StarPlayrX/bigmac Big Mac 🍔 🍟 The macOS 11 Big Sur patch tool designed For Mac Pro 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012. Models 3,1 4,1 and 5,1. StarPlayrX/bigmac. StarPlayrX for iOS is a simple and easy-to-use SiriusXM streaming satellite radio app. It requires a streaming SiriusXM account or trial. From StarPlayrX’s login screen, a trial account can be requested. StarPlayrX is fully accessible and one of its features is the magic tap that toggles a stream. GitHub - StarPlayrX/bigmac: Big Mac 🍔 🍟 The macOS 11 Big Sur patch tool designed For Mac Pro 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012. Models 3,1 4,1 and 5,1. Click on the Radio icon in the lower menu bar. From here, you should see a few options for Beats 1 and other stations. It’s at this point that you’ll probably notice that your favorite radio stations likely don’t appear on the Radio homepage.
Sometime this year, my dad and I drove for ~4 hours to pick up an old Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) for £100. I was told that the machine doesn't power on whilst a PRAM battery is installed, that it couldn't be upgraded past Mac OS X El Capitan, and that it was basically just in bad condition. It had 8GB RAM, a Radeon 2600XT with 256MB VRAM and multiple Mac OS X versions installed on the pitiful 160GB HDD it had.
Arriving, I saw this person had a couple more old Mac Pros in the hallway, asked about those and they decided to give me them for free, as well as a load of parts for the various Macs I'd just bought (a MacPro2,1 and MacPro1,1).
Fixing it up
Now, after changing a few things around, I'd configured a pretty usable, modern machine:
- GTX 680 2GB (flashed for Mac)
- 128GB + 2TB Fusion Drive
- macOS Catalina
Things were pretty good for a while. I was using this Mac as my daily driver, with its broken power button and weird boot requirement of there being no PRAM battery.
The Miracle
On my laptop, I've installed macOS 11, and I wanted this on the Mac Pro too. Using StarPlayrX's patcher, I tried to install it, failed a few times, then flashed a new ROM to the Mac's EFI to enable native APFS booting (or so I thought*). Still having no luck after installation, I opened up the computer, blew out the dust and rearranged the drives in the bays (no idea what was going through my head at this point) and saw the PRAM battery!
It had struck me, a few days ago, that I should at least try to boot with a PRAM battery and see if it works — I'd just taken this random person's word for it that it didn't work. I took out the graphics card, put in a CR2032 and attempted to boot. No luck. Weirdly, there was absolutely no activity to be seen in the computer's components when pressing the power button, so I tried using a screwdriver to short the button's pins on the front IO board and kazow, the Mac started up!
This was absolutely amazing. After shouting 'woohooo',and punching the air in excitement, I was ready for more. Heaving the MacPro2,1 stored awkwardly on top of my cupboard right above the pillow on my bed (safety first obviously), I spent a good hour or so trying to get the power button out of the hole in the case it felt like it was welded into. Finally having manoeuvred it out of its place, I did the same to the MacPro3,1 in a couple minutes and snapped the new (old) button into place in the MP3,1!
I put everything back inside, plugged the Mac in, and tried to calm down before pressing the button. The moment of truth. The grand reveal. Click.
BOOOOOOONG
It turned on. Amazed that the old new button still worked after all that abuse from being pulled out the old Mac, I was very, very happy.
Afterwards, I'd installed Catalina on a spare HDD and am now in the process of installing Big Sur on the Fusion drive. It's taken quite a while so far; hopefully there's not too much left to do.
Starplayrx Bigmac
The upgraded MP3,1 in basically its current state: