HistoryApple Mac Pro 1,1 firmware upgraded to 2,1 to accept newer faster quad core cpus Intel Xeon 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual Cores 4 Cores, 4 Threads Multi Bootable (5) - Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, WIndows 10 Pro 640 GB RAID - El Capitan 500 GB - Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, WIndows 10 Pro 35 GB RAM 1 MacOS: Any Mac made since 2015 should be able to accomplish this without issue (Intel core i3 processor, 8GB of RAM) Windows 10: Intel i3 processor (or equivalent AMD processor) or better. You’re building what I refer to as a “Frankenmac”. None of this stuff is qualified. If you end up with bricked Mac Pro, then it’s your own silly fault. Incompatible with Mac Pro 1,1 2,1 (2006, 2007).First of all, all of the below are regarded as hacks. 1) EVGA 8800GT for Mac Pro 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 Model 2) OS Compatibility: Leopard or later Yosemite, El Capitan 3) Comes with a PCIe 6-Pin Mac Pro cable We do not accept International order from Bay ID registered OUTSIDE the United States EVGA nVidia 8800GT Video Card.The clever bunnies out there in the Wild World Webby, have managed to fool a Ye Olde Mac Pro to run in 64 bit EFI. The wait seems to have been worth it, as I now have my poor old machine running on OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 and Pro Tools 11.3.1The main restriction for a 2006/7 Mac Pro is that it was designed to boot into a 32-bit environment, even though a lot of the internal hardware was 64-bit capable. So I decided to wait a wee while until I found a more elegant solution. Bugger…I’d read that some very clever folk had managed to persuade an old Mac Pro to run Mountain Lion and then Mavericks, and searching the Interwebs, I did indeed find a number of solutions that seemed to require entering a lot of commands in Terminal, creating boot partitions and generally patting your head and chewing gum at the same time. All fully qualified, just the way I like it.The Mac Pro 'Quad Core' 2.8 (Early 2008) is powered by one 2.8 GHz Quad Core 45-nm Intel Xeon E5462 (Harpertown/Penryn) processor with 12 MB of level 2 cache (each pair of cores shares 6 MB), a 128-bit SSE4 SIMD vector engine, and a 1.6 GHz 64-bit independent frontside bus.This is all jolly nice for my clients, but my own personal 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 with a Cinema display (purchased from a friend for a pittance) sits there languishing quite a few operating systems behind on OSX Lion 10.7.5 running Pro Tools 10.3.10 HD. They can afford the best, so I get to tinker with the latest Avid qualified hardware and software available: “iAshtray” Mac Pros, tank-like rack mounted Sonnet chassis, HDX or HD Native cards etc.I like a boot screen, so I purchased a proper Apple card (2nd hand) There are flashed PC cards out there, but they won’t display a boot screen. A graphics card better than a GT120, I used a Radeon HD 5770, original mac version with its appropriate power cable.
I chose the black screen as I dual boot into OSX Lion 10.8.5 or Yosemite 10.10.2. The black screen tells me instantly that I’m booting into Yosemite. Black is a white Apple on a black background and Grey is the traditional Apple boot screen: Either boot.efi file downloadable here. It would appear that Apple have asked for it to be taken down. Tencent gaming emulator for macPreparationI’m going to assume that you’re booting from your old Lion system drive, so go ahead and download all the bits and bobs from the links above. They also seem to disappear down the black hole that guitar picks, iLok 2 lids and single socks end up. A download of Yosemite 10.10.1 or 10.10.2 Combo updaters All of the above cost me around $200 US, I had a spare 1TB 7200 rpm SATA drive, USB drives are cheap and seem to breed like rabbits. If I stuff anything up, I can always boot back to my untouched Lion system drive. You could partition your old Lion drive, but I prefer to build on drive that’s minty fresh. Video Card Pro 2.1 Elcapitan Install The AppleBay 4, remember? Hold down the Mac option key to choose your boot drive after start up chime. Install Yosemite from USB drive to your new “Yosemite HD” system drive. This is the patched version of Yosemite.Don’t install the Apple App store version as this does not have ze patch…This can take some time, so be patient and do something useful for the planet, like knitting a vest for our wee penguins on Phillip Island. (yet to be created, mwahhahaha) Hardware InstallationOpen up Lion Diskmaker X and follow the instructions to create a bootable USB “special” Yosemite installer from the big Yosemite image you download before. If you’re in Australia, as I am, you have plenty of time to make a nice batch of scones with jam and cream, thanks to our advanced network infrastructure.Once you’ve finished downloading, place the files somewhere safe, it could be on a USB drive etcI popped the files on one of my media drives temporarily so I could access them from my old system drive or my new system drive. ThanksDon’t forget to offer up some shekels for the shareware products. For a machine from 2006, this is pretty cool and I’ve managed to spend under $400 US to achieve it. It seems that I should be able to get quite a few more years of life from a machine that officially could not run a 64 bit OS or applications.
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