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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

TiberioG said:
I tried M57702.ROM but Atiflash was not able to flash my card with that rom so I decided to reflash the card with the original firmware.
Up to now ( 3 hours )I have not had panics or hang. But obviously in SystemProfile my card is now recognized as ATI Radeon 5000 1024 MB.

Thanks for advice.
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I'm guessing atiflash generated an authentication type error…

In which case type:

Code: 
atiflash -i

This will identify your card and tell you which slot it is in - probably zero or one.

To flash a card with a rom that atiflash identifies as being in someway incorrect for your card you need to use the 'force' flag ie -f

Code: 
atiflash -p -f 0 M57702.ROM

Which assumes that 0 (zero) is the slot the card is in, and M57702.ROM is the rom.

Any questions, please come back here.

-Rob
 
666sheep said:
Seems like card is the culprit, not the MP. How do you power it? I've used 6+8 pin cards in my 2,1 and even during Furmark never had a single PSU overload. But I'm always using minimum 17 or even 15 AWG power cables. Apple ones are more like 22 AWG.

Your "16GB issue" is pretty strange, I've never seen anything like this before and I had 32GB in mine for some time with 10.6 and 10.9.
10.9.2 is still in beta stage. No public download.
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I have an original 6+8 mac cable and one I bought on ebay, I will try using 2 original cables if in fact,

I just reinserted the LION OSX HDD back into the Mac Pro with the "PC" GTX570, and Im back online with both PP CC and LR5 and 16GB of RAM as as if nothing happened.... I'll try a fresh install of 10.9.2 developer ..... because neither 10.9.1 and cuds driver update did it.......
 
miguelinnnnn said:
I have an original 6+8 mac cable and one I bought on ebay, I will try using 2 original cables if in fact,
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There's no such animal as "original 6+8 mac cable" :confused:
My point was that Apple supplied cables are thinner than ones I use. Thinner means more resistance and less current delivered. In fact for most power hungry cards 18 AWG wire is sweet spot. My cables are going a bit further... The more copper the better :D
 
Hello Everybody, my 1.1 upped to 2.1 mac pro work very well with mavericks.

But i have a problem since i am running 10.9.1 : the bluetooth.

I have two magic mouse and the problem is the same ...

The mouse disconnect from the mac pro and the only solution to fix it is to reboot ...

Is there a problem with bluetooth with this configuration ?

Thanks !
 
Fredd057 said:
Hello Everybody, my 1.1 upped to 2.1 mac pro work very well with mavericks.

But i have a problem since i am running 10.9.1 : the bluetooth.

I have two magic mouse and the problem is the same ...

The mouse disconnect from the mac pro and the only solution to fix it is to reboot ...

Is there a problem with bluetooth with this configuration ?

Thanks !
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I cannot speak of Magic Mouse issues because I do not have any - However - My keyboard is Apple Bluetooth, and my trackpad is a bluetooth Magic Trackpad, and while I ran 10.9.1, I experienced no bluetooth issues at all.

Mac Pro 1,1 -> 2,1 16gb ram, 8x3ghz.

As a side note, I will add that I have found in my experience that Mac Pros have quite short Bluetooth range, sometimes as little as a metre, possibly because of the thick all metal casings? Though I do recall an issue with some models having incorrectly labeled bluetooth/wifi antenna cables.
 
Robert Davies said:
Though I do recall an issue with some models having incorrectly labeled bluetooth/wifi antenna cables.
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From what I remember or rather on my Mac Pro 1,1 it wasn't so much that they were mislabelled, rather the Bluetooth aerial was so poor that you had to disconnect it and connect the spare 3rd WiFi aerial to the Bluetooth card instead.

The downside of which is that if you are connected to a 2.4GHz WiFi network, then you'll find interference occurs so the Bluetooth devices lag and disconnect sometimes and the WiFi connection is slowed down. This mainly occurs when WiFi is being heavily used though (downloading updates, transferring files etc...).

EDIT: This is due to the three WiFi aerials being located close together on the underside of the case, under the plastic panel. The Bluetooth aerial is located near the ports at the rear of the case but is behind the aluminium enclosure if I remember rightly which is why it is rubbish.

I'm now on a 5GHz WiFi network which stops the two from interfering.


Also same here I'm on 10.9.1 on my Mac Pro 1,1 with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and it all works fine.
 
