How do I find the Mac Pro 5,1 Mid 2010 firmware latest update

As per the reply given by joe_7399 you can check what firmware version your Mac Pro currently has by opening System Report and viewing the version there.

However the version joe_7399 lists i.e. MP51.007F.B03 and the version provided by the download link he provides is for the last standalone firmware update that Apple issues several years ago. It is not the new firmware update needed for High Sierra.

The new High Sierra required firmware update is not available as a standalone update, it is automatically downloaded by the High Sierra installer and as your post indicates should be installed by the usual trickery involving the power button.

Once updated the version shown will then be

MP51.0083.B00 instead of MP51.007F.B03

See APFS support enabled in High Sierra for cMP | MacRumors Forums

Some people have reported not being able to get their classic Mac Pro to install this new firmware. Whilst I cannot check right now my own Mac Pro 2010 as it is turned off and I am away from home I can say it did successfully do a firmware update when I installed High Sierra and performed the same power button trickery. I did this using a standard hard drive in the standard drive bays, it maybe people using an SSD card in a slot are more likely to have difficulties. Ah, also seen that you probably need a video card with Mac EFI so newer video cards might cause problems.

The latest version go the Mac Pro 5,1 firmware BEFORE installing High Sierra should be MP51.007F.B03. That is what you should have been running before you started. Most, but perhaps not absolutely every last one already has that version on board.

The latest version of the MacPro firmware AFTER Installing the new version required to Install and Run High Sierra is MP51.0084.B00. You need to do a specific ceremony that involves holding the power button after shutting down your Mac when the High Sierra Installer tells you to do.

Just finished installing High Sierra on my Mac Pro 5,1. I can confirm that if you are using a non-EFI video card, you will need to use an EFI card (Apple edition ATI 5770, etc) for the firmware update, then can put your non-EFI card back after you finish the High Sierra update. Not sure why this is necessary, but at the moment, it is.

Aside from that, High Sierra (with the newest NVIDIA web driver, which is now out) works perfectly so far.

I had the same exact problem and I did two things (one that I know helped resolve it, and one that might have)

The thing I know helped resolve it was removing my Radeon RX 580 card and putting in the stock 5770 card that came with it. I also previously had my system disk configured as a dual SSD raid - I switched that over to a single SSD mounted via PCI and had no trouble updating. I had read somewhere that APFS wouldn't support RAID (I'm not sure this is actually true to be clear) so I took that step first but in the end, I know the graphics card made a difference.

At this writing, Readers have not yet definitively reported on what might be keeping some MacPro 5,1 silver towers from updating their Firmware to the new version MP51.0083.B00 included with High Sierra. (Specifically, no one who was NOT able to update their firmware has reported a "Eureka, I found it!" moment where they were able to update after they "fixed" something.)

We have seen reports of Rotating and SSD Drives (in the regular Drive Bays) updating firmware properly, so drive type is (so far) NOT implicated. Rotating drives are NOT converted to APFS automatically in the .0 version.

• Candidates for precluding firmware upgrade still include unusual peripherals, and any PCIe cards that are not standard.

• Candidates include non-Mac-firmware graphics cards (without EFI firmware on board) until there is evidence that they are NOT to blame.

• Candidates also include non-standard Wi-Fi cards, added after the Mac shipped.

• There may be others I have not though of. Can you think of any that should be added to this list?

The firmware is for the logic board and nothing to do with any drives SSD or otherwise.

It sounds like you are using a 2.5" SATA type SSD fitted in to one of the standard internal drive bays - presumably via a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter. If so this should be a very straight forward configuration.

More complex configurations would be if you were using a PCIe adapter card for the 2.5" SATA SSD, or using a different type of PCIe adapter for a PCIe type SSD.

In theory all you should need to do since you have apparently successfully installed the firmware is the following.

1. Run Disk Utility from your current Yosemite drive and format the SSD as a GUID partition scheme with a single HFS Extended drive with no encrpytion, no RAID, and no Fusion drive setup
2. The run the High Sierra installer and let it install on to it, it should in theory convert it to APFS during the install

I have not done an APFS install yet on a classic Mac Pro so I don't know how much extra time that might add, it would be worth starting this say at the end of the day and let it run overnight.

It should not apply to you again since you have already successfully installed the firmware update but some issues like not having an Mac EFI compatible video card, or using a non-standard drive configuration could block installing the firmware and hence block installing High Sierra but clearly you have got past those possibilities.

This is coming from personal experience. I have a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 that has been updated to a 5,1. You need apple's 5,1 firmware and a custom firmware updater. Here is a video of me going through the process The horror of updating and upgrading a old Mac Pro is worth it! - YouTube

And after that I maxed out the Mac Pro as this will be my primary computer setup for editing. Check out the specs, price and process of that here.

Maxing out a 2009 Mac Pro for $2,110.65 in 2017, 12 core cpu with 128gb Ram! - YouTube

You could leave it overnight in case it is 'busy'.

An alternative approach is to install on to a normal spinning hard drive without APFS, then clone it to the SSD again without APFS, then presuming the SSD boots convert it manually to APFS.

hidden deep in the grass in this article:

About Mac startup tones - Apple Support

But that just checks that the firmware as a whole still has integrity. If it had been hacked, AND a good checksum was hacked in with it, it would likely pass that Power On Self Test.