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ATC said:
Same machine here. Oh well, at least it runs Windows 10 Pro x64 amazingly well. :cool:
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Kev here,
I have an early 2009 iMac also.
2.66GHz Intel duo core, 8g dramm, NVIDIA GeForce 9400, 256mb. 10.11.6

Is it true all I would need to do is upgrade my wifi?? What am I missing? I am totally ignorant in this field so please bare with me.
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Isaiah56man said:
[doublepost=1465862381][/doublepost]Thank you hard working developers that will be working to bring our computers to the latest version of Mac os stupid.
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Absolutelty! You are our heros, lol. It's true, without you....we're either out of the Apple Game or out $3000 for another iMac that does what I'd like it to. So thank you in advance.
 
dosdude1 said:
The ONLY card you can use are those that came with the 2009 or 2010 Unibody MacBook model A1342, the cards from newer machines either use a different interface completely, or are not electrically compatible with the Macmini3,1.
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Too bad ... would have opened my late 2009 Mac mini one more time for this but it does not seem worth the trouble ..

Thanks for the information anyway :)
 
dosdude1 said:
That's just the Apple ID I made for my tool to use to download a copy of Sierra on unsupported Macs. Since it can't download it using an Apple ID that hasn't already downloaded a copy of Sierra, I made that one to circumvent that issue. It in no way changes your personal Apple ID; you can simply sign out once you've downloaded a copy of Sierra.
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Hello,

I removed your Apple ID and put mine in there. But, the strangest thing is that, when I put in my password, it still prompts me for the password again. I do know my Apple ID password. It's still prompting me to download "Mactracker".

Is there another way of getting around this?

Thanks,
Jeff
 
Appleuser4life60077 said:
I have installed Sierra on my mid 2009 white macbook 5,2 almost a week ago, Sunday will be a week. So far it works perfect, it updated iTunes but hasn't updated Sierra as of yet unless the Sierra 10.12.1 update hasn't come out yet. Otherwise it seems like Sierra works great
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Hi, the trackpad tap-to-click works?

see #2308
 
Pcguru2010 said:
Hello,

I removed your Apple ID and put mine in there. But, the strangest thing is that, when I put in my password, it still prompts me for the password again. I do know my Apple ID password. It's still prompting me to download "Mactracker".

Is there another way of getting around this?

Thanks,
Jeff
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Just go to Store>Sign Out in the Menu Bar of the App Store, and sign in with your account.
 
pkouame said:
Just google mac edition nvidia cards. My GTX 680 mac edition is currently discontinued. Found a used one in the usual places (amazon, ebay etc...) A "flashed" pc card will be cheaper and run just fine. I was just too pressed for time to play around...
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I flashed my GTX650 with a custom EFI rom to get boot screen support working on the card, it also seems to have had the side effect of allowing me to actually be able to run 3 displays like the card advertised for the first time. It is a non-standard card since it has 2x HDMI and 2x DVI instead of the typical combo with Display Ports, had it been that config I probably would have been able to run 4 displays... oh well, live and learn.

The 8800GT has been removed now and I've not noticed any further crashing of iMessage.

Thanks for the info about Metal being the likely culprit.
 
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dosdude1 said:
I can't figure out why this is happening to people, the only plausible cause I can think of is that SIP is enabled, preventing the kextcache from being built with modified kexts... You can run "csrutil status" in Terminal to see if SIP is disabled. Also, after forcing cache rebuild, you may need to run "sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel" in your Sierra install to fully rebuild the kextcache. As for the recovery partition containing the post-install tool, I was planning on doing that, and intend to implement that in the future. What I may end up doing if this issue persists is to just simply modify IOUSBHostFamily.kext, instead of using the LegacyUSBInjector kext, maybe that'll work a bit better.
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HI dosdude1, sorry for late reply, SIP was already disabled so, if Sierra does not turn it on again by itself it must be something else, I tried to run "sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel" in terminal and I got this result:

kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext LegacyUSBInjector.kext

kext file:///System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext/ is in hash exception list, allowing to load

KernelCache ID: 65FDLSJI8447D8FJJE0434E13FC

symlink("/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel", "/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache") failed 17 (File exists) <createPrelinkedKernel 2795>

Is this the a normal result? Thank you
 
Kevbasscat said:
Kev here,
I have an early 2009 iMac also.
2.66GHz Intel duo core, 8g dramm, NVIDIA GeForce 9400, 256mb. 10.11.6

Is it true all I would need to do is upgrade my wifi?? What am I missing? I am totally ignorant in this field so please bare with me.
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Absolutelty! You are our heros, lol. It's true, without you....we're either out of the Apple Game or out $3000 for another iMac that does what I'd like it to. So thank you in advance.
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I have a similar iMac to yours, mine just has a different CPU (2.93) and GPU (GT120 I think?). I honestly lost interest in trying to put MacOS on this old mac as it's a semi production machine so I can't afford any downtime. Was hoping to get a new mac once new ones are announced. We'll see what happens later this week.
 
rosencraft said:
HI dosdude1, sorry for late reply, SIP was already disabled so, if Sierra does not turn it on again by itself it must be something else, I tried to run "sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel" in terminal and I got this result:

kext-dev-mode allowing invalid signature -67062 0xFFFFFFFFFFFEFA0A for kext LegacyUSBInjector.kext

kext file:///System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext/ is in hash exception list, allowing to load

