pippins Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 So I heard there was a new firmware available for the early MBP's, so I went ahead and downloaded the firmware and began to install. I followed the normal restart, do this, do that instructions... and rebooted the laptop. Once rebooted, I use Option to bring up my boot menu and launch osx, put in my password and login... to my surprise I don't remember hearing the fans kick in during the "normal" firmware procedures...hmm... A window pops up asking me to install the firmware. OK, I figured it just needs to reboot again for something, so I do as such. After rebooting again, I notice the same thing, it's prompting me to restart the laptop. There is a note on the installer saying "if your system asks to reboot, then your firmware upgrade failed"... Has anyone else tried to install the new firmware on their MBP with success? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 my firmware upgrade was successful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippins Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 Are you using Boot camp? I wonder if this is causing a conflict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non sequitur Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 i use boot camp and it has never caused me any problems on the osx side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nguyenht Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 I installed the new SMC firmware upgrade yesterday. It went through 2 reboots and was fine after that and is fine now. I had the MBP go through thermal paste reapplication two weeks ago which brought the average temperature of the CPU from 75C to 65C. with the Firmware upgrade, I am currently averaging 55C. So I guess it works. I have read that in some cases, the CPU speed was capped at 1000MHZ by the firmware. I dont think that has happend with me, but I am still checking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippins Posted May 20, 2006 Author Share Posted May 20, 2006 That is strange. The 1.01 firmware had installed without issues, but the SMC keeps going in this vicious restart cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John the Geek Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 So I heard there was a new firmware available for the early MBP's, so I went ahead and downloaded the firmware and began to install. I followed the normal restart, do this, do that instructions... and rebooted the laptop. Once rebooted, I use Option to bring up my boot menu and launch osx, put in my password and login... to my surprise I don't remember hearing the fans kick in during the "normal" firmware procedures...hmm... A window pops up asking me to install the firmware. OK, I figured it just needs to reboot again for something, so I do as such. After rebooting again, I notice the same thing, it's prompting me to restart the laptop. There is a note on the installer saying "if your system asks to reboot, then your firmware upgrade failed"... Has anyone else tried to install the new firmware on their MBP with success? There are two firmware updates. One for Boot Camp (boot loader sees MBR on disk) and the SMC Firmware (power manager cycles processor down to 1GHz when not in use) If you use the first one you need to hold the power button down at startup until it beeps to get the firmware to load. The second one installs on it's own after a restart. Both succeeded fine on my 15" MacBook Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippins Posted May 22, 2006 Author Share Posted May 22, 2006 Yea, I managed to get it installed. I needed to change the boot order and let osx boot natively instead of having to use the option key to choose which os I wanted to boot. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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