Hello everyone, I’ve been trying to do some upgrades on my 4,1 Mac Pro recently. I upgraded the firmware to 5,1 no problem and then started upgrading the CPUs. I took out the old de-lidded ones and put in new lidded X5675s following a guide by jensd_be. However upon trying to boot it first gave OVRTMP issues which I fixed by tightening and loosening the heat sinks. However, upon booting it kernel panicked and I’m lost as to what to do from here.
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MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 4,1 CPU upgrade issues
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Lidded Xeons with a dual CPU tray early-2009 is asking for real trouble, a lot of times you end with damaged CPU sockets. Did you inspected the pins on the socket?
Did you installed the factory unlidded Xeons to see if macOS boots again?
Did you installed the factory unlidded Xeons to see if macOS boots again?
I have not, will check though thanks, the guy in the video did it fine and I thought that it should work but I guess not.
If you searched here, you would find dozens of dead CPU trays after lidded Xeons were installed, not worth the risk.