A huge THANK YOU for making this easy to follow guide. Apart from the Netkas link being broken (I found the Firmware update tool somewhere else) this guide worked extremely well.
Just in case anyone's just bought a 1,1 which was running an older OS: If you are running e.g. 10.4 Tiger, the Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Tool WILL NOT RUN. I had to upgrade to Snow Leopard and then it all worked like a charm. Many thanks @RetroGamerVX for the otherwise very comprehensive video
You just type in the command for downgrade instead of upgrade at the end, didn't think it worthy of a separate video although could. More tutorials on upgrades coming soon.
How did you upgrade to Snow Leopard? My Mac Pro 1,1 is on 10.4.11 and I'm not sure how to update. Wikipedia says I can update to 10.7 without any patches.
Thats right. The macPro 1,1 has got a 32bit firmware like my Imac 5,1 - and MacOs10.7 ist the last compatible MacOS you can install. But there ist a way you can Install a modern 64bit linux, thanks to Matt Gradient. Check this out
You're a damn wizard Harry!! I've been fighting my 2006 MPC 1,1 for days with different patches and whatnot trying to get it to upgrade to 2,1, with no success. This worked like a champ!! Thank you sir!😄
@@RetroGamerVX Ya anything to help in a work around to update mac osx snow leopard from 10.6.8 to Yosimite 10.10 would be much appreciated. I have run into a wall and nothing on RUclips or google has helped. I've tried with my Yosimite DVD and using a download from apple. Both methods says I can't update. The DVD says I have to download from Apple and stops. When I use the apple download I get an alert that I can't install it on my machine. Others who update to El Capitain use a terminal command, "date" to enter the date in a number string > reboot and then it installs ok from that. That doesn't work for me. I'm thinking Apple has thrown out another obstacle in the updates to prevent us from doing that so we will upgrade our hardware etc to keep us at their mercy. Pure deception! The reason why we need good people like you to provide solutions as our 2006 mac pro's work just fine if we have the latest solutions. Your help and from others is much appreciated.
Confirmed to work in 2023 still, but on the one I was updating, the CD drive never ejected, instead I got the apple logo with progress bar straight off, no white screen with cd-tray. Still completed successfully. Cheers!
Nice video, but watching it I really wished that at 3:34, instead of trying to install the Apple Package, you'd retry the Firmware Tool (just for troubleshooting purposes). What I mean is that once the 'EFI Updater' is MOUNTED, most of these errors never occur. So that's it; my tiny advice to your watchers is to try to start the process by mounting the Apple Mac Pro EFI Firmware 1.2 and see if they still get an error first... Still, nice video and great work :)
Another big thank you for your video - it got me pointed in the right direction. However after patching and starting the machine with power button held in, it did the blinking lights but then chimed twice and booted normally. It turned out that I needed to get the the firmware tool called 'Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Tool (005D-B00)'. This worked fine.
Just did the EFI 1,1 to 2,1 as described here from Mavs with my upgraded video card (ATI Radeon 5770HD) installed. Though a couple of steps looked and happened a little differently, it worked fine and 1st boot shows MacPro2,1. About 15 mins in to out. Now to get a new X5365 pair. Thanks mate. Good stuff.
You really a master, you make easy my life with your step by step procedure!!!! amazing... people like you makes more easy the life, and give a new life to our old MAC PRO 1.1 to 2.1... I appreciate your work!
Thanks for the info. Been using Macs since the mid 80's. I recently picked up a brand new in the box Mac Pro 1,1. Upgraded the OS from Tiger to Snow Leopard then to Lion. Installed 16GB of Ram and replaced the HDD with a SDD. Followed your instructions and it worked with no issues. Next step will be to upgrade to El Capitan.
Im running El Capitan and it works great, you will just need pikers boot EFI and a better graphics card (suggest ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024Mb). Ive also got it running Windows 10 too.
Thank you so much. I've followed exactly the procedure in this video and successfully upgraded the firmware of my Mac Pro 2006 from 1,1 to 2,1. Happy Independence Day!
Thanks a lot friend! I did it also to my old mac pro and it wend good without the extra work. I wonder why everything about MAC has to be scary and difficult.
Did not work for me after 3 attempts. One oddity: the ram disk was already populated with more than I was adding, I tried erasing the ram disk before populating it and also just overwriting the appropriate files. Everything seemed ok terminal gave all the same responses as your video, lots of activity from the computer after the flashing light and 'Bong'. But no update.
