MP 1,1-5,1 MP 1,1 2006 10.5.8 - bought inateck kt4004 but no driver. help.

[johnmac131313]

I'm not getting that message upon awakening. in El Capitan. I can't use the kt4004 in Lion.
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I'm not getting that message upon awakening. in El Capitan. I can't use the kt4004 in Lion.

 

[EugW]

I'm not getting that message upon awakening. in El Capitan.

Have you turned off notifications? If for example you have Do Not Disturb active, those disk ejection notifications will not appear.

 

[johnmac131313]

Have you turned off notifications? If for example you have Do Not Disturb active, those disk ejection notifications will not appear.

Just to be sure, what are those settings exactly? Since doing the El Capitan install I have not changed any system settings yet. I've mostly been using filebuddy just to make sense of all the disparate backups and archives I haven't dealt with in years to get rid of dupes and things. ?

 

[EugW]

There are other ways of turning off notifications too.

 

[johnmac131313]

My notifications settings are the same as you showed in that screenshot. I'm not sure what else I could have changed to affect this?

 

[johnmac131313]

Hey, here's a dumb question maybe you could help me with? When I installed El Capitan I migrated my user info from an old MacbookPro. Now, in the Finder windows, the machine it named "MacbookPro" instead of "Mac Pro." Is there a way to change that to Mac Pro???

 

[EugW]

Hey, here's a dumb question maybe you could help me with? When I installed El Capitan I migrated my user info from an old MacbookPro. Now, in the Finder windows, the machine it named "MacbookPro" instead of "Mac Pro." Is there a way to change that to Mac Pro???

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You either have your hard drive named that, or else your computer named that.

First just try changing your drive name, or else change this:

System Preferences --> Sharing --> Computer Name

Or both.

 

[johnmac131313]

You are the man!!! Done! Thank you once again!!!

My CPU is completely pegged by many instances of Google Chrome Helper (Renderer.)

I have a bunch of tabs open but this seems weird, only just started happening. Have you ever experienced this?

 

[johnmac131313]

If you ever have this issue, apparently, Google Chrome Helper (Renderer) will go berserk and consume resources trying to manage extensions, some cite Flash as an obvious culprit. I had two different video stream downloader extensions which I disabled and it seems to have returned things to normal.

 

[johnmac131313]

Do you guys know if any of these cards support 4K resolution? I know the Radeon HD 5770 does not. Is there a relatively cheap card for 4K that will work with my rig, MP1,1+El Capitan?

You are correct: Buying thing from Aliepxress or Ebay and shipping it to Vietnam is costly.
That's why I always search for local sources first.
And here are the price from local sellers (HCMC)
- HD 5770 for Mac : $80~100$ (HD 5770 for PC almost no-existing)
- GTX680 for PC : 35$~70$ (I got one of these at 35$)
- GTX 680 for Mac (EVGA brand): 75$ (these were sold-out like hotcakes once on sales)
- GTX960 for PC : 60~75$
- GTX750 for PC : ~35$
- Radeon R9 280x : 35~40$
- HD6670: 15~20$ (I already have one which I bought a couple of years ago)

 

[Nguyen Duc Hieu]

Do you guys know if any of these cards support 4K resolution? I know the Radeon HD 5770 does not. Is there a relatively cheap card for 4K that will work with my rig, MP1,1+El Capitan?

at least GTX680 and R9 280x will support 4K resolution.
None will support HEVC (H265) encoding or decoding.
This mean no 4k@60Hz HDR videos.

 

[johnmac131313]

at least GTX680 and R9 280x will support 4K resolution.
None will support HEVC (H265) encoding or decoding.
This mean no 4k@60Hz HDR videos.

Does that also mean no support for 4K@120Hz video? I was just curious. I saw that my Radeon 5770 does not make it to 4K and I was wondering if there was a viable solution that will work on this old 2006 MP 1,1.

I have to thank you and also EugW again and again - - this MP1,1 with El Capitan is a real pleasure to work with now. I'm ironing out a few problems here and there but all in all it has been great. I would never have known to do this without you guys!!

 

[Nguyen Duc Hieu]

Does that also mean no support for 4K@120Hz video? I was just curious. I saw that my Radeon 5770 does not make it to 4K and I was wondering if there was a viable solution that will work on this old 2006 MP 1,1.

I have to thank you and also EugW again and again - - this MP1,1 with El Capitan is a real pleasure to work with now. I'm ironing out a few problems here and there but all in all it has been great. I would never have known to do this without you guys!!

You would have to spend a lot more money to get 8k video or 4k@120Hz videos.
They required much more modern hardware, that include both CPU power and GPU power.
Users are complaining even when using Mac Pro 5,1 with 2 Xeon X5690 (total 12 cores), plus a AMD Vega 56, render speed are slow, comparing with modern CPU.

For playback, your 8K TV already support playback, so don't bother with a separate player.

 

[Macschrauber]

As GTX680 was mentioned, it has no efi32 Firmware.

Bootscreen is just for 3.1 and newer,

AMD HD7xxx / R9xxxx should be the strongest Cards with Bootscreen for an Efi32 Mac Pro.

 

[johnmac131313]

As GTX680 was mentioned, it has no efi32 Firmware.

Bootscreen is just for 3.1 and newer,

AMD HD7xxx / R9xxxx should be the strongest Cards with Bootscreen for an Efi32 Mac Pro.

Sorry for the dumb question, but does my 2006 MP 1,1 have efi32 firmware? What does that mean - - efi32 firmware?

 

[Macschrauber]

Yes, its an efi32

that means that a efi64 Firmware in a gtx680 just get ignored. No Bootscreen like every other PC GPU.

Apple Ati Cards like 2600, 4870, 5770, 5870 have Dual Efi and deliver Bootscreen on all classic Mac Pros.

gtx680 mac edition on 3.1 to 5.1

Flashed Ati hd7 / r9 have also Dual Efi

apple gt8800 can be cross flashed, there are efi32 and efi64 Versions.

 

[johnmac131313]

Yes, its an efi32

that means that a efi64 Firmware in a gtx680 just get ignored. No Bootscreen like every other PC GPU.

Apple Ati Cards like 2600, 4870, 5770, 5870 have Dual Efi and deliver Bootscreen on all classic Mac Pros.

gtx680 mac edition on 3.1 to 5.1

Flashed Ati hd7 / r9 have also Dual Efi

apple gt8800 can be cross flashed, there are efi32 and efi64 Versions.

I'm sorry, but which Mac Pros can work with the efi64 firmware? My MP 1,1 cannot from what I understand that you're saying.

 

[Macschrauber]

efi32: Mac Pro 1.1, 2.1
efi64: Mac Pro 3.1, 4.1, 5.1