after a lil bit more research. i found out that my mac is stuck in digital out. ive tried everything to get it out of that mode. In order for my mac to have the internal speaker working properly i either have to have some headphones plugged in with sound output changed to input for them to work or the more challenging way. Remove the Resistor R6805 from the logic broad. since i am not comfortable with soldering. I am trying to find a shop that would do it for me. Unless you guys could think of a way to get around this. Thank you guys so much
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Tried a couple things today. Tried an install from the HS Thumbdrive to an OWC 480GB SSD, After the reboot, it crashed and could not complete a restart, reboot, reboot, reboot - basically, the same thing it always does. So I restored from Time Machine and when that was done, I pulled the OWC 480GB SSD, and swapped in a 4TB seagate Barracuda I had on hand. Wiped that and formatted it, and decided to do a clean (new) install onto that drive from that thumb drive. Did the whole thing, it did a reboot and seemed to work fine! Amazing! When it restarted it asked if I wanted to Migrate data from a previous system, and it let me point to Time machine - seemed to take a long time but did the data migration of Applications and my ID and such. 2 minutes before it completed, it threw a warning box "Server was no longer supported on this version". A minute later it rebooted and - crashed again.
back to the reboot reboot reboot cycle. And it won't complete a restart without a crash.
So - I pulled that drive and put the (earlier) restored SSD back in, started it up, and UNinstalled Server (delete the Server.app, and move the /Library/Server folder on the drive into the trash). Restarted it and did a backup - and - its nearly time for bed.
So, its still on Sierra - but no longer Sierra Server! Maybe that's been the problem all along?
Anyway, I'll try after work Monday - see if removing Server helps at all.
There has to be SOME kind of answer for a MacPro 5.1 - most folks have not had this much problem updating a "supported" machine!
back to the reboot reboot reboot cycle. And it won't complete a restart without a crash.
So - I pulled that drive and put the (earlier) restored SSD back in, started it up, and UNinstalled Server (delete the Server.app, and move the /Library/Server folder on the drive into the trash). Restarted it and did a backup - and - its nearly time for bed.
So, its still on Sierra - but no longer Sierra Server! Maybe that's been the problem all along?
Anyway, I'll try after work Monday - see if removing Server helps at all.
There has to be SOME kind of answer for a MacPro 5.1 - most folks have not had this much problem updating a "supported" machine!
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Hello, i already patched an MacBook late 2008 with high sierra and worked perfectly, i wanted to go further with an iMac mid 2007, so i bought a cpu E8135, and a wifi card apple BCM94322, and proceded the upgrade. Since i did that my iMac does not boot, it has a totaly black screen, the fans blow once and shut down, and repeat one time and stay like this. What do you think it is, did i buy a dead cpu?
[doublepost=1529343345][/doublepost]I forgot to say, i also put a second hard drive instead of the superdrive
[doublepost=1529343345][/doublepost]I forgot to say, i also put a second hard drive instead of the superdrive
Have you tried to reset your nvram/pram or smc or you could shutdown your MacBook if you have a removable battery take it out then power it on while holding the power button down for 5 seconds then replace the battery
The E8135 is not compatible with the iMac 7,1. You need a Core 2 Duo T9300 or T9500 for Sierra/High Sierra compatibility.
The E8135 is a 1066mhz FSB CPU and won’t work in the 2007 model (it’s for the 2008 and 2009 models). Try a T9300 or T9500 instead.
I have a strange problem after updating to 10.13.5 (I downloaded the complete Mac OS from dosdude's Patcher and reinstalled from USB key, as everyone suggested).
Sometimes, when I turn on my iMac 7,1, it just hangs there forever. If I touch the power button it turns off immediately (no long press) as if only the screen was active. I have to restart with option key pressed, wait for the only boot disk I have to show up, and then press return. After that everything goes well. It doesn't happen every time, but it's annoying and it never happened before (I've been using dosdude's patch from Sierra).
Sometimes, when I turn on my iMac 7,1, it just hangs there forever. If I touch the power button it turns off immediately (no long press) as if only the screen was active. I have to restart with option key pressed, wait for the only boot disk I have to show up, and then press return. After that everything goes well. It doesn't happen every time, but it's annoying and it never happened before (I've been using dosdude's patch from Sierra).
you need to use dosdude's High Sierra patcher to get the patches for your Mac and install them
Trying to get my Mac Pro 2008 (macpro3,1) to HS with the dosdude's High Sierra. However it gets suck into the upstart at 90%
Installing on top of old installation (not sure which version). When doing the Post-Install I chose the default settings for macpro3,1 first time, but hanging. did it one more time where I enabled the SIP enable on recovery as this may not have been disabled on the old installation. I also cleared the cache.