Thank you very much for this new procedure. It worked great for me... Once I realized I needed to be in Lion (and not in El Capitan). Thankfully I have each OS on a separate HDD. I am now in 2.1 ready to install my quadcore processors :-)
I want to be able to use a SCSI hard disk on 2006-2007 Mac Pro . i just want to use certain programs I used from my old MAC Power Mack 9500 or 9600. This PCI card has to fit in the slots avilable on new
I have one of those Great piece, But riddle me this I’m trying to upgrade my 2009(early)Mac Pro 4,1 to a 5,1. I did the EFI update and the firmware update when I restart it goes into a short flash mode and crashes then restarts back into El Capitan’s
The upgrade script cleans out and writes to the /System/Library/...../Firmware Updates folder. However, on my machine that folder cannot be written to even as root. I have no idea what's going on. The folder is owned by root:wheel but nothing can be written to it. It's like the kernel has it locked. Ever heard of this issue? I'm running El Cap on 2006 MacPro 1,1 unmodified.
Hi! I bought a mac pro 1.1 some days ago and now Im working on upgrade it to its best to do something nice with it. I upgraded the efi to 2.1 and now waiting the ram to arrive to up it to to 32 gb to install el capitán. But something went wrong after the efi. Mac fan pro doesnt recognise the fans, the work fine but arent recognised. Maybe because the smc? Have you any idea? Thank you very much and very easy and nice video!
Not happening for me. Get the system beep and chime, grey screen for a second or five. Cut to black and my hard drive seems to just be stuck in a loop.
Hello my friend I proceeded step by step as you’ve listed and it did it all until I rebooted as recommended to run the update from the RamDisk. I Phelps the power button until it beeped and chimed, but the computer booted up without opening the CD drawer. The result was, it did not upgrade to 2.1. I open and closed the CD drawer using toast I redid all the process
I’m trying to do this, and no matter how many times I do it or how I try it. I just cannot get it to work. I have everything set up correctly and it just never boots up after I hold the power button until it blinks and beeps. It just stays a black screen and the computer just shuts down and on until I manually shut it down by holding the power button. When I restart it, it’s still a 1,1.
Came across a Mac Pro - BTO.CTO - Mac Pro2,1 A1186 - 2138 with two 3GHz Quad Core Xeon X5365 (Clovertown) processors. It has 5 gigs of ram and 4 hard drives, a 250 and three 500s. Very little modern software Mac software will run on this machine without major and expensive mods. Been trying to install several different versions of Linux onto it without success. Most installers are not recognized and the ones that are recognized, start but all stop at some point without giving any error codes. Etcher will not run on Snow Leopard and hard crashes on El Capitan - system just turns off about 3.4 of the way thru an etch. I got it for the price of going to get it, a drive of about 200 miles. Studied and followed many methods for installing Linux on Macs but none work so far on this machine. Any ideas? Thanks.
Your process is the closest I've came to doing this yet however, after i switch it back on and the progress bar is full it fails to boot back up and the optical drive keeps spinning. Anyways, I turned it off and it's worked like a charm, curious as to whether there's any issues I should look out for though since it didn't boot back up smoothly? Thanks again, you're an absolute legend.
I have a Imac 27 that i cant upgrade the reason ? The graphic card that is the only reason hm not good Apple not good at all and i dont know f there is any way you can bypass that on a Imac 27 from 2011?.....
Hello Retro just wanted to say ive been trying to figure this out for so long thought i had a corrupted file from the download but i see we had to follow your steps and i did with my same files and works NOW Im finally in EFI 2.1 Thank you so much for sharing how did you figure this out?lol
What to do, I had El Capitan when I bought Mac Pro 1.1, since I don’t understand the OS at all and this is my first experience, I entered iCloud, after which I got into the app store, I had a notification about possible system updates, I pressed install, after which the Mac rebooted and started the installation, but then after completion, I was transferred to Utilita Mac OS X and there are 4 options there: 1 restore the system from a copy (I did not have a copy there) 2 Reinstall Mac OS completely on Lion 3 help safari and 4 had something to do with memory drives. What to do? Please help, I don't want to completely reinstall the entire system and I'm playing with the installation of El Captain, please help, maybe everything is fine and I can return to the system?
