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Can't seem to install OCLP Monterey on my 2010 Mac Pro. I've successfully installed it on my other two 2009 Mac Pros and I'm just applying the same procedure with the 2010 model but the installer USB gets stuck right at the 'reboot with OPT key pressed' stage. Basically the installer won't mount. I've tried multiple times recreating the installer with different drives but to no avail. Apart from being a 2010 model the only other difference is it has an RX 580 8GB video card installed. The... Read more Source: MacRumors

I bought a 16tb SATA drive and stuck it in an external case linked by USB. Formatted it just fine with HFS. Then after a month I wanted to try sliding it into the case and use a direct connection through SATA but the system doesn't see the formatted drive. Any ideas that would help? Source: MacRumors

Hi all, I am very new to all of this. Never done anything like it. I am attempting to upgrade the video card in my Mac Pro 2010 3.33 hexacore (El Captian) from an HD5870 to an RX580 (with ideally Mojave). I just drove a total of five hours to pick up what was being sold as an AMD Radeon RX 580. When I got home, I realized that it’s not in fact an AMD RX580. It’s possibly an MSI RX580. Thing is I can’t find a similar card in Google searches. Anyone know what this is? Also… Does someone... Read more Source: MacRumors

Hi All, Thought I'd post a picture of my completed install of a 4-port Tiny USB hub in my 5,1 Mac Pro. I have this wired to the standard Bluetooth USB connector, JA120. I used the original Bluetooth cable, cut the end off, and soldered the wires directly to the upstream USB port connections on the Tiny Hub board. I bought this board from Retrocution. One port is used for the upgraded Bluetooth board (you can see the antenna extension cable taped down just above it) and two ports are... Read more Source: MacRumors

Quoted myself from https://www.macgpu.com/how-to-flash-hd-7950-for-mac-pro.html Original post is in http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,5619.0.html A GTX680 or HD 7950/7970/280/280X is still the best GPU option for old Mac Pro if you want both Metal and boot screen. (Opencore is a different question). While GTX 680 is the easiest thing to flash, Radeon cards are need a patch rom. NOTE: only DVI port works for boot screen after this flash. netkas's guide have two problems... Read more Source: MacRumors

Hey y'all! Long time reader first time poster. :) Been using my 5,1 with Big Sur running off of NVMe for a good while now. Updated to OC 0.8 about a month or so ago, and have been enjoying full hardware acceleration with my stock rom RX 590 along will full system wide support across all devices! The ol' cheese grater has been preforming venerably editing 1080 10bit hevc in Davinci. I've been getting regular Big Sur updates for a while with no issue. Never have been prompted to update... Read more Source: MacRumors

Hi all, I am doing tests with my new video card. I created a new drive for all this to keep me original drive intact. It requires that I move to high sierra. I am presently at El Capitan. It also requires that I do firmware updates, both for High Sierra as well as Mojave. If I do these firmware updates will it prevent me from being able to return back to El Capitan with my original hard drive? Thanks. Andrew Source: MacRumors

Hi all, I am new to all of this. Mac Pro 5,1 3.33 Hexa 2010 MSI RX 580 High Sierra Display Port works beautifully. Mojave No more signal on Display Port And The computer thinks the 4k monitor is 1080p… at least that is the resolution it chooses when I select the non-scaled option (native monitor? Something like that.) Any thoughts? Andrew Source: MacRumors

Alright guys I need some help here. I’m a pro video editor working on FCP (proxy-less workflow) and I have an employee that edits next to me and I’m upgrading their machine from a iMac 27” to either my newish Mac Studio Ultra or my 7.1 Mac Pro. Although to be honest I need some help deciding which machine to use OR possibly upgrade my 7.1. I’ve run a lot of real life editing tests which I mention below. Keep in mind I own both and I’d like to keep them separate rather than use my employees... Read more Source: MacRumors

Hey gang. When I get in the car, the phone connects to the the stereo and music plays right away. The issue is that if making call or receiving a call I am forced to select which blue tooth device I want to connect to. The only other device attached is my fitbit. I have deleted the connection from my phone. I have re-initialized the stereo and re-paired them. I have restarted the phone. Is there some setting to set this default that cannot find? Your help is appreciated! Continue reading...

I have the setting "Allow Siri When Locked" on, yet often Siri tells me to unlock my phone first. What's the point of turning the setting "Allow Siri When Locked" on if she keeps asking me to unlock my phone when I ask her something. Some things she will answer but others like if I ask her when my birthday is, she wants me to unlock my phone first. Continue reading...

Here's a weird issue I've run into on my iPhone 12 Pro, fully updated iOS. I have a contact (call him "Joe Blow") who appears as the name of every caller I get from any phone at my workplace. If I have Joe Blow in my Contacts list, entered either manually or from a past call, and I make a call from our office phones at a large org (with hundreds of phones) to my iPhone, he will appear as who is calling. If I remove the contact (and I mean completely purge every trace of him in Contacts)... Read more Continue reading...

My son's just noticed that everyone's fingerprints can unlock his phone (iPhone SE 2020 - iOS 15.6). I've deleted the existing fingerprints, reset the phone and just added the print from my right thumb yet I can use all of my fingers, my son's and my wife's to unlock the phone. I'm either missing a really basic setting or there's something weird going on - any ideas...? Continue reading...

