Yes. Firmware 0138 works on High Sierra and Mojave. You can download the beta installer to get the updated firmware. After the firmware upgrade you can skip the install.
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MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro5,1: BootROM thread | 144.0.0.0.0
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Yes. Firmware 0138 works on High Sierra and Mojave. You can download the beta installer to get the updated firmware. After the firmware upgrade you can skip the install.
Just run the installer. It will prompt you to update the rom. Then cancel Mojave installation
This is a little off topic but I feel like this is place the best brains in Mac right now.
I just got my hands ob a GTX660Ti for free.
Can I flash the Mac EFI onto it?
This is the NVIDIA.ROM https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oyyn6jt0b6pej9w/AAAEdotOZe9s2soNqPVafuwja?dl=0
I just got my hands ob a GTX660Ti for free.
Can I flash the Mac EFI onto it?
This is the NVIDIA.ROM https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oyyn6jt0b6pej9w/AAAEdotOZe9s2soNqPVafuwja?dl=0
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Thanks dosdude1, the thing is that I've installed an official copy of Mojave, and when I run the patcher it says that there's no need to update the Firmware 'cause is up to date.
Yes - thank's very much
See updated specs below (in Dutch):
Hardware Summary:
Modelnaam: Mac Pro
Modelaanduiding: MacPro5,1
Processornaam: 6-Core Intel Xeon
Processorsnelheid: 3,06 GHz
Aantal processors: 2
Totale aantal cores: 12
L2-cache (per core): 256 KB
L3-cache (per processor): 12 MB
Geheugen: 48 GB
Opstart-ROM-versie: 138.0.0.0.0
SMC-versie (systeem): 1.39f11
SMC-versie (processorlade): 1.39f11
Serienummer (systeem): C07JK033F4MD
Serienummer (processorlade): J5240009KBH8C
Hardware-UUID: A5C8E0AD-D62D-599A-A856-9845A5C8D822
PCI:
AMD Radeon HD 7950:
Naam: ATY,Hamachi
Type: Beeldschermcontroller
Besturingsbestand geïnstalleerd: Ja
MSI: Ja
Bus: PCI
Sleuf: Slot-1
Fabrikantcode: 0x1002
Apparaatcode: 0x679a
Fabrikantcode subsysteem: 0x103c
Subsysteemcode: 0x6617
Revisiecode: 0x0000
Breedte koppeling: x16
Verbindingssnelheid: 5.0 GT/s
This weekend I had to change the logic board of my Mac Pro 2008. Today, I was taking a look on the BootROM from the new logic board and found that the Base_XX file for MP3,1 changed over time like MP4,1/5,1 ones.
Before I only had found Base_11 in 6 different Mac Pro 2008s. The replaced board has a build date of 20080130 and the Base_11:
Now the first Base_12 one, the new logic board has a build date of 20080819:
Before I only had found Base_11 in 6 different Mac Pro 2008s. The replaced board has a build date of 20080130 and the Base_11:
Now the first Base_12 one, the new logic board has a build date of 20080819:
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Sorry, Wrong thread. Please make a new post in the Mac Pro forum.
I realize that. Thats what I said in my first post. BUT I figured the best brains are here so I thought I'd ask.
Is it possible or not?...
First, this thread is about Mac Pro BootROM and associated topics, like how to unbrick a Mac Pro. Please don't bring other things to the thread.
About the the GTX 660 Ti:
The only NVIDIA GPU that has public accessible EFI firmware is GTX 680. It's definitely possible to adjust the GTX 680 EFI to the GTX 660 TI, almost the same chip (both cards use GK104), but it's not a flashing job. You will have to extract the Mac EFI from GTX680 and adapt it to the GTX 660 Ti, maybe even replace the SPI-flash to one bigger.
Search if anyone already did that for your card, if you don't have the resources to flash the SPI externally, desolder/replace the SPI-Flash, don't even start.
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Somehow I get the feeling the 138.0.0.0 BootROM revision is all Mac Pros are going to get, if even that much.. I can see Apple pulling a 180 and deciding upgrades to 0089 is enough.
This is new behaviour on my MP 5,1 at work that's been upgraded to 0138. Hopefully it's a general outage.
I've been running iMessage on a 138 ROM'd 5,1 (thanks again tsialex) without interruption, for what it's worth.
Maybe sign out and sign back in?
Maybe sign out and sign back in?
Maybe it’s the new validation that I saw some days ago, Apple is rejecting Macs with missing hardware ids in the BootROM.
I doubt if it can really affect Hackintosh. Which can set almost any parameter in the loader, including hardware definition, serial number, etc.
Cat and mouse game.
With all this, Mac Pro people will find the problems with the BootROM easily since iMessage not working is a big indicator of problem.
Yes. It was working yesterday. Today, access is denied.
No. This is the Mac Pro 2010 that I've been using for 2+ years.
Do a ROMDump and PM it. I’m curious to know if it’s your BootROM hardware ids or something else.
PM Sent with rom. I have multiple revisions saved if we need them for comparison.