can the Radeon 6770M (512MB) in my iMac 12,2 work in Mojave with the latest Mojave dosdude1 patch?
correct colors and graphics support also work?
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nope,
Upgrade your imac mxm gpu to an compatible nvidia/amd one.
And you will be fine then..
of course deselect legacy video card patch..
2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade
iMac 2009 to 2011 MXM3 graphics card upgrade (Lastest update 10/13/2023 - this is the official documentation page - you found it finally!) This is the single and only documentation post. During the last years we constantly updated this post to reflect the lastet development of vBIOS and OCLP...
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That's what I used prior to the brightness patch and on High Sierra on this machine. Seems to still be a decent work around.
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009) / 2,8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB / 10.14.6 (18G6020)
Hello everyone, anybody can help me/update me on the sleep/wake and F1, F2 issues and how to solve them, please? what's the state of the art? Mojave seems to work ok but I must fix those issues especially the sleep/wake. Much thanks!
Hello everyone, anybody can help me/update me on the sleep/wake and F1, F2 issues and how to solve them, please? what's the state of the art? Mojave seems to work ok but I must fix those issues especially the sleep/wake. Much thanks!
Mid-2008 MacPro 3,1 OctaCore with Metal GPUs. I have been running 10.14.6 for ages with no problems. Even upgraded to 4 2TB HDDs and all was great. Except if things crashed the machine never power crashed and it just booted me to the User Login Page. That was until two days ago. Started up my machine and the second I touch anything, the Finder "reboots". I have reinstalled, run patches, the one thing that I can't do that I have found that has fixed thing lately was to run Onxy. I bet if I could, I'd be golden.
I started up in Safe Mode and did some stuff and still. I have an beautiful install on the brand new 7200RPM drive that works great, but I can't move to it. MS Office 2011 after a billion test installs, i guess I used up all my "activations" and can get ahold of anyone to reset the account. Otherwise, I'd be in the other install.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm basically locked out. (And watch it's something stupid.)
Take Care, Safe Journeys & BE SAFE. . . .
I started up in Safe Mode and did some stuff and still. I have an beautiful install on the brand new 7200RPM drive that works great, but I can't move to it. MS Office 2011 after a billion test installs, i guess I used up all my "activations" and can get ahold of anyone to reset the account. Otherwise, I'd be in the other install.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm basically locked out. (And watch it's something stupid.)
Take Care, Safe Journeys & BE SAFE. . . .
Did numerous searches, but cannot seem to find anything akin to my new issue...
Got a used Mac Mini mid-2010 (4,1) recently, and picked up a new 1TB SSD & 16GB RAM from OWC. This machine was running High Sierra natively. New HW install went fine, and all seemed well...
- Booted up from DosDude01 Patcher USB for Mojave and formatted the SSD APFS.
- Mojave install went fine
- Rebooted back from Patcher USB and ran recommended patch updates for 4,1 MacMini + Rebuild Caches.
- On Reboot, after about 3/4 Apple progress bar, I got the "No" circle with freeze up.
- Thought it was something with the patches, so I rebooted again from USB and did the patches again.
- Same issue on Reboot. 3/4 Apple progress bar, and "No" circle with freeze up.
- Confirmed csrutil status (confirmed disabled).
- For giggles, power-cycled reboot, and "bingo", MacMini boots to Mojave...no prob.
- Finished install, updates, and repatch. On "soft reboot", same "No" circle and lock out.
- Power cycle again, and all is well.
- Reset PRAM and SMC.
So, I'm sitting on a 4,1 MacMini mid-2010 that has all patches and updates for Mojave on Unsupported Mac, and (once up and running) appears to work very well. The problem is, I cannot "soft" reboot/reset. It will goto the "no" circle every time on soft reboot. It will however boot up and run perfectly every time I do a power cycle reboot.
The plan was to use this MacMini for a headless application, and unfortunately not being able to soft reboot/reset negates it's usefulness for that.
Anybody have any ideas as to why it won't soft reboot/reset, but will work perfectly fine from a power-cycle reset?
Thanks!
Finbarr.
Got a used Mac Mini mid-2010 (4,1) recently, and picked up a new 1TB SSD & 16GB RAM from OWC. This machine was running High Sierra natively. New HW install went fine, and all seemed well...
- Booted up from DosDude01 Patcher USB for Mojave and formatted the SSD APFS.
- Mojave install went fine
- Rebooted back from Patcher USB and ran recommended patch updates for 4,1 MacMini + Rebuild Caches.
- On Reboot, after about 3/4 Apple progress bar, I got the "No" circle with freeze up.
- Thought it was something with the patches, so I rebooted again from USB and did the patches again.
- Same issue on Reboot. 3/4 Apple progress bar, and "No" circle with freeze up.
- Confirmed csrutil status (confirmed disabled).
- For giggles, power-cycled reboot, and "bingo", MacMini boots to Mojave...no prob.
- Finished install, updates, and repatch. On "soft reboot", same "No" circle and lock out.
