Anyone installed this yet? Any improvements? Did they fix the CPU / Audio issue?
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL989
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL989
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Mac Pro (Early 2009) Firmware Update 1.4
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I can't get it to install. I press shut down, hold the power button till the light flashes several times but then it just boots up normally and tells me I still need to install the update. It never gets as far as "A grey screen then appears and a status bar indicates the progress of the update" like it says it should.
Just applied - it took two attempts but finally installed....will check the audio now...
No dice - seeing the same temps as those over the weekend - running on-board audio. Temps tonight climbed to 46 C after 15 minutes of audio playback.
No dice - seeing the same temps as those over the weekend - running on-board audio. Temps tonight climbed to 46 C after 15 minutes of audio playback.
So yet another missed opportunity to fix the issue.. I guess until they are willing to open their eyes and agree that this is abnormal, there is no chance.
On a different note, what was the likely purpose of this update? I find it hard to believe that they would update the firmware just for Windows XP performance...
On a different note, what was the likely purpose of this update? I find it hard to believe that they would update the firmware just for Windows XP performance...
I am hoping it affects boot camp storage performance in general and not just XP. I have Windows 7 Pro installed on boot camp and my file transfers take forever sometimes and other times go really fast. They seem to randomly freeze and stutter a lot even when going from internal to internal drives. I know Windows 7 isn't supported or whatever, but everything else works great except those pesky file transfers. Fortunately, I don't know when I plan on using the boot camp partition again other than updating my Garmin or playing a Windows only game.
According to Apple:
Sad that it doesn't help with the audio temps, but there's still hope for that fix in a future OS update as it may be just a driver issue.
Perhaps it will also address the issue with Intel G2 drives in RAID on 10.6.2?
I suspect they also stealthily opted to include a microcode update to enable our 2009 Mac Pro's to run Gulftown?!
Sad that it doesn't help with the audio temps, but there's still hope for that fix in a future OS update as it may be just a driver issue.
Perhaps it will also address the issue with Intel G2 drives in RAID on 10.6.2?
I suspect they also stealthily opted to include a microcode update to enable our 2009 Mac Pro's to run Gulftown?!
According to Apple:
Sad that it doesn't help with the audio temps, but there's still hope for that fix in a future OS update as it may be just a driver issue.
Perhaps it will also address the issue with Intel G2 drives in RAID on 10.6.2?
I suspect they also stealthily opted to include a microcode update to enable our 2009 Mac Pro's to run Gulftown?!
Eek. What issues are there with raid G2s? As thats what I have just done :/
Perhaps I'm hoping for too much, but is it possible this firmware update carries with it microcode updates as well for use with Intel's forthcoming 6-core processors? Is there any way the firmware package can be inspected for CPU-related strings, etc?
Very doubtful.
It's a binary data file, so No. You'd have to be able to de-compile it (returns it back to a language, such as Assembly).
I have just applied the upgrade successfully. I'm now cloning the HDD on a Gen2 RAID0 array. We will probably know in the next week if it cured the issue.
there's a command-line utility called "strings" which will print all the ascii strings found in a binary file. even though it is binary, string literals (things like hardware id's, etc) are typically preserved as ascii "string" data and will print...