mac pro (early 2009)

Hi gentlemen, I have a Mac Pro 4.1, flashed to 5.1 32GB RAM, single X5690, USB 3 PCI card I have a MacVidCards MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G that supports the boot screen. And I HAD a cheap SATA SSD. It failed on me a week ago. Luckily I was able to make a full backup by making an image with...

Hi! I'm new to this forum and I want to tell you my cMP story and ask you for advice on some issues I still have. I bought a cMP 4,1 at the tail end of last year that had its firmware upgraded by the previous owner already. This is my first Mac ever and I'm not sure I would want another model...

I have been using 48GB of memory and have added two 8GB memory cards to make 64GB. Since then I have had difficulty cold starting my Mac. When I press the power button it does not make the startup sound forever and the apple symbol does not appear. I left it in this state for an entire day and...

Hi All, I hope some can help. I have a mac pro 4,1 upgraded to 5,1 firmware. Upgraded CPU's and RAM. Ive been using my MP in this configuration for a couple of years now and love this machine, its a beast even compared to some of todays hardware :) Just recently my child was using it to...

Hi all, Has anyone experienced USB, BT and other externally connected devices not connecting when plugged in? Often a restart will fix the issue, but only if the device is connected during the reboot. I'm talking anything I plug into either the front USB ports and a PCIe USB 3.0 board in the...

I've been trying desperately to get my 4,1 (firmware updated to 5,1) to boot back into High Sierra. Before making upgrades, my Mac Pro ran fine. I'm running a single Xeon X5675, and I upgraded from 16gb of 1033mhz RAM to 32gb of 1333mhz, as well as swapping out the default Nvidia GT 120 for an...

Any indication if Apple broke iCloud syncing with older non supported Macs? Running a 5,1 MP with 10.14... All my other devices sync fine, though I have only updated my other Macs to 10.15 a few months ago, so I wonder if when I did that it somehow made the MP incompatible. Photos, iCloud...

Apple Mac Pro (early 2009) 4,1->5,1 Dosdude1 applied macOS 10.14.6 Mojave ive just fitted a reconditioned nVidea GTX680 GPU and am now having problems booting. The startup chime sounds and the Apple logo appears. However, when the progress bar has reached around 60% it freezes. I’ve left it for...

Hey, I just installed High Sierra 10.13 via usb-drive on my mac pro 4.1 early 2009 patched to 5.1. As i don't have a second mac i used a windows made bootstick to have a plain new system. Everything worked fine, so i build in a new cpu: xeon W3680. Also worked fine. After that i wanted to go...

Hi all, I've read everywhere and to no avail so I'm hoping someone here can help. I have a 2009 Mac Pro (flashed to 5.1) and I bought an XFX RX 580 GTS Black Edition (https://www.amazon.com/XFX-Radeon-1386MHz-Graphics-RX-580P8DFD6/dp/B072B6W44N) to upgrade from an HD 7950, and all I get is a...

Hello, I have a Mac Pro 5,1 running High Sierra with dual Apple displays (20" and 23"). Video card is an MSI branded Nvidia GeForce GTX 650. I can't get both displays to turn on/off with the main power button - one of them must be turned on/off manually. Both monitors are connected via DVI. Is...

OK So ... I was gifted a: Mac Pro (Early 2009) 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 8GB DDR3 I flashed the BIOS from 4,1 to 5,1 without any issues and then I upgraded to macOS High Sierra (Version 10.13.6) Still no issues. My new Graphics Card showed up: (Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB and the...

So I have a 2011 iMac, That had a GPU failure. I was told it wasn't worth fixing. It started a forum. (If you haven't seen it yet. It's right here.) So. . . I bought a 2009 Mac Pro. Here are the specs: It's been flashed to a 5,1. Single quad-core Xeon. I will be upgrading it to dual 6 core...

Hi, has anyone installed Ubuntu or any other Linux distro on an NVME drive on a 4,1/5,1? I currently have Ubuntu 18.04 running on a cheap san disk ssd. I wouldn't mind Mojave and Ubuntu on an NVME. As I am running Windows on on compatibility mode, I assume that would have to stay within one...

I’ve been tying to fix a 2009 MacPro4,1 dual Xeon for a while, and the problem is: it turns on for a bit, then clicks off, and won’t turn on again for a while. If I leave it for maybe half an hour it will come on again for 5-10 seconds then click off again. The PSU has been replaced and the...

Hi, I’m thinking of picking up a spare Mac Pro 5,1 to have on hand for parts in case anything goes south with my current single-processor 5,1. My current Mac Pro is a true 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 so I would like the spare to be the same, for maximum compatibility. However, it can be tricky to spot an...

Hi everyone i have some issues trying to install windows 10 on my mac pro 4.1-5.1 Everything is fine until i have to install the drivers via bootcamp assistant (already on win10) the setup just crashes trying to install the Intel Chipset Driver. Then the sound from an unplugged device (windows...

Hello everyone I have a problem with my Mac pro 2009 some time ago (5 month ago), I had MP41.0081.807 ROM version (image first.png) Now after some updates (upgrade firmware) and install Mojave, I have the next ROM 140.0.0.0.0 but I don't know why I have this ROM 140.0.0.0.0 now (image -...

Hello! I've been trying to flash the firmware on my Mac Pro 2009 4 1 to 5 1 in order to be able to upgrade cpu to 12 core as well as RAM. It's currently running Snow Leopard and doesn't have a partitioned drive (no recovery mode, which means I'm unable to disable SIP). I've tried to flash the...

I have a Mac Pro (Early 2009) flashed to 5,1 WITH this AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x87) card. When I look in the Finder I can see the AirDrop icon (the round concentric circles icon) but it doesn't say AirDrop next to it. When I click on it and open it, it does say AirDrop, but I can't connect...