Help! Can't use my Mac Pro!
I have a Mac Pro 2006 1.1 with a 250Gb hard drive. This worked for a long while, then developed a fault and went really unstable. I think this is because the hard drive is nearly full. The operating...
View ArticlecMP noob; will these parts work?
Hi everyone. I'm right on the edge of buying a used Mac Pro 4,1. I've done a lot of research, and just want to make sure that these parts work in the machine, and that I get the results i expect. The...
View ArticleMacPro 1,1 floppy drive retrofit
Can I retrofit a PATA floppy drive to a MacPro 1,1? I have a working boot camp installation of XP and need to run some software with low level access to an internal floppy drive. Would it be...
View ArticleCan you check my HD6850 EFI rom?
I'm trying to flash my HD6850 as a preparation for 7xxx or R9 series, which ill buy in next few weeks. I bought this, Sapphire HD6850, card as i needed some work to be done in FCPX and only other card...
View Article4 Drive SSD RAID 0 Mac Pro 5,1
Hey All I am building a MAC Pro 5,1 with a 4 Drive SSD Raid in the drive bays. I am only seeing speeds around 600 MB/s, when I am expecting 1-1.2GB/s. Is this a limitation of the internal SATA controller?
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GTX 750Ti Maxwell and Mac Pro ?
Hello, After reading a pretty good review on the new GTX 750Ti entry GPU with only 60W TDP, I am wondering if Mavericks has drivers for it. I know that all Kepler cards are supported but this one is...
View ArticleR9 280X not working in 5.1 10.9.4
Hi After some reading, I just went out and bought a 280X 3GB to put in my 2010 5.1 Mac Pro. I previously had an ATI 5870 1GB. I didn't flash the card, so I didn't expect a boot screen. I waited...
View ArticleMac Pro 1.1 red light on memory board - help!
I have a Mac Pro 1.1 which won't boot properly - it's unstable. The lower memory board shows a red light opposite 03A3, which seems to correspond to DIMM2. I took out the two 1Gb RAMs that were in DIMM...
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New forum user / Mac Pro 4,1 question
Good morning everyone. I'm really happy I found this forum and want to say hello I also have a question if you don't mind I recently inherited my first Mac Pro and was wondering if the following is...
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AMD FirePro D500 graphics card (Mac Pro Late 2013) doesn’t meet Oculus Rift’s...
Finally the Oculus Rift is available for pre-order. The people from Oculus provided a Rift compatibility tool for Windows to find out if your PC is compatible. I ran this tool in Bootcamp, on Windows...
View ArticleCable Airport and Bluetooth Mac Pro 1,1
Hello to all, I wanted to ask information on Bluetooth modules and the Airport form of a Mac Pro 1.1 . I have read several guides and I found that all always refer to insert the wires that actually...
View Article802.11ac, BT 4.0 and Continuity & Handoff are working on Mac Pro 2010 (Keep...
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View ArticleMac Pro 3.41 and GTX 980TI power cable best connection without external supply
Hi, looking at my scenario, MacPro 4.1 system with firmware updated to 5,1 and upgraded 2xCPU X5690 3.41Ghz , 12 GB RAM, 240 GB SSD/MSATA Kingston PCI, USB 3.0 PCI, and only two hard disk days...
View ArticleStart-up trouble: screen shows circle with diagonal line through it
Hi all, I'm a newbie here... My thanks in advance for an advice imparted in regards to the above.... i.e: my G4 Quicksilver, running OSX10.3.9, is starting up with an odd screen: a circle with a line...
View ArticleSonnet Tempo Vs. Apricorn Velocity DUO X2
Sonnet Tempo SSD PCIe card vs Apricorn Velocity DUO X2 I have been doing some reading on both of these cards and while they both have high reviews both have a small amount of very opinionated...
View ArticleInstall Yosemite on any Mac (unsupported) SFOTT
Hey guys, its 128keaton. I wanted to make a quick guide for those who are stumbling through getting Yosemite on your unsupported Macs, namely Mac Pros and Mac Minis which are perfectly capable with...
View ArticleEarly 2008 Mac Pro won't boot. Probably not the HDD.
I have an early 2008 Mac pro, with a 2.8 ghz quad core, 2 gb ram and a GeForce 8800 (basically factory spec) The computer has three hard drives. HDD A has Lion installed, HDD B has two partitions, Snow...
View ArticleAnother "What's my Mac Pro 5,1 worth?" thread...
Moving soon and selling off my 5,1 Mac Pro and curious to get a ballpark number on what I should be asking for it. USD / CONUS please. Mac Pro 5,1 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 32GB 1333MHz DDR3 ECC ATI...
View ArticleWhere to buy Apple 1TB SSD for nMac Pro
I would like to upgrade my Black Mac Pro from the 256GB SSD to a 1TB SSD. But I'd like to order the actual part that Apple uses so the SSD will be fully compatible with boot camp. I checked OWC but I...
View ArticleSSD on cMP 4,1 is a PCIE adaptor worth the cost?
Currently I have a 480Gb OWC Mucury Electra 3G in bay one of my SATA 2 sleds. I know that limits the SSD to 300MB/s, so I am weighing up the decision to buy a PCIE SSD card adaptor. If I get one, I...
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