the wires together.
I used Arctic Silver 5, I reapplied thermal grease to the north bridge, and also the chip under other heatsink, in the PCIe bay, now runs nice and cool, and almost totally silently as well, all is better.
I just wish I could run all the 64GB ram I have for this machine.
Found some SLAG9's (Woodcrest, Dual core 5160 3GHz, 65W max, 8W idle) slight speed bump, lower power consumption, all good things.
I installed Mac Pro 3,1 CPU heatsinks, extending the wire on the lower processor by snipping of the cord from a 1.1 heatsink, cutting off the plug from the 3.1 heatsink with the bit of aluminum that sticks out toward the fans, and soldering the wires together.
I used Arctic Silver 5, I reapplied thermal grease to the north bridge, and also the chip under other heatsink, in the PCIe bay, now runs nice and cool, and almost totally silently as well, all is better.
I just wish I could run all the 64GB ram I have for this machine.
So I tried this, it didn't work. And it isn't going to, there are issues.
Except this line doesn't exist, the closest is...
" hdiutil detach '/Volumes/Mac Pro EFI Update/' "
I've tried both with this line left in, and also with it deleted, neither works.
Terminal auto fills in N (= no) without any opportunity to type anything.
But I continued, just on the off chance.
Should "just keep trying until it works!!!!!!!" ring alarm bells, or am I just being paranoid?
Not here, not on either of the 2 machine's I tried.
I have tried it in Leopard, in Snow Leopard and in Lion. The bios is MP11.005C.B08 on both machines, both have the genuine apple 7300GT graphics cards, and no other PCIe cards, I've tried a couple of different ram configurations, and I've tried flashing in safe mode, curiously, neither machine would boot into safe mode in Lion. HDD has been tried in slot 2 and slot 3, in case that's relevant to anyone.
When I tried just running the Firmware Tool it created the RAM disc successfully and then gave me the 5530 error.
Quite frankly I'm coming to the conclusion that despite a lot of people claiming otherwise, this cannot be done, not at home by an average DIYer.
I am dyslexic, reading is not something I find easy, but having spent more than a month reading thru around 100 pages across several forums, plus a couple of other how-to write ups, not to mention watching more how-to videos than I care to remember. None of it works, this machine stubbornly refuses to accept 2.1 bios.
I've run out of thermal grease, and I've ordered some more, when it arrives, this pair of X5365 (SLAED) will be swapped out for the original X5150's. The fan noise is driving me crazy.
In case you are wondering, those X5365's will most likely have an appointment with a sledge hammer. Just at the moment, I am that p155ed off.
This appears to have been nothing but a wholly pointless waste of time and money.
Given the post truth world we live in, I wouldn't be surprised if this was all just a hoax, or just possibly a scam to sell Clovertown processors.
:,(
After many attempts and minor adjustments in trying to successfully update I found this video
Which worked a treat.
First time it didn't, but after putting the code in using text writer and using terminal without caps (unlike his instruction) it worked. 2,1 update using snow leopard with the 3.0 ghz quad core processors inside and now recognised. A few issues booting up post update however all seems to be working fine now.
I am a total noob so I don't really know why what this guy done differently works but it does. What a legend.
This worked for me 7/14/20. you will know if it will work when there is another folder created on the desktop. After driving myself crazay for days, when i downloaded the updater to the computer DIRECTLY and followed this procedure, i should have checked what the folder was called but didn't (sorry) needless to say it was a locked non-permission folder and restarted. Boom it updated. not to reFIT my way to the SMC update!!!
My English is not very good, especially I can't remember such a long text from MacCandy's post. Thus when doing the firmware flash I followed step-by-step the video in #83. It worked like a charm (June 20, 2020)
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Hey everyone, first time poster long time lurker. I have come to a standstill while trying to update my firmware on my 2006 MacPro 1,1 wit 2x 2.66 dual core processors, I just received my x5365s today and have been trying since the early morning to get this going. I was attempting to run the firmware updater through 10.11 with no luck and then swapped over to my 10.7.5 install which is where I have tried to use all the work arounds I have come across. I have tried downloading the Apple FW updater, loading that while trying to run the 1,1 to 2,1 updater, have entered all of the correct commands in terminal and it seems all of the correct files are created. I kept seeing a "Locked" file that pertains to my current bios once the . /Volumes/RamDisk/ExtractAndPatchEFIFiles.sh has been run. I started snooping around in the ".patch" file and noticed that my bios build didn't exist anywhere. I tried adding it in and replacing all of the Mp11 files with only mine with still no luck. I also found in the upgrade.sh file that it says firmware2="LOCKED_MP11_005C_08B.fd".
