Macsimus11 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Hello everyone, To make a very long story short: My 1st Gen Mac Pro was having some major crashing problems. I couldn't afford to have Apple replace the board (which is what they said I need to do) for over 1000 bucks. I ended up buying a new board from www.mac-pro.com. I spoke with someone at mac-pro.com (Ed) and was told it was new and works great. The board including shipping and instructions cost me 500 bucks. I got the board and installed it myself (took like 6 hours). Everything worked perfect at the first boot. It was great. I was not getting any crashes and the computer was like new again. I backed up everything before the new board and wiped clean all my drives to start over. I fixed up my drives again and was ready to put XP back on my computer via Bootcamp. I was having nothing but problems. I would get to a certain point then crash. Thats a whole other problem that I don't want to get into. So today I decided I would sell the machine (to someone who does not care for boot camp). I was going through the specs via "About this Mac" ->"More info..." and found something strange: Hardware Overview: Model Name: Mac Model Identifier: M43ADP1,1 Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz Number Of Processors: 2 Total Number Of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB Memory: 10 GB Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz Boot ROM Version: AAPLM431.004E.B00 SMC Version: 1.7f0 Serial Number: System Serial# I have looked at this before and it was different. I don't remember specifically but I think the model identifier said something like Mac Pro 1,1. I am wondering if this has anything to do with the boot camp problems I have been having. The Serial number is also obviously wrong. I understand that the logic board is not the same as the original and that the ROM is off. I tried installing some EFI ROM updates which failed because "This computer does not need this ROM" (or something like that). If I knew that the different motherboard was going to cause a problem like this, I would have borrowed the money somehow and paid apple to do it right. Now I know that I cannot get a refund from mac-pro.com, only a replacement. I have flashed the PRAM and SMC with no luck. Thanks a lot for reading my long a$$ story and I would really appreciate any help at all. Am I screwed? Macsimus11 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132005-mac-pro-logic-board-replacedam-i-screwed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
scj312 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 It's a pre-production Mac Pro board, as in one that was used for testing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132005-mac-pro-logic-board-replacedam-i-screwed/#findComment-935922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macsimus11 Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 It's a pre-production Mac Pro board, as in one that was used for testing. Any way to flash it to current standards? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132005-mac-pro-logic-board-replacedam-i-screwed/#findComment-935938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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