mac pro (2012)

Hi everyone, I have a couple of cMP 5,1 (technically one is a 2009 flashed from 4,1 with Dual CPUs + a 2012 with Single CPU). Both are running OLCP 1.4.3. With OLCP, I'm able to run both with Monterey. I've been thinking about upgrading the WiFi/CPU on both. Currently, I am using the...

Hello everyone. A few months ago I bought a mac pro from mid 2012, so I started to make hardware upgrades and left the change of graphics card for the end as it was the hardest thing to get (I'm looking for a Rx 580), I am very frustrated about this because, as I have read and seen, only the...

Hey all! Long time Apple user, first time Mac Pro tinkerer. I have a 2012 Mac Pro with the ATI Radeon graphics card. I'm tinkering around with the computer, and a co-worker brought in a GeForce RTX 480. Would this graphics card work? Thanks in advance!

Any ideas on how to install Mac OSX without a working display? I'm also willing to install another OS. I am on a Mac Pro 5,1 (mid 2012) that previously had no hard drives or RAM installed. It did have a a NVIDIA QUADRO K4200, so I got some empty hard drives and some working mac compatible RAM...

Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 may have been zapped by a power surge. No response from machine when pressing power button. Tried known good PSU, and the only sound I hear is a click when I plug in the power chord. No blinking lights, no LEDs on CPU tray. Pressing the LED test on mainboard shows the standby...

I’m trying to get Windows 11 installed on my cMP running Monterey with Martin Lo’s OC and I’m stuck with an error saying ”Windows 11 installer couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one” when I’m choosing the drive to install to. I’ve tried formatting the drive but it won’t fix...

Hi, I have a 2012 Mac Pro 5.1 currently running a regular install of Mojave. An RX580 GPU. I've just bought a NVME drive (+PCI adapter) that I'd like to install Big Sur on using OCLP. 1. Once I've installed Big Sur, will it still be possible to boot back into my old install of Mojave? Like if...

Hi all, I have a 2012 Mac Pro which I bought without any hard drive in it. I thought this would be no issue, just boot from a USB installer and install onto a new drive. However, no boot commands seem to work at all. Option doesn't bring up boot options, CMD, Option, P & R does nothing. I have...

Hello, I have bought a Mac Pro 5,1 A1289 and came with the rx580 GPU and Mojave installed. The person I bought it from said they forgot the password to login so I followed a tutorial online on how to reinstall Mojave to have the password removed. I was able to boot into Recovery and then I was...

Hi there, I have successfully installed Windows 10 onto a separate SSD in Mac Pro 2012. Details as follows: Mac OS: Mojave, version 10.14.6 installed on HDD - GPT - Mac OS Extended Journaled - Drive Bay 3 Windows OS: Windows 10 Legacy version 20H2 installed on SSD (SATA 860 EVO) - MBR - NTFS -...

Hi all. Our Hollywood Los Angeles Post Production studio has a lot of Mac Pro 5,1 machines running 10.13.6 with Nvidia Titan GPUs. Some of them are running into issues with the Nvidia drivers and upgrade path problems. I'd like to try and upgrade some to Mojave and find ways to keep these...

Hiya. I have repurposed an old 2012 Mac Pro as a dedicated test environment webserver by having a clean ubuntu server running on it and nothing else. Whole drive was wiped, no mac os is present. I was thinking of upgrading the current rusty sata HDD to a 256GB NVME drive i have just taken out of...

Hi macrumors. I hope I can find help here. I have a 2011 27°” iMac specs 16gb ram 1333 i7 3.4 some radeon card 850 Evo ssd 1tb The Gpu isn’t working anymore it burned about and getting hot every time I’m starting it. The Mac isn’t booting it just shows a white screen when I start it. I can’t...

Hi everyone, I'm sorry to start a new thread here about that but can't find the one I followed... it was a 300+ pages one about installing windows on a Mac Pro 5,1. it's been months I haven't been here and every threads on this subject seem to be talking about open core (with is not the method...

Hello people! I've been scouting eBay for a replacement Mac Pro 5,1 2010/2012 Logic Board and there's quite a number of different part numbers. I remember seeing a webpage listing the known Logic Board numbers for the Mac Pro 5,1. Does anyone recall/know the url to this webpage?

I managed to install Big Sur 11.2.3 on an NVME drive on my Mac Pro 5,1. Thanks to the OpenCore team and Martin Lo for their package and instructions. Boot Rom is the 944 version. Drive is a Samsung 970 EVO Pro which came with the current 2x series firmware. Mounted on a Lycom DT-120. GPU is a...

My Mac Pro 5,1 has been having an issue where its not properly cooling my system it blows but its not maintaining temperature correctly. The CPU can get up to 70 degrees and will eventually crash. The fans don't ramp up to cool it off properly. I have mac fan control set to automatic and the...

Just wondering if I can/or how to use boot camp on my 2012 5,1 with a non Apple bios Sapphire RX480? Can it be done with startup disk mode? In other words, boot in to Mac OS as usual, then select the Windows startup disk to restart in? Id rather not go throught the process or bios flashing the...

Hey all - I have a mid 2012 Mac Pro and I love it. I love that I can add my own cards to it and stuff but it's stuck in the past and I don't know what core changes I need to do to make it relevant. I can't move past Sierra, my USB-C card I installed doesn't work because there are no thunderbolt...

Hi all, I'm in need of a NAS with large capacity and redundancy (RAID) but I have limited money and want to upgrade it over the next few years. Per year I will produce 12-16 TB of data which I need to save securely somehow. First of all I considered a full-blown NAS. But they are too expensive...