About a week ago i walked outside my apartment to go to work and i saw a diamond in the rough, a Mac Pro 1.1 in good physical condition sitting near a dumpster. I didnt want to be seen taking someones "garbage" so i waited until later that night hoping it would still be there.. and it was, so i grabbed it. I quickly learned that it simply had one burned out HDD and was otherwise perfectly fine. Luckily, the boot HDD functions and so it boots into Tiger (10.4 i think?) just fine. It has x2 5150s 2.66 and 4gb RAM
After digging through forums and youtube videos, i realized i could restore this machine for a pretty reasonable price of about $60. This price (LUCKILY) bought me a NATIVE apple 5870 from craigslist (no, not a flashed version), 2x mini 6 pin to 6pin PCIe, and 16gb of second hand RAM from amazon.
I watched this video on youtube
and decided this would be the best method since i do not have another mac to install the OS on a drive. I stuck an SSD in the machine and, using Tiger, followed every step in this video to "restore" the image on the drive.
Well, Kernal panic (see attached). Almost like Pikers EFI is non existant. A few things to mention: I dont get ANY output from the 5870, and with the 7300gt i still get kernal panic when attempting to boot el capitan. I know with the 7300gt it should atleast boot. As for the RAM, Tiger SOMETIMES recognizes 16gb, however it seems like every other startup, i get a red light on the board and it is reduced to 12gb.
Ive done just about everything to include playing with the RAM, re-seating the 5870, ive re-restored the image on a regular HDD, ive installed both the 5870 and 7300 gt with the monitor plugged into nvidia (when in tiger, the PCIe configuration windows pops up and recognizes the card as an ATi 5870). But no matter what i do i get either the same kernal panic or, with the 5870 alone, no signal at all. I can safely assume two things; the 5870 is completely burned out or the RAM is in such bad condition that it wont boot El Capitan.
Unfortunately, unless anyone can help, im about to return this Mac to the dumpster, as playing around in the case as given me multiple knicks on my knuckles and patience.
I appreciate it
After digging through forums and youtube videos, i realized i could restore this machine for a pretty reasonable price of about $60. This price (LUCKILY) bought me a NATIVE apple 5870 from craigslist (no, not a flashed version), 2x mini 6 pin to 6pin PCIe, and 16gb of second hand RAM from amazon.
I watched this video on youtube
Well, Kernal panic (see attached). Almost like Pikers EFI is non existant. A few things to mention: I dont get ANY output from the 5870, and with the 7300gt i still get kernal panic when attempting to boot el capitan. I know with the 7300gt it should atleast boot. As for the RAM, Tiger SOMETIMES recognizes 16gb, however it seems like every other startup, i get a red light on the board and it is reduced to 12gb.
Ive done just about everything to include playing with the RAM, re-seating the 5870, ive re-restored the image on a regular HDD, ive installed both the 5870 and 7300 gt with the monitor plugged into nvidia (when in tiger, the PCIe configuration windows pops up and recognizes the card as an ATi 5870). But no matter what i do i get either the same kernal panic or, with the 5870 alone, no signal at all. I can safely assume two things; the 5870 is completely burned out or the RAM is in such bad condition that it wont boot El Capitan.
Unfortunately, unless anyone can help, im about to return this Mac to the dumpster, as playing around in the case as given me multiple knicks on my knuckles and patience.
I appreciate it
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