#BEST GRAPHICS CARD FOR MAC PRO 3.1 HOW TO#
#BEST GRAPHICS CARD FOR MAC PRO 3.1 UPGRADE#

#BEST GRAPHICS CARD FOR MAC PRO 3.1 UPGRADE#

After that, you may be able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 or 10 but I've never personally tried it.

You'll want to start with 7 if possible since that way you'll get Apple's software support on the Windows installation. You should have a DVD of Windows 7 to get going with this since that Mac doesn't technically support Windows 8+. This tends to be in the Utilities folder of the Applications list. Since you have OSX installed on the machine, you should be able to find a utility on the machine called 'Boot Camp Assistant'. If your desire is to boot ONLY Windows on the machine, you can do this based on the setup you described by installing a Boot Camp partition and just setting the boot drive to that. There must be a way to force to init the GPU, since, bootcamp does it and clover does it to.

#BEST GRAPHICS CARD FOR MAC PRO 3.1 HOW TO#

I managed once to boot Manjaro from USB but I did that blindly and well, I dont want to do boot an OS blindly in 2017.Ĭurrently my salvaged MacPro 2008 3.1 runs on El Capitan - but I want to install Windows on it and I simply can't figure out how to do it since it won't boot on that GPU with any Video output. I managed to install Clover (which normally is used to spoof mac hardware, irony) but it won't detect any usb sticks with installers and I cant start the normal macOS through it either. No refind, no refit, no nothing- I either see a black screen and then normal macOS login window, or - when trying to hack around legacy bios boot I see a gray background and a blinking cursor. It's running pretty smooth after total clean up, but since I run with non-apple GPU- EVGA 760GTX 2GB, I can't install any other OS on it since I can't see the EFI OS Loader. I grabbed a forgotten MacPro 3,1 2008 Quad 2.8 and brought it back to life it had a ATI GPU but this turned to be dead.

Best graphics card for mac pro 3.1