Same issues many others here. Follow the instructions, patch the files etc. Reboot, see a progress bar flash for a second then nothing happens and it reboots. Disc drive never opens.
Hello, look at your System Profiler (or System information) and check if your Boot ROM version is: MP11.005D.B00. If it is, check what I answered to another user here. Good luck :) (also; don't reboot - Turn off / Wait / Press and don't release 'on' button / wait 'till it goes flashing (in my case I waited furthermore until it emited a loud noise...) / release)
Hi, I get to the point of Turning the machine pff, I did it and I turn it back on, like you did, I get white screen and the Fisc bay doesnt open at all and the machine just restarts, any clue what could cause this? Edit: Followed a different tutorial which just pasted the files into the terminal, everything opened and updated as it should, don't know what happened 😀
I have a keybord that is windows and i use it with a recever plugged in the imac but why wont it let me boot to the usb recovery? It just dont respond mid 2009 imac
Do you need to have the original card? I have a flashed HD 5770 that shows the Apple logo and all the EFI stuff, but my Mac Pro came build to order with an X1900XT, which died a while back. Do I need to buy another X1900XT or will my flashed card work?
Hi, if your card is not supported you won't see the process/progress of the upgrade, but if all goes well it'll reboot afterwards. Check if you have boot ROM MP11.005D.B00 before beginning, in which case you need a modified firmware update. Good luck!
hi i got an error of 5570 instead of 5530 can I apply the same procedure as 5530? thanks in advance btw my mac pro am using is 2006 model 2GB memory, dual core intel xeon processor and boot rom version MP11.005D.800 lastly the os version is 10.6.8 snow leopard.
HI.. excellent video. I have an early 2009 2.66 quad core Xenon running El Capitan. I'm trying to update 4,1 to 5,1... and keep getting the 5530 error. Will this process work for this update as well?? I'm thinking there is some different code that needs to be entered. Please help!!!
@@graygreensheim2303 I really don't know... sorry. My problem was solved by someone on one of the forums - he was actually in Germany and did it remotely. It had to do with my original motherboard being replaced by Apple as there was a lightning strike near me that caused a short when it was 6 mos old. The serial number (or some other identifying number) was different than the original and was causing some error messages. Once it was flashed to 5.1 it was great. It CAN be done. I was running Catalina beautifully and just didn't go any further, although you easily can using OC. I upgraded to a Mac Studio a few months ago and love it
Does not work for me, I can shortly see the loading bar when booting but then I get a blackscreen and it boots normally. Help? Edit : I fixed it You will need another patch tool for your firmware version where you're coming from
I've tried this 10 or 15 times. Every time everything seems to be going smoothly. I turn of the computer and when I restart, I see the firmware update screen for half a second. Then another set of chimes and then the normal boot sequence begins. The computer acts as if nothing's happened and the firmware is still 1,1. Can anybody help?
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A huge THANK YOU for making this easy to follow guide. Apart from the Netkas link being broken (I found the Firmware update tool somewhere else) this guide worked extremely well.
Just in case anyone's just bought a 1,1 which was running an older OS:
If you are running e.g. 10.4 Tiger, the Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Tool WILL NOT RUN.
I had to upgrade to Snow Leopard and then it all worked like a charm.
Many thanks @RetroGamerVX for the otherwise very comprehensive video
One suggestion, perhaps it'd be good to do a downgrade tutorial as well just in case anyone needs that in the future
You just type in the command for downgrade instead of upgrade at the end, didn't think it worthy of a separate video although could. More tutorials on upgrades coming soon.
How did you upgrade to Snow Leopard? My Mac Pro 1,1 is on 10.4.11 and I'm not sure how to update. Wikipedia says I can update to 10.7 without any patches.
Thats right. The macPro 1,1 has got a 32bit firmware like my Imac 5,1 - and MacOs10.7 ist the last compatible MacOS you can install.
But there ist a way you can Install a modern 64bit linux, thanks to Matt Gradient. Check this out
You're a damn wizard Harry!! I've been fighting my 2006 MPC 1,1 for days with different patches and whatnot trying to get it to upgrade to 2,1, with no success. This worked like a champ!! Thank you sir!😄
A marvellously clear explanation! Thanks to you I've finally achieved something with this old Mac Pro I've just bought. Onwards and upwards!
You are a magician. All the other videos describing this process should be yanked off RUclips. Yours is the only one to use. Thanks so much!
