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If I get it, so long as I run 10.7 or newer I can use a stock Nvidia card and it will work with the OS, but I won't get the boot screen or any tin before he driver loads. I'd buy a PC card that I could eventually glass though. I flashed the card for my G5 because it didn't come with the ROM I wanted it to.
 
Still... It's only $75. That's a pretty damn good deal.

I'd love to find a Mac Pro 1,1 to replace my current secondary iMac (Core 2 Duo 2.16ghz, 2gb RAM, Early 2007) as it's starting to bite the dust and running a Minecraft and Terraria server isn't doing it any favours.
 
My Mac Pro is a 1,1

and I bought it about 6 months ago for $700.  It has 2 dual core Xeon processors and it came with a stock nVidia card, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD.  I upgraded the video card to the one I posted in the link in my last reply, and it rocks.  I get the power on chime, the gray boot screen and all.


 


I also upgraded the RAM to 16 GB and added a 128 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD.  Installed OS X 10.7 and apps on the SSD and Windows 8.1 on the 250 GB HDD in a boot camp partition.  I also installed Mavericks in a VM under Parallels Desktop 9 and it runs like a champ.  Funny I can't install Mavericks natively, but can in a VM.  Goes to show how unfortunately Apple tries to obsolete older hardware by deciding which machines newer software is "allowed" to run on.
 
I ended up passing on it. The thing that killed it for me was that it didn't have much RAM, and the 2006-2008 models use expensive RAM compared to the newer models. I see 2009 ones going for $500-700 and I think I'd rather save up and get one of those.
 
OS 9 will not run on Intel based Macs.

Thanks for letting me know Joe, I've installed Virtual Box and have tested with an old Win XP Pro volume license I have. I'm very impressed with it for a free bit of software, I'm going to try OS 9 and install it. I wish i'd been old enough to have been able to afford the old crt iMacs when they where available I loved the look of them so much!
 
Where there is a will ...

There is a way!


 


I got Mavericks installed natively on my old 2006 Pro, and it runs great. Everything works, and now I can easily get a few more years out of it.   Apple doesn't support running any OS newer than OS X Lion on my model Mac Pro, and in the installation program for Mavericks, it explicitly checks the machine's model against a list of supported models.  If your machine isn't on the list, then it refuses to install.  I knew I could install it by connecting my machine to a compatible model with FireWire, and install it that way, but it still wouldn't run because the EFI built in the machine was 32 bit, and Maverics requires a 64 bit EFI to run.  Well, after searching the internet, I came across several methods of performing this install using an alternate bootloader called Chameleon, but that install was pretty cumbersome, and required a small dedicated drive for the bootloader and installation software.  Reviews I read indicated that though it worked, it had issues.  I didn't want to go this route, and was considering buying a newer model that would support Mavericks directly.  Then I read an article about installing on my model without having to jump through so many hoops, and from revies, it was stable as a rock and didn't break anything.  All I needed extra to do it was a replacement BOOT.EFI program to replace the one in Mavericks, and I would be good to go.  I downloaded the new module and below is how I did it:



On my Mac Pro I have three internal drives:, 1 250 GB HHD, 1 128 GB SSD, and one 1 TB HHD.  I wiped my 250 GB Boot Camp volume, since I run Windows in a VM, and didn't really need it. Then I connected my Pro to my MacBook Pro via FireWire and booted the Pro into Target Mode. My MBP is Mavericks compatible, so I booted it and my Pro's disk volumes appeared on the MBP's  desktop as external drives. I ran the Mavericks installer and <span class="text_exposed_show">used the 250 GB volume as the destination drive. When the installer finished, and wanted to reboot, I made sure the MBP booted from it's own disk instead of the newly created volume. I replaced a file called boot.efi in two locations on the new volume with one that was modified to work on the old Pro. Then I shut down both machines and rebooted the Pro normally making sure to boot from the new Mavericks drive. It came up and runs like a champ. I used Migration assistant to copy all my settings and apps from my Lion disk, and it all runs perfectly.

Then, being a glutton for punishment that I am, I decided to combine the 128 GB SSD and the 1 TB HDD into a Fusion drive. After I successfully created the Fusion volume, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to move Mavericks from the 250 GB HHD to the Fusion volume. Now it is REALLY fast. I kept the old Mavericks disk to use as an emergency boot device in case of emergency.</span>
 
I heard about that listening to Rush yesterday. I guess a lot of people were all annoyed and whining because Apple didn't make a big deal about the whole thing. Personally I think keeping it quiet until its fixed is better, if they'd have made a big deal about it before releasing the fix then more people would know to try and take advantage of it. I always install updates soon as they one out tho, I never understood the people that put updates off forever. I also always upgrade the OS to the newer version as soon as I can too. I don't plan on upgrading my Windows PC to Windows 8 though, I really don't care for the new interface in the least bit, they just made it harder and more aggravating to use, they really had 7 figured out pretty well, the best part of 7 in my eyes was how easy it was to disable that annoying UAC that constantly popped up and harassed you, it was kind of difficult to kill in Vista but I know how to do it and believe me I did.
 

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