MP 1,1-5,1 New user issues

[Bobbych]

no, i did not get any media

as you can see by these pictures it was sold as working. But I received it with only the HDD installed, the seller then sent me the SSD and i placed it into the machine, but now it will not boot.

I have tried a different USB stick, on all ports, removed ALL drives, and just the USB stick installed and always, i just get the blank grey screen.

I am going to have to get hold of a mac to make sure i get a true install USB

 

[Soba]

no, i did not get any media

as you can see by these pictures it was sold as working. But I received it with only the HDD installed, the seller then sent me the SSD and i placed it into the machine, but now it will not boot.

I have tried a different USB stick, on all ports, removed ALL drives, and just the USB stick installed and always, i just get the blank grey screen.

I am going to have to get hold of a mac to make sure i get a true install USB

I really would take this issue up with the seller. If you bought a working machine with SSD and it wasn't even configured correctly with the SSD as advertised (which is a pretty fundamental part of the system specs, as sold) then I would be very suspicious of the entire system.

It should be trivial for the seller to configure a working SSD with High Sierra installed and ship that to you. If they shipped you an SSD that also is not working, I would have a bad feeling about the whole situation.

If you cannot get the installer working very soon, I suggest abandoning this effort and working with the seller to either return the machine and at least have them do the work to get it working for you. Failing that, I suggest finding a local friendly Mac geek who can assist you.

P.S. Please edit your posted screenshot to remove your system serial number. Never post serial numbers publicly.

 

[sfalatko]

yes, I did a CLEAR boot, waited for the BOOT bing, then pressed OPTION and just a grey screen with mouse pointer, no drives showing, I have a 480GB SSD installed, and the USB

the USB is a USB 2.0 using a USB2.0 port on the mac

One thing to try is to press the power button while holding the option key down and keep it pressed until you hear the boot chime. You can also unplug and the re plugin the USB at the grey screen (with cursor) and see if it is then recognized.

 

[tsialex]

One thing to try is to press the power button while holding the option key down and keep it pressed until you hear the boot chime. You can also unplug and the re plugin the USB at the grey screen (with cursor) and see if it is then recognized.

Btw, some Windows keyboards don't work for BootPicker and NVRAM resets - several Microsoft and Logitech common models don't or work just at cold boot.

 

[Bobbych]

Some success today, received my install USB and it works as advertised, so clearly although I followed the steps to create a boot disk on windows it did not work. My only other issue now is the SSD in this machine is not recognised and assumed dead but at least I can install onto the HDD for now

 

[orionquest]

Why would you use a windows box to create a boot USB for a Mac, especially when you have access to a working Macbook. Also not mentioning didn't help. Some people can't help themselves.

 

[Bobbych]

If you read the thread I purchased this Mac as my entry into Mac as a solid pc user. I do not have access to another Mac and it was meant to be working out the box with two drives installed, one 480gb SSD and one 1tb HDD. When I started the machine, nothing happened just the flashing folder. When pressing the option key I had nothing. So while I waited to find someone who could send me a boot usb as I don't have access to a Mac, I tried ony windows machine as it was claimed online it would work using specific software to format the drive correctly and flashing the image file. But it did not work , and now I have the boot usb it is workings

 

[orionquest]

If you read the thread I purchased this Mac as my entry into Mac as a solid pc user. I do not have access to another Mac and it was meant to be working out the box with two drives installed, one 480gb SSD and one 1tb HDD. When I started the machine, nothing happened just the flashing folder. When pressing the option key I had nothing. So while I waited to find someone who could send me a boot usb as I don't have access to a Mac, I tried ony windows machine as it was claimed online it would work using specific software to format the drive correctly and flashing the image file. But it did not work , and now I have the boot usb it is workings

Thanks, steep learning curve. Daughter has a MacBook so can use that

I read the thread, did you? ?

 

[Matty_TypeR]

Some success today, received my install USB and it works as advertised, so clearly although I followed the steps to create a boot disk on windows it did not work. My only other issue now is the SSD in this machine is not recognised and assumed dead but at least I can install onto the HDD for now

Glad to see you have High sierra installing, A shame the SSD is dead but at least your mac functions so Enjoy and welcome to OSX ?

