Flashing & Installing Windows: The ULTIMATE 2009 Xserve Part 1
In today's video we attempt and eventually succeed in flashing my 2009 Xserve 3,1 into a 5,1 Mac Pro and we install Windows on it to prep to build the ultimate Windows Server based off of circa 2010 hardware.
Erik's Flash Tool (Post #22): https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/...
Macschrauber's Channel: / @macschrauber1982
His Site: https://github.com/Macschrauber/Macsc...
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:25 Current System Specs
4:32 Kepler In Snow Leopard?
5:13 PSU Info
5:29 GPU Info K2100M
6:40 Problems Begin
7:00 History Of This Xserve
8:33 Erik's Flashing Tool Info
11:38 First Error
13:13 Having To Update The OS To Flash
13:43 Installing El Capitan (Doesn't Go Well)
19:16 Booting Into El Capitan
20:05 Ripping The Original ROM
20:40 1st Flash Attempt
22:05 2nd Attempt
22:40 3rd Attempt
23:15 4th Attempt
23:32 5th Attempt
24:26 Back To The Original Hardware
24:46 I'm Starting To Go Crazy
25:34 Day 2: (15th Channel Anniversary!)
25:49 More Troubleshooting
27:14 6th Attempt
28:16 7th Attempt
28:36 Trying Different GPUS
29:52 8th Attempt
30:15 Trying A Different Boot Drive
31:28 Mac Dog Tries Her Puppy Power
31:43 Drive Is Cloned & My iMac Just Died
32:28 Booted VIA FireWire & iMac Is Still Sick
32:51 9th Attempt
34:06 Day 3: I Have New Ideas
35:18 Installing An SSD
36:26 Drive Works!
36:52 Cloning My El Capitan Drive Over
37:48 11th Attempt
37:53 Installing Mavericks
39:45 12th Attempt
39:55 13th Attempt
40:55 Updating To El Capitan... Again
42:43 14th Attempt
43:06 Macschrauber's Tools
44:00 15th Attempt
44:24 Emailing Schrauber For Help
44:44 Day 4: BINGO! I Have A Firmware Image
45:35 Testing His ROM Files
46:57 16th Attempt... Success!
47:40 Looking At All The Differences
48:08 Setting Up To Install Windows
52:36 Installing Windows
53:57 Windows 11 25H2 Booted, Setup, & Tested
56:26 Wrap Up
59:19 Outro & End Credits
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