Wow, thanks!
@@RetroGamerVX Ya anything to help in a work around to update mac osx snow leopard from 10.6.8 to Yosimite 10.10 would be much appreciated. I have run into a wall and nothing on RUclips or google has helped. I've tried with my Yosimite DVD and using a download from apple. Both methods says I can't update. The DVD says I have to download from Apple and stops. When I use the apple download I get an alert that I can't install it on my machine. Others who update to El Capitain use a terminal command, "date" to enter the date in a number string > reboot and then it installs ok from that. That doesn't work for me. I'm thinking Apple has thrown out another obstacle in the updates to prevent us from doing that so we will upgrade our hardware etc to keep us at their mercy. Pure deception! The reason why we need good people like you to provide solutions as our 2006 mac pro's work just fine if we have the latest solutions. Your help and from others is much appreciated.
In case someone asks I am wanting to use only up to Yositmite because that's the highest osx for my hardware I use for music. Thanks again.
Thank you very much Sir. Got the 5530 error and this resolved my issues on first try!
Confirmed to work in 2023 still, but on the one I was updating, the CD drive never ejected, instead I got the apple logo with progress bar straight off, no white screen with cd-tray. Still completed successfully. Cheers!
Thanks for the tutorial man it really helped me out! Now I can upgrade my old Mac Pro to the MAX
единственная человеческая инструкция по обновлению автору большое спасибо
Nice video, but watching it I really wished that at 3:34, instead of trying to install the Apple Package, you'd retry the Firmware Tool (just for troubleshooting purposes). What I mean is that once the 'EFI Updater' is MOUNTED, most of these errors never occur. So that's it; my tiny advice to your watchers is to try to start the process by mounting the Apple Mac Pro EFI Firmware 1.2 and see if they still get an error first...
Still, nice video and great work :)
Worked perfectly for me with my newly acquired mac pro 1,1 - thank you
Another big thank you for your video - it got me pointed in the right direction. However after patching and starting the machine with power button held in, it did the blinking lights but then chimed twice and booted normally. It turned out that I needed to get the the firmware tool called 'Mac Pro 2006-2007 Firmware Tool (005D-B00)'. This worked fine.
Thank you very much for putting your time in here and sharing your great knowledge 🙏🏼Works 100%
Amazing, thank you very much for sharing this, it extends the life of our 1.1 machines by a bit more. 5 stars!
The audio is backwards in the intro -- Pac-Man is moving from left to right, but the sound moves from right to left!
Well listened. Easter egg, your the first to notice
Hi, amazing suggestions, I've just run Netkas' tool on Lion 10.7.5, it worked!! Mac Pro 2007 - steps toward more fun, thank you.
Just did the EFI 1,1 to 2,1 as described here from Mavs with my upgraded video card (ATI Radeon 5770HD) installed. Though a couple of steps looked and happened a little differently, it worked fine and 1st boot shows MacPro2,1. About 15 mins in to out. Now to get a new X5365 pair.
Thanks mate. Good stuff.
which steps happened "a little differently"?
i have the same question that graygreen has, would be glad if you respond=)
Got it! Thank you! Be sure to SHUT DOWN and not RESTART! Otherwise you'll have to do the steps all over again! Thanks again sir!
Just did the firmware update, amazing tutorial, thank you so much !
I had the error 5570 and this still worked for me 👍
What’s the password?
You really a master, you make easy my life with your step by step procedure!!!! amazing... people like you makes more easy the life, and give a new life to our old MAC PRO 1.1 to 2.1... I appreciate your work!
Thanks for the video, your links to the files are broken. Can you help me get those files i will need for this project?
Fab tutorial. Unfortunately none of the links appear to be working anymore so am unable to access the necessary files.
Yeah, I was really excited to try it until I saw the links were dead.
Wait, if you copy the netkas link to your search bar it goes eventually, you just have to wait a bit.
@@ifox100 Yeah thanks for that. I tried again and if you wait long enough the link eventual opens.
Thanks for the info. Been using Macs since the mid 80's. I recently picked up a brand new in the box Mac Pro 1,1. Upgraded the OS from Tiger to Snow Leopard then to Lion. Installed 16GB of Ram and replaced the HDD with a SDD. Followed your instructions and it worked with no issues. Next step will be to upgrade to El Capitan.