 

[Bobbych]

Yes, thanks all for the help, I now have the base 5,1 Now it is time to upgrade the machine. My main reason for this, is to use it for lightroom photo editing so some advice on the upgrades would be good

I already have x2 X5690's to install
the Mac has 32GB but I plan to double to 64GB

now, for photo editing, the GPU will need upgrading but it seems a minefield. I will look to upgrade to Big Sur, but I understand the Metal support issues etc, so currently looking through the GPU upgrade options. As gaming is not the requirement, just wondered what people on here thought the best card for Lightroom operation is best?

 

[paalb]

Have a look at this thread:GPU Compatibility List for cMP

I am using Radeon RX 580 8GB with Lightroom and Photoshop and am very happy with the speed.

 

[orionquest]

This might be helpful.

Graphics card compatibility for Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor - Apple Support (CA)

Learn which built-in and aftermarket graphics cards work with Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor on Mac.

support.apple.com

But don't expect Adobe apps to tap into the full potential of Apple's hardware.
I would stay away from anything Nivida. Just pick something from AMD.
I have a AMD 570 8 gig and it works well in lightroom, but I also use a local RAID drive to help with I/O.

 

[Bobbych]

I now have a metal supported flashed Radeon 7950. So my aim now is to upgrade this to big Sur to allow me to run lightroom. Guess I will need to study opencore for this to work. Does anyone know a way to upgrade without opencore?

 

[tsialex]

I now have a metal supported flashed Radeon 7950. So my aim now is to upgrade this to big Sur to allow me to run lightroom. Guess I will need to study opencore for this to work. Does anyone know a way to upgrade without opencore?

Not even possible after the workarounds that made possible to install/run Catalina. Since you don't yet know OpenCore, start with OCLP 0.4.3:

GitHub - dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher: Experience macOS just like before

Experience macOS just like before. Contribute to dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Experience macOS just like before

dortania.github.io

 

[orionquest]

I now have a metal supported flashed Radeon 7950. So my aim now is to upgrade this to big Sur to allow me to run lightroom. Guess I will need to study opencore for this to work. Does anyone know a way to upgrade without opencore?

Why do you need Big Sur to run Lightroom. I'm still on Mojave and Lightroom runs.

Maybe it would be better to convert your PC to a Hackintosh with all the fiddling you are doing with old mac hardware ?‍♂️

 

[Bobbych]

Not even possible after the workarounds that made possible to install/run Catalina. Since you don't yet know OpenCore, start with OCLP 0.4.3:

GitHub - dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher: Experience macOS just like before

Experience macOS just like before. Contribute to dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Experience macOS just like before

dortania.github.io

Thanks

following this it is working fine. I have now installed Big Sur on my 5,1. Just waiting for my new GPU arriving tomorrow to get the best experience.

now, is there a way to boot without the "option" and "EFI Boot" process, or is that a limitation of using open core?

 

[Bobbych]

Ok looking for some help. It was all working and now all of a sudden, during the boot process, I get the picker, but when selecting the drive it just stops with an error. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to reinstall it all again ?

 

[Macschrauber]

you will need to add -no_compat_check to the boot-args in opencore's settings

High Sierra is not compatible to the machine what OC is spoofing.

 

[Bobbych]

thanks, I simply re-installed MacOS again and upgraded again to Big Sur. so I currently have big Sur installed and seems working fine so far

now my next step is to try and install Win 11 on a blank Drive so I can dual boot.

I tried to OCLP guide to install windows

Installing UEFI Windows 10

however I get a load of permission errors when building the USB

rsync: opendir "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/0/com.apple.pluginkit" failed: Permission denied (13)


rsync: opendir "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T" failed: Permission denied (13)


rsync: opendir "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/C" failed: Permission denied (13)


rsync: opendir "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/run/mds" failed: Permission denied (13)


rsync: opendir "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/protected/trustd/private/FFFFEEEE-DDDD-CCCC-BBBB-AAAA00000059" failed: Permission denied (13)


rsync: opendir "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/protected/trustd/private/FFFFEEEE-DDDD-CCCC-BBBB-AAAA0000011A" failed: Permission denied (13)


rsync: opendir "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/protected/trustd/private/FFFFEEEE-DDDD-CCCC-BBBB-AAAA000000CD" failed: Permission denied (13)


rsync: opendir "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/protected/trustd/private/FFFFEEEE-DDDD-CCCC-BBBB-AAAA000000F8" failed: Permission denied (13)


rsync: opendir "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/backups" failed: Permission denied (13)



these above are only a few, but it seems every line fails

Any idea?