Dark Dragoon said:
From what I remember or rather on my Mac Pro 1,1 it wasn't so much that they were mislabelled, rather the Bluetooth aerial was so poor that you had to disconnect it and connect the spare 3rd WiFi aerial to the Bluetooth card instead.

The downside of which is that if you are connected to a 2.4GHz WiFi network, then you'll find interference occurs so the Bluetooth devices lag and disconnect sometimes and the WiFi connection is slowed down. This mainly occurs when WiFi is being heavily used though (downloading updates, transferring files etc...).

EDIT: This is due to the three WiFi aerials being located close together on the underside of the case, under the plastic panel. The Bluetooth aerial is located near the ports at the rear of the case but is behind the aluminium enclosure if I remember rightly which is why it is rubbish.

I'm now on a 5GHz WiFi network which stops the two from interfering.


Also same here I'm on 10.9.1 on my Mac Pro 1,1 with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and it all works fine.
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I said it was a while ago(!)

I swapped one of the wifi antenna to the bluetooth and vice versa, because of the reason described above. It didn't affect the wifi throughput but helped the bluetooth enormously.

Aha! Xlr8yourmac to the rescue to remind me I hadn't lost my marbles!

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/Mac_Pro/Bluetooth_MacPro_install/Bluetooth_MacPro_install.html
 
I've ran Mavericks very fine with my flashed MacPro 1,2-->2,1 for a few months
Running Mountain Lion now very stable, but got a smal question..

I have dual official ATI 4870's in my MacPro, and I know they get quit hot.
In Windows (bootcamp) i can easily check the GPU temps, and speed up the fan speed..
But in OSX I cant read out my GPU temps. lots of other temps. but not my GPU temps.

Does somebody know a way how to get those temps. displayed ??


Ive just many programs's like SMC Fan Control, iStat Menu's and iStat Pro..
 
Robert Davies said:
I'm guessing atiflash generated an authentication type error…

In which case type:

Code: 
atiflash -i

This will identify your card and tell you which slot it is in - probably zero or one.

To flash a card with a rom that atiflash identifies as being in someway incorrect for your card you need to use the 'force' flag ie -f

Code: 
atiflash -p -f 0 M57702.ROM

Which assumes that 0 (zero) is the slot the card is in, and M57702.ROM is the rom.

Any questions, please come back here.

-Rob
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Thanks Rob!
In my opinion the hang of the graphics card is not related to its firmware because also now with the original rom freezes.
I collected some info about the issue:
1) the GPU hang occurs after a wake from sleep
2) the system tries to restart the GPU

Code: 
kernel[0]: GPU Hang State = 0x00000000
 kernel[0]: GPU hang: 
 kernel[0]: Trying restart GPU ...
 kernel[0]: AMDJuniperGraphicsAccelerator: bad busy count (255,1)

3) the problem is related to these kext:
Code: 
 kernel[0]: [B]com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily[/B](98.7.1)[024BF8EC-2925-3C4B-ADBB-CFE36F7D41C5]@0xffffff7f8e8cf000->0xffffff7f8e927fff

 kernel[0]: dependency: [B]com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[/B][447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff7f8d2ba000

 kernel[0]: dependency: [B]com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily[/B](2.3.6)[38E388A5-92D6-3388-B799-F2498E582287]@0xffffff7f8dc54000
4) only once or twice there was kernel panic
Code: 
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff800f6dc19e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f9127cba6, type 0=divide error, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x00000001178f4000, CR3: 0x00000000120b4000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0x00000000002a8500, RBX: 0xffffff8138d4bbf0, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0x0000000000000000
RSP: 0xffffff8138d4bbd0, RBP: 0xffffff8138d4bbe0, RSI: 0x0000000000000000, RDI: 0x0000000000000000
R8:  0xffffff7f912981f0, R9:  0x0000000000000027, R10: 0x0000000000000004, R11: 0xffffff7f91298218
R12: 0xffffff803b2417d0, R13: 0xffffff7f91298280, R14: 0xffffff8138d4bc90, R15: 0xffffff8138d4bbf0
RFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff7f9127cba6, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x00000001178f4000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2

With these kext in backtrace:
Code: 
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.6)
com.apple.kext.AMDSupport(1.1.4)
com.apple.kext.AMD5000Controller(1.1.4)
com.apple.kext.AMDFramebuffer(1.1.4)

So the same problem with two different ROM, these weekend I'm going to try the M57702.ROM. I use atiwinflash on windows in another HDD and there is no the force flag so I'll use atiflash on terminal.