Im running El Capitan and it works great, you will just need pikers boot EFI and a better graphics card (suggest ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024Mb). Ive also got it running Windows 10 too.
Thank you so much. I've followed exactly the procedure in this video and successfully upgraded the firmware of my Mac Pro 2006 from 1,1 to 2,1. Happy Independence Day!
Hiếu cho xin cái firmware upgrade tool với,tôi không dowload được ,thanks
@@tunglamuk Tôi xóa mất rồi.
Thanks, that worked a treat! However, I initially tried it on a system just running Leopard and it requires Snow Leopard.
Tks man! Really hopefully. But I had another type of error. Not 5530 but 5570. However, the procedure seems to have been successful
Worked with no problems at all. Thank you very much.
Awsome Man! Treated my 1,1 like a kidsplay & twisted to.2,1 like Magic. Thx Brother!
Glad to hear it!
Do you still have the software locally stored? The software is unavailable online as of now.
Thanks a lot friend! I did it also to my old mac pro and it wend good without the extra work. I wonder why everything about MAC has to be scary and difficult.
Thank you very. I followed your instructions and it worked. You rock
Did not work for me after 3 attempts. One oddity: the ram disk was already populated with more than I was adding, I tried erasing the ram disk before populating it and also just overwriting the appropriate files. Everything seemed ok terminal gave all the same responses as your video, lots of activity from the computer after the flashing light and 'Bong'. But no update.
Worked a treat fella, thank you!
Thank you very much for this new procedure. It worked great for me... Once I realized I needed to be in Lion (and not in El Capitan). Thankfully I have each OS on a separate HDD. I am now in 2.1 ready to install my quadcore processors :-)
it only works with lion?
Yes, only Up to Lion, due to the 32bit firmware.
Beautiful! Worked like a charm! Thank you!
I want to be able to use a SCSI hard disk on 2006-2007 Mac Pro .
i just want to use certain programs I used from my old MAC Power Mack 9500 or 9600. This PCI card has to fit in the slots avilable on new
This all works perfectly... thank you so much !
Now I need to get Mountain Lion on this machine which is proving to be a pain !
Hi. There is a way to make something like this in a macbook late 2008? if yes, could you make a video showing how do it? Thank you.
This worked well, highly appreciated tutorial.
Thank you your a Mac Pro 1,1 Hero !!! Good Day !!!
Great video. worked for 5507 error.
great work
thanks a lot
I have one of those Great piece, But riddle me this I’m trying to upgrade my 2009(early)Mac Pro 4,1 to a 5,1. I did the EFI update and the firmware update when I restart it goes into a short flash mode and crashes then restarts back into El Capitan’s
Worked like a charm ! Awesome buddy! Cheers
Hello, are you able to reshare the files on google drive? The link is not working
Does not work for me, when I shut down and hold until blinking it just boots up normally.
I just want to add here that you can run Firefox Legacy on Lion OSX 10.7.5 with ease for those who love these Classic Mac Pros... Cheers !
Excellent. Work for me. now with a MacPro 2.1 :-) thank you very much for sharing this!!
This worked perfectly for me. Thanks for sharing!
The upgrade script cleans out and writes to the /System/Library/...../Firmware Updates folder. However, on my machine that folder cannot be written to even as root. I have no idea what's going on. The folder is owned by root:wheel but nothing can be written to it. It's like the kernel has it locked. Ever heard of this issue? I'm running El Cap on 2006 MacPro 1,1 unmodified.
Very thanks. Perfect functional my MacPRO 2006.Very thanks, good tutorial. Thanks very very thanks.
Hi! I bought a mac pro 1.1 some days ago and now Im working on upgrade it to its best to do something nice with it.
I upgraded the efi to 2.1 and now waiting the ram to arrive to up it to to 32 gb to install el capitán.
But something went wrong after the efi. Mac fan pro doesnt recognise the fans, the work fine but arent recognised.
Maybe because the smc? Have you any idea? Thank you very much and very easy and nice video!
Google drive files have been removed, and apple links to the newer macpro.
Thanks this worked for me. But had 5570 error. But this method also works for that.
Thanks mate! That worked a treat!
Welcome :)
Holly Shit it worked.
Thank you so so much, you were of MASSIVE help, keep up the amazing work :).
Not happening for me. Get the system beep and chime, grey screen for a second or five. Cut to black and my hard drive seems to just be stuck in a loop.
