MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5.1 mid 2010 configuration help

[MacUser2525]

Hi guys, I wanted to ask you two info:
One how come after activating the new fiber internet line, with the mac in ethernet and wifi, I travel down 94.7 and up 20.2, while if I run tests with iPhone I travel down 166 and up 21, how come?

Second question, I purchased an internal 5.25 hd / ssd support and inserted 3 hd, instead of the second dvd player, which cables do I need to make them work?

The first check in system preferences the network and in the advanced section for the network adapter being used. There you check to make sure it is getting the proper speed. Here is an example of it set to do the gigabit it is supposed to do. Some of the time it gets this wrong and needs to be set to manual to work properly.

For your second you mean a tray that goes in place of the second dvd if there. You have put three drives into it. You will need two sata spliter cables for the power this will allow you to run four devices as the only ones I found at the time when I did the was a single power to two for the splitting. Then you need two nice long sata cables to go from the two spare sata connectors on the logic board up into the dvd drive bay. You can route them up in behind if you are careful and take your time at it. Then a short one for the second power/sata connector you will use. Fit it all together with the cables connected and all drives will work. I had four in mine at one time.

 

[Mad Kat]

thanks for sending me the screen
I confirm that I have already set up exactly as you say, and the results are like the screen shot I sent a little while ago. MTU jumbo what would it be?
As for the cables, I know that I will need some photos to better understand, with internal connections, it is not that I am very prepared ..

 

[MacUser2525]

thanks for sending me the screen
I confirm that I have already set up exactly as you say, and the results are like the screen shot I sent a little while ago. MTU jumbo what would it be?
As for the cables, I know that I will need some photos to better understand, with internal connections, it is not that I am very prepared ..

For the cable you should be able to look at it and make sure it is cat 5e at least. This will be in writing somewhere on it, actually all over it, on any cable I have ever seen it runs the length of it with writing. Jumbo frames it is a way of transmitting with a different frame size. Never used it in my life but I think you need equipment on both sides of the cable that support it. Go with the proper settings like I show for a normal gigabit connection.

 

[MIKX]

I've been looking around for a " torque screw driver " to handle the most daunting part of changing 4,1 CPUs = getting the "just right" torque o all four heatsink bolts. Apple put blue Locktite on my 4,1's heatsink bolts.

Luckily, I have a spare set of 4,1 heatsinks, I used Australian Eucalyptus oil overnight to 'emulsify' the Locktite & ( very carefully ) remove it . . . just flaked off using a toothbrush.
Now it's much, much easier to 'feel' when the heatsink bolts reach a natural tightness.

I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to hack the bolt driver with a long horizontal needle or somesuch mounted horizontally on top of the bolt driver to achieve equal tension/torque for each bolt.

My aim is to make the whole 4,1 CPU change as foolproof as humanly possible.

I'll sketch up a design for what I have in mind and post it here for comment.

 

[tsialex]

I've been looking around for a " torque screw driver " to handle the most daunting part of changing 4,1 CPUs = getting the "just right" torque o all four heatsink bolts. Apple put blue Locktite on my 4,1's heatsink bolts.

Luckily, I have a spare set of 4,1 heatsinks, I used Australian Eucalyptus oil overnight to 'emulsify' the Locktite & ( very carefully ) remove it . . . just flaked off using a toothbrush.
Now it's much, much easier to 'feel' when the heatsink bolts reach a natural tightness.

I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to hack the bolt driver with a long horizontal needle or somesuch mounted horizontally on top of the bolt driver to achieve equal tension/torque for each bolt.

My aim is to make the whole 4,1 CPU change as foolproof as humanly possible.

I'll sketch up a design for what I have in mind and post it here for comment.

Extremely useful to talk about dual tray MP4,1 screw torque inside a thread about a 2010 Mac Pro.

 

[Mad Kat]

Hello, I wanted a moment to update you on new modification to the wifi, since I installed a little ago adapter and card BCM94360CD (without bluetooth connections, since I did not understand how to do it) I attach a new wifi test that seems to be at the same level as the test done with iphone and fly
The fact remains that ethernet doesn't travel like wifi and I don't understand why
And I don't know how bluetooth is connected

Regarding the connection of the HDD for a moment I wait, before I finish the work wifi and bluetooth ... always if you help me

Thank you very much as always

I have attached photos of 2 cables that wax together with adapter that I do not understand how they should be connected, the non-white part, since the white part connects to the adapter

 

[tommy chen]

 

[Mad Kat]

Thanks a lot IndioX
so with this connection, I take full advantage of the bluetooth 4.0 of the card?

