- Bypass Firmware Password on any MacBook or MacBook Air, or iMac it’s a very dangerous and hard procedure. If you cannot remember the firmware password or pass code, reserve a personal meeting with an Apple Store Members or an authorized Apple Service Center. Bring your Mac and your original receipt or invoice as proof of purchase.
- Sep 03, 2017 In fact most Mac Pro models are fantastically flexible in terms of upgrades. I have upgraded the video card, CPU chips, WiFi, Bluetooth, and fitted an SSD to mine, and more recently just added USB3 as well. Note: Your model being a 3,1 uses the older 'Fully Buffered' type of memory which is more expensive and I suspect harder to find.
- Oct 09, 2011 Question: Q: Mac Pro 2009-2010 firmware tool. Has anyone tried the Mac Pro 2009-2010 firmware tool hack that is floating around out there? It seems to work with no problems. A cheap way to turn your 2009 quad core into a 2010 hexacore. The price on the Xeon W3680 3.33Ghz Westmere has come down out of the stratosphere into the $500 range.
- A firmware password locks the Mac to booting only with a particular startup disk. This can be a problem later if you want to start up from an external drive or make other changes. Check on this.
MacOS provides multiple methods to protect the data on a Mac: a user account password, encryption via FileVault, and optional low-level security measure that prevents starting up from storage devices other than the selected startup disk.That's known as the firmware password or EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) lock, which will also block the user's ability to use all startup key combinations.
The firmware password prevents starting from any internal or external storage device other than the selected boot disk.
To protect data on your Mac, you can set a user account password (password to log in) to prevent other users from unauthorized access to your account. You can also encrypt a boot disk using FileVault so that only users who log on to a Mac can read data from this disk.
2008 Mac Pro Firmware Update
For even more reliable protection, you can set the firmware password. Users who do not know the password of the firmware will not be able to start the computer from any disk other than the one designated as the boot disk. Thus, it will be impossible to use some shortcut keys at startup.
If you Forgot your Firmware Password
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Bypass Firmware Password on any MacBook or MacBook Air, or iMac it’s a very dangerous and hard procedure. If you cannot remember the firmware password or pass code, reserve a personal meeting with an Apple Store Members or an authorized Apple Service Center. Bring your Mac and your original receipt or invoice as proof of purchase.
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Read more: How to Reset Mac to Factory Settings?
Solving the Problem by Yourself
It is extremely important to understand that rolling back the EFI firmware is the MOST dangerous operation that you can do on a Mac. If you confuse the image of EFI firmware and initiate an update with firmware from the wrong generation or, even worse, from a different Mac model, it will not end with anything good, and even in an authorized service center you can hardly be helped. The computer risks to stop turning on altogether, once and forever.
Conclusion
In general, I warned you and I strongly recommend to contact the authorized Apple Center to solve this problem. Please, don’t try to reset Mac Firmware Password by yourself!