PT HDX 12.7, 10.10.5 (Yosemite), MacPro4,1 (Nehalem)

[stargazer]

MacPro4,1 is not officially supported.

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/e...m-Requirements

Anybody tried?

[strangeLoop]

Yes, I have the Nehalem MacPro 4,1 - ProTools 12.7 - 003 Rack.

It seems to work fine except for the jerky cursor movement, but I don't get much past 20 tracks.

[Hanswurstlsepp]

Originally Posted by strangeLoop

Yes, I have the Nehalem MacPro 4,1 - ProTools 12.7 - 003 Rack.

It seems to work fine except for the jerky cursor movement, but I don't get much past 20 tracks.

All fine here so far. No problems with cursor movements or anything else.
Might depend on graphic card(s) ?

[T-Low]

I have an 4.1 Mac Pro ( upgraded to 5.1 specs ) with NVIDIA GeForce GT 120

HD Native PCIe card

PT 12.4 + Yosemite works great
but everything above on Sierra PT 12.5 / 12.6 / 12.7
is a disaster with a buffer at 64 ... CPU spikes all over

[T-Low]

I´ve replaced the GT120 with a Mac Radeon HD 6870
but got the same CPU spikes with Sierra ...

[TVPostSound]

Originally Posted by stargazer

MacPro4,1 is not officially supported.

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/e...m-Requirements

Anybody tried?

Install Sierra. and 12.7, very solid.

BUT on a 4.1, you'll need to do 2 things first.

Flash your 4.1 to 5.1, instructions are on the web.

Purchase one of these
http://www.osxwifi.com/apple-broadco...nd-macpro-2010

With the 5.1 flash, and the newer version of Wifi BT card,
Sierra will install completely.

I did the above, but went further, and installed 2X 6 core processors to replace my 2X 4 core, and installed 1333mhz memory.

SO for $770 USD, its now a supported machine, not to mention, it became a 2012!!

[Bushpig]

Hi TVPS,

Thanks for posting this info. I have two 4.1 MP's I'm on the verge of trying the updated 5.1 firmware with. Do you know if all 4.1's need this newer Bluetooth card? Or is it only certain ones? I can't seem to quite decipher the hardware report on my machines to know whether I need to swap out the BT cards.

I had read somewhere vaguely something about the BT card being an issue when attempting to run Sierra, but never got much further with investigating, so thanks for the reminder to look into this.

If you have any helpful links you could post that I could use to follow up on this more, that'd be most appreciated.

Regards.

Steve Bush

[drums77]

I have problem with 12.7 HD driver on a Westmere 5,1 MacPro with Yosemite. Now I'm back to 12.6

[TVPostSound]

Originally Posted by Bushpig

Hi TVPS,

Thanks for posting this info. I have two 4.1 MP's I'm on the verge of trying the updated 5.1 firmware with. Do you know if all 4.1's need this newer Bluetooth card? Or is it only certain ones? I can't seem to quite decipher the hardware report on my machines to know whether I need to swap out the BT cards.

I had read somewhere vaguely something about the BT card being an issue when attempting to run Sierra, but never got much further with investigating, so thanks for the reminder to look into this.

If you have any helpful links you could post that I could use to follow up on this more, that'd be most appreciated.

Regards.

Steve Bush

Steve,

The updated firmware is a breeze to install.

I linked above to the new Wifi/BT card needed to have Sierra install on a 4.1 flashed to 5.1
Its essentially a card for a 2013. I bought one, and can vouch for these people.
You will remove your existing BT AND Wifi card. and install the new intergrated one, don't forget to order the BT extension cable also.

You really don't need the new processors or 1333 memory to install Sierra. But it helps overall performance.

Im running 12.7 on 10.12.2, and its rocking.

[Bushpig]

TVPS,

Hi. Thanks for the reply.

The updated firmware is a breeze to install.

Good to hear. Have been a bit nervous about trying this part of the operation and borking my machine if it doesn't work smoothly. I have two identical (as far as I can tell, as they were bought at slightly different times) 2009 4.1 MP's, so at least I have an emergency backup if I try one at a time. Where did you get your firmware updater from? Was it the Netkas.org forum?

I linked above to the new Wifi/BT card needed to have Sierra install on a 4.1 flashed to 5.1
Its essentially a card for a 2013. I bought one, and can vouch for these people.

Sounds good. Question though. Did you discover you needed to replace your BT and WIFI cards because they weren't the Apple installed Broadcom ones?? I see from one of the Netkas forums that there is mention of a non-Broadcom card that came with some 4.1's.

>>>> Seems this affects the Atheros cards, as the one was fine, it has an Apple branded Broadcom BCM, and the "didn't see disks" one had an Atheros AR5BX86 Apple branded card. <<<<

If you have any links to the research stuff you did, that would be really handy.

You really don't need the new processors or 1333 memory to install Sierra. But it helps overall performance.

Yeah, I'm not too bothered about doing that sort of upgrading just yet. As long as I can get this initial part of the process running smooth, I'm all set to try a CPU upgrade at some point in the future.

Thanks again for your time and help with this.

Regards.

Steve B.