Upgrading Mac Pro 5,1 Firmware to support NVMe
Flashing the Mac Pro 5,1's firmware is pretty straight-forward but there's a few minor gotchas. This video shows step-by-step how to get the Mac Pro 5,1 to the latest (and most likely final) firmware version,144.0.0.0.0.
Video captured off of the Firmware updated machine is 1080p upscaled to 4k, I apologize to the 4k peeps for that but it is what it is. I also should have mentioned I clicked the shut down computer button from the Mojave installer to start the firmware update sequence.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro & Considerations
2:00 - Firmware Revisions
2:50 - GPU Requirements
5:50 - Downloading 10.14 Mojave
6:19 -The Process of updating the Mac Pro Firmware
I doubt there's many people still looking to a video tutorial for the cMPs but flashing the firmware always seems to be an issue. Jay's "Turning a 2009 4,1 Mac Pro into a 2010/2012 5,1 Mac Pro – 2021 Edition" is a great article and I had recorded. this before I saw him post it and almost didn't bother finishing this video after seeing it. See if you can spot the typo in this video.
Links:
Definitive Mac Pro Upgrade Guide
http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2018/0...
Turning a 2009 4,1 Mac Pro into a 2010/2012 5,1 Mac Pro – 2021 Edition
https://thehouseofmoth.com/turning-a-...
Dosdude1 - macOS Mojave Patcher
http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
Foolproof way to update the 2010 - 2012 Mac Pro 5,1 to the 144.0.0.0.0 firmware
http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/1...
Joerg Henninges - OpenCore
/ @theapplelab
Cider consumed:
Bend Cider Company - Mandarin Juniper
https://www.bendcider.com/our-cider
Edited in Final Cut Pro X, Motion, Compressor, Pixelmator Pro on a MacBook Air M1, video recorded on Olympus Em-5 MKII (outro vid on iPhone 12 Pro). Voice-over recorded/mixed on a Shure SM7b + FocusRite Clarrett , Cubase Studio on Mac Pro. Music by me.