- Power cycle again, and all is well.
- Reset PRAM and SMC.
So, I'm sitting on a 4,1 MacMini mid-2010 that has all patches and updates for Mojave on Unsupported Mac, and (once up and running) appears to work very well. The problem is, I cannot "soft" reboot/reset. It will goto the "no" circle every time on soft reboot. It will however boot up and run perfectly every time I do a power cycle reboot.
The plan was to use this MacMini for a headless application, and unfortunately not being able to soft reboot/reset negates it's usefulness for that.
Anybody have any ideas as to why it won't soft reboot/reset, but will work perfectly fine from a power-cycle reset?
Thanks!
Finbarr.
You cannot run a patched machine after resetting PRAM. Try sudo nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check" in terminal
If you reset the PRAM then you re-enabled SIP, boot back to the Recovery partition and run csrutil disable, even if it shows disabled. Also, what firmware and bootrom versions are you running?
nope,
Upgrade your imac mxm gpu to an compatible nvidia/amd one.
And you will be fine then..
of course deselect legacy video card patch..
2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade
iMac 2009 to 2011 MXM3 graphics card upgrade (Lastest update 10/13/2023 - this is the official documentation page - you found it finally!) This is the single and only documentation post. During the last years we constantly updated this post to reflect the lastet development of vBIOS and OCLP...
Hi!
New member here on macrumors.
I would also like to upgrade to Mojave on my iMac 12,2, so I'm wondering, if I get a hold of a compatible Amd gpu, is it plug and play, or do I need to learn how to flash that card to get it to work before using dosdude1's pather?
Could you recommend a suitable card. Right now I have a Amd Radeon HD 6970m 1 GB.
Any help is much appreciated
Thanks!
Thanks...
Boot ROM v76.0.0.0.0, which AFAICT is latest for MacMini 4,1. I cannot boot into Recovery, it gives me the same "no"
Thanks all...feedback appreciated.
After extensive troubleshooting, it appears there is a MacOS compatibility issue with the new Samsung 870 SSD. Replaced with a Samsung 860, and all is as it should be. I've moved the new 870 over to a non-Mac PC, and will investigate further. In the meantime, Samsung 860 is working perfectly, and Mojave is the bomb on the MacMini 2010 (4,1). Samsung probably just needs a FW update for 870 for MacOS/Mac.
Guys, looks like Parallels Desktop 16 update 16.0.1 resolve the graphic issue and we don't need
video.metal=0 boot flag any more
video.metal=0 boot flag any more
I should update my old post. Recently I got my hands on a 2.4GHz logic board from a higher end MacBook5,1. I did not realize that it uses the same P8600 C2D as the Mid 2010 MacBookPro7,1 and therefore runs much cooler than 2.0GHz P7350 C2D base model. MacBookPro7,1 still runs cooler though so it seems that my initial observation that the battery compartment design reduces the thermals of the unibody is not entirely baseless.
Sorry if this has been asked already, but what features don't work on a 15" and 17" 2010 MacBook Pro? I recently had it installed and it seemed to work great, so I am thinking about going back to it again. To my knowledge, the only thing that didn't work was the recovery drive and seemed to work better than Catalina because Photo's didn't have that funky thing with showing all photos.
My next question, how do we get it to work without a metal capable graphics card? Does it have OpenGL as a fallback and we are exploiting that by using the patcher?
My next question, how do we get it to work without a metal capable graphics card? Does it have OpenGL as a fallback and we are exploiting that by using the patcher?
Recovery Drive works for me. As well as all other things. You have to disable the discrete GPU.
I have the GeForce 330m on the 17 and 320m on the 15 so these are not the AMD GPU's which require the disabling. These are the older 1st gen i5 and i7 cpu's, but they are able to run the operating systems well but they don't have the better built in intel hd graphics like yours does. I am guessing you have the 2011? Recovery drive does not work for me though, not a big deal as I use a time machine B/U.
I wanted to start an upgrade (clean install) on my MP 3,1 w GTX 680 from El Capitan to Mojave. El Capitan is Running on Sonnett PCIe Card with 2 SSDs in RAID 1.
1. Are there know issues with the sonnett pcie adapter?
2. I downloaded the FirmwareUpdate.pkg and installed the tool to get native apfs boot support, but i can't find any file/program on the HD to execute. What am I doing wrong?
1. Are there know issues with the sonnett pcie adapter?
2. I downloaded the FirmwareUpdate.pkg and installed the tool to get native apfs boot support, but i can't find any file/program on the HD to execute. What am I doing wrong?
Take a look here:
MP5,1: What you have to do to upgrade to Mojave (BootROM upgrade instructions thread)
Please fully read this first post, you will probably find that you have one or more problems described into the various notes below. Mojave will only install if you have upgraded your BootROM to the current release and your Mac Pro have a Metal capable GPU*. If you are trying to install Mojave...
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I see, my mistake, mines are 2011. Anyway, you can run the tools from Recovery with the USB installer,.
