neilhart
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May 25, 2012 Edit - Note on project cancellation.
I fired up the Mac Pro hack as it has been sitting for some time and I just can not bring myself to tear it down and proceed with the refresh. I really need to find someone that will use it as is. Sorry to lead you all on.
However, I have a complete non-op G5 Power Mac that I purchased recently just waiting for an overhaul. I will open another thread for that build.
neil 5/25/12
Ivy Bridge Refresh
My intention at this point is to update my Mac Pro hack to Ivy Bridge. My Mac Pro project is document here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/case-mods/28892-neilharts-mac-pro-hack.html
The is the current starting point:
This hack has been setting off to the side for months as I use the i7-2600k Power Mac hack for my main machine this last year.
I started by ordering a an i7 3770K from Amazon. I was frustrated when I found that it would not even POST in the Zotac H67-ITX-C-E system.
I determined that I wanted a Z77 Micro-ATX motherboard and conducted a quick survey of available boards and choose the MSI Z77MA-G45. Now that I have the MB, the only thing that I find as an oversight on my part is it only has 6 SATA ports and Mac Pro hack uses 7 ports.
and the bring up and bench testing starts:
I am having problems creating an Ivy Bridge Unibeast USB (that will boot) so I devised the following alternative path for making a Ivy Bridge boot drive. In between, I loaded up Ubuntu 12.04 to confrim that the components were mostly working and my problems were OS X related and not the new hardware.
My temp process to create a Lion 10.7.3 boot partition:
Step 1 - Clone a 60GB partition from the Zotac H67-ITX-C-E i7-2600K 10.7.3 recovery partition via a USB connection.
Step 2 - Go into the Clone and delete IntelCPUMonitor.kext, NullCPUpowerMan. and FakeSMC.kext (FakeSMC maybe the only one that needs to be refreshed from MB 4.4.0).
Step 3 - Using Multibeast 4.4.0 select Clone:
System Utilities
FakeSMC pluging (Mb)
FakeSMC
NullPowerCPUManagement
BootLoader - Chimera 1.9.2
Step 4 - Run Bridgebuilder, select Clone as the target
Step 5 - Run Multibeast again, select System Utilites
Step 6 - boot this drive on the originating host.
Step 7 - move clone to first drive on the Z77 board and boot it with no command line arguments.
NOTE I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PROCESS AND WILL NOT SUPPORT IT (it is just an expedient way to confirm that the MB will run Lion with Ivy Bridge).
At this point on the bench, sleep and wake from sleep are non-op. However everything else is working (without a DSDT.aml):
Working:
DVI from a 9600GT card to 1920 x 1200 with full acceleration and selectable resolutions.
Sound to rear green port (have not tested other sound outputs),
GB Ethernet
USB2 (have not attempted loading kext for USB3 yet)
Memory (I had this laying around) 8GB DDR3 at 1033MHz
Shutdown
Restart
iTunes
VLC
and all of the normal apps that I usually run.
Benchmark data to come later.
iStat Pro has the CPU idle at 30 C in a 73 F room. And I could not find any really hot spots on the MB using my KINTREX IR Thernometer.
Using a Zotac GF 9600GT because it does not need external power (as my bench PSU is a small 200W one with out cables for GPU cards).
In my mind the first milestone has been reached (the new parts will run Lion) and now I can proceed with less worry.
More in a few days as I climb the Ivy Bridge learning curve. For instance, in the UEFI BIOS you have to enable "PCIe Gen3" option to get the GPU card active.
I welcome comments and questions.
And thank you Tony and the team for the great tools.
Have fun
neil
I fired up the Mac Pro hack as it has been sitting for some time and I just can not bring myself to tear it down and proceed with the refresh. I really need to find someone that will use it as is. Sorry to lead you all on.
However, I have a complete non-op G5 Power Mac that I purchased recently just waiting for an overhaul. I will open another thread for that build.
neil 5/25/12
Ivy Bridge Refresh
My intention at this point is to update my Mac Pro hack to Ivy Bridge. My Mac Pro project is document here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/case-mods/28892-neilharts-mac-pro-hack.html
The is the current starting point:
This hack has been setting off to the side for months as I use the i7-2600k Power Mac hack for my main machine this last year.
I started by ordering a an i7 3770K from Amazon. I was frustrated when I found that it would not even POST in the Zotac H67-ITX-C-E system.
I determined that I wanted a Z77 Micro-ATX motherboard and conducted a quick survey of available boards and choose the MSI Z77MA-G45. Now that I have the MB, the only thing that I find as an oversight on my part is it only has 6 SATA ports and Mac Pro hack uses 7 ports.
and the bring up and bench testing starts:
I am having problems creating an Ivy Bridge Unibeast USB (that will boot) so I devised the following alternative path for making a Ivy Bridge boot drive. In between, I loaded up Ubuntu 12.04 to confrim that the components were mostly working and my problems were OS X related and not the new hardware.
My temp process to create a Lion 10.7.3 boot partition:
Step 1 - Clone a 60GB partition from the Zotac H67-ITX-C-E i7-2600K 10.7.3 recovery partition via a USB connection.
Step 2 - Go into the Clone and delete IntelCPUMonitor.kext, NullCPUpowerMan. and FakeSMC.kext (FakeSMC maybe the only one that needs to be refreshed from MB 4.4.0).
Step 3 - Using Multibeast 4.4.0 select Clone:
System Utilities
FakeSMC pluging (Mb)
FakeSMC
NullPowerCPUManagement
BootLoader - Chimera 1.9.2
Step 4 - Run Bridgebuilder, select Clone as the target
Step 5 - Run Multibeast again, select System Utilites
Step 6 - boot this drive on the originating host.
Step 7 - move clone to first drive on the Z77 board and boot it with no command line arguments.
NOTE I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PROCESS AND WILL NOT SUPPORT IT (it is just an expedient way to confirm that the MB will run Lion with Ivy Bridge).
At this point on the bench, sleep and wake from sleep are non-op. However everything else is working (without a DSDT.aml):
Working:
DVI from a 9600GT card to 1920 x 1200 with full acceleration and selectable resolutions.
Sound to rear green port (have not tested other sound outputs),
GB Ethernet
USB2 (have not attempted loading kext for USB3 yet)
Memory (I had this laying around) 8GB DDR3 at 1033MHz
Shutdown
Restart
iTunes
VLC
and all of the normal apps that I usually run.
Benchmark data to come later.
iStat Pro has the CPU idle at 30 C in a 73 F room. And I could not find any really hot spots on the MB using my KINTREX IR Thernometer.
Using a Zotac GF 9600GT because it does not need external power (as my bench PSU is a small 200W one with out cables for GPU cards).
In my mind the first milestone has been reached (the new parts will run Lion) and now I can proceed with less worry.
More in a few days as I climb the Ivy Bridge learning curve. For instance, in the UEFI BIOS you have to enable "PCIe Gen3" option to get the GPU card active.
I welcome comments and questions.
And thank you Tony and the team for the great tools.
Have fun
neil
