macOS Sonoma on Mac Pro 4,1 and 5,1 with RX 580

[@noisettest.jeanjr7441]

Fantastic! Worked like a charm

[@FREZINO]

Great video 👏🏻

[@jensdbe]

Thank you!!

[@lavinchi6709]

Thank you so much!!!The best video iv seen for solving this problem🏆

[@laurencejohnson4106]

That took a while but you got there!👍👍

[@jensdbe]

@@laurencejohnson4106 if there is one thing I learned when fiddling with these lovely machines it is that nothing comes easy or always looks like a simple task, turning into hours of troubleshooting :)

[@laurencejohnson4106]

@@jensdbe Yes, there can be complications with older computers; I have just the one Mac., it's a 2008 17 inch MBP., and I installed Linux Mint Mate on it and it's currently working well, perhaps you could try to install a Linux distro on that 4,1.

[@Newinceptions]

Hey @jensd_be - great video. Glad I found you! My 4,1 has been upgraded to a 5,1 for a few years now (since Mojave). And I'm currently working on Monterey. I'm considering moving up to Sonoma/Sequoia (I think OCLP 2.0.2 covers Sequoia pretty well - but Sonoma is probably more stable). My question: Do you have a listing of all of the hardware upgrades you've made for this beast of yours? I think it's time to upgrade a couple of my SATA HDs to SSDs.

[@user-Old_Ben]

Great! Many prefer a stable working computer for *_work!_* Messing around on our off time with beta testing, if we ever have any.... some day!

[@AbelArenasLopez]

Hi, great video, so helpful!! I got a question, I have a Macpro 5,1 mid 2010 with a processor 2.8 ghz Quad-Core Xeon, currently I'm running Monterey but I want to know if you recommend upgrading the processor to a faster one, and which one do you recommend for this machine. Once again, thank you so much for sharing this info!!!

[@juantxiki]

Good afternoon, after having an oclp update I lost the boot without seeing anything until macos. Having the same graphics card (sapphire rx 580 8 GB) I would like to know how to recover as if I had the original card. Thank you so much

[@gosekinz]

Have you tried with more than one monitor? My Saphire Nitro+ RX580 will only support one monitor - doesn't matter what interface it is attached to. If I have more than one monitor attached it only drives one monitor. Is there some additional patch I'm missing? - OCLP doesn't think so.

[@zafjim]

Weldone i like it man

[@Pritty-boy]

Hello, I have question. My Mac Pro have Radeon w5700 graphic card , can upgrade to last Mac OS or not?

[@azertag3494]

i installed sequoia by updating from mounterey beacause i can't boto from usb or i get no keyboard and mouse and after install i get no keybaord and mouse, is not this is the keyboard work but the mouse is not working i don't know how to root patch i have rx580 2 xeon and 128 gb ddr3 ecc

[@65australia]

Hi everyone, I have a Mac Pro 5.1 with Sequoia installed and it works well with the rx580....but I tried to mount the rx5700...but it doesn't work....can you help me?

[@paulschadel3894]

Hey, so I have a 4,1 as well which I flashed to 5,1 thanks to your Tutorial. Now I want to use Opencore to install Sequoia. But when I Remove the Boot ssd when its turned off and then start it, it doesn’t go to opencore from the stick. Just stays black. I have a GTX 760 (which is not flashed) currently installed in the system. Csrutil is disabled. So you have any advise?

[@jensdbe]

Did you build OpenCore with that GTX 760 installed? As I noticed that you might get a different configuration for OpenCore with a different GPU. Also you could try to remove the SSD, put in the USB drive and hold CMD + P + R, the power on the machine, hold them and wait till you've heard the chime at least 2 times (this can take some time). One more thing is that it could be just an issue with the USB drive. Some of them somehow are difficult to boot from, I've seen this especially with Sandisk drives.

[@paulschadel3894]

@ hey, thanks for the answer. The solution was to enable NVIDIA GOP in Opencore before building the installer. The installation then worked fine. But now I am at another problem: when in Sequoia opencore tells me that all root patches are applied and graphics acceleration and WiFi is working, but the usb ports aren’t, except with the usb hub used during installation. After trying to revert the root patches and install them again it is still not working… is there a possibility to go in the efi manually and add some kext or is there an easier solution? On the opencore site I did not find any solution to this…

[@paulschadel3894]

I might have to add important information that I just found out. If I connect a USB drive to the usb ports on the Mac, they work. If I connect any peripherals they won't work unless using the hub...

[@jacopogiannoni9734]

È possibile installare anche Sequoia sul Mac Pro 4.1 aggiornato a 5.1 con rx 580?

