Success RX 580 8GB Card Working in Mac Pro 3,1

Was having sse4.1 issues .. Thanks to @Dosdude1 the patch is in Mojave. Was not ready to go up to Mojave but was the easiest way to do it.
So in looking for upgrades for the Mac Pro 3,1 do your due diligence on finding compatible upgrades.  I did not.. there for ID10T errors..

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RX 580 8GB Failure in Mac Pro 3,1

Tried putting the RX 580 in ... Showed up in system as RX 580 but would not load any graphics acceleration what so ever even with an external power source.. so back to the drawing board..

Back to the HD 5770 for now

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$100 Tech Haul an Apple affair

I am an "ID10T" in technical terms!!

Keep me off of the Market Place, Offer Up, Craigslist and the like.

Well needless to say here is the run down.. Later videos will go through the full installs of OS X cleaning, repairing, and testing the systems to make sure they will be good for the next home they get.

**** Who knows I may gift one or two of them here on the channel so make sure you are subscribed and hit that bell to know when new videos come out!! ****

None came with power supplies and only 1 or 2 hard drives and batteries / Memory will have to be sourced later.

MacBook Pro 13" 2.26 GHz Model: A1278 ID: MacBook Pro 5,5

MacBook Pro 15" 2.53 GHz Model: A1286 ID: MacBook Pro 5,1

MacBook Pro 15" 2.93 GHz Model: A1286 ID: MacBook Pro 5,1

A Dead Power Mac G5 Dual 2Ghz maybe @HrutkayMods Wants it!

Thank you so much to him for creating his channel, all the videos have been instrumental in helping me with some of the things I have been able to do with the Mac Pro's.

Check him out here: https://www.youtube.com/user/HrutkayMods

Also a big thank you to @dosdude1 for the help with getting unsupported OS X versions on older equipment. With out his diligent work none of this would be possible. We would all be stuck with El Cap or the dreaded Lion. UGH!!

https://www.youtube.com/user/dosdude1

And Finally the one I was really after!!

The Mac Pro 3,1 Dual Quad Core Xeon 2.8 GHz E5462 Processors Model: A1186

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Building the Beast Mac Pro 1,1 Dual Quad Core 3GHz

It has been over a week since the last Post on the $20 Mac Pro 1,1 find.

 

$20 Mac Pro saved from the Grave Yard BUT WHY???

In the condition it was purchased it was perfectly usable in 2020 even though it was stuck with El Cap.

But can it be better?

Upgrading from the dual Woodcrest Xeon 5150 dual core processors running at 2.66 GHz with 4mb L2 Cache..

To a matching set of Clovertown Xeon X5365 Quad Core processors running at 3 GHz with 8 mb L2 cache.

On a side note the ATI X1900 that came with the system is not compatible with El Cap so an Nvidia GTX 750 has been working but does not play well with others so after the benchmarks and other tests it will be permanently replaced with an ATI Apple Radeon HD 5770 1 GB. Not the best card out there but it does have a DVI port and 2 Mini Display ports.

Now this is just a quick run through on the replacement of the processors if you want more detailed run down let me know in the comments and I will try to put to-gather something more detailed.

You will need a 3 mm hex wrench with an extension, a Phillips head screwdriver, and Rubbing Alcohol 95% or better, or Wipes. Thermal paste and new processors. The only gotcha I can see with this is the thermal sensors on the heat sinks you need to be careful with the connectors on the logic board. Other than that it is pretty simple to do with the elegant built from apple.


Was it worth it? Lets find out.

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2006 Apple Mac Pro 1,1 in 2020 REALLY, WHY??? Pt.1

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Mac Pro 1,1 to 2,1 Error 5530 firmware MP11.005D.B00

Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Tool Mac Pro 1,1 to 2,1.

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And the reason to do the Firmware Upgrade is here:

Building the Beast Mac Pro 1,1 Dual Quad Core 3GHz

Finally after pulling my hair out (What little I have left!) I have successfully upgraded the Mac Pro 1,1 to 2,1.  I had been trying unsuccessfully to upgrade the firmware for a few days continually getting the dreaded 5530 error just after the ram disk was created.  With netkas Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Tool

Little back story on this. WHY Would You Do this?? 

I have since installed OS X El Captain 10.11.6 on the Mac Pro 1,1 it currently resides on a 250GB SSD living where the supper drive use to live.  And drive bay 3 and 4 now are populated with 3TB drives in a Raid 1 (Mirror) set.  It is running great other than a few minor issues.  

First the GPU has been replace with a GTX 750 1GB which will not run in 16x pcie configuration.  

Second the system seems to have a problem whit the second memory board.  Will work through all that later.   But now the Firmware.

My firmware was MP11.005D.B00 apperantly a notorious version that resisted all attempts of flashing to MP21.007F.B06.

And even worse my system matched a user going by ant0 over at netkas forum saying he patched the file to work with exactly my system MP11.005D.B00.0709141354

So downloaded it tried it on Lion to no avail with original GPU and every thing back to base still Error 5530 after the ram disk was mounted.
Out of desperation tried an older version 10.6.8 Snow Leopard that I keep around on an old hard drive to work on older system.
Still Error 5530 AAAAGGGHHH!!