Worked like a charm. Thank you very much.
do you think you could you get find out away of playing warzone on elcapitan mac without using a windows 10 visual
I don't have an el capitan mac
Nice bud, thank you. Worked like a champ!
Hello my friend
I proceeded step by step as you’ve listed and it did it all until I rebooted as recommended to run the update from the RamDisk. I Phelps the power button until it beeped and chimed, but the computer booted up without opening the CD drawer. The result was, it did not upgrade to 2.1. I open and closed the CD drawer using toast I redid all the process
And, again, it did not work. Can you help me please?
You have the original hardware in?
I’m trying to do this, and no matter how many times I do it or how I try it. I just cannot get it to work. I have everything set up correctly and it just never boots up after I hold the power button until it blinks and beeps. It just stays a black screen and the computer just shuts down and on until I manually shut it down by holding the power button. When I restart it, it’s still a 1,1.
I have a mac pro manufactured 2007. Are you saying the CPUs can be upgraded to quad core cpu's?
Came across a Mac Pro - BTO.CTO - Mac Pro2,1 A1186 - 2138 with two 3GHz Quad Core Xeon X5365 (Clovertown) processors. It has 5 gigs of ram and 4 hard drives, a 250 and three 500s.
Very little modern software Mac software will run on this machine without major and expensive mods. Been trying to install several different versions of Linux onto it without success. Most installers are not recognized and the ones that are recognized, start but all stop at some point without giving any error codes. Etcher will not run on Snow Leopard and hard crashes on El Capitan - system just turns off about 3.4 of the way thru an etch.
I got it for the price of going to get it, a drive of about 200 miles. Studied and followed many methods for installing Linux on Macs but none work so far on this machine.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Your process is the closest I've came to doing this yet however, after i switch it back on and the progress bar is full it fails to boot back up and the optical drive keeps spinning. Anyways, I turned it off and it's worked like a charm, curious as to whether there's any issues I should look out for though since it didn't boot back up smoothly? Thanks again, you're an absolute legend.
Thanks, Andrew, unfortunately I've no idea what's causing that, took me long enough to research how to do this myself. Least it's going back for you.
Both links to get Firmware Update tool are down. Main and Gdrive. Ended up getting the file but it didn't work for me. Didn't update.
Please would this method work for mountain lion?
Thank you
I have a Imac 27 that i cant upgrade the reason ? The graphic card that is the only reason hm not good Apple not good at all and i dont know f there is any way you can bypass that on a Imac 27 from 2011?.....
Thanks, just what I needed
Thanks for feedback :)
Hello Retro just wanted to say ive been trying to figure this out for so long thought i had a corrupted file from the download but i see we had to follow your steps and i did with my same files and works NOW Im finally in EFI 2.1 Thank you so much for sharing how did you figure this out?lol
What to do, I had El Capitan when I bought Mac Pro 1.1, since I don’t understand the OS at all and this is my first experience, I entered iCloud, after which I got into the app store, I had a notification about possible system updates, I pressed install, after which the Mac rebooted and started the installation, but then after completion, I was transferred to Utilita Mac OS X and there are 4 options there: 1 restore the system from a copy (I did not have a copy there) 2 Reinstall Mac OS completely on Lion 3 help safari and 4 had something to do with memory drives. What to do? Please help, I don't want to completely reinstall the entire system and I'm playing with the installation of El Captain, please help, maybe everything is fine and I can return to the system?
Same issues many others here. Follow the instructions, patch the files etc. Reboot, see a progress bar flash for a second then nothing happens and it reboots. Disc drive never opens.
Make sure your hardware is stock, no video card upgrades.
Hello, look at your System Profiler (or System information) and check if your Boot ROM version is: MP11.005D.B00. If it is, check what I answered to another user here. Good luck :) (also; don't reboot - Turn off / Wait / Press and don't release 'on' button / wait 'till it goes flashing (in my case I waited furthermore until it emited a loud noise...) / release)
You rock .. thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you for the great video.
I'm not getting the Ram Disk on the desktop. But the window does say saving to Ram disk.. where can I find it?
I'm having the same problem. Anyone knows the answer?
on the finder window?
Hi, I get to the point of Turning the machine pff, I did it and I turn it back on, like you did, I get white screen and the Fisc bay doesnt open at all and the machine just restarts, any clue what could cause this?
