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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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It is a second Mac Pro I just bought....original 2010 5.1.....I’ll swap it for mine, the one in the signature.
Anyway I figure it out myself with the Sapphire card, extra hard drive with Mojave on it and Recovery Mode.
Anyway I figure it out myself with the Sapphire card, extra hard drive with Mojave on it and Recovery Mode.
You should probably post this in a thread that actually has something to do with your issue. If you can’t find one, then please start a thread for the problem. This thread is about installing the Mojave version of macOS. It seems you have already accomplished that.
I have a Mac Pro 4,1 that I upgraded to 5,1 using firmware update. I installed High Sierra a while ago. I manually clicked on the Sierra install again to make sure I would get 10.13.6. The install was successful but no firmware update happened. I am still on MP51.0085.B00. Any easy way to get the updated ROM so I can move to Mojave?
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Looked over the original post again. I will see if I have a spare hard drive to install Sierra on and see if the boot rom gets updated.
EDIT
Looked over the original post again. I will see if I have a spare hard drive to install Sierra on and see if the boot rom gets updated.
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Hi all. After some research and some money spent, I finally made it. So I´m proudly writing now from my cMP 4,1 flashed to 5,1 with mojave 10.14.2. Thanks a million to this forum and the people for their help.
I have installed mojave using the sapphire 7950 vaporx that I flashed some days ago with a PC. There was a moment of incertinty during the firmware update, as the gpu didn´t show the progress bar. The screen remained all white during the whole process, but after rebooting I got the white screen, then the logo and the progress bar rising. I don´t know if this is normal, but when the progress bar is in the middle, the screens turns to black, and returns again after 2 o 3 seconds showing the rest of the progress bar. Is this normal?
On the other hand, the gpu seems to work fine. It shows the apple logo, and allows to access the boot screen to select the boot unit.
I have installed a pcie with 3.0 ports usb 3.0, and finally an angelbird px1 with a samsung 970 250gb.
Although during the installation of mojave and the hardware upgrade, I didn´t have any problems, I have some doubts about which is the best slot configuration. Right now I have this one:
Slot 1: sapphire raddeon 7950 vaporx
Slot 2: due to the gpu size, blocks the second slot, the one x16)
Slot 3: angel bird px1 + samsung evo nmve 250gb
Slot 4: sonnos allegro 4 usb ports 3.0
Is this configuration ok? or do I have to change something to improve the performance. I have used speed test software and the read write rate is between 1300/1500 mb/s.
Finally I did notice that the gpu fans are sometimes noisy, which is the recommended rpm for the fans? Mac fans control indicates that the fan gpu runs at 1600/1800 rpm, so I don´t know if it is advisable to reset pram smc, etc, or installing drivers to solve this.......
I have installed mojave using the sapphire 7950 vaporx that I flashed some days ago with a PC. There was a moment of incertinty during the firmware update, as the gpu didn´t show the progress bar. The screen remained all white during the whole process, but after rebooting I got the white screen, then the logo and the progress bar rising. I don´t know if this is normal, but when the progress bar is in the middle, the screens turns to black, and returns again after 2 o 3 seconds showing the rest of the progress bar. Is this normal?
On the other hand, the gpu seems to work fine. It shows the apple logo, and allows to access the boot screen to select the boot unit.
I have installed a pcie with 3.0 ports usb 3.0, and finally an angelbird px1 with a samsung 970 250gb.
Although during the installation of mojave and the hardware upgrade, I didn´t have any problems, I have some doubts about which is the best slot configuration. Right now I have this one:
Slot 1: sapphire raddeon 7950 vaporx
Slot 2: due to the gpu size, blocks the second slot, the one x16)
Slot 3: angel bird px1 + samsung evo nmve 250gb
Slot 4: sonnos allegro 4 usb ports 3.0
Is this configuration ok? or do I have to change something to improve the performance. I have used speed test software and the read write rate is between 1300/1500 mb/s.
Finally I did notice that the gpu fans are sometimes noisy, which is the recommended rpm for the fans? Mac fans control indicates that the fan gpu runs at 1600/1800 rpm, so I don´t know if it is advisable to reset pram smc, etc, or installing drivers to solve this.......
Don't get me wrong, but please open a thread about your questions, now is totally off-topic.
Did you ever did a firmware upgrade into a Mac Pro? The problem is that all other supported Macs upgrade firmware automatically and MacPro5,1 don't. Seems by the installed version that you Mac Pro only had one firmware upgrade from the original/installed by the factory one. From MP51.0084.B00, there are 6 firmware upgrades.
