@tsialex FWIW, in case it's helpful... I have a 2009 I picked up a few weeks ago that has both connectors soldered to the tray.
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MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro5,1: BootROM thread | 144.0.0.0.0
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My UEFI Windows 10 itself work fine, but CANNOT be selected as boot drive in macOS system preference -> Startup disk. That's a known issue of macOS, not Windows 10.
Anyway, I simply use terminal command to bless the Windows EFI partition, so that I can switch between Windows and MacOS.
I had updated the ROM to 0089 with the full 10.13.6 installer, and sent that ROM to tsialex; he told me there was garbage left over in my ROM so he cleaned it up and sent back a clean 138 ROM.
Hi everybody, I know I am OT here, but can somebody point me to where I can find the procedure to mod my 138 bootrom so that I can boot from a Lycom DT-120 with an 970 evo on High Sierra / Mojave?
I am on a 4.1->5.1, high sierra 10.13.6, and will get soon a Sapphire Pulse RX 580
I will install the Lycom DT-120 in slot 3 or 4 to use the built in PCIe switch (so that it will negotiate PCIe 2.0 x4).
Somehow I got lost while searching for the current "accepted" procedure to patch for the bootrom
I know I could ask e.g. @tsialex to help me but I don't want to use his precious time and I have no problem editing hex and stuff.
tia,
blo
I am on a 4.1->5.1, high sierra 10.13.6, and will get soon a Sapphire Pulse RX 580
I will install the Lycom DT-120 in slot 3 or 4 to use the built in PCIe switch (so that it will negotiate PCIe 2.0 x4).
Somehow I got lost while searching for the current "accepted" procedure to patch for the bootrom
I know I could ask e.g. @tsialex to help me but I don't want to use his precious time and I have no problem editing hex and stuff.
tia,
blo
Could you please post pictures of the connectors on your board. I'd like to see it.
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Read the @handheldgames GoogleDocs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WNkM9LuGPq1sArO9EedWBHYq14NU7m-mDBLAWWJipyM/edit?usp=sharingHi everybody, I know I am OT here, but can somebody point me to where I can find the procedure to mod my 138 bootrom so that I can boot from a Lycom DT-120 with an 970 evo on High Sierra / Mojave?
I am on a 4.1->5.1, high sierra 10.13.6, and will get soon a Sapphire Pulse RX 580
I will install the Lycom DT-120 in slot 3 or 4 to use the built in PCIe switch (so that it will negotiate PCIe 2.0 x4).
Somehow I got lost while searching for the current "accepted" procedure to patch for the bootrom
I know I could ask e.g. @tsialex to help me but I don't want to use his precious time and I have no problem editing hex and stuff.
tia,
blo
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I've read this thread through and have been watching for some time now and I have to say. WOW. What a fantastic job [URL='https://forums.macrumors.com/members/tsialex.1033365/']tsialex and everyone else has done! I'd also like to chip in for the research if I can.
I have a 1,1>2,1 and a 5,1 so I will try and get you a rom dump of the 1,1>2,1. Will have to look at the notes on how to do this...
2nd question is, is this safe to do? I have a MP51.0089.B00. I'd be doing the firmware upgrade from the Public Beta. I first need to get a metal GPU. Do I need a Rom Dump of my 5,1 as a backup just to be safe?
tsialex, could you confirm this?
Thanks
I have it on (very) good authority that we're never getting official FileVault on cMP using non EFI boot screen GPUs.
Always have a backup of your BootROM. Use ROMTool.zip do to it. You never know what surprise Apple will bring to your Mac Pro with a new BootROM.
Mojave 138.0.0.0.0 seems safe, microcodes are updated to the current Intel ones and no report of problems that I know.
Wonderful!
Do you still need 1,1 BootRom's?
AND
Do you need to disable SIP on Mavericks (cMP on 2,1)?
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Mavericks don’t have SIP. Yes, please send your compressed dump to me by PM, thx!
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That’s my bet, but I would love to be wrong.
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Thx a lot!
I thought that the left pad one used Molex connector like LITTLE FRANK, now we know that’s both use the same connector as BIG FRANK.
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That sucks! I need FileVault due to my development work.
Guess in time I'll switch to Linux.
You can't use a EFI card? Seems a lot more reasonable to just buy a PC one like eVGA GTX680 and flash it than migrate to Linux.
It's such a gamble trying to get stuff from eBay to my country ( South Africa ), due to poor local postal service. I was willing to drop some cash on a new RX 560, but that seems pointless now.
I'm more or less in the same boat, Brazil. I've found my eVGAs locally, costlier than eBay prices but nothing exorbitant.
Thanks. I've started digging into IOKit to see what I can pull out of the hardware manually.
It's definitely an HFS system, I installed the whole setup from scratch. I had a hell of a time getting windows to actually stick on this build for some reason, I actually wound up installing 7 first via bootcamp utility and then upgrading to 10 from there, still with a DVD. Maybe that's part of the problem. I've zapped PRAM a billion times and that does reset it into Mac (as it should), but whenever I switch to Windows via System Preferences it gets stuck. It's like the boot camp control panel can't bless the mac disk from Windows. But hey, that's probably an issue for a new thread at this point, glad to hear I'm probably safe to update mine later this fall.
Mojave installer only install itself with APFS, if you manually install it to a HFS disk via a 3rd party util, you do not get updates. Game over for HFS+ with Mojave.
So after reading over 700 posts I still have a few questions. Right now I am using a cMP 4.1 >5.1 on High Sierra with the latest Firmware installed and NVMe enabled to boot into my only ssd/harddrive installed for macOS. I have a NVIDIA GTX TITAN X Mac Edition installed.
Everything works fine.
So here my questions:
1. I would not loose the boot manager if I update to the 138 version, right?
2. Because I want to stay on 10.13 for now how do I make sure, I can boot from my NVMe SSD?
3. A few people said, NVMe needs to get injected under 10.13, but I am already there, so nothing to do there?
4. Do I even really "need" to update the Firmware at the moment?
5. Is there a real advantage for me? (my tasks are Adobe CC/photo editing, a bit FCPX and video decoding with Handbreak)
Thanks in advance for all your help!
Everything works fine.
So here my questions:
1. I would not loose the boot manager if I update to the 138 version, right?
2. Because I want to stay on 10.13 for now how do I make sure, I can boot from my NVMe SSD?
3. A few people said, NVMe needs to get injected under 10.13, but I am already there, so nothing to do there?
4. Do I even really "need" to update the Firmware at the moment?
5. Is there a real advantage for me? (my tasks are Adobe CC/photo editing, a bit FCPX and video decoding with Handbreak)
Thanks in advance for all your help!
1. I would not loose the boot manager if I update to the 138 version, right? YES
2. Because I want to stay on 10.13 for now how do I make sure, I can boot from my NVMe SSD? YES
3. A few people said, NVMe needs to get injected under 10.13, but I am already there, so nothing to do there? For boot support, it needs to be added to Firmware
4. Do I even really "need" to update the Firmware at the moment? It's advisable. It fixes microcode and 5.0GT/s on PCIe slots
5. Is there a real advantage for me? (my tasks are Adobe CC/photo editing, a bit FCPX and video decoding with Handbreak). Probably