Is it hardware RAID or software RAID?
I don't think you can install macOS on software RAID.
Sonnet has many PCIe cards. Which one are you using? There could be a problem with Boot Camp.
what tool to get native apfs boot support?
When you download something in Safari, you can find it in the downloads folder.
When you install from an installer, there is a menu item to show what files will be installed and where.
Thank you for your replies joevt and Ausdauersportler. Sorry for posting insufficient information.
but I didn't find any executable file after the installation of the FirmwareUpdate.pkg.
Thanks for this helpful link. On the web I found videos and instructions about bootRom patching on MP 3,1 without any issues or complicated preparations, that's why I thought it could work like described in dosdude1's instructions. But maybe my modifications could be a problem...
It's a Sonnet Tempo SSD SATA-3 expansion card with 2 ssd mounted, which are working as software RAID. This is my actual boot device with El Capitan installed. I cloned my bootpartition to this softwareRAID. Not shure, if I could install macOS on this drive. I neither use bootcamp nor is there windows installed on the machine.
I downloaded and installed the bootROM-Patcher from dosdude1's step-by-step mojave installation instruction page to update my bootROM prior to the mojave installation
but I didn't find any executable file after the installation of the FirmwareUpdate.pkg.
Take a look here:
MP5,1: What you have to do to upgrade to Mojave (BootROM upgrade instructions thread)
Please fully read this first post, you will probably find that you have one or more problems described into the various notes below. Mojave will only install if you have upgraded your BootROM to the current release and your Mac Pro have a Metal capable GPU*. If you are trying to install Mojave...
Thanks for this helpful link. On the web I found videos and instructions about bootRom patching on MP 3,1 without any issues or complicated preparations, that's why I thought it could work like described in dosdude1's instructions. But maybe my modifications could be a problem...
I successfully installed the macOS 10.14.6 Security Update and Safari 14 update lyesterday on my 17" Early 2008 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro4,1) 2.6Ghz Core2Duo with 500GB SSD & 6GB RAM running Mojave by:
Only improvement to macOS Mojave Patcher would be for DosDude1 to get bkltpatch10.14.2 "backlight patch" to automatically install on my 17" MBP4,1 without having to run it in Terminal post install every time to get backlighting to work.
Is this possible?
- installing the macOS 10.14.6Security Update and 2 Safari updates with System Preferences: Software Update and restarting when prompted
- holding down the Option key and selecting my macOS Mojave Patcher 1.3.7 USB drive
- running macOS Mojave Patcher 1.3.7 "Post Install"
- restarted with "Force Cache Rebuild" checked
- approved macOS Mojave Patcher to install additional update code when prompted
- restarted again when prompted
- reinstalled DosDude1's bkltpatch10.14.2 "backlight patch" (required for the 17" MBP4,1 CCFL-based display backlighting to work) using Terminal
- restarted again
Only improvement to macOS Mojave Patcher would be for DosDude1 to get bkltpatch10.14.2 "backlight patch" to automatically install on my 17" MBP4,1 without having to run it in Terminal post install every time to get backlighting to work.
Is this possible?
I think you can install macOS to the drive, but I would do it to a non-RAID partition.
The linked package downloads a OfficialAPFSFWUpdate.zip file which is automatically unzipped to FirmwareUpdate.pkg (you can tell by sorting the Downloads folder by "Date Added"- first show the "Date Added" column in the Finder window). Right-click and open the FirmwareUpdate.pkg file. It doesn't show what files it installs. For that you can use an app like Pacifist.app.
According to
ioreg -l | grep "board-id", the board-id of my MacPro3,1 is "Mac-F42C88C8".Searching the list of firmware updates does not find a match.
Code:
find ~/Downloads/FirmwareUpdate\ Folder -iname '*F42C88C8*' -or -iname '*MP31*' -or -iname '*MacPro*'
grep -i -r "F42C88C8" ~/Downloads/FirmwareUpdate\ FolderThere are different threads that describes a ROM update for the MacPro3,1 that includes apfs and nvme support.
MacPro5,1 has a ROM update from Apple when you install Mojave. This does not apply to the MacPro3,1.
I went back to High Sierra again because Netflix won't work on Mojave patcher, or Catalina. I'm not sure why either, I know I can download another browser, but I like Safari and that's the browser I use. Anyone have any ideas on what might be the problem? This is a 2010 MacBook Pro 15" and 17" and any of the Mojave or Catalina patchers will not run Netflix.
It used to though, and I think it's something with the last one or two updates of Safari. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to get Catalina back on here.
I really would like a workaround as to why photos doesn't show all photos. It's an odd bug for sure. Even if not a workaround, I'd like to know why that bug exists.
It used to though, and I think it's something with the last one or two updates of Safari. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to get Catalina back on here.
I really would like a workaround as to why photos doesn't show all photos. It's an odd bug for sure. Even if not a workaround, I'd like to know why that bug exists.