Edit: Followed a different tutorial which just pasted the files into the terminal, everything opened and updated as it should, don't know what happened 😀
2006 mac pro. After upgraded, I cannot boot up El captain, it just grey/white screen, but lion os no problem. All hardware cpu/gpu is org. Any idea?
Thank You this worked you are AMAZING
Hello, I try to donwload tools to flash my mp1.1 to 2.1 unfortunatelly Links seem to be dead. Help. Best regards.
I have a keybord that is windows and i use it with a recever plugged in the imac but why wont it let me boot to the usb recovery? It just dont respond mid 2009 imac
It works!! Legendary, thank you
Hello, do you still have the software locally saved? The software is becoming harder to access online.
Link to firmware update tool is no longer valid. Has anyone a backup option here?
And it's ok if you don't have any optical drive?
Thanks very much, that worked a treat :)
Do you need to have the original card? I have a flashed HD 5770 that shows the Apple logo and all the EFI stuff, but my Mac Pro came build to order with an X1900XT, which died a while back. Do I need to buy another X1900XT or will my flashed card work?
As far as I know, it needs the origional hardware.
Hi, if your card is not supported you won't see the process/progress of the upgrade, but if all goes well it'll reboot afterwards. Check if you have boot ROM MP11.005D.B00 before beginning, in which case you need a modified firmware update. Good luck!
Looks that these files to download are not acceptable from the links provided, can you help?
It works great! thanks!
Where can I get the recovery software? My 1,1 didn’t come with it when hitting command-R
Can I do this on Lion and then update to El Capitan?
hi do u need the cd dvd drive or will it work with out it please can u help
hi i got an error of 5570 instead of 5530 can I apply the same procedure as 5530? thanks in advance btw my mac pro am using is 2006 model 2GB memory, dual core intel xeon processor and boot rom version MP11.005D.800 lastly the os version is 10.6.8 snow leopard.
I got the same error as you, I just went ahead with it and it worked
HI.. excellent video. I have an early 2009 2.66 quad core Xenon running El Capitan. I'm trying to update 4,1 to 5,1... and keep getting the 5530 error. Will this process work for this update as well?? I'm thinking there is some different code that needs to be entered. Please help!!!
Appologies, can't help, never had one of them.
@@RetroGamerVX No problem... got it all worked out. Upgraded everything and now running Mojave!
@@charlesbumcrot1476 so what is the solution?
@@graygreensheim2303 I really don't know... sorry. My problem was solved by someone on one of the forums - he was actually in Germany and did it remotely. It had to do with my original motherboard being replaced by Apple as there was a lightning strike near me that caused a short when it was 6 mos old. The serial number (or some other identifying number) was different than the original and was causing some error messages. Once it was flashed to 5.1 it was great. It CAN be done. I was running Catalina beautifully and just didn't go any further, although you easily can using OC. I upgraded to a Mac Studio a few months ago and love it
Followed your procedure twice, and couldn't find the ram disk either time. Completely failed...!!!
Stupid question once this is done can I then update the osx to Catalina?
Does not work for me, I can shortly see the loading bar when booting but then I get a blackscreen and it boots normally. Help?
Edit : I fixed it You will need another patch tool for your firmware version where you're coming from
How did you fix this? I'm getting the same issue. It reboots, beeps, then goes to a black screen. My fans are running at full rpms too.
The same issue, i tried on Lion and Snow Leopard...
Guys please read my full edit
Can you reupload the files? the links are down. Thanks!!!!
I've tried this 10 or 15 times. Every time everything seems to be going smoothly. I turn of the computer and when I restart, I see the firmware update screen for half a second. Then another set of chimes and then the normal boot sequence begins. The computer acts as if nothing's happened and the firmware is still 1,1. Can anybody help?
Exact same thing is happening to me as well, everything seems to run fine, i see the progress bar for half a second then it reboots again.
Hi.. I want to upgrade the cpu X5355 on my Mac Pro Pro 2006 how to do. Please help.
There are videos on CPU upgrades. I'll have one out in a few weeks.
man you are the one man
Do a video gaming on apple computers
I have several videos where I game on Apple computers, I have ones on the G3, G4 Power Mac, G4 desktop, Macintosh LC. Haven't done one gaming on this yet though, any suggestions for games you'd like to see?
Should be obvious... Crysis and/or DOOM 3
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