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Mac Pro 2,1 and OS X Mavericks

Xserve Success

Howdy. Tiamo, one more thank you.

I created this account just to confirm success installing 10.9 on an Xserve 1,1.

I don't have time this evening to upgrade my server in its entirety but there is no reason this won't work flawlessly.

What I did... ditto'd / to an external FireWire partition. Booted the 10.9 install from another partition on the same external drive. It installed and rebooted into 10.9 while I wasn't even paying attention.

I'm using the stock X1300 card. Runs perfectly. I have no need for more video power on this Xserve. I think the user interface was actually faster than the 10.6.8 partition I started with!

I'm also using an HPT RR2314 and the RAID 5 array was recognized immediately.
 
nice to hear !

your X1300 is not supported in 10.8 and 10.9 as far as i know.
It should work but there is no hardware acceleration, because of drivers are missing in the newer OSX builds.

If you want a beter graphical experience like you had in snow leopard, upgrade your card to a newer version.

take a GT120 for example, this is also being used in the Xserver early 2009.
Which is supported fine in 10.8 and 10.9 !!

or take another graphics card, GT120 is not that expensive search ebay for example..
 
FlorisVN said:
take a GT120 for example, this is also being used in the Xserver early 2009.
Which is supported fine in 10.8 and 10.9 !!

or take another graphics card, GT120 is not that expensive search ebay for example..
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The GT120 is around $120 because the 1,1 and 2,1 MacPros and Xserves need one that supports EFI32 and they're kind of rare. Plus in the Xserve it looks like that card would be a tight fit and a cooling nightmare.

Now if someone knows anything about the Radeon 5670 (~$30) working with my Xserve 1,1.... I'm all ears. Though again, the X1300 works just fine for server-only duty.
 
damn it, I was downloading MV on my laptop but forgot to leave the power cable attached....It never finished downloading. time to restart it.
 
ATI 5770 not working

First a big thanks to Tiamo and secondly to all who have contributed to this thread. I've finally got Mavericks on my Mac Pro 1,1. All perfect apart from the Ati 5770.

My machine is running 10.9.1. 10GB Ram and a Nvidia 8800 GT, sound works fine.

The ATI card is not displaying. It is recognized and appears in the system info but unlike the 8800 which says 'Driver Installed: Yes, MSI: Yes' the ATI says 'Driver Installed: Yes, MSI: No'.

I've used this card for years and when I upgraded to Lion I had to copy the old Snow Leopard Kexts to Lion to get it to work. This didn't work on Mavericks

The card is an XFX ATI 5770 GB VRAM that is not flashed, plain pc card. I don't need the startup screen (have the other card).

Any help would be appreciated. I'm not sure if I should just grab another pc ATI card and try that (I can get a Gigabyte ATI 5770 quite cheaply). Try and flash the one I have or buy the insanely expensive Apple version.

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I can't find the question in all these pages but somebody mentioned problems with iTunes.

After installation trying to update my iOS apps resulted in an error. I reinstalled iTines from apple.com and everything worked.

I am however locked out of iTunes match for 90 days!
 
I remember seeing the post to be able to download Mavericks on an unsupported machine. My OWC SSD 3.5" tray adapter comes today and would like to do this upgrade tonight. I searched thru the thread but cant seem to fine it.
 
4K UHDTV GPU? For MacPro 1,1 upgraded to MacPro 2,1?

Thanks to all. I've learned much and am very thankful. 1st time posting! Whoo Hoo! SO I have 10.9.1 running on a MacPro 1,1 that is now a MacPro 2,1 I put in Clovertown X5365 processors and have 16GB RAM. It's perfect and I love it.

I got a 4K TV for SuperBowl. I'd like to feed it a 4K signal but my ATI Radeon HD 5770 doesn't do that... So I'd like to go for the most insane GPU card that would work in my machine, and get me to 4K UHDTV resolution... Any ideas?

-Cheers in advance-

-Flymaus
 
did you know you can also upgrade your efi 1,1 to 2,1 model !
Netkas made a easy 1 click tool for this !

i also recommend running this EFI upgrade when upgrading cpu's to quad cores..

upgrade you graphics card to a newer version is possible, likely a pc card.
but you wont get EFI bootscreen..

get a new ATi or nvidia card, those will run 4K displays !
 
FlorisVN said:
did you know you can also upgrade your efi 1,1 to 2,1 model !
Netkas made a easy 1 click tool for this !

i also recommend running this EFI upgrade when upgrading cpu's to quad cores..

upgrade you graphics card to a newer version is possible, likely a pc card.
but you wont get EFI bootscreen..

get a new ATi or nvidia card, those will run 4K displays !
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doesnt our PCI limit max out at 1.5GB?
 