[@jensdbe]

Sure, works great for some time now on mine.

[@jacopogiannoni9734]

Ciao posso seguire il tuo tutorial anche se di partenza ho una scheda nvidia gt120? E dopo installare la rx580?

[@Iglesiabiblicafundamental]

And how do you deal with drivers? For example, I use a FireWire audio interface, and that operating system does not have drivers for this format, and the Internet card I ordered does not have drivers for that operating system... so how do you make everything work properly?

[@jensdbe]

@@Iglesiabiblicafundamental if it is supposed to work with macOS Sonoma, it should work just fine in this case as well. Either it can use the built-in drivers or kexts that come with Sonoma or the manufacturer will provide one. This is no different than it would be on a supported Mac running Sonoma. If there really are no drivers for macOS at all, you can also run Windows on this hardware.

[@Iglesiabiblicafundamental]

@@jensdbe no, Windows, never never..

[@the_sjdo]

@@Iglesiabiblicafundamental maybe linux ?

[@Iglesiabiblicafundamental]

@@the_sjdo I need it to be Mac for the audio programs I use for work, Linux doesn't have it

[@the_sjdo]

@@Iglesiabiblicafundamental Adobe ? or any big Program for Audio Work that has no Linux support)

[@bla2030]

I had the same “fans spin off” problem, and solved it with your video, many thanks! Yet, when I login to Sonoma, and after I apply root patches, everything seems to work perfectly fine, but fans again spinofff. Is that normal? Everything works, but fans completely turned off. Under system info my gfx card is recognised properly: Sapphire Rx580 8Gb. What is the problem? Btw, when I login to Monterey, on different drive, fans work correctly.

[@bla2030]

I figured out that most probably this “fans off” is normal. Under some load (fullhd yt video), fans started for sometime and then stopped again. Looks normal?

[@jensdbe]

I have the same behavior, also on Windows. I'm pretty sure this is how it is supposed to be and it keeps the machine silent when the GPU is not under heavy load.

[@bla2030]

@ thank you vey much. This video, along with the Jessie’s flying, helped me A TON. I took me days of troubleshooting, and without these two channels, it would have been impossible. Seems like I am good on Sonoma at last. Thank you!

[@ThomasCGass]

looks easy... but is tricky ;-) I've tried to install Monterey on the exact system you have, but end up in a macOS Installer loop... The mac Pro starts up, shows me a macOS Installer icon and automatically changes to the apple logo and the progress bar. After about 30% it stops, black screen and back we are at the installer icon. Any ideas?

[@jensdbe]

Should work fine with Monterey I ran that as well on the same system. Are you sure all hardware is ok? (I'm thinking memory). You could get more luck with another USB drive but it can be tricky to troubleshoot these kind of issues.

[@ThomasCGass]

@@jensdbe I'm pretty sure hardware and memory is ok - the mac runs fine with it's last Mojave installation. I'll try it again with another usb drive, let's see whether that will solve the problem... ;-)

[@ThomasCGass]

short feedback: it worked! I didn't realize that during the installation process there are in fact several restarts involved. And I finally got Monterey installed! It just took some time... Thanks again for you video, it was really a great help to understand how to work with opencore LP!

[@jensdbe]

@@ThomasCGass glad to hear you managed. Thanks for the nice feedback :)

[@65australia]

ciao a tutti ho un MacPro 5.1 con installato Sequioa e funziona bene con la rx580....ma ho provato a montare la rx5700...ma non funziona ....potete aiutarmi?

[@deanmorara3491]

Does it work for MacBook Pro (Mid-2012)?

[@jensdbe]

Should work fine, yes. I did video which is more broad for Sonoma on unsupported hardware as well in case you would be interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5TTgqh5ft5mfaM

[@almirxavier2300]

[@overdriver99]

yeah... sonoma is good for supporting latest Web browser and Mac apps. but since I cannot upgrade my 4,1 to 5,1 boot rom I would stay in El Capitan LOL! I may install Windows for fun to entertain my friend. They will be shocked that I can install Windows to Mac pro.

[@jensdbe]

Why is the 4,1 to 5,1 FW upgrade not working. This should be fairly easy to do.

[@jensdbe]

Well, my above comment didn't age well. I got stuck with the same problem a few days later but fortunately managed to find a solution. Have a look over here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZuuZayprJ6hqJY

[@MrWipe420]

I’ve had this problem myself and was able to solve it by paying a user by tsialex on macrumors forum. He was able to reconstruct my boot rom and I was able to do the upgrade his turn around was like 3 days