My bios build is:MP11.88Z.005C.B08.0707021221
Specs:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Processor): 4 MB
Memory: 32 GB (normally 6dgb)
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Serial Number (system): G87164PMUQ2
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F2092764
Things that I have tried as to not interfere with the install
Remove Nvida geforce 8800
revert to stock Nvidia geforce 7300
remove ram down to 32gb
remove all other internal drives
remove all external drives
remove rEFIt
After closing all programs and ejecting the Apple FW DMG and shutting the computer down completely I hold down the power button until the light flashes it gives me the long beep tone, get the restart chime, monitors go to sleep and about 5 seconds later I get the restart chime again and it boots back into 10.7. Any tips would be greatly appreciated as I would love to breath some new life into this computer for the kids.
My bios build is:MP11.88Z.005C.B08.0707021221
Specs:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Processor): 4 MB
Memory: 32 GB (normally 6dgb)
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Serial Number (system): G87164PMUQ2
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F2092764
Things that I have tried as to not interfere with the install
Remove Nvida geforce 8800
revert to stock Nvidia geforce 7300
remove ram down to 32gb
remove all other internal drives
remove all external drives
remove rEFIt
After closing all programs and ejecting the Apple FW DMG and shutting the computer down completely I hold down the power button until the light flashes it gives me the long beep tone, get the restart chime, monitors go to sleep and about 5 seconds later I get the restart chime again and it boots back into 10.7. Any tips would be greatly appreciated as I would love to breath some new life into this computer for the kids.
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Actually this did the trick. I updated to 10.6.8 completly and then the old Netkas trick worked for me. I followed the Mccandy post but the netkas app didn’t crash. I restarted after firmware update because i saw only 1 proc. And boom!
Took me around 10 minutes or so after 10.6.8 was done Installing. Super easy!
I'm back to 1,1. El Capitan didn't like my memory (i think) and constant restarted. And because i though maybe the 2,1 was causing it i revert back to 1,1 (Don't have new memory and 2,1 cpu's so 2,1 was not really needed) But new memory is on it's way. As is new cpu's. So yes SMC is also the next thing if everything works fine.
Small update: back to 2.1 because the new memory came in. And it works and I could run El Capitan. Also flashed a better then my 7300 gt pc video card. I was soooo happy when i saw the boot screen but next day: green scrambled image. Killed my mood that day.
Funny thing is: i had it running in my pc and hackintosh and would work perfect some months ago. Also in Lion it worked without the boot screen. Anyway i think i killed it with the hardware acceleration of Chrome. The day it worked after flashing i was running 20 tabs in Chrome. I didn't run any other heavy GPU apps. But it's a guess.
And now i have all kinds of temp apps running because i want to know when the card is overheating! I got 2 more video cards 2 flash but have to wait for power cables. I only have one. And not so happy about the last flashed card dying on me. So i will hold it off a bit until i get some cheap spares.
Anyway i'm way off topic. Should start my own topic. Sorry for this.
Funny thing is: i had it running in my pc and hackintosh and would work perfect some months ago. Also in Lion it worked without the boot screen. Anyway i think i killed it with the hardware acceleration of Chrome. The day it worked after flashing i was running 20 tabs in Chrome. I didn't run any other heavy GPU apps. But it's a guess.
And now i have all kinds of temp apps running because i want to know when the card is overheating! I got 2 more video cards 2 flash but have to wait for power cables. I only have one. And not so happy about the last flashed card dying on me. So i will hold it off a bit until i get some cheap spares.
Anyway i'm way off topic. Should start my own topic. Sorry for this.
I've been wrestling with this FW update for several days now and feel as though I've exhausted all possible solutions offered in this thread and on Netkas' thread Here. I'm having the same issue that Bidzer on p. 34 post #3 describes. After successfully running the firmware tool, (I don't get either a 5350 or 5370 error) I reboot, hold down the power button and enter the firmware screen. Then it appears for a flash but quits and the computer reboots again back into MacOS. Following Bidzer's suggestion, followed Hrutkay Mod's Video and successfully updated the SMC version to 1.15f3.