In my opinion the issue it could be related to the 32bit architecture of MP 1.1 EFI.

It's strange because the card works well, it crashes only after sleep!
With my old nVidia 8500gt with 8400gs I haven't had any problem.
Thanks for advice, I hope to find a guru of graphics card in order to sort things out.

Bye.

Tiberio
 
TiberioG said:
In my opinion the issue it could be related to the 32bit architecture of MP 1.1 EFI.
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Nope. It does not have anything to do with EFI. It happens on hackintoshes as well. From what I've seen, it seems to be driver issue, which affects only 5770s – mostly with non reference port layout. Flashed, unflashed, injected - it doesn't matter. Looks like a frambuffer problem.
 
TiberioG said:
Thanks for advice, I hope to find a guru of graphics card in order to sort things out.

Bye.

Tiberio
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No problem Tiberio, pretty much all I've learnt about Mac OS X Intel and graphics cards has come from Netkas and his forum.

Following on from what 666sheep says above, I recalled why I'd never had an issue with using a non-ref 5770, my system never sleeps! It's the server for the house, so there's never any time for it to sleep really.

-Rob
 
Robert Davies said:
I said it was a while ago(!)

I swapped one of the wifi antenna to the bluetooth and vice versa, because of the reason described above. It didn't affect the wifi throughput but helped the bluetooth enormously.

Aha! Xlr8yourmac to the rescue to remind me I hadn't lost my marbles!

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/Mac_Pro/Bluetooth_MacPro_install/Bluetooth_MacPro_install.html
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[Mac Pro 1,1 Mav 10.9.1 Tiamo mod, here]

I've been experiencing erratic Magic Trackpad tracking for a few months, now, and I finally got around to switching the BT wire to the [1] wire to the BT module today, to great success.

I have an Oxford WPA 127N/W 2.4/5 mPCI card in the WIFI slot (three-channel, with an auxiliary add-on radio-wire for the third channel), and I have had the "BT" cable attached to the BT device.

I decided now's the time to try attaching the "1" wire to the BT module, and it has been a complete (so-far) Success.

No loss for trying....
 
Need direction.
Did Tiamo's mod and successfully installed and booted 10.9.1 in MP2,1. At the time, I had only the original ATI 1900xt card, and of course, the video was un-accellerated and awful. Just wanted to first confirm I could run Mavericks.

Obtained ATI Radeon 4870 described as "Flashed for Mac Pro" and has 2 DVI ports and 1 S-video port. This card is not recognized at all in slot 1, although Mac boots as if headless and I can ARD to screen and confirm no graphics card found.

If placed in slot 2, Mac boots to dual screen, and Expansion Slot Utility opens for configuring better "lane" assignment. I can only assign 8 lanes for card in slot 2.

Any idea why the card is seen in slot 2, but not in slot 1? I have reset SMC and PMU.

Also, I am unable to invoke Startup Manager or reset PRAM from keyboard. Starting to suspect a bad logic board.

Tom
 
Something is wrong with my mac pro... I can't even boot to disk utility.

I have my install drive all made up, I just can't seem to boot to it.

My macpro has always booted to a black screen and white text... I got it off craigslist... never really knew why it did that but it's really crippling my mavericks install.

Any guesses on the solution, problem, or possible fix?

Thanks guys...

---Trav
 
Paindoc52 said:
Need direction.

Any idea why the card is seen in slot 2, but not in slot 1? I have reset SMC and PMU.

Also, I am unable to invoke Startup Manager or reset PRAM from keyboard. Starting to suspect a bad logic board.

Tom
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If after running unsupported software, you're getting errors of some kind, go back and install known good software for the hardware platform (my recommendation for 1,1 / 2,1 is 10.6.8) and verify the hardware and give yourself the confidence.

If you suspect hardware issues, you're only giving yourself more to worry about by installed Tiamo + 10.9.1.

10.6.8 supports the 4870 so you can verify your purchase based on that hardware/sofware make up.