I did get the recovery up, where I tried to do the
kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
but this fails due to missing kernels. That does seem a bit worrisome?
HS "stops" when the bar is around 90%.
I do not have a alternative Bluetooth, but I have a wired keyboard with a trackpoint.
Do you have pointers on what I could be missing out?
Installing on top of old installation (not sure which version). When doing the Post-Install I chose the default settings for macpro3,1 first time, but hanging. did it one more time where I enabled the SIP enable on recovery as this may not have been disabled on the old installation. I also cleared the cache.
I did get the recovery up, where I tried to do the
kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
but this fails due to missing kernels. That does seem a bit worrisome?
HS "stops" when the bar is around 90%.
I do not have a alternative Bluetooth, but I have a wired keyboard with a trackpoint.
Do you have pointers on what I could be missing out?
Note: Make sure SIP is disabled on the system you intend to install High Sierra on. If it's not or you're unsure, just boot into your Recovery partition of your currently installed copy of OS X, open Terminal, and run "csrutil disable".
Are you talking to me? Obviously I already installed the patches for my iMac during the installation.
Update: I ran the post install patch a second time, and this time everything seems ok. Thank you!
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I had this problem too. Are you using the latest installer of high sierra? If not you need to use an earlier version of the patch.
Just For Your Information, and this is My Experience:
I tried High Sierra on my MacBook Pro 5,2 (8 GB RAM, 240 GB SanDisk Plus SSD) for the second time this weekend, and I found out that my ExpressCard/34 slot didn't work. I think it's because any High Sierra-approved laptop/desktop doesn't have that hardware. I'm getting better performance (no beachballs) with Sierra, once I brought the original EFI firmware back and thoroughly cleaned my caches and let them rebuild.
I tried High Sierra on my MacBook Pro 5,2 (8 GB RAM, 240 GB SanDisk Plus SSD) for the second time this weekend, and I found out that my ExpressCard/34 slot didn't work. I think it's because any High Sierra-approved laptop/desktop doesn't have that hardware. I'm getting better performance (no beachballs) with Sierra, once I brought the original EFI firmware back and thoroughly cleaned my caches and let them rebuild.
I’ve got USB3 cards working in multiple unsupported MBPs with patched HS. Early 2008 and 2009 models.
You mean USB3 cards in the ExpressCard/34 port? That's fantastic; I didn't think that was possible. I couldn't find any drivers in my research, and I thought I looked hard.
Yeah. Got the cards off amazon and the instructions were in the amazon review comments. I have them backed up and I can post them later
Do post that information, please. I'd like to think there's more than one person that'd like to know this. Links to drivers can die.
[doublepost=1529876521][/doublepost]Hi Sgtaylor5
Thanks for sending this message to me. I managed to get my laptop working again since installing the APFS Rom installer. I have the backup EFT files created by the installer and Dosdude1 sent me the RomTool file to restore my laptop to it's original firmware but have been reluctant to run it in case I brick my laptop again. Reason is there are two files - MacbookPro5,2_APFS.bin and MacbookPro5,2_backup.bin. I am not sure which file to use to restore laptop back it's original firmware. Can you advise?
Use MacbookPro5,2_backup.bin with ROMTool. It will take a long time, be patient - 20 minutes with my SSD. Set your energy saving preferences to “never” when on power. You have to be plugged in with a reliable source of power to do this.
Your drive shouldn’t be an APFS drive; only HFS+.
Your drive shouldn’t be an APFS drive; only HFS+.
Question. After taking the macOS 10.13.5 on my mid-2009 MacBook, my iSight camera has disappeared. Any ideas? Reinstalling patches and rebooting haven't worked so far.
Hi sgtaylor5. Ive examined the MacbookPro5,2_backup.bin and it is only 4.2MB in size and wondering if it was created completely and correctly when I ran the APFS Rom installer. Is there a way of confirming if the backup file is complete before restoring it to my laptop. Just hesitating as I dont want to brick it again. What do you recommend?