Next, I ran through the steps posted by MacCandy on page 2 of this thread at least a dozen times.
I'm able to edit the shell script, although I have never been prompted to "unlock" the file. The terminal commands all complete without any unusual errors, but upon reboot and entering the firmware updater, I have the same issue where it quits right away.
I'm running a Mac Pro 1,1 with two upgraded quad-core Xeon 5365 CPUs, two original 1GB sticks of RAM, original Geforce 8800 GT video card, OS X 10.6.8, Boot ROM MP11.005C.B08. All internal drives and PCI cards have been removed, and I've tried resetting PRAM and SMC with no luck. I'm banging my head against a wall here. Anyone have any ideas here? Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Next, I ran through the steps posted by MacCandy on page 2 of this thread at least a dozen times.
I'm able to edit the shell script, although I have never been prompted to "unlock" the file. The terminal commands all complete without any unusual errors, but upon reboot and entering the firmware updater, I have the same issue where it quits right away.
I'm running a Mac Pro 1,1 with two upgraded quad-core Xeon 5365 CPUs, two original 1GB sticks of RAM, original Geforce 8800 GT video card, OS X 10.6.8, Boot ROM MP11.005C.B08. All internal drives and PCI cards have been removed, and I've tried resetting PRAM and SMC with no luck. I'm banging my head against a wall here. Anyone have any ideas here? Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
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Keep the 7300GT some where safe, you may need it in the future when you need to see the boot screen.
Buy a not-so-new PC card, it may work out of box on OSX Lion and El Capitan, just no boot screen.
I have a Gigabyte ATI HD6670 2GB, and it just work plug-and-play. No need to flash anything.
I flashed the Gigabyte GTX680 2GB OC, too, but still no boot screen. It turns out that a flashed GTX680 only gives boot screen on native 64-bit EFI MP like 3,1 or 4,1/5,1.
100% ... i need bootscreens in case of trouble. Also i think why the card died. But keep it a secret for now. And i found a 5 euro mac card that should be dead but isn't. I am so happy with it but I took it out. Cause my power cables came and now 1 run a pc card it. Which is less power but i just need to run el capitan for logic. So the mac card is more valuable to me as spare. Also i run some other tricks to keep this running card alive.
Tried to revive the dead card with a hair blower outside. But didn't work. Too cold outside and the hair dryer is only 1200 watt. Tried it again inside and with another 1k blower on the other side but haven't tested it. And yes i'm after better mac pro's but i stil have to do 2 cpu upgrades (also need a another cheap 1.1) and memory i got here.
So i keep my bids low. No need for it right now. And i payed 25 euro for the mac pro 1.1 in top condition. Which i would buy for again but none available for that price right now. Although this 1.1 was listed for more than a month and no sale but me. Anyway no hurry for new 1.1's or better. They will pop up again. I just have to wait and yes i got some new videocards i want cheaply too but same story. No hurry.
And haven't touched the 1.1 that much. It runs el cap + logic now and i need to do simple stuff. Not stuff that's takes away 2 days like with videocard flashing, dying,bad mood etc. So taxes it is but i'll test the 'may revived' card later. And i have some other mac tricks up my sleeve
Got another 1,1. Installed one of 2 the pair of the 55's cpu's i got and did firmware and smc update. My cpu core temps are around 50 to 60 degrees celsius in El capitan when doing not much. Which i find a bit high. Although heatsinks are around nicely 20/25 degrees. Searched the web a bit but due to all those different temp programs, i think some people use different numbers. Although i found an apple tread that says it's nothing to worry about. And these should handle up to 100 degrees max. Although online the 55's are rated for 65 degrees i think. Which i think are not core temps. But that's an assumption but i've seen people run those cpu's much hotter. Even on idle ( but were worried about the temps though) Anyway El Capitan could also be a factor.
Anyway i'm gonna check what the temps are in my old 1,1 because they run on the old processors. And maybe put the other 55's in there and see if i can get lower temps. I didn't do the 'massage the paste into the cpu' preparation some people on youtube did. Just a good clean and 2 rows of paste on the cpu's so every core is covert. Also not sure if 1 of my 55's is a matched pair. I think the same stepping but text and 1 number is different on the cpu's. And geekbecnh 3 shows less cpu info than others i find only
And gonna try if a cheap pci express to pci raiser works. I got an old uad1 card. Will use the old system for that with as less things installed. That's gonna be tricky. But if it's works i can get another one and build a sort of DIY Magma rack. Although i think I want the cards somewhere inside. Maybe i can use the space where the DVD drives are. But first see if i can use them at all.
