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MP 1,1-5,1 MacPro5,1: What you have to do to upgrade to Mojave (10.13/10.14 BootROM upgrades instructions thread)

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I followed the post, downloaded the full installer. Once it opens, it ask me to update the firmware, then I shut it down installing the new firmware, once the system reboot, the cmp still has 138.0.0.0. Not sure what I did wrong, I tried it twice. I have gtx 690 in my mac, do I need an amd card in order to flash it?
 
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wingyiulam said:
I followed the post, downloaded the full installer. Once it opens, it ask me to update the firmware, then I shut it down installing the new firmware, once the system reboot, the cmp still has 138.0.0.0. Not sure what I did wrong, I tried it twice.
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You have to put into firmware programming mode correctly, some Macs are finicky to do that.
 
wingyiulam said:
I followed the post, downloaded the full installer. Once it opens, it ask me to update the firmware, then I shut it down installing the new firmware, once the system reboot, the cmp still has 138.0.0.0. Not sure what I did wrong, I tried it twice. I have gtx 690 in my mac, do I need an amd card in order to flash it?
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Did you hold the power button until you heard the long beep? It is not enough to hold it until the LED flashes, even though that is what the Apple instructions say. That doesn't work for some (most, or perhaps all) people.
 
PianoPro said:
Did you hold the power button until you heard the long beep? It is not enough to hold it until the LED flashes, even though that is what the Apple instructions say. That doesn't work for some (most, or perhaps all) people.
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I usually hold it until led flash, because the cmp turn off sometimes if I hold until it beep. I am currently have sip disabled, gtx690? Do you guys think that I need to enable sip in order to flash it? Or a need of pram reset?
 
wingyiulam said:
I usually hold it until led flash, because the cmp turn off sometimes if I hold until it beep. I am currently have sip disabled, gtx690? Do you guys think that I need to enable sip in order to flash it? Or a need of pram reset?
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No need for SIP enabled or disabled, try reseting SMC/clear PRAM..
 
wingyiulam said:
I usually hold it until led flash, because the cmp turn off sometimes if I hold until it beep. I am currently have sip disabled, gtx690? Do you guys think that I need to enable sip in order to flash it? Or a need of pram reset?
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That didn't work for me or several others here until we held it until the beep. Then it worked fine.
 
PianoPro said:
Did you hold the power button until you heard the long beep? It is not enough to hold it until the LED flashes, even though that is what the Apple instructions say. That doesn't work for some (most, or perhaps all) people.
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I'm confirming that a long hold was necessary for my MP 5,1. Both for the 138 and the 140 update.
 
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PianoPro said:
#2 is the answer to #1. There is no way to get the Option boot screen with the RX560 card, and probably never will be. So that is a reason to hang onto the GT120 card in case you really need that in the future. I also use an RX560 card and I'm hanging on to one of my original MP cards (HD5770) for that reason.

Why would you need it? It makes some things easier such as installing Windows with UEFI booting, but you can install Windows without it using legacy-BIOS booting. Could come in handy some day for other types of trouble-shooting.I suspect I will never need it again, but since I've swapped it in and out nearly a dozen times in the last month while messing around with different Windows installs, I wouldn't count on never needing it again.

In answer to #3, there is really nothing you need to do for RX560 card when using Mojave.
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Well I got Really Lucky with mojave compatible cards locally. I picked up 2 like new Asus Rog Strix RX560 4G Gaming cards for $80 total for both, then installed one in my mac and sold the other for $80 and still have my GT120.
I have been keeping an eye out for one the bootable cards and picked up the Sapphire Radeon HD7950 3G GDDR5 Mac Edition for $125 locally......but need another mini 6 pin cable so have to wait to try it out.
I noticed the prices for these run around $400 used........tempted to just flip it lol.
The reviews on the Sapphire Radeon HD7950 3G GDDR5 Mac Edition aren't that great so not sure what to do?
It is overkill for my needs..........Any thoughts?

