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Thanks Dosdude.
I reformatted my USB, downloaded fresh copies of the patcher and the installer and it worked.
Not sure what the problem was. Both the first and second time I downloaded the installer from the tool in the patcher.
All working now and very happy. High Sierra is singing along, even on my 10 year old MacBook. It has some upgraded Ram and an SSD but still.
Well, After a good bit of time, I’m finally ready to upgrade and update my early 2009 iMac 9.1. It has all original hardware, except, 8G of DDR3, and the internal hard drive is now a standard Seagate 2Tb 3" 7200rpm HD. with El Capitan, 10.11.6 and 680 mb Recovery HD.
I purchased a PNY-240Gb SSD today to load High Sierra on, and a 16Gb Usb drive for the patches.
I think I’ll leave my NVIDIA 9400 video card in place until I insure there are no other issues, then I want to upgrade to a 2 to 4GB NVIDIA card, as soon as I get the OS operational and issue free. Adding one item at a time allows for easier troubleshooting.
So is everything I need to upgrade and update available from here on your page @dosdude1, or is some on the first page wiki also? Are there any patches anywhere else?
I wanted to say thank you, for your tireless efforts and wisdom. I’m a complete rookie lol, so lets hope I can at least follow your clear instructions.
I purchased a PNY-240Gb SSD today to load High Sierra on, and a 16Gb Usb drive for the patches.
I think I’ll leave my NVIDIA 9400 video card in place until I insure there are no other issues, then I want to upgrade to a 2 to 4GB NVIDIA card, as soon as I get the OS operational and issue free. Adding one item at a time allows for easier troubleshooting.
So is everything I need to upgrade and update available from here on your page @dosdude1, or is some on the first page wiki also? Are there any patches anywhere else?
I wanted to say thank you, for your tireless efforts and wisdom. I’m a complete rookie lol, so lets hope I can at least follow your clear instructions.
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Everything you need to install High Sierra is on my webpage.
The GeForce 9400M you intend to upgrade actually cannot be upgraded... The nVidia GeForce 9400M is not a dedicated video card, but rather the integrated graphics portion of the nVidia MCP79 chipset this machine uses. SOME of these iMac9,1s with only the integrated graphics have an empty MXM slot you can install a video card in (you'd need the proper heatsink as well), but most I've seen do not. Also, if it does, you cannot install just any video card, only one that came with another iMac (or one of the same model as another iMac's card, flashed with the proper Apple EFI VROM).
If you want 100% issue free video, then stick with Sierra. The 9400M is not upgradable, and works perfectly in Sierra. In High Sierra there is a weird bug with rare h.264 videos.
Interestingly, the 9400M is fully officially supported by High Sierra, because some fully supported Macs for High Sierra have this video card too. For this reason, I was hopeful Apple would fix the bug, but so far they haven't done that yet. Here's hoping for 10.3.5 or 10.3.6, but my guess is they won't bother, since 10.14 will likely no longer support any 9400M based Macs, so it's probably not worth the effort for them.
But like I said, the weird h.264 video bug is rare to see, so I stick with High Sierra on both my 9400M machines. Normally I don't see the bug in the wild. I have to specifically look for it on previously reported examples when testing for it. (I test for it with each new High Sierra update.) In real life usage (as in not checking out other reports of the bug) I've only encountered the bug in the wild once in 8 months, in a video in a CNN article.
I have to same iMac 9,1. And almost the same hardware configuration. And let's say: go for it! You will be happy with this upgrade. And we are here for your
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@EugW, I’ll take that chance with HS. The reason I’m upgrading and updating is I cannot load new apps using 10.11.6, and some apps are dying out. I’ve been disappointed in Apple’s "who cares about pro apps," attitude. After purchasing FCP-7, motion, & compressor immediately died and other issues arose, then the sudden switch to every editor’s joke of FCX not being legit. Then Aperture. I would really like to get Logic, but is there any guarantee it will be supported? I have used Apple products exclusively since 1999. I just wished they were as loyal. I mean blacklisting the 9.1 was arbitrary. It had everything to run these updates. That’s the sales dept. as far as I can tell, trying to force me to buy a new Mac. I could be wrong, but if it smells like a rat
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I read on this site where someone said, "if you want better performance, put an SSD in. It will give you better performance than any OS upgrade." Is there that much difference in speed? That would be good news. I should return my small SSD and buy a 2T SSD, correct?