Even if you buy a NOS Mac Pro mid-2012, you will have the same manual and "strange" way to do firmware upgrades.
To run Mojave it's a two step firmware upgrade:
- First one requires a Mac EFI GPU and upgrade whatever version previous to MP51.0089.B00 to MP51.0089.B00 - this is the most recent High Sierra firmware.
- Second one requires a Metal Supported GPU and upgrade from MP51.0089.B00 to 140.0.0.0.0.
I could not get a screen shot of the white stickers because I would need to take apart the system. Plus, I may revisit this once i get a metal card.. really at this point, if no metal graphics card it won't work anyway.
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Also, I have a 2012 MacBook Pro, so i will put Mojave on that one. I don't use my Mac Pro for much, so getting a metal card is useless to me. I used to do video editing somewhat, but no more.
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Ok, here is my rom. I was able to at least do that. The other thing I was not able to do - get the pic of the chip you asked for on my mac pro backplane board. Remove the .txt and place .bin and you will see my system rom.
Hall
I am trying to do the same on an updated 5.1 and actually managed to upgrade to MP51.0089.B00 FW, but when I put in an MSI RX 560 I get a dark screen and cannot proceed any further. Can it be the monitor (a NEC LCD2690WUXi2)? I tried with the options in the menu but nothing changed. Any other ideas? Thanks in advance
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Update: I tried with a Philips TV through HDMI, no signal too
What OS version?
What GPU in previously?
What else in PCIe slots?
What connection to monitor? Adapters being used?
Authentic 5,1 or hacked 4,1>5,1?
What and where is your boot drive - SATA or SATA via PCIe?
Use only one GPU at a time. If the RX 560 don't work with 10.13.6, you probably have a defective GPU since it's supported by macOS since 10.12.6.
DVI monitors don't have the DP1.2 problem and your GPU don't have Mac EFI anyway.
Most (if not all) RX 560s are powered by the PCI slot, no additional connectors on the card.
Hey Guys,
The strangest thing happened with my Mojave upgrade. After I updated from 10.13.6 to 10.14.0 the progress bar goes halfway and the screen goes gray and gets stuck.
I'm using a 2010 cMP dual 3.46GHz with a EFI flashed MSI R9 280x. I'm also upgraded the firmware to 140.0.0.0.0 and booting from a Samsung SM 951 AHCI M.2 drive. I get the ALT bootscreen and recovery mode to work but it keeps getting stuck in gray screen before Mojave loads. All previous Mac Os versions work.
The strangest thing happened with my Mojave upgrade. After I updated from 10.13.6 to 10.14.0 the progress bar goes halfway and the screen goes gray and gets stuck.
I'm using a 2010 cMP dual 3.46GHz with a EFI flashed MSI R9 280x. I'm also upgraded the firmware to 140.0.0.0.0 and booting from a Samsung SM 951 AHCI M.2 drive. I get the ALT bootscreen and recovery mode to work but it keeps getting stuck in gray screen before Mojave loads. All previous Mac Os versions work.
Did you tried to clear NVRAM and SMC before installing? Seems weird that works with 10.13.6 and not with Mojave.
Problem solved by making a fresh install on a spare disk and disconnecting everything, now the problem will be to understand who was creating the problem. I am suspicious of a ESATA PCI card that after the upgrade to HS had no driver.... but it did not work yet after removing it without removing all internal HDs....
Thanks anyway. If it can help somebody else here is my config:
What OS version?
10.6.3
What GPU in previously?
The original HD4870
What else in PCIe slots?
4port USB 3.0
2 port ESATA
What connection to monitor? Adapters being used?
DVI to NEC2670wuxi
Authentic 5,1 or hacked 4,1>5,1?
Hacked to exacore 3.3GHz
What and where is your boot drive - SATA or SATA via PCIe?
Crucial256GB SSD on SATA
Thanks anyway. If it can help somebody else here is my config:
What OS version?
10.6.3
What GPU in previously?
The original HD4870
What else in PCIe slots?
4port USB 3.0
2 port ESATA
What connection to monitor? Adapters being used?
DVI to NEC2670wuxi
Authentic 5,1 or hacked 4,1>5,1?
Hacked to exacore 3.3GHz
What and where is your boot drive - SATA or SATA via PCIe?
Crucial256GB SSD on SATA
I had the same issue with a flash storage card on pci board. Ended up removing it and using ssd