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    MP 1,1-5,1 Problems installing Monterey on cMP 5,1 using OCLP 0.6.5

    I am trying to upgrade an “early 2009” MacPro 5,1 (flashed from 4,1) by Install Monterey Add a more powerful graphics card (Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX580) Now there are two issues that may be related or unrelated. I will post this as two separate questions. The machine currently has 24GB of...
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    MacBook Pro 2016 crashes after Apple replaced the battery

    Hi all, Title of the thread might be over simplified. I’ve got quite a puzzler with my MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch Bar (15” / i7 2,9 / 16GB / Radeon Pro 460 4GB / 2TB). I sent it to Apple end of July so they can replace the battery. Machine came back a few days later, and I couldn’t...
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    Mac 5k 2017 and Windows 7 (virtual no)

    Hi. I have been trying to install Win7 for Mac for a long time, but I can not. I know Win7 does not support Mac 5k 2017 Apple or Intel and the men use the virtual. So what I've tried all over here. I created a fat32 partition in a disk utility. I'm holding alto in boot and I have Win7 in...
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    Update failures 10.13.4-6 - HDD cable strikes again? [mid-2012 MBP]

    Greetings MacRumors! Long time lurker; first time poster. Currently operating a mid-2012 MBP A1278 with OWC 120GB SSD; running 10.13.3. I've been having this problem since January when the 10.13.4 update became available. I downloaded the update as usual and restarted the machine to complete...
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    Problem installing: cant format disk

    Bought myself a SSD today and formatted it using my Windows computer to make the Mac recognise the drive. First the drive was configured as MBR. Therefor I could not select the disk, even not after erasing it using Disk Utility. Then I converted the drive to GPT instead of MBR. Now I’m...
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    OSX 10.3 or 10.4 CD-ROM

    Hi folks. I got myself a Powermac G4 "digital audio" (466 MHz, 768MB RAM, ATI RAGE128) off Freecycle, as well as a nice 20" acrylic ADC Cinema Display. The thing is, the hard drive has been erased on the Mac - and it's only got a CD drive. I believe there are some boxed versions of OSX 10.3 and...
  7. Karmalexia

    Can't download keep saying I need to OS X

    Hi , I had problems with my MacBook Pro 2010 continuously shutting off at startup after putting in my password it went to the apple where the bar was moving but always shut off before making the bar code even halfway . So I looked up on YouTube someone mentioned to delete macintosh and I did I...
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    Macbook 2007 install Help

    I have a white MacBook 2007 model and i have snow leopard on a usb to install onto it as my friend stupidly got rid of my operating system when i boot it up everytime it keeps saying i need to restart the computer and i keep ending up at this same spot every time i restart and try install it...