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- Dec 20, 2011
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- Motherboard
- Dell Precision T3600
- CPU
- E-2667 v1
- Graphics
- HD 7950
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Before attempting to install anything newer, I figured I'd install Catalina and get USB working first.
Everything proceeds OK with a UEFI boot (This machine is ancient so I have to do some fiddling to get it to UEFI boot) and I can choose the Catalina installer, boot continues but just after a message about Hardware Shim 2 the screen goes blank. Sometimes there are vertical pink lines. What I think is happening is that when the GPU kicks in something goes wrong.
Things I've tried are radpg=15, and plugging the monitor into another port. I've tried all the monitor ports with no success (2x mini DP, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI). I also tried legacy boot and regular boot.
I know this is a bit of an older machine, but it's still good and I'd love to have it working 100% in macOS.
Opencore 0.9.2
Dell T3600 (in a Mac G5 Aluminum case)
16GB RAM
256GB SSD
Xeon E5-2667 v1
AMD Radeon 7950 Sapphire GPU (no iGPU)
Attached is my EFI folder. Any help would be appreciated.
Everything proceeds OK with a UEFI boot (This machine is ancient so I have to do some fiddling to get it to UEFI boot) and I can choose the Catalina installer, boot continues but just after a message about Hardware Shim 2 the screen goes blank. Sometimes there are vertical pink lines. What I think is happening is that when the GPU kicks in something goes wrong.
Things I've tried are radpg=15, and plugging the monitor into another port. I've tried all the monitor ports with no success (2x mini DP, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI). I also tried legacy boot and regular boot.
I know this is a bit of an older machine, but it's still good and I'd love to have it working 100% in macOS.
Opencore 0.9.2
Dell T3600 (in a Mac G5 Aluminum case)
16GB RAM
256GB SSD
Xeon E5-2667 v1
AMD Radeon 7950 Sapphire GPU (no iGPU)
Attached is my EFI folder. Any help would be appreciated.