Thank you for the education on the 9400. 19 years buying Apples, and I’m still this ignorant. *hangs head.*
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An SSD will greatly improve performance, but I'd highly advise against getting a 2TB SSD. Those are EXTREMELY expensive. Just stick with a 256 or 512GB one, that should be enough storage space.@EugW, I’ll take that chance with HS. The reason I’m upgrading and updating is I cannot load new apps using 10.11.6, and some apps are dying out. I’ve been disappointed in Apple’s "who cares about pro apps," attitude. After purchasing FCP-7, motion, & compressor immediately died and other issues arose, then the sudden switch to every editor’s joke of FCX not being legit. Then Aperture. I would really like to get Logic, but is there any guarantee it will be supported? I have used Apple products exclusively since 1999. I just wished they were as loyal. I mean blacklisting the 9.1 was arbitrary. It had everything to run these updates. That’s the sales dept. as far as I can tell, trying to force me to buy a new Mac. I could be wrong, but if it smells like a rat
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I read on this site where someone said, "if you want better performance, put an SSD in. It will give you better performance than any OS upgrade." Is there that much difference in speed? That would be good news. I should return my small SSD and buy a 2T SSD, correct?
Thank you for the education on the 9400. 19 years buying Apples, and I’m still this ignorant. *hangs head.*
I completely agree.
Use 512 GB SSD at most, for your OS and most important applications, put your big media files on a external hd. This setup is the sweetspot.
@dosdude1 i have a 3,1 mac pro and thanks to you its running high sierra thank you so much we all need to hit that donate button and do it !
my question is i'm nervous now about installing that security update on my mac pro early 2008 3,1 that @merashallan and @kkinto mentioned .....i have an NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB if that helps any ....is it ok to go ahead and install it? and if so do i need to do anything after like reapply patches ?
Yeah, you can install the security update, you may just have to re-install some patches using the Patch Updater tool after the update is installed.
thanks so much i just did it ...and before rebooting into high sierra because you said "may have to re-install" i just booted into the install drive you created and then ran your patches again ..i checked the force cache rebuild only because i heard you tell someone else to do it ...i figured it wouldn't hurt anything ...and i am typing to you from that machine now so it seems all ok ..... what is a force cache rebuild anyway? what is cached?
if there are other OS updates what is the general procedure after installing them from app store updates? or does your auto patch tool check for stuff automatically so i just operate the mac as any other when it comes to updates ( i used to have to switch production catalogs or something from australia)
the last question i have ..i never thought of updating any video card drivers manually ..but i'm seeing on NVIDIAs site they actually have a brand new driver for this latest verison of high sierra for my card which is fairly old now ...should i install this ? i'm ok with the video as is but if its good to upgrade will do ---thanks for your help!
No, don't bother with the Web Drivers. You'll gain no benefit over the stock Mac OS drivers.
Hi, I have an issue with my new installation of 10.13.4 with HS patcher 2.6.1 on a Mac Pro 3,1. It working fine for 1 or 2 days and then the networking stop working. In the Network Panel, all the interface have disappear. After force reboot, the interface are back and working. Somebody can help?
Hi @dosdude1,
I've recently decided to make the switch back to HFS on a MacBook Pro 5,3 after running APFS for a while. It seems like the custom boot loader that was initially installed on my computer is still stored somewhere in memory. How can I make sure I wipe the slate clean as it seems to be causing issues.
Thanks!
I've recently decided to make the switch back to HFS on a MacBook Pro 5,3 after running APFS for a while. It seems like the custom boot loader that was initially installed on my computer is still stored somewhere in memory. How can I make sure I wipe the slate clean as it seems to be causing issues.
Thanks!
You can either mount your EFI System Partition and delete the files, or you can boot the USB installer, open Disk Utility, select "Show All Devices" in the View menu, then select your drive, select Erase, and erase the whole drive using macOS Extended (Journaled) with GUID partition scheme.
Just curious, I haven't had any reason to use it yet, but is Airplay something that is supposed to be available with the unsupported software? Everything is running smooth as silk these days on the Macbook Pro 5,2 but I don't see the option in the menu bar.
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No, these older machines don't support it. It requires a system with Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later (QuickSync compatible).
Ok, I had a feeling it was probably hardware related. Thanks for the response!
After a long while of experimentation, I have FINALLY managed to modify the BootROM of an unsupported Mac to add NATIVE APFS booting support! My MacBookPro5,2 can now boot from an APFS volume just like on a supported Mac! Once I'm able to create custom firmware update packages to flash this custom firmware, I will make it available to anybody who is using APFS on an unsupported machine.
Watch the demo video here.
Watch the demo video here.
That’s pretty awesome. Are you dumping and modifying the existing firmware or did you have to manipulate one of Apple’s updaters? I know some unsupported Macs never got an EFI update (iMac8,1 didn’t). In any case, excited that I may be able to do this on my iMac7,1 in the future. Thanks for all your tireless work on this stuff!