KernelCache ID: 65FDLSJI8447D8FJJE0434E13FC

symlink("/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel", "/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache") failed 17 (File exists) <createPrelinkedKernel 2795>

Is this the a normal result? Thank you
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ohhh, @dosdude1 kernelcache can't be a file, when you do the kextcache in the postinstall, you have to output it to prelinkedkernel
 
Hi All!
Just installed Sierra on MPB 5.5 and it works fine for a long time without any problems until few days ago battery drain and now macOS don't see keyboard and trackpad...
After battery drain I'm just connect PSU and power up it, but mice(internal trackpad) and internal keyboard do not work in macOS, can't login to OS, can't do nothing...
Reboot MBP to another OS - El Capitan and all works excellent, including internal trackpad and keyboard...
So, hardware (keyboard and trackpad) works, but not in macOS now ...
Already trying to reset PRAM & SMC - nothing... Same situation...
Any idea? Any solution?
Thank you guys in advance!
Best regards!

Here is video of installation macOS 10.12 Sierra on this MBP 5.5 -
 
DinBan said:
Hi All!
Just installed Sierra on MPB 5.5 and it works fine for a long time without any problems until few days ago battery drain and now macOS don't see keyboard and trackpad...
After battery drain I'm just connect PSU and power up it, but mice(internal trackpad) and internal keyboard do not work in macOS, can't login to OS, can't do nothing...
Reboot MBP to another OS - El Capitan and all works excellent, including internal trackpad and keyboard...
So, hardware (keyboard and trackpad) works, but not in macOS now ...
Already trying to reset PRAM & SMC - nothing... Same situation...
Any idea? Any solution?
Thank you guys in advance!
Best regards!

Here is video of installation macOS 10.12 Sierra on this MBP 5.5 -
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login to recovery partition, run terminal and enter this: csrutil disable then restart, all should be ok
 
Hi! I installed sierra on my MacBook Pro 5,5 and its working great. I also disabled SIP so I think I should be fine.

I only have one doubt about AUSEnabler. Is it really safe? I understand it's using a modified URL catalog... so it's not using apple servers or there's some kind of on the fly patching?

Can anyone explain to me how it works? And if I don't want to use this how can I manually install future updates?
 
evertjr said:
Hi! I installed sierra on my MacBook Pro 5,5 and its working great. I also disabled SIP so I think I should be fine.

I only have one doubt about AUSEnabler. Is it really safe? I understand it's using a modified URL catalog... so it's not using apple servers or there's some kind of on the fly patching?

Can anyone explain to me how it works? And if I don't want to use this how can I manually install future updates?
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It's perfectly safe; all it does is use a custom server that distributes 10.12.x updates modified to install properly on unsupported Macs. The only other way to do this is to patch the pre-downloaded update on your system (which doesn't work properly 100% of the time), which I actually wrote a program for awhile back, but this method is much more streamlined, so I'd highly advise simply doing it this way.
 
dosdude1 said:
It's perfectly safe; all it does is use a custom server that distributes 10.12.x updates modified to install properly on unsupported Macs. The only other way to do this is to patch the pre-downloaded update on your system (which doesn't work properly 100% of the time), which I actually wrote a program for awhile back, but this method is much more streamlined, so I'd highly advise simply doing it this way.
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Thank you for the fast response! How about other app updates from Mac App Store? Will also come from AUS server or this only apply for system updates?
 
Hey Guys,

I have Upgraded my iMac 7,1 (2007) with an Merom CPU (2,4GHZ) to an Penrym Intel T9300 CPU. Also I changes the Wifi-Card. Everything is working fine but in System-Profiler it will only Shows 400MHz (The iMac runs Fast). What can I do, that the Information is correct ? (Sorry for my Bad English)

Cheers
 
karesake said:
Hey Guys,

I have Upgraded my iMac 7,1 (2007) with an Merom CPU (2,4GHZ) to an Penrym Intel T9300 CPU. Also I changes the Wifi-Card. Everything is working fine but in System-Profiler it will only Shows 400MHz (The iMac runs Fast). What can I do, that the Information is correct ? (Sorry for my Bad English)

Cheers
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There is no known way to fix it so that it shows the correct frequency, unfortunately. But it is only cosmetic, of course.
 
Hey, new release of Sierra arrived. How to make Mac to show this update in MAS? I used of course AUSenabler.
 
brunsik said:
Hey, new release of Sierra arrived. How to make Mac to show this update in MAS? I used of course AUSenabler.
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Yep, it dropped at 1pm ET. If you've done the AUSenabler patch, it should just show up. (remember, Apple phases in availability of updates across apple ID's to try to even out the hit on the servers).

@dosdude1 - if you are going to update your tool, the dist file is 031-85264
Edit: Whoops...wrong one...sec. 031-84974 looks right.
If not, should just have post #1 pointing to foxlet's updater.

Hmm. Ok, there's a bunch that they updated today that are doing the same checks - just found another one under q/031-86699.

Yep, that's the one (031-86699) - it nets the 10.12.1 update.
 
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AUSenabler only getting beta 5 update... not showing 10.12.1 straight update which was released officially
 
vynu said:
AUSenabler only getting beta 5 update... not showing 10.12.1 straight update which was released officially
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Perhaps a slight delay before it shows via the AUSenabler method?
 
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