Hello, Last week my iPhone 11 was "Locked to Owner" on its own and later reset up as a new phone with all data wiped out. I have since been puzzled with this question: How could this have happened? The following was my experience. Hope someone can shed some light on this question. Last week I was in a trip and doing a guided mountainous hiking. At the advice of the guide, we put our iPhones in the Airplane mode to save power. My wife was with me. She has an iPhone 12 and has my... Read more Continue reading...

I like looking at old screen time but it keeps deleting old weeks and the last day it shows is July 3rd when I want a lot older dates than that. On the top of that week it says “down six percent from last week” so that means there is some rememberance of old weeks and with all the hacking technologies out there I think it’s possible, but I’ve asked multiple Reddit communities and none of them were able to help so I am really hoping you guys can. Thanks. Continue reading...

Hi all, I've just bought an iPhone 13 and trying not to make the same mistakes as I did with my SE 2020 which saw it's battery capacity go below 85% in just a year. I know the 13 has a bigger battery and I'm already noticing that I don't need to charge it as much as I did with the SE 2020 but I've heard conflicting things in terms of maintaining battery health as much as I can. One of the things I've heard is to always use the Apple 5W charger and always use Apple's official cables. Is... Read more Continue reading...

Are you planning to use iCloud Keychain for managing all your passwords? If you’ve been relying on a third-party password manager until now, you may want to move all your existing passwords to make the migration to iCloud Keychain a whole lot easier. This can be done, although it’s not exactly simple. The iCloud Keychain ... Read More Continue reading...

Interested in checking out the tvOS 16 public beta on your Apple TV? Much like how you can run the public betas of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura, you can also give tvOS 16 public beta a try if you’re adventurous and up for it. tvOS 16 doesn’t have a ton of crazy ... Read More Continue reading...

Ever wanted to enhance the webcam on your Mac? For example, tweak the brightness, contrast, saturation, or even flip the camera horizontally? These things can be done using third-party software called virtual cameras. The built-in FaceTime cameras on most Macs record at 720p, which is not particularly good for today’s standards. While you cannot magically ... Read More Continue reading...

Just want to say, as a relatively "Mac Pro Newbie" here, just wanted to pass along some advice. If you have suddenly come into the possession of a Mac Pro 3,1 or 4,1 or 5,1.....for the first time: 1) DO NOT RUSH to make a bunch of hardware or software changes. 2) Read, read and re-read this forum and follow the suggested links. 3) Think carefully about what you want to do with this system. 4) Some changes are irreversable! Don't brick your new box. I know you're excited to... Read more Source: MacRumors

I would appreciate feedback from anyone that understands the 'vagaries' of Kepler architecture and Apple NVIDIA native driver support. I have owned a GTX Titan that works like a treat from Mountain Lion 10.8.5 through to High Sierra 10.13.6 I like this GPU because it has 6GB GDDR5 Video RAM and most NVIDIA GPUs are light on VRAM. I want to swap it for a Quadro K6000 (12GB VRAM) this GPU is still KEPLER - but I noticed that the Kepler chip ID is GK110B which is different from the GTX TITANs... Read more Source: MacRumors

Hello, I’m wondering if anyone has a Mac bios for the nvidia quadro K6000 GPU? I know that the nvidia quadro K5000 and older K quadro cards do but I’m. It sure about the K5200 8gb or the nvidia k6000 12gb I know how to flash them. I just a Mac efi bios. Or do I just have to use open core? Source: MacRumors

I have a 7,1 Mac Pro with an Apple 1TB SSD boot drive which I'll be upgrading to an Apple 8TB SSD boot drive. Each SSD works with the Apple T2 chipset. I'll be using a Mid-2015 Retina 15" Macbook Pro to do the configuration for the 7,1 after the new SSD is physically installed. Apple says to use a USB-C to USB-C cable, but of course the Macbook doesn't have a USB-C port; it has two Thunderbolt 2 ports, and two USB 3 ports and an HDMI port. I have an HP USB 3.0 to USB-C cable. Will this... Read more Source: MacRumors

hello all :) so I own a Mac Pro 1,1/2,1 that I have upgraded substantially over time and I am always looking to upgrade it when possible. now one thing I have wanted for it was a ATI Radeon 7950/7970/R9 280/X for it as they are the fasted GPUs you can fit to a EFI32 Mac Pro with Boot screens. so a few days ago I found a Nice 7950 for a very nice price on ebay so I jumped on it. the card in question is a Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7950 GV-R795WF3-3GD rev 2.0... Read more Source: MacRumors

https://forums.macrumors.com/data/attachments/1101/1101998-c56667e1d56e4aaddf046bb5d6b5fadd.jpg It's finally happened. I tracked down the exact machine I wanted and the price was where I wanted to be. $130 in my town. Operation Norge: A project to "freeze" this Mac around the Leopard era. The priority is Leopard ONLY and the apps available for it, including Aperture and CS4. The word "Snow" is not allowed in reference to this project. Pardus gang ONLY. Here's the specs: 2.26GHZ 8-Core 8GB RAM 1x2TB 7200RPM HDD GeForce GT120 Processor tray: J5930- It is currently... Read more Source: MacRumors