It looks like the Mac Pro firmware update is showing up just for the 5,1 models. Those are the big silver box style manufactured between June 2012 and October 2013 when the black glossy cylinder. Just finished installing High Sierra on my Mac Pro 5,1. I can confirm that if you are using a non-EFI video card, you will need to use an EFI card (Apple edition ATI 5770, etc) for the firmware update, then can put your non-EFI card back after you finish the High Sierra update. Not sure why this is necessary, but at the moment, it is. It appears Apple is not supporting an upgrade to Sierra on my Early 2009 Mac Pro 2x2.93. It must be they feel it is not fast enough even though it benchmarks at 12612. BTW a Apple iMac 'Core i5' 2.8 21.5-Inch (Late 2015) benches at 11342 More planned obsolescence by Apple. MacOS Sierra hardware compatibility list (no longer supported): • Late 2009 and later • MacBook • iMac • 2010 and later • MacBook Air • MacBook Pro • Mac mini • Mac Pro Anyway: I have read that all I need to do is update the firmware from 4,1 to 5,1 and I will be fine. Downloaded the update but I get Error 5570 when tying to run it. A web search says I need to run Apples EFI Mac Pro firmware 1,5. But it will only install on the 2010. I know we are going to have a lot of questions on Sierra when it hits next week and I would really like to be able to learn the system. I hope you might be able to help. UPDATE 9/15/16 I got by the 5570 error code by opening the MacProEFIUpdate dmg but not running it. Then running the MacPro 2009-2010 Firmware tool ( ran OK without getting the error). ![]() Said to shut down and restart holding down the power button until it started flashing. I did this a couple of times. It looked like it was going to work but I did not get a firmware progress bar, it just booted normally. And I still have Boot ROM Version: MP41.0081.B07. The problem is the same as stated here: Mine is at the B07, so the EFI updater should work but still will not. FURTHER UPDATE Tried it three times and failed. Booted from a clean system on an external drive and success. ![]() Now have Boot ROM Version: MP51.007F.B03 I do not get the error message when trying to download the macOS Sierra Master Beta, it's just doesn't download. UPDATE 9/20/16 Installed Sierra on external drive and booted from it on the MacPro. All appears to be running well, just one incompatible software and that was Symantec Endpoint Protection. Will play with it this way for a few days to see if there are any other issues but it's really starting to look like Apple just wanted to make the machine obsolete prematurely. UPDATE 9/29/16 After testing for a few days using an external with Sierra and finding no problems, I went ahead and installed without issue on my MacPro. Using a Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro Webcam w/ Mic camera and microphone. The camera does not do well in low light and is not near the quality of an iSight. Siri runs fine with it and I can now send messages verbally to anyone in my address book. I will be trying an install on a 64 bit early 2009 MacBook Pro this weekend. WsFTP may be very safe with OpenPGP encryption and in transit through SFTP (FTP over SSH) or FTPS (AES 256-bit encryption). The best ftp for mac. Update 2009 would not boot from external Sierra drive. Circle with bar. UPDATE 10/5/17 This MacPro is now running 10.13 High Sierra with no problems. For the 2009 Mac Pro Firmware update, you need to disable System Integrity Protection first. Here's a quick data dump--I'm about to do this myself. As you may know, some Mac Pro models have been introduced that are identical or very nearly identical to the model that preceded them. Such is the case with the 2007 Mac Pro (MacPro2,1) and the 2010 Mac Pro (MacPro5,1). I decided to see if it was possible to come up with a way to update the firmware on the 2009 Mac Pro with the firmware from the 2010 Mac Pro. The hardware of these models is very close. The only thing that differs is the CPU socket mechanism on the dual CPU model, which uses Xeon CPUs with the IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) removed, and the SMC firmware version. The CPU socket issue is transparent to the firmware, and the SMC firmware difference between 2009 and 2010 models is not an issue. As long as the SMC firmware version matches between the main board and the CPU board, everything works perfectly. Mac sales since 2016 for social media advertising. To explain how this was accomplished, let me first describe how the firmware update process works on a Mac. The firmware updater package, after checking that the Mac can use the update, places an EFI boot file named EFIUpdaterApp2.efi, which is very similar in structure to the standard boot file that starts a Mac on the system volume, in the /System/Library/Core Services/Firmware Updates folder, along with the actual firmware image. This boot file is then blessed in a special way, and the next time the Mac is booted from shutdown, with the power button held down for a few seconds, this special EFI program is run. So how do we get the program to load the other firmware? It turns out that it is surprisingly easy. Inside the EfiUpdaterApp2.efi program are a list of firmware version strings from different releases of the 2010 Mac Pro, along with the CRC32 checksum of the firmware image file. If one of the firmware version strings is modified to what the 2009 Mac Pro model is, and the CRC32 checksum is changed to match the 2010 Mac Pro firmware image, and the firmware image filename is changed to the 2009 Mac Pro firmware image filename, then all is well.
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