Thank you
 
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I’ve been having issues with the Mojave install and have been following this post for few days now. I get a black screen after the Mojave install has downloaded for 40m or so and then reboots. It’s lights out from there on. When I press the keyboard I can hear sound so it clearly is responsive but no picture. I’ve switched over to another install on another HD which has a High Sierra installed and then gone into recovery and can see there the version has become Mojave when i want to choose which volume i want to log in with on the startup page. so im clearly and evidently running Mojave. I had initially began the install when the bootrom was 13.0.0.0 and today I tried to do it on my other High Sierra hard dive in the same MP5,1 2012 however it wouldn’t allow it until I ran a script in terminal and finally it allowed it. Then i was prompted to update the firmware to 14.0.0.0 which i had done and then began the install of Mojave a second time on the same HD i initially installed Mojave with the hopes that it would work since the firmware was getting updated however it still produced the same results. Stuck on a black screen. I had replaced my factory 5780 graphics with a temporary Asus gtx680 2gb to be able to run Mojave. I read somewhere that DP was the issue so I’m on hdmi.....
Left it at that due to being busy for hours with something else then I came across an email from this site in relation to my post i believe and it basically states that I need to wait for NVIDIA drivers to be released. So my black screen issue is driver related. Explains why it seems like the install has completed but stuck with a monitor not doing its thing. I see. So the gtx 680 still isnt fully compatible and needs drivers. Any idea when these drivers would be roughly released? However how would I install the drivers into the volume that I’ve installed Mojave on in the dark? I’m assuming via terminal in recovery. If that’s the case are you able to point me in the right direction to be able to do this pls. Every time I’m able to get into recovery it only shows high Sierra’s boot manager and I’m assuming that’s the boot manager for my high Sierra install on another drive. Even after installing Mojave I’ve tried to get into recovery for Mojave but when I check the section where it gives options for a clean install only High Sierra is showing. I’m assuming there would be a way to do it from terminal regardless of which boot manager im in provided the script is correct. Pls advise. Love your work and all your help. Your a true hero to many!
Also using a dell 27” 4K monitor. MP5,1 2012 12 core 2.66ghz 64gb ram.
 
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Here's whats confusing me. It was said:

"After that, Mojave installer can upgrade your firmware without the need of a Mac EFI GPU and requires that you only have Metal supported cards installed in your Mac Pro."

I was also told that my GTX 980 would not be supported by Mojave because it's not a Metal supported card....but.... Screen Shot 2018-11-07 at 2.14.14 PM.png

....what am I missing here?
 
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Here's whats confusing me. It was said:

"After that, Mojave installer can upgrade your firmware without the need of a Mac EFI GPU and requires that you only have Metal supported cards installed in your Mac Pro."

I was also told that my GTX 980 would not be supported by Mojave because it's not a Metal supported card....but....View attachment 802179

....what am I missing here?
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Any NVIDIA GPU that is newer than Kepler don't have support with Apple NVDIA native drivers and don't have Mojave support.

So, your GTX 980 is unsupported until NVIDIA releases Mojave web drivers. It's not because Metal supported GPU, it is, but it only works with NVIDIA web drivers.
 
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Just installed Mojave 10.14.1 . . . what a pain ! Here in Japan I use ADSL .. it took 5 hours to get the full download from Apple and then another 30 minutes after booting up to finish the install.

Prior to the install I removed all drives except a Sandisk 480 gb SSD.

I really want to download the full Mojave installer but had no luck with dosdude1's Mojave patcher ( I had the stub installer in Applications ).

Haven't had time to thoroughly check Mojave 10.14.1 out yet but so far it looks good. Everything seems to be working; booting with my EFI flashed Sapphire 7970.

Currently I'm back in High Sierra 10.13.6 booted with my NVMe M.2 970 EVO.

Question : Anyone have any problems using dosdude1's Mojave Patcher to get the full download ?
 
MIKX said:
Just installed Mojave 10.14.1 . . . what a pain ! Here in Japan I use ADSL .. it took 5 hours to get the full download from Apple and then another 30 minutes after booting up to finish the install.

Prior to the install I removed all drives except a Sandisk 480 gb SSD.

I really want to download the full Mojave installer but had no luck with dosdude1's Mojave patcher ( I had the stub installer in Applications ).

Haven't had time to thoroughly check Mojave 10.14.1 out yet but so far it looks good. Everything seems to be working; booting with my EFI flashed Sapphire 7970.

Currently I'm back in High Sierra 10.13.6 booted with my NVMe M.2 970 EVO.

Question : Anyone have any problems using dosdude1's Mojave Patcher to get the full download ?
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You need the 10.14.1 full installer for the 140.0.0.0.0 firmware?
 
I'm thinking about skipping High Sierra and installing Mojave once it reaches 10.14.6 in the late Summer.

Just for clarification: Gt 740 is Kepler based card so it should work fine with Mojave without web drivers? And future security updates should cause no problems?

I have Mac Pro 2009 updated with 2010 firmware so all I need to do is to install original gt 210, then use High Sierra installer to update the firmware. After that I replace the 210 with 740 and Mojave install should work without problems?
 
Yep the GT 740 is kepler and should work without web drivers

I personally have an EVGA GT 740 that works good in Mojave :) (and being a GK107 card it even works in 10.7.5 LOL)
 
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