Also migrated my old 10.5.8 logic g5 disk with my audio recordings. Let see if i can open these up after i got a uad1 card running.
Also thinking about a raid zero ssd boot setup. I got 2 older Samsungs 830's that can do 500mb read and 230mb write or something like that. I got newer ones that can do 500mb back and forth but they are useless at running that speed as sata2 is limited. Also thinking about using the 2 extra sata ports for that. And also put those 2 small sdd's somewhere inside while i can still use the pci raisers too. That will be tricky.
Last thing ( maybe i should open a new topic about it) But i've see this guy using different rams slots than advised on the inside of the door of the mac pro. I think he uses 3 and 4 and 7 and 8 instead of starting with 1 and 2 on board a. If i'm correct. But you can see it here around 50 seconds in.
I rather use those slots because for heat i think it's better to stay away from the logic board as far as possible. Slots 3 and 4, 7 and 8 are also closer to the opening so there should be more ventilation there.
I have searched in google but nothing comes up. I will try to search here in the forum to see if people talked about this already.
Anyway i'm gonna check what the temps are in my old 1,1 because they run on the old processors. And maybe put the other 55's in there and see if i can get lower temps. I didn't do the 'massage the paste into the cpu' preparation some people on youtube did. Just a good clean and 2 rows of paste on the cpu's so every core is covert. Also not sure if 1 of my 55's is a matched pair. I think the same stepping but text and 1 number is different on the cpu's. And geekbecnh 3 shows less cpu info than others i find only
And gonna try if a cheap pci express to pci raiser works. I got an old uad1 card. Will use the old system for that with as less things installed. That's gonna be tricky. But if it's works i can get another one and build a sort of DIY Magma rack. Although i think I want the cards somewhere inside. Maybe i can use the space where the DVD drives are. But first see if i can use them at all.
Also migrated my old 10.5.8 logic g5 disk with my audio recordings. Let see if i can open these up after i got a uad1 card running.
Also thinking about a raid zero ssd boot setup. I got 2 older Samsungs 830's that can do 500mb read and 230mb write or something like that. I got newer ones that can do 500mb back and forth but they are useless at running that speed as sata2 is limited. Also thinking about using the 2 extra sata ports for that. And also put those 2 small sdd's somewhere inside while i can still use the pci raisers too. That will be tricky.
Last thing ( maybe i should open a new topic about it) But i've see this guy using different rams slots than advised on the inside of the door of the mac pro. I think he uses 3 and 4 and 7 and 8 instead of starting with 1 and 2 on board a. If i'm correct. But you can see it here around 50 seconds in.
I rather use those slots because for heat i think it's better to stay away from the logic board as far as possible. Slots 3 and 4, 7 and 8 are also closer to the opening so there should be more ventilation there.
I have searched in google but nothing comes up. I will try to search here in the forum to see if people talked about this already.
I think TG pro is giving wrong cpu temp numbers. Cpu a and b die 1 are at 67/69 degrees Celsius but when i check Macs fan control it says: cpu a and b core 0 temp is around 32/30 degrees Celsius. Which i think is much more real. Or i hope.
Also pci to pci express bracket worked in my old Mac pro with old cpu’s. But that was Lion.
Now going to try on the new cpu machine and el capitan. Hope it works there too.
Also pci to pci express bracket worked in my old Mac pro with old cpu’s. But that was Lion.
Now going to try on the new cpu machine and el capitan. Hope it works there too.
Hi all,
I just picked up a MacPro1,1 today (99p on eBay!) and I've spent hours going round and round failing to do this update. A YouTube comment saved me in the end - use the tool on Page 13 of the update tool thread - Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Tool Released (netkas.org) and it worked first time (I am on Lion 10.7.5 at the moment).
Cheers,
Steve
I just picked up a MacPro1,1 today (99p on eBay!) and I've spent hours going round and round failing to do this update. A YouTube comment saved me in the end - use the tool on Page 13 of the update tool thread - Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Tool Released (netkas.org) and it worked first time (I am on Lion 10.7.5 at the moment).
Cheers,
Steve
Wooo, thanks dude! I've been struggling with this update for a few days with no sucess. After trying your suggestion it worked on the first attempt. THANKS A LOT!