mac pro (2008)

Hello everyone I am trying to figure out why my cMP3,1 won't sleep. I've successfully installed Monterey using OCLP and everything works great apart from sleep. When I select –Sleep video is cut, the screens go to power save and the HDDs are spun down. The white power button light starts to...

Hello everyone, first of all I need to apologize for my post because there are many other posts that says go to OpenCore but I am a musician, not smart enough regarding the technical side of it. I am working with my Mac Pro since 2012 and I was able to upgrade it bit by bit until El Capitan. I...

Picked up a nice 2.1 Mac Pro (model A1186 EMC 2138) from FB Marketplace cheap this weekend to play around with. Mac looks like it's been upgraded previously and has: 3.0ghz quad core Xeon X5365 processor (x2) 32gb RAM ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB video card Mac had a 256gb SSD but when I would boot...

About a year ago my trusty MacPro3,1 decided to start running it’s IO fan at a constant full speed. I tried the usual SMC and PRAM resets, and renewed the thermal paste in attempt to resolve, but it made no difference. It looks like the issue is the MCP Diode temperature sensor which reads a...

i was making a video about running macOS Sonoma on a Mac Pro 2008. I had it connected to an CamLink 4k to capture the video for things OS installation via a DVI to HDMI cable, the exact model is this, an Amazon Basics cable. The HDMI end is on the Camlink, and the DVI end on the GeForce 760. I...

( Make sure to read follow up post for new damning evidence ) Whats up Legends! I come back every couple of years ; and you guys always come through ; so here I am again lol. The specs are in the attached image ; and the issue is in attached video ; but short is a Mac Pro 3.1 Quad Core Xeon...

Hi everyone, I have this old Mac that I still use in my home studio for audio recordings. It's time to get back in the present, I'm consindering to buy a new machine but I was wondering if there's still some juice that could I squeeze from this old battle axe by providing it some new equipment...

Hello, I am currently running an early 2008 3,1 Mac Pro running 10.11.6 and had successfully installed and ran windows 8 and 10 on separate drives while using a ATI Radeon 4870 HD 512MB. Mac OS as well as windows 10 worked perfectly on it.I swapped my graphics card to a ATI Radeon 5870 HD 1GB...

I have old 2008 mac pro with flash ati radeon hd 5770. And I wanted to upgrade it, but I had no money so i tried to flash it. The flash seemed to be succesful, but I think it isn't properly flashed. It still works, and I can get into macOS recovery settings. But, I still can't get into startup...

I recently got a 2008 Mac Pro from a friend as it was not working, and I’m trying to see if I can get it running again. Turing the machine on shows a solid light on the power button and causes the fans to spin at max, but it doesn't show a display or signs it had booted. From what I have...

Hey guys, I recently picked up a 2008 3,1 mac pro with a gtx 770 24GB of ram and dual quad-core Xeon at 2.8gz. it came with macOS 10.9 installed and I want to put windows on there, so I made a bootable windows disk and selected the DVD as the startup disk in system preferences, the windows 10...

All I wanna do is run a headless Mac Pro(3,1, with @dosdude1 patch for Mojave). The instant I connect, mouse/keyboard latency becomes intolerably slow, on the Mac Pro itself, whether I'm looking at it through the two MacBooks I tried this with, or sitting in front of the Mac Pro (display...

Hello all, I have a customized mac pro that is currently running Os High Sierra. I want to install the latest version of photoshop but it requires a higher version for Mac OS. I am thinking about installing MacOS Big Sur or Montery. However, it has been a few years since I last touched this...

My backup/TM drive failed a while ago so I got this one to replace it. The only problem is that 2 (in 4) of the holes for the screws to mount it internally are in the wrong place. I thought about returning it, but I checked and it’s like that for every single HDD of this size or larger. I guess...

I’m trying to update the OS of my 2008 Mac Pro from El Capitan to Monterrey using a 3rd party utility that configures Macs with dropped support to work with it (OpenCore Legacy Patcher). When installing I put it on the internal I only use for Time Machine as it had the free space and I didn’t...

Hi All, this is my first post here though I’ve often arrived here when searching for troubleshooting answers. I have a Mac Pro 2008 (3,1) that I bought new for research originally. It lived it’s life doing day to day tasks while running simulations that took sometimes days in the background...

I work professionally as a graphic designer, mostly Photoshop, Illustrator and occasionally some After Effects stuff on various projects (animation, video editing, creative video art etc). I'm on a Mac Pro 3,1 (early 2008), 2 x 2,8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon , upgraded with SSD, 24GB RAM and...

Hi everyone! I cant install Windows 7 x64 on my MP 3,1 2008. MP 3,1 2008 (flashed to support NVMe) MacOS: 10.13.6 (17G65) Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05 BootCamp: Version 6.1.0 (6067.60.1) Original MSDN Windows 7 x64 iso USB 2.0 Stick (I tried two different, tried to insert in front and back...

Greetings. I am on: 4,1 MP flashed to 5,1 Radeon RX 580 64 GB RAM 2x 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Catalina (10.15.7) Boot ROM MP51.0089.B00 SATA SSD as boot disk 2x NVME M.2 blades via PCIe adapters on my two PCIe 4x lanes remaining after putting in the GPU (which covers my two 16x lanes) All...

Hi everyone, dont know who can help me but i have a 3,1 Mac Pro thats been giving me problems for the past few days. What led up to this problem was me watching a movie in vlc on windows, all of a sudden it just decides to restart. I have switched 10 ram sticks in total, some running the machine...