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expede

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Hi! (Just for documentation).

This is what my FW looked like when I pulled the Win10 EFI
Binwalk_140_Without_Win10_EFI.png


Then I inserted the Win 10 EFI SSD and a boot to Win 10 and back. It looked like this:
Binwalk_140_With_Win10_EFI.png


Reflash with 140.0.0.0.0 reconstructed by tsialex:
Reflashed_140.png


And a boot and reboot back from Win 10 to OSX:


Best regards

/Per
 

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Just to you all know, new iOS 12.1 Developer Preview but no 10.14.1 DP yet.
 
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tsialex said:
X5690 and W3690 are not a problem, fully supported, but faster Xeons like X5687 (4 cores and 8 threads, 3.6GHz) and X5698 (2 cores and 4 threads, 4.4GHz).
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Which one is theoretically faster? X5687 I guess? Due to more twice as much cores/threads. Or are the additional 0.8GHz at the end faster?

I am talking of total numbers not single core / multi core scores...
 
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Which one is theoretically faster? X5687 I guess? Due to more twice as much cores/threads. Or are the additional 0.8GHz at the end faster?

I am talking of total numbers not single core / multi core scores...
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X5690 is faster than both if you normalise. If you are testing just single score X5698 is faster on paper, but is 1/3 of a X5690 for anything that uses multithreads.

If X5687 someday works with Mac Pro, will be the best CPU to use with dual boards with anything but heavy multithreads applications.
 
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Call me stupid but I couldn't find the firmware folder. Help, please.

MisterAndrew said:
It’s actually easier than that. Just extract the DMG from the Recovery HD package under Resources with Pacifist and then open it. Then open the base system dmg. Then open the Install macOS Mojave Beta app contained in that.
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Ok, I'm up and running on a NVMe SM951. For some reason I had to remove my other bootable dives to get it to boot. Otherwise it would show booted on the NVMe but actually be using the HDD that I had cloned and was dead slow. Pulled all other boot drives and it reset a couple of times (like you get with pram reset) and finally booted. I'm finally back at full operational speed. Glad to finally have it sorted. It's amazing how used you get to the NVMe speed until it's taken away.
 
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SneakyTLoD said:
Ok, I'm up and running on a NVMe SM951. For some reason I had to remove my other bootable dives to get it to boot. Otherwise it would show booted on the NVMe but actually be using the HDD that I had cloned and was dead slow. Pulled all other boot drives and it reset a couple of times (like you get with pram reset) and finally booted. I'm finally back at full operational speed. Glad to finally have it sorted. It's amazing how used you get to the NVMe speed until it's taken away.
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When you clone your drive, you have to change the cloned UUID, or this happens.
 
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tsialex said:
UUID = Universally unique identifier

If you clone a disk and use it on the same Mac, you have to change one of the UUIDs, to not clash. You can use this answer on StackOverflow https://superuser.com/questions/127191/how-does-one-change-the-uuid-of-a-volume-on-mac-os-x-10-6

Some cloning tools do this automatically or by a setting.
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Thank you, @tslalex.

Since I use Carbon Copy Cloner for 99% of my "clone"/backups of drives, I'm assuming that (somehow) the UUID gets changed.
 
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I did mojave 14.1 beta upgrade and 140.0.0.0 firmware on a native 5.1 single - and iMessage refuses to sign in in El Capitan. Booted to Mojave on same machine and iMessages worked ok.

Need to say that El Capitan is my productive System. Mojave is just a playground :) Messed around with deleting some preference files. No go. So i asked Google and someone told to zap pram. WTF I thought. Zapped, and got back iMessages in El Cap. Someone knows why did the upgrade to 140 Firmware broke iMessages in El Cap until zapping pram ?!
 
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Macschrauber said:
I did mojave 14.1 beta upgrade and 140.0.0.0 firmware on a native 5.1 single - and iMessage refuses to sign in in El Capitan. Booted to Mojave on same machine and iMessages worked ok.

Need to say that El Capitan is my productive System. Mojave is just a playground :) Messed around with deleting some preference files. No go. So i asked Google and someone told to zap pram. WTF I thought. Zapped, and got back iMessages in El Cap. Someone knows why did the upgrade to 140 Firmware broke iMessages in El Cap until zapping pram ?!
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iMessage is a black box. Sometimes just a bit out of place in the NVRAM and iMessage stops working.
 
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tsialex said:
Yep, I use it sometimes too.

BTW, El Capitan is history. I can't even extract .pkg from Apple with 10.11 anymore.
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Still use it on my Mac mini 3.1. That is the maximum it gets without the hack and with working wifi card.
 
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SneakyTLoD said:
I used CCC. Not sure what happened.
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Either you are mistaken, or something went wrong, or it’s not a UUID problem. You should run First Aid on the drive to make sure there are no errors.
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SneakyTLoD said:
Ok, I'm up and running on a NVMe SM951. For some reason I had to remove my other bootable dives to get it to boot. Otherwise it would show booted on the NVMe but actually be using the HDD that I had cloned and was dead slow. Pulled all other boot drives and it reset a couple of times (like you get with pram reset) and finally booted. I'm finally back at full operational speed. Glad to finally have it sorted. It's amazing how used you get to the NVMe speed until it's taken away.
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After you did the clone, did you go to the startup disk applet and change it to the new drive? You have to set it, otherwise the default will always go to an SATA drive instead of Non-SATA drives mounted to PCIe card.

This could have been the problem rather than UUID issue too. If you remove all other drives, I believe it would eventually find the PCIe drive, but I’m not 100% sure.
 
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Today, I ttried to launch Starcraft (I'm very naive to games) just to try see the differences between GT-120 and RX-560 (don't laugh), I have noticed that PCI fan jumped up to 1700 rpm in just 30 seconds.
I didn't noticed something similar all these years. Needless to say that I don't have any other fan problem.
Is it because of 138.0.0.0.0 and interference with SMC version ( 4.1>5.1 MacPro);
 
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vgoutis said:
Today, I ttried to launch Starcraft (I'm very naive to games) just to try see the differences between GT-120 and RX-560 (don't laugh), I have noticed that PCI fan jumped up to 1700 rpm in just 30 seconds.
I didn't noticed something similar all these years. Needless to say that I don't have any other fan problem.
Is it because of 138.0.0.0.0 and interference with SMC version ( 4.1>5.1 MacPro);
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There is a thread RX580 vbios study which goes in deep and explains why and when the fans start spinning.
 
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