Sorry if I missed it if it was posted

I've gone through the 20+ pages of this thread and it seems as if the question I'm wondering how one would go about using tiamo boot file for 10.8/10.9. I'm currently running netkas solution with Chameleon on 10.9.1 and ML. Is it as simple as replacing the file and rebooting? Or is a new install required
 
teameurox said:
I've gone through the 20+ pages of this thread and it seems as if the question I'm wondering how one would go about using tiamo boot file for 10.8/10.9. I'm currently running netkas solution with Chameleon on 10.9.1 and ML. Is it as simple as replacing the file and rebooting? Or is a new install required
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You might need to reset PRAM and/or bless the Mavericks system. Other than that, replacing is all that's needed. That's my personal experience.
 
a lot more work than I thought even with the automated app we have, never mind I never chose "run auto" haha. Oh human error.
 
so..pressing autokey was pretty much it huh? Damn I read and read and read everything so many times.

Cheers!


you guys are just simply amazing!
 
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Robert Davies said:
Short answer = Yes

Longer answer = Still yes, but do the firmware update first.
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I went for the cheaper x5355s instead. Installed them, then ran the macpro 2,1 firmware update, in case something went wrong with the CPU swap. Everything is working well. No crashes or kernel panics yet.
 
Thanks yes I upgraded the efi too- (firmware) curious about this-

carlosm86 said:
doesnt our PCI limit max out at 1.5GB?
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This is what I want to know. As it makes no sense to buy a card that the Mac Pro 2,1 won't recognize or play well with. And also if I buy something like this will it be overkill as it will be bottlenecked?

this is what I'm thinking think it will work?

EVGA GeForce GTX760 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 2GB GDDR5 256bit, Dual-Link DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI,DP, SLI Ready Graphics Card (02G-P4-2765-KR) Graphics Cards 02G-P4-2765-KR

259.99 at amazon.

Thanks for any thoughts-
 
flymaus said:
This is what I want to know. As it makes no sense to buy a card that the Mac Pro 2,1 won't recognize or play well with. And also if I buy something like this will it be overkill as it will be bottlenecked?

this is what I'm thinking think it will work?

EVGA GeForce GTX760 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 2GB GDDR5 256bit, Dual-Link DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI,DP, SLI Ready Graphics Card (02G-P4-2765-KR) Graphics Cards 02G-P4-2765-KR

259.99 at amazon.

Thanks for any thoughts-
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While I can't comment on that specific card, I have successfully installed and run (complete with grey screen) a Mac Edition 7950 with 3GB of GPU memory on my Mac Pro 1,1 with Mavericks, enabled by Tiamo.
 
erikmar said:
I went for the cheaper x5355s instead. Installed them, then ran the macpro 2,1 firmware update, in case something went wrong with the CPU swap. Everything is working well. No crashes or kernel panics yet.
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If I recall correctly, the 2,1 update properly enables the correct recognition of the 3gig quad cores - though I believe there are some Intel firmware updates (microcode) between 1,1 and 2,1.

Anywho, glad it all worked out for you - some people find the update/upgrade process reasonably straightforward, and some, not so much…

Regards,

-Rob

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flymaus said:
This is what I want to know. As it makes no sense to buy a card that the Mac Pro 2,1 won't recognize or play well with. And also if I buy something like this will it be overkill as it will be bottlenecked?

this is what I'm thinking think it will work?

EVGA GeForce GTX760 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 2GB GDDR5 256bit, Dual-Link DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI,DP, SLI Ready Graphics Card (02G-P4-2765-KR) Graphics Cards 02G-P4-2765-KR

259.99 at amazon.

Thanks for any thoughts-
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In simple English, yes, there is a bottleneck, but in practical terms, nowhere near the amount you'd expect, consequently I suspect even with higher end 7 series cards in both the ATI and NVidia ranges there are very real performance gains to be had - IIRC this has been discussed at length over at Netkas'.

Indeed I'm sure there's a thread hereabouts of a 1,1 with a 7950? outperforming some much more modern machinery.
 
1c: in Finder right-click the app and select show package contents
-> navigate to /Contents/Resources/SharedSupport and double-cick the dmg-file


Right click what app?
 
idealer said:
1c: in Finder right-click the app and select show package contents
-> navigate to /Contents/Resources/SharedSupport and double-cick the dmg-file


Right click what app?
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get the sfott, it can literally do eveything for you automatically.

http://oemden.com/?p=556

I got as far as beginning to input my board ID (few hours) until I remembered that existed. I literally just installed it, and followed the basic instructions and let it fly. It did what I did in minutes rather than hours, from start to finish it took me 45-60 minutes to fully install mavericks on my 1,1.
 
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