mac 1.1

Guys, I'm at my wits end. Picked up a 1,1 that the owner said he couldn't get it to boot. Specs are as follows: A1186 2x2.0GHz CPU 4GB RAM (4 x 1GB sticks, two on each tray) 320 SATA GB HDD SuperDrive GeForce GT 7300 256MB GPU 802.11n WiFi No bluetooth card Originally, the machine had 1GB...

Hello! I recently bought an old Mac Pro 1,1 I managed to get it working with a Windows copy. However when messing around with the hard drive portions I somehow made it worse. Long story short I got a clean hard drive with no operating system and have no idea how to get in to “bios”/ Efi to...

Hey, so recently I decided to upgrade the EFI of my Mac Pro 1,1 to go to a 2,1 (netkas method) and the EFI & SMC upgrade was successful. I also enabled AHCI for Windows via OS X Utilities. Everything went well, OS X and Windows booted flawlessly until I tried OC the Front Bus like my friend did...

Hi all, wonder if someone can help me recently got hold of a 2006-2007 MaC Pro 1,1 Quad Core 2.66 A1186 and I’m very interested in doing a bulid project on it has I would like to use it for my photography and video editing (still at amateur level hence why I don’t want to go out and spend to...

I have updated the firmware in my MP1,1 to 2,1 in prep to upgrade the procs to 2x X5365. I had already done the 64b firmware and installed an SSD, Mavs and a upgraded video card. Is it possible to mount more than 4 drives in the MP1,1? What is the largest single drive this update will recognize?

Hey, i've got a problem (sry, i am a non-native english speaker), I've got a MacPro 2006 flashed to 2.1 with dual Xeon Quadcore 2.66ghz, 32 gigs of Ram (where one module stops working from time to time), a gt7300 and a quadro 4000 for el capitan which i successfully installes and booted (i don't...

Hi, Despite of having tried all the steps to make it run again (to my knowledge), it won’t pass the boot up screen. i have a Mac Pro 1,1 which runs OSX Yosemite (i believe it is 10.10.5). Startup disc is a 1TB SSD. I was working in Logic Pro when suddenly the mac crashed: opened a plugin which...

Hello, Very new to the forum so I hope you can assist. I have read threads on here that half answer this, which I've followed but now at a sticking point. I have a 2007 Mac Pro 1,1 that I have upgraded with: 32GB Ram GeForce GTX 680 2GB Matched pair of Intel Xeon X5365 3GHz Quad core CPU...

Mac Pro only see the 7970 in second slot and sees it as just display as a 1x pcie

I recently attempted to update my MP 1,1 to 10.11.6 from 10.11.4 and now the system ONLY restarts into recovery mode. Upon clicking update, there were no security updates in the App Store queue. Here are some symptoms: when choosing my main and only El Capitan SSD, the grey apply screen pops...

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...

Hello, I recently acquired an old Mac Pro 1,1 and have been trying to update it to version 2,1 in order to facilitate better processors, but after trying nearly everything I can think of I am still unable to perform the update. As I have done so much it will be neater if I post it in bullets...

Hi guys! I'm facing a problem with an Mac Pro 1,1 (2006). First of all let me give all SW and HW specs: - The computer itself is a Mac Pro 1,1 but was flashed to be recognized as an 2,1 (2007); - The installed CPU's are two E5345 @2,33 GHz; - The GPU is and HD5770 flashed to work as an Apple...

Hello all, I have a 2006 Mac pro that I would like to upgrade the GPU on. I already flashed it to 2,1 and I have OSX El Capitan installed. I would like to get a graphics card with more then 1 GB of VRAM. I am currently looking at this card...

Hello all, I am having an issue with a 2006 mac pro related to the video card. The 2006 mac pro has been flashed to 2,1 and I am running El Capitan on the machine v10.11.6. (Please note that this is unrelated to my other most recent post) I have 2 GPUs that I interested in using. One is the...

Hello all, new poster here. I am attempting to upgrade the firmeware on a 2006 mac pro to 2.1. I downloaded the firmware tool here: http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,1094.0.html I ran the tool on OSx 10.5 and I got a pop up stating that "The application Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Toll...

Hi. I have a Mac Pro 1.1 2x2 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon - now with 2Gb 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM. 1 month ago it started to restart suddenly. now it is restarted even in single user mode. I have tried everything. PRam. Single User, Safe Mode. and it restarts always. I may have corrupted the system, now...

Hello, i would greatly appreciate it if anyone can help me with this problem(s) that iam facing with a mac pro 1,1 (upgraded to 2,1). ** Sorry for the long post, but i would greatlt appreciate any feedback. THANKYOU* I received a mac pro 1,1 from a friend a mine with 10.7, nvidia 7300 gt and...

Hey, Having a problem with my 2006 mac pro. The other day the system crashed! It now it boots, chimes but no display! I can still press the caps lock button and it lights, again the light on the front stays there too! The mac is a A1186 upgraded to two quad core processors and 32gb of ram. So...