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 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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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