 

[tommy chen]

yes, and if you want all, look at this:

802.11ac, BT 4.0, Continuity, and Handoff Working on Mac Pro 2010

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forums.macrumors.com

 

[Mad Kat]

OK thanks
for the moment I do as you tell me in the next few days and I see how it goes, in the case I read all discussion about it

Thank you

 

[Mad Kat]

hi, I wanted to ask you, after I connected the bluetooth cables it doesn't work.
wifi yes bluetooth no
I do not understand if why I did not buy an extension cable for BT cable to be connected to the new wifi card, since I connected only cables 1, 2, 3 and the BT connection remained empty
or because I have to tear the old bluetooth card

 

[Mad Kat]

hi, I wanted to ask you what cables do I need to make 2 more HD (1 from 3.5 and another from 2.5) work in the second superdrive slot?
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what if i want to add a third hd 2.5?

 

[MacUser2525]

hi, I wanted to ask you what cables do I need to make 2 more HD (1 from 3.5 and another from 2.5) work in the second superdrive slot?
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what if i want to add a third hd 2.5?

This and two nice long SATA data cables to get from the extra connectors on the logic board. For the third you either disconnect the DVD drive and use its cable or get an add in SATA card to run the cables from it up into the optical bay. Then you will need another power spliter to get the power from that connector.

StarTech.com 6in SATA Power Y Splitter Cable Adapter - M/F - Power Splitter - SATA Power (M) to SATA Power (F) - 6 in - PYO2SATA

The PYO2SATA SATA power splitter cable features a SATA male power connector that connects to a single computer power supply SATA connector, and breaks out into two SATA female power connectors. The SATA power splitter/Y-cable overcomes the limit of the number of SATA drives that can be installed ...

www.amazon.ca

 

[Mad Kat]

if I understand correctly:
I take 2 Y-sata cables
I disconnect the mac cable from the burner and I have 2 sata female for the two original mac burners
I connect the 2 sata Y cables
and reconnect the 4 sata obtained to the respective (superdrive, hd 3.5, and the two hd 2.5)

is this all or is there a few steps missing?
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Are 15 cm sufficient?

 

[MacUser2525]

if I understand correctly:
I take 2 Y-sata cables
I disconnect the mac cable from the burner and I have 2 sata female for the two original mac burners
I connect the 2 sata Y cables
and reconnect the 4 sata obtained to the respective (superdrive, hd 3.5, and the two hd 2.5)

is this all or is there a few steps missing?
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Are 15 cm sufficient?

The cables I have left over from when I had a dock that slid in and gave me four more drives are 40cm long, way to much, but 30 would be reasonable You will need an add in card to get the four drives to work, the cables already present are all in one combined, unless you can fit short cable on the data part of it to do the extension of it.

 

[Mad Kat]

Sorry I ask you for an info, but if I remove the two DVD players from the Mac and I put two HDDs, and I use these cables connected to the existing ones of the readers, I avoid bringing other cables given by the logic board?

https://www.amazon.it/StarTech-com-...words=cavo+sata+3+15cm&qid=1602355329&sr=8-8#

 

[MacUser2525]

Sorry I ask you for an info, but if I remove the two DVD players from the Mac and I put two HDDs, and I use these cables connected to the existing ones of the readers, I avoid bringing other cables given by the logic board?

Yes that will work for you, if mechanical hard drives then find some 5 1/4" to 3 1/2 adapters to be able to mount them in the DVD drives place. If SSD drives then it is easy enough to just let they lay in that enclosed space. There is usually nothing to make contact and short them out as they are in sealed cases.

 

[Mad Kat]

Great MacUser2525 .. I hadn't thought of the short circuit speech and the temperatures, since behind them there is also a fan (should it expel internal heat?! .. at least I think).
A little while ago I did an experiment and I used the two cables of the readers, respectively connected to a 3.5 hdd and 2.5 mechanical hdd .... and I see them on the desktop.
The spliter cables that you recommended I bought a couple, now I order a pair of sata data always short so I connect everything in them.