Maybe it is not that important to upgrade to 2,1 right... WRONG I want to put a Matching Pair of Intel Xeon Processors X5365's in the system and already have them ordered and on their way!!

And 2,1 is the only way they will show up in the system and work properly.

****WARNING DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR SYSTME BECOMES A BRICK OR JUST A VERY LARGE PAPER WEIGHT!!!***


Finally this worked..  step by step.

    1.    Get the Upgrade tool from netkas.org
    2.    Download the Apple firmware update
    3.    Mount the .dmg files and run both.  Leave them both running in the background during every step with errors and all
    4.    Use the upgrade tool to create the RAM Disk which in my case directly failed after creating   the RAM Disk with the error code 5530 (Leave it open in the background)

    5.    Right click the upgrade tool and click show package of the upgrade tool

 and copy the following scripts from /Contents/Resources to the RAM Disk:

    1.    ExtractAndPatchEFIFiles.sh
    2.    UpgradeEFI2006-2007.sh

    3.    DowngradeEFI2007-2006.sh

    4.    MacProEFIUpdater2006.patch

    5.    MacProEFIUpdater2007.patch



    6.    Open ExtractAndPatchEFIFiles.sh with textedit

    7.    Remove the following lines:
    1.    Code: 
hdiutil attach -nobrowse MacProEFI2006and2007.dmg



    2.    Code: 
rm -R Expanded



    3.    Code: 
rm -R System



    4.    Code: 
rm Payload



    8.    Save the script


    9.    Open a terminal Application/Utilities terminal and run it with Code: 
./ExtractAndPatchEFIFiles.sh




eazy way of doing this is to type the period . then click on the file and drag it in to the terminal it will give the right path for it and it will run.

    10.    Run the actual upgrade script with sudo rights via Code: 
sudo ./UpgradeEFI2006-2007.sh


 same with this one type sudo .  then drag the file to the terminal
    11.    If everything runs trough without error proceed with the firmware upgrade:

    1.    Shut down the Mac
    2.    Press and hold the power button until it blinks
    3.    Wait for the upgrade to finish
    4.    Check the firmware version
    5.    Reboot in case it does not detect your CPUs correctly until it does.
That did the trick for me.

BOOM!!!! 

Now I also did the SMC update as well but that will be in a different Post.

Thanks..

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$20 Mac Pro saved from the Grave Yard BUT WHY???

Why would any one want to get a Mac Pro Xeon 1,1 in 2020???

I did it!!

Check the Upgrade here

Building the Beast Mac Pro 1,1 Dual Quad Core 3GHz

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Also Check This out!! Upgrading the  Mac Pro 1,1 to a 2,1 for Dual Quad Xeon support

 A bit over a week ago I was stumbling through OfferUp looking for storage related hardware.  Just on a whim I came across a listing that I almost bypassed out of shear disbelief. I have been wanting to pick up a Mac Pro 4,1 or 5,1 for some time now but the prices on these computers even though they are 10 years or more old is outrageous local listings of over $500 to $1200 USD for systems of this age.

The title just stated Computer desktop apple.  No other context just saying need it gone with a price tag of $10 bucks USD.

Here are some of the pictures of it.

Now from the pictures I knew that this was at least an Intel model not a Power Mac G5 model (Had one of those a few years ago) but I was unsure if I were to get lucky and come up with a 4,1 or 5,1 (hind sight those models don't have fire-wire 400 connections).
Messaged the seller, they got back to me in an hour or so.  I want to buy it.  Sight unseen not even asking if it works.  He said he had another buyer that was interested but would meet me right now for $20.  "Heck ya be there in 15 min"

Twenty buck later back in my office opened it up to find it had all of its internals 2 GB's of ram in the memory boards. All of the Hard Drive trays intact with a 250GB hard drive and a Radeon x1900 GPU.  Good enough to get at least to get a semblance of an OS on it.

Plugged it in crossed my fingers as I pressed the power button.  And was greeted with the Apple classic Chime.  YAY!!! Boots directly in to Lion recovery.  Not bad but when I try to install it wants to verify that it eligible for Lion and down load it.  After plugging in a network cable and waiting for over an hour for something to happen.  I said screw it and went to the internet low and be hold an hour later I had a fully working Mac Pro 1,1 running 10.7 Lion.

2 Xeon Dual-Core processors running at a blistering speed of 2.66 GHz and now a total of 8 GB of DDR 2 ECC  memory scavenged from an old Dell Server.

Running Lion in 2020 is a futile attempt to call something usable.  Safari is sourly out of date, Chrome will not run, and even though I have old versions of FireFox available to install web browsing and any type of media will just not be pleasurable to run.  Even at the $20 price tag still would be mostly a hot running paper weight.  Possibly a file server and that is about it.

Bit more research and yes I can get El Capitan running on it wich is still useable in 2020 and I can upgrade the ram, processors, Hard drives (too SSD) and have at least a cheap NAS and usable system. 

Stay tuned as I will try and cover all of the upgrades as they get done.

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