F
 
Paindoc52 said:
Also, I am unable to invoke Startup Manager or reset PRAM from keyboard. Starting to suspect a bad logic board.
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I don't know about the rest of the symptoms you describe, but, for a time (nothing to do with Tiamo or anything like that), my Mac Pro 1,1->1,2 wouldn't go to Starup Manager either. The culprit was an exhausted motherboard button battery. A simple replacement restored full functionality.
 
MacPro 1.1 > 2.1

Update 13C44 -> 13C48

On my side boot.efi files have been replaced by 13C48.

Replaced the new boot.efi files with Tamio's file and everything is O.K.
 
So update 13C48 is basically a new boot.efi file? Would I replace Tiamo's boot.efi files with the new ones?

Also, PeterHolbrook, where the heck did you find your info about the motherboard battery?

I need to give that a shot!!!
 
For those who have tried to help:

FireArse: I get the same behavior with a separate drive running 10.7.5 Lion.

PeterHolbrook: MB coin battery was installed fresh yesterday.

Thanks for suggestions, still looking. Where could I get a known good EFI ROM image for this card?

And, any idea why the card is seen in slot 2, but not in slot 1? My previous card is seen fine in slot 1 when I put it back in.

Anyone know the voltage supplied to the 6 pin power cables? Pinout? New card uses two cables, old card uses one.

Tom
 
MrWizard64 said:
Also, PeterHolbrook, where the heck did you find your info about the motherboard battery?

I need to give that a shot!!!
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That was simply what happened to me. After a few weeks that Startup Manager wouldn't show when pressing Option at boot time, I bought a new battery (the old one was from 2006), replaced it and Startup Manager appeared on the next boot. This happened late in 2013.
 
Hey guys,

I just replaced the battery, but I still can't seem to get the computer to start up correctly when I hold the option key.

In fact, when I hold it, the computer doesn't boot at all... the screens don't come on.

I am able to boot to disk utility and even reset PRAM and such... no dice with the option key.

Also, when I try to boot to the USB drive, my computer tries to start up for about 10 seconds, and then completely powers down.

If I can't get the boot options to pull up, am I screwed for mavericks?
 
MrWizard64 said:
Hey guys,

I just replaced the battery, but I still can't seem to get the computer to start up correctly when I hold the option key.

In fact, when I hold it, the computer doesn't boot at all... the screens don't come on.

I am able to boot to disk utility and even reset PRAM and such... no dice with the option key.

Also, when I try to boot to the USB drive, my computer tries to start up for about 10 seconds, and then completely powers down.

If I can't get the boot options to pull up, am I screwed for mavericks?
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Recap for us exactly what you have? A Mac Pro 1,1 with a HD5770 video card correct?

Is this an original Apple one? Or a flashed one? Did you remove the other video card and just leave the HD5770 in slot 1? (make it easy on yourself and remove things that can trip the install up)

Disconnect everything such as USB hubs, web cams, firewire hard drives from the Mac pro.

The only thing in the Mac should be a fresh hard drive right? Remove all the other hard drives for now.

If it still doesn't boot, it is possible you need to redo the USB drive again.

That's my suggestion.
 
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666sheep said:
Nope. It does not have anything to do with EFI. It happens on hackintoshes as well. From what I've seen, it seems to be driver issue, which affects only 5770s – mostly with non reference port layout. Flashed, unflashed, injected - it doesn't matter. Looks like a frambuffer problem.
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I have found an AMD5000Controller.kext patched for 5770.
The framebuffer now is correctly set as vervet :
Code: 
Ioreg | grep ATY

| |   |   | +-o ATY,Vervet@0  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002d4, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (5 ms), retain 8>
    | |   |   | | +-o ATY_Vervet  <class AMDFramebuffer, id 0x1000002d7, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (4 ms), retain 18>
    | |   |   | +-o ATY,Vervet@1  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002d5, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (9 ms), retain 8>
    | |   |   | | +-o ATY_Vervet  <class AMDFramebuffer, id 0x1000002dd, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (9 ms), retain 18>
    | |   |   | +-o ATY,Vervet@2  <class AtiFbStub, id 0x1000002d6, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (26 ms), retain 8>
    | |   |   | | +-o ATY_Vervet  <class AMDFramebuffer, id 0x1000002f9, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (2 ms), retain 15>

I also found in a forum the advice to disable wake on LAN.
Now I'm expecting the coming of the issue...
 
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