mac pro (2006)

Hi, I'm new to the forum and I'm writing because I have a problem. For passion I bought a Mac Pro 1.1 on ebay at 50 euros knowing that it probably wouldn't work. Clean and assembled everything (the power cord is missing and I used one of an old windows pc) I turned on the mac and obviously it...

Hey guys! I have 2006 mac pro MacPro1,1 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeo, 32 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIM, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB and running on Mac OS X Lion. I would like to upgrade to some the latest possible available so i can use El Capitan or very latest OS. i wan to be able to use adobe...

Hello everyone. I have been visiting this forum for a long time, but it is the first time I have made a consultation. I don't speak English very well, I just hope to be as clear as possible. I have a Mac Pro 1.1, updated to 2.1. It has the following characteristics: 2 X Intel Xeon X5365...

Hello, a little history: In February 2019 I managed to upgrade old mac pro 1,1. I cleaned all dust away, got new CPUs, RAM, GFX card. My mac pro configuration is as follows: Mac Pro 2,1 (after firmware update) running el Capitan 2x Intel Xeon X5365 SLAED Radeon HD5770 1GB DDR5 4x FB-DIMM DDR2...

Hello all, I recently got a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 for free and was looking to upgrade it as just a fun project. I have a pair of Xeon X5365 3ghz CPU's on the way and an SSD. Was also planning on doing the unsupported update to OS X 10.10 and will need a new video card for that. I have been perusing...

Hi Everyone I've jus upgraded my 2006 Mac Pro to run El Capitan using Pike's excellent installer and the guides from this site. Almost everything works like a charm but i'm struggling with the GPU. I bought a ATI Radeon HD 5770 off Ebay with the power lead but I can't get the mac to recognise...

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

Anyone have a Mac Pro 1,1 or 2,1 with El Capitan, using Radeon RX580 or Nvidia GTX 980 TI? How is it working? Any issues?

3 days ago I installed Windows 10 on my Mac Pro 1,1 without the use of bootcamp. Everything works except every half hour to 2 hours the computer completely locks up and freezes and I have to hold the power button to shut it down. This usually happens under heavy load. On El Capitan it never...

3 days ago I installed Windows 10 on my Mac Pro 1,1 without the use of bootcamp. Everything works except every half hour to 2 hours the computer completely locks up and freezes and I have to hold the power button to shut it down. This usually happens under heavy load. On El Capitan it never...

I am having a weird issue after I updated the CPU's on my Mac 1,1 to the quad core from the dual cores. If dimm 1 on the lower RAM board is occupied the system does not boot. The system turns on and the fans turn on as normal however there is no video out put and no chime, the white front LED is...

i have a Mac Pro 1,1 which has the 2,1 firmware running on it. The machine is running el cap and currently has a Radeon HD 6870 PC Card which works fine but can’t drive a 4K monitor at 60hz. Are there any reasonably priced cards that would work in el cap and windows 10?

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 people, I have a Mac Pro 1.1 with an ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card (the pc flashed one), 6GB of RAM and the original 2 x 2,66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors, and I have been trying to install anything newer than Lion on it but I've had no success. The last OS I tried to install is...

I am using the EFI boot patch to get El Capitan to run on my Mac Pro 1, 1. It has 16 GB of RAM but will have 32 GB by next week. I am having a problem with video and audio being out of sync like on You Tube (lip sync I believe it is called). I replaced the built in video card with a PC card...

Hi, I have prepared a USB key Boot 16 Gb Install Mac OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 on my old Mac Pro 1.1 I bought in 2006. It works great ! If you are interested in getting the new USB key, you can contact me (nanou6835@yahoo.fr) and I can help you by sending it to you along with easy accurate...

I have a Mac Pro 1,1 that I am attempting to upgrade for the purposes of updating it to El Capitan. I hadn't used the computer in a year or two, and there was not an HDD installed in the system. (I pulled drive from it a while back for another project) When I stopped using it a few years ago...

Hi all, My Mac Pro 1.1 upgraded to 2.1 has stopped booting up. It does not react to any key combinations after the chime sound. I have tried resetting PRAM, booti up from network, removed rams and all devices and left only 2 RAM modules in. It does not pick up any HDDs/DVD/USB, just sits on...

On my 2006 mac pro, It only shows one CPU in system profiler (see attatched). This had not happened until a day after I installed Snow Leopard. It happened before i went to 10.6 -> 10.6.8. I noticed a drop in performance, and was wondering why. Any way to fix without dissembling. I recently...

Wondering if it is possible for me to run an AMD R9 290 in my 2,1 Mac Pro? I firmware hacked it from 1,1 to 2,1 and is currently running 10.11.6 using the modified Boot.efi method. I have an external PSU for power instead of internal power, i am wondering if there are any drivers, or Kext...