Strangness after 4,1 to 5,1 x5690 upgrade

[bfeagle]

Here's one for ya...

Mac 4,1 Firmware upgraded. High Sierra, clean install. Runs great for a month.

X5690 3.46 x2 processors arrive. De-lided, installed and after much tweaking of B processor heat sink torque. Boots with both sides.

The problem is during the many reboots, I reset the PRAM and it came up in Clover. If I wait for a little. My drive shows up and I can launch to MacOS. Any shutdown/start or restart lands me in Clover. How do I fix that?

Once in MacOS the info for the machine says it's 2x3.3Ghz 6 core. Whats up with that? I was expecting 2x3.46.

Help.

 

[karsten]

you sure it was a 4,1? mine still says 2009 in the about window even after firmware upgrade. also why are you running clover on it?

 

[bfeagle]

I've owned this machine since 2011. It's a 2009 4,1 that I upgraded the firmware to 5,1. Then did a clean install of High Sierra. It was working great with the 2x 2.26 4 core processors.

After installing the 5690's while I was rebooting and did a PRAM reset on startup. Clover came up. I've never installed clover on this machine. I had reformated the hard drive before I did the clean install of 10.13.

 

[joebclash]

People use clover for hackintosh. I have not heard of people using clover in a real mac pro. This is puzzling...

 

[LightBulbFun]

was the hard drive from a previous hackintosh?

if so depending on how you formatted it you may of failed to wipe the EFI partition where the clover boot loader resides

its whats causing the issues your having atm, get rid of clover and everything should be recognised properly

 

[tsialex]

Clover can corrupt your BootROM.

Copy your files to another drive and do a zero-out on your disk, then a clean install.

 

[bfeagle]

It was a sneaky efi partition just like you called it. You can't see the partition in Disk Utility. So I downloaded the trial for Hard Disk Manager and there it was on one of the other drives in the machine. Once I deleted it and for good measure set the startup disk and re-start. After a long post it came up with no problem.

We're back! Thanks for the tips!

 

[crjackson2134]

Are you on APFS? I su

It was a sneaky efi partition just like you called it. You can't see the partition in Disk Utility. So I downloaded the trial for Hard Disk Manager and there it was on one of the other drives in the machine. Once I deleted it and for good measure set the startup disk and re-start. After a long post it came up with no problem.

We're back! Thanks for the tips!

I was about to suggest just this very thing/App.

I have been working with Apple partitions (especially APFS) a lot lately, and found that DU is inconsistent at removal of the EFI partition.

Here's what I do now...

Convert the partition to hfs, then load up Paragon Hard Disk Manager for a visual look at it.

It will then allow you to delete everything clean. Then for APFS, exit HDM and fire up Apple's DU.

From there, format (erase, etc...) to APFS or anything else you want. It works every time for me now...

 

[tsialex]

Are you on APFS? I su


I was about to suggest just this very thing/App.

I have been working with Apple partitions (especially APFS) a lot lately, and found that DU is inconsistent at removal of the EFI partition.

Here's what I do now...

Convert the partition to hfs, then load up Paragon Hard Disk Manager for a visual look at it.

It will then allow you to delete everything clean. Then for APFS, exit HDM and fire up Apple's DU.

From there, format (erase, etc...) to APFS or anything else you want. It works every time for me now...

You need to learn how to use diskutil

 

[crjackson2134]

You need to learn how to use diskutil

I'm sure I need how to learn how to use a lot of things, but it was throwing an error code and it was easier to just delete after formatting to hfs.