macpro 3.1

Hello, for many years my early 2008 MacPro worked very nicely under El Capitan. After being unable to synchronize my iOS devices I decided to test OCLP and made a direct jump from El Capitan to Monterey. That worked nicely but I wanted to fix the WIfi and bluetooth issue and changed the stock...

Hey, I recently acquired an Early 2008 Mac Pro, it has an issue where upon trying to power on the machine, the fans spin, it sounds like the hard drives spin up too, but there is no display and inside there is a diagnostics light marked ERRA. I have tried different combinations of RAM in...

Hi, My MP 3,1 (2008) has installed "Catalina" and run smoothly! Question: 1) There's definitely NO Recovery Mode for DosDude version? Any alternative way? 2) I'm not able to "Option + Power" to launch the boot from USB Installer. What's your suggestion?

Hi all, I tried to install Big Sur on my MacPro 3.1 with OpenCore Patcher (version 0.0.22) on a USB stick. I got till the point where I could see the bootEFI logo and after that loading the Big Sur installer. But then it hangs while loading the installer. I reinstalled the EFI with different...

Hello everybody!! I decided to upgrade my mac pro 3.1 with a new GPU (GTX 780 3gb Gygabyte version) the ebay seller sold it as "flashed for mac" I have installed 10.14.6 (18G103) with dosdude1 patch. The GPU is conected with a PCIe 2x6 pin to 8 adapter on slot 1, and the system recognize it. I...

I've had my MacPro 3,1 for quite a long time now. Lately I noticed it was running pretty sluggish so I've given it a few upgrades to help get a few more years out of it before I finally cave and upgrade to a new machine. I recently put in a solid state drive to boot from, added a USB 3.0 card...

I need help understanding which video card I should upgrade too. I currently have Nvidia geforce 8800 GT 512 mb installed. I need to upgrade but I get lost in the tech talk and I need to know for dummies what is the best upgrade. Also have a 4,1 will the same upgrade work for it as well...

Hello, i have some major issues with my 2008 Mac Pro 3,1. I‘m struggeling for days but i can‘t get it to boot. Issues: doesn‘t boot macOS doesn‘t play the chime doesn‘t accept startup shortcuts (selecting boot device with option key or NVRAM reset, F12 to eject cd works though) only boots...

Hi there, I'm new here at macrumors. I know that ASUS GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II have glitches since high sierra. But I don't understand why I read that this one ( GTX660-TI-DC2-2GD5 ) with the gk104 graphics procesor works with hackingtosh, why not work with mac pro 3.1? I tried with High Sierra...

Just got a Geforce 980 Ti and 4k tv for my old (not Hack) MacPro 2008. 4k image is too small, and no controls for scaling, so trying to use SwitchResX, but it now says no custom anything in OSX 10.11.6 (can't update further) without first disabling SIP which seems to require CMD R at boot...

hay left my 3.1 over night sleeping and woke up to find the front power light blinking, pulled drives and swapped gpu with no luck till i started pulling ram and with two sticks installed only one showed up (but i booted) now looks like the top ram bored is not happy what steps can i take to...

Hi all (sorry if the question was already asked i tried a search but couldnt find any) my friend has a MacPro 3.1 mono processor i've been upgrading MacPro 1.1 to 2x QuadCore would it be possible to upgrade a mono processor machine to a duo processors ? i know he ll need to buy an extra...

Hello, (my first post, please be patient if I don't get things quite right yet) I currently run a Mac Pro 2,1 (OS 10.6.8) which I am considering to replace with a Mac Pro 3,1. Even though the 2,1 is 64-bit architecture (but 32-bit EFI) it runs quite successfully some of my old 32-bit software...

Hi all, I have a 2008 MacPro 3,1 that I just installed sierra on. Everything works fine except the keyboard randomly stops working.. nothing will type, function buttons included. But the mouse, which is plugged into the keyboard continues to work fine. I don't even notice until I go to type lol...

Hello everyone i have a problem when my mac pro startup there is no loading screen its just boots directly to the startup disk What can i do can anyone help Mobo:Mac Pro (Early 2008) CPU:2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2047 MB Ram:9 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Hey Guys, i might be able to buy a Mac Pro 3.1 with 2 X Quad Core CPU 2,8 Ghz and the AMD 2600 XT. Do you Guys think that this is still worth buying. And it is a worthy investment to buy a 500GB SSD, a Radeon R9 280X and PCIe USB 3.0 Board? Please let me know if you can give me a...