MP 1,1-5,1 Metal GPU Requirement for Firmware Update - Only Way?

[Tucom]

Greetings all, don't mean to overchurn this topic if it's zipped and bagged, but is there *ANY* conceivable way to mitigate the metal GPU requirement for 144.0.0.0 Firmware Update for 2010 Mac Pro's?

It's a bit antagonizing not having the NVMe boot ability when everything I need to do with the machine is capably here power wise, but additional microcode updates would be a great subconscious peace of mind as well.


Curious if doable, if not I guess $200+ for a firmware update it is.

 

[tsialex]

Greetings all, don't mean to overchurn this topic if it's zipped and bagged, but is there *ANY* conceivable way to mitigate the metal GPU requirement for 144.0.0.0 Firmware Update for 2010 Mac Pro's?

It's a bit antagonizing not having the NVMe boot ability when everything I need to do with the machine is capably here processing power wise, and the additional microcode updates would be a great subconscious peace of mind as well.


Curious if doable, if not I guess $200+ for a firmware update it is.

No, there isn't a way for an user update a MP5,1 firmware without a METAL GPU, it's a requirement.

It's possible to reconstruct the firmware based on the BootROM dump, but it's not something that an end user can do.

 

[Tucom]

Thanks tsialex - Was hoping you'd actually be the one to verify; your work in the other threads has been astronomical.

Is the firmware reconstruction just totally out of the question? Even if possible though, at this point I actually may just not risk my otherwise excellently functioning machine and just get a significantly nicer and more powerful official GPU - eyeing a 7950 Mac Edition, or otherwise.

 

[tsialex]

To reconstruct a BootROM you need to fully understand the process or you will get a brick at the end and it's a very time consuming and manual process to prepare the files. Maybe someone will offer to do for you, I don't have time to do it anymore.

You can get a RX 560 for around $70, an used RX 580 for a little over $120. With a Polaris card you can have video acceleration with x265 decode and x264 encode/decode, a HD 7950 don't have it and cards this age, 2012-ish, are failing constantly.

 

[Tucom]

Thank you so much dude, incredibly helpful. Had no idea about the lack of codec processing, that's actually pretty significant in my case.

A+ user here folks!

 

[tsialex]

Thank you so much dude, incredibly helpful. Had no idea about the lack of codec processing, that's actually pretty significant in my case.

A+ user here folks!

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