mac pro (2006)

Dear Mac Pro forum, as the HD 5770 I have put in my upgraded 2006 Mac Pro starts to get pretty limiting, I am looking to replace it with some faster card. The perfect candidate seems to be a R9 280x (El Capitan support, good deals on my local marketplace). The issue is it's hunger for power...

Hello, After about 6 weeks without use, I turned on my Mac Pro 2,1 and there was no response. No lights, noise or clicks whatsoever. Opening it up, if I press the RTC button the trickle power led comes on. If I press the SMC button, nothing happens. If I press the power button, nothing. Tried it...

I have a Mac Pro 1,1 and will only be running Windows 10 Pro on it (no Mac OS). It's currently running Windows really well and I want to make it more of a gaming machine. However, there seems to be a lot of info online regarding what can/can't be used. Since GPU's are so expensive now, I'm...

Hello! I've been reading the old forum that was also taking about this, but I thought it would be nice to revisite this topick. I've got a mac pro 1.1 flashed to 2.1, running both 10.7.5 and patched 10.11.6, and I've been wondering if we can get it done this time.

Hi all, I have a music recording project coming up that looked like a good excuse to resurrect my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 ... In preparation, I upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on a Sandisk 512Gb SSD and flashed the EFI to 2,1 .. all works fine. The new (used) processors arrived, well packaged and...

I have two Mac Pros (1,1 and 3,1) and they work fine. But the Apple logo does not display on power on and boot. The display(s) do not display anything until the Mac Pro completes the boot process and gets to the login screen. I tried all types of monitors with various connections and tried...

Eu tenho um Mac Pro 2006 e recentemente tive dois problemas (e ainda tenho). a primeira é: apenas um processador funciona, enquanto o outro, a partir do sinal da vida, mas o sistema não o reconhece. A segunda é: recentemente coloquei o windows 10 nele, estava usando o mac os yosemite by Patch...

The system boots fine but right when it starts up the cpu fans rev up all the way to full. When I check fan control it shows that cpu b heatsink is running extremely hot. Also, the top ram riser isn't recognized for some reason. Could this be a logic board issue?

Hi, My Mac Pro 2,1 (upgraded from 1,1) decided not to fully boot up yesterday. It powers on but no chimes. The following Diagnosis LEDs light up on power up. LED 1 Trickle On (Yellow) LED 8 EFI (Green) All others are off. I've tried multiple reboots with the following. Swapped power...

So after few weeks of learning, finally managed to fix broken Mac Pro 2006 and get Ubuntu 20.04 working. However I'm now running into a problem as only 2GB is showing in my system monitor out of 32GB installed. However on lshw -c memory I'm getting 32gb with all 8 banks of memory being correctly...

Get help mac pro 1.1 with Nvidia K620 black screen not I have a mac pro 1.1 osx el capitan 10.11.6, previously I put quado k600 it works fine cuda works a while ago I keep thinking with quado k620 upgrade it doesn't show any effect. A black screen I went back with k600, it was working fine...

Just finished installing Windows 10 on a new (to me) cMP 1,1 (firmware updated to 2,1) running 10.11.6. Was hoping to get Windows 10 installed on it to be able to do some work at home using Windows-only applications until I could save up for all the parts for a high-end PC I'm planning to build...

Hello, I hoped I might get a few pointers on a couple of problems which appeared after a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 upgrade. - I added 32gb Ram 8 x 4GB (HYMP151F72CP4N3-Y5-AB-C Hynix) PC2-5300 DDR2-667MHz ECC FB CL5 DIMM. (all shown as ok in the system profile) - I've added an Ati Radeon Sapphire HD...

Hey, i've got a problem (sry, i am a non-native english speaker), I've got a MacPro 2006 flashed to 2.1 with dual Xeon Quadcore 2.66ghz, 32 gigs of Ram (where one module stops working from time to time), a gt7300 and a quadro 4000 for el capitan which i successfully installes and booted (i don't...

Hi everyone, I am new to using older Apple products. Few days ago I bought a used Mac pro 1.1 It works fine with Windows 10 already installed by the previous owner. But I want to install MacOS, but there is no boot screen/chime, it boots directly into Windows. I can hold the option key how...

Hi guys, I am having problems with a 2007 Mac Pro 2,1. The symptoms are the following: Random restart. Cannot actually boot again (restarts before mac os finishes loading) unless you let it sit for 20-30 minutes. Sometimes the CPU OVERTEMP leds illuminate after. Sometimes they don’t. Either...

Hi everyone, I have a Mac Pro 2,1 with no hard drive and no graphics card which I intend to restore, but I want to check that it will function well before spending money in a hard drive, a GPU and more RAM. I plugged it in and the Superdrive works, the RAM trays lights turn on, the motherboard...

Hi, I am almost ready to update my Mac Pro 1,1 to El Capitan. It now has an original 7300GT 256mb and 12gb RAM. I read some people say El Capitan disabled bluetooth and wifi, and others that don't. I only have apple wireless keyboards, and if bluetooth gets disabled I cannot use a keyboard. Do...

I was wondering if in your infinite knowledge you could help me with a problem with my mac pro 1,1. I've searched forums for weeks to no results! I installed Windows 10 on another machine, then dropped the SSD into the mac and it runs fine however whenever I play a video in my browser, vlc...

I recently used an old HP with UEFI to install Windows 10 x64 onto a pre-made Boot Camp partition on the hard drive in my MP. Everything went surprisingly well with it, except I'm surprised to find that the RAM only shows 32GB usable, even though Windows detected all 64GB in my MP. I know the MP...