cavemonkey50 Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 It's time for yet another round of Intel bug squashing. Today, Apple has released EFI firmware updates for every Intel Mac. The documentation for the updates are pretty vague. All that's known is that the EFI firmware apparently addresses issues with Boot Camp and sleep issues on notebooks. So, go download the firmware update for your Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, MacBook, iMac, or Mac mini, and enjoy whatever the heck Apple fixed. It should be noted that Apple has provided a handy recovery CD should something go wrong. To me, that says there is no reason not to update. Good luck updating (and may you never need to use the disk)! Let us know your experiences with the updates here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteo Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 [PARANOIC_MODE=ON] Maybe trying to stop our guys' EFI hacking efforts? [PARANOIC_MODE=OFF] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 No issues installing on my iMac. Oh, and don't let the LOUD beep scare you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Worked fine on my MacBook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Same on my first gen MBP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drcreek Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 works fine on my 24" iMac but hasn't fixed my boot camp display problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i1sam Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 so far so good here in my 3 times repaired white macbook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 works fine on my 24" iMac but hasn't fixed my boot camp display problem. This may be off topic here, BUT... what display problem are you having with your 24"er? The first one i got (with the upgraded 7600GT like you) had a faulty video card, I got the machine swapped and have had no issues since. It would lock up or graphics corruption after 5 mins of heavy game playing in windows/bootcamp. I finally got it to fail and kernel panic in Safari in OSX. Called Apple with two easy phone calls and did what they suggested, then they arranged a courier to pick it up and a new one arrived a week later. Was painless, due to being within 10 days of purchase. PM me if you like or point me to a thread if you've talked about it elsewhere. Can't believe how fast the video card is compared to what I expected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drcreek Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 This may be off topic here, BUT... what display problem are you having with your 24"er? The first one i got (with the upgraded 7600GT like you) had a faulty video card, I got the machine swapped and have had no issues since. It would lock up or graphics corruption after 5 mins of heavy game playing in windows/bootcamp. I finally got it to fail and kernel panic in Safari in OSX. Called Apple with two easy phone calls and did what they suggested, then they arranged a courier to pick it up and a new one arrived a week later. Was painless, due to being within 10 days of purchase. PM me if you like or point me to a thread if you've talked about it elsewhere. Can't believe how fast the video card is compared to what I expected! No it's this weird like 3 out of 10 iMac 24 Inchers regardless of configuration just wont work with boot camp? When you boot from the CD the screen turns blank and you can hear the windows blue setup screen of death chugging away and loading from the CD but nothing displays. Some people get some joy from plugging into the dvi port at the back but i haven't managed to get a cable yet to try it. I really wish Apple or someone else would come up with a fix coz I'm sure I'm not the only pissed guy with a spanking new mac but unable to play any games on this sexy screen. Kinda getting tired of Chess & UT2004. anyway ranting aside the update said fixed boot camp problems but clearly it hasn't fix the 24" one. I think it's more a fix for the Mac Pro which also had some issues. Oh well. I'm going to have to wait until leopard then moan my arse off to Apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 no effect on hack efi project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samlic Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 my MBP C2D said I don't need the update? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 my imac doesnt update even tho it needs it i get error 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macFabri Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 No problem here with my 24". Just one thing, i leave my ipod conected and when it power on, it stucks in one white screen just after the beep... before i start to cry i plug off my ipod and the update starts Also no problem with other 20" and 17" models. So, take off your iPods before update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Again, off topic, but my boot camp display issue is when i push the start installation button, the color goes all weird and then I have to reset PR-RAM(or whatever it is called. BTW, the beep is loud and if you have any external speakers you should unplug them. EDIT: They also released an X11 update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoreline MacBook Pro Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 This update has dropped the temp on my MPP 15 2.16 by over 15 degrees. Not sure why. No unusual fan activity. Just a much cooler Mac Book Pro. !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 This update has dropped the temp on my MPP 15 2.16 by over 15 degrees. Not sure why. No unusual fan activity. Just a much cooler Mac Book Pro. !! So it takes out thermal paste also???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 So it takes out thermal paste also???? I could swear I saw a rumor that the new EFI Firmware contained nanobots... sorry, that wasn't helpful, but it was fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K4bren Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Everything seems fine on my macbook. Other than the usual moaning and groaning about how slow InDesign is, but other than that, don't notice a change off the top of my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epsonguy Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 My MBP C2D also said that it didn't need this update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuka Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Worked fine for me on my 17" iMac, I don't really see much of a difference though :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom H Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Let us know your experiences with the updates here!Everything went as expected on my Mac Pro, except after the update it booked to SATA 2 (Windows) rather than SATA 1 (Mac OS X). Maybe Apple knew is was "patch Tuesday" in XP land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConMan Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Worked just fine on my 15'' MacBook Pro--but I don't really notice any differences. I guess that's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_4e Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Thanks. I was actually having a few sleeping problems although I'm not sure if this fixed it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 BTW, I thought mine was getting hotter after the update, but then realized that it reset SMC Fan Control back down to 1000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Oughton Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 The Mac Pro update certainly fixed a lot of Vista-related issues. You can now install Vista without having to trick it (the classic "no suitable volume" message), you can also choose multiple Windows volumes to boot from the Alt key, and the wd.sys blue screen is gone. And yet... The GeForce 7300 still won't start, as reported by quite a few people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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