[Install Windows Xp On Imac G3 Firmware
Amancio Mccrae
My friend gave me a spare harddrive he had, a 320GB Hitachi HTS545032B9A302. I was hoping I could use this in place of my 70GB internal drive at home. However it says on the label that it has Apple HDD Firmware 2010. This raised my eyebrow - does this mean my non-Mac PC will be able to read and write from this harddrive (and, ergo, install Windows 8 to it) so long as I format it correctly? Or will my computer not be able to talk to it due to not having the right firmware?
The firmware still must talk to the OS the same as any other. I am not sure if Apple is back to their old game of restricting their OS only on specific hard drives, but that may be more of the reason for the re-label. The hard SN series and firmware might be to control where you buy a replacement drive for your MAC.
Either way, there should be no problem with installing another OS on the drive, or using it as a second drive. The firmware must remain standard otherwise a BIOS our UEFI would not be able to communicate with the drive. Macs can dual boot Windows or have another OS too, so this suggests nothing real odd is going on.
This new printer will not print landscape documents in the correct orientation from Adobe applications (although it will from Word and Excel) so I want to try a firmware update, but Samsung only provides an executable file.
Yes, thank you ... I only have Macs. Samsung firstly said the .exe file is suitable for all OS and then later said that Apple can advise me of software which will convert the file to one compatible with Mac OS. Sounds like nonsense to me but thought I'd put the query out to the forum anyway.
That's what I understood to be the case, but Samsung 'support' was insistent. They provide .dmg files for drivers, but only an executable file for firmware, despite the fact that the printer box specifies full compatibility with Mac OS 10.6.8. Incredibly frustrating!
Indeed. I told them that if a product explicitly states it's compatible with Mac, I expect it to work out of the box - and to have Mac compatible firmware available. When I pressed them to put me on to their supervisor, I was just repeatedly given the same response - go to Apple support for the 'conversion software'!
The only thing they could possibly be referring to is Boot Camp Assistant in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder. You use that app to setup a Windows partition on your Mac, and then install Windows from a disk you have already purchased. Then you can boot into Windows and run the .exe firmware updater.
Yes, understood. I told them to stop trying to fob me off to Apple -- that it was Samsung which needs to resolve the issue by providing Mac compatible firmware. Anyway, thank you both for your input; I just wanted to satisfy myself that I was correct to dispute their advice. I appreciate you taking the time to view and comment.
Another confirmation. Yes, Samsung is being intentionally unhelpful. Either that, or everyone on phone support are dyed-in-the-wool-I-hate-anything-that-says-Apple-on-it users, and actually don't understand .exe files are not multi platform compatible. Nor that compliled apps can't be converted. There has never in the history of computers ever been a way to do that.
I installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp couple of months ago and it worked normally. Today I tried to boot into Windows, but a password form pops up (firmware protection form). Booting into macOS without holding option key works OK.
This is normal, and is likely because you enabled a Firmware Password while under Recovery Mode. Having a firmware password prevents your computer from booting from other boot partitions besides your main MacOS partition without your permission.
I used Boot Camp Assistant to create a bootable USB for a Windows install (I have a Windows 7 ISO image through school) and a partition, but when I try to boot into the partition and I get an error - cannot find any bootable device. It does not recognize the USB as bootable. I tried with USB 2.0 as well as 3.0 with no change.
You can not use a USB flash drive to install Windows on a 2010 iMac. You need to use a DVD. You can install without a DVD or flash drive, but the procedure is difficult and requires installing third party software.
There are two methods to boot software on your Mac. The older (legacy) method uses the BIOS firmware and the newer method uses the EFI firmware. OS X and many Linux operating systems can be installed to boot using the EFI firmware. Many have attempted to install Windows to boot using the EFI, but doing so in my option is rather pointless. To get all of the device drivers to work properly, you need to install the proper "Boot Camp Support Software". This software assumes you have installed Windows to boot using the BIOS method.
It is my understanding the newer Macs do install Windows to boot using the EFI. All the 2010 models were not designed to do so. Also, the 2010 models were required to install Windows using a DVD. Apple changed the firmware to allow USB Windows installs around 2012, when they stopped putting DVD drives in Macs. To my knowledge no firmware upgrades were ever released to allow USB installs on 2011 or older Macs.
In the case, where you no longer have a working DVD drive, you can still install Windows directly from the ISO file. This requires installing a free copy of VirtualBox. This product can be used to prepare a partition for the installation of Windows. Once Windows is installed, you can remove VirtualBox, but since it requires very little disk space, you are better off just leaving a copy on your Mac.
The printer firmware update fails, is set to auto install and can't be switched off that setting using HP software on the Mac or on the printer menu. It keeps locking up when the update fails. I downloaded the latest software from the HP site - no help, no changes.
There is another thread about this where several users including me have the same issue. The only thing you can do right now is keep resetting the printer and it will work for a little while until it tries another firmware update.
go into settings, and select factory reset (you will loose all settings), and reset to factory defaults (using the touch screen on the printer). Once the printer restarts, you can verify that firmware update is turned off (again using the touch screen to look at settings). Then reconnect to the network and the printer should be fine - no automatic checks of the firmware, so the printer stays working.
Note that this was necessary as before the reset, the configuration of the updates could not be changed and all I got was an error message. I suspect but can't prove this was due to using software on my Mac or PC to set up the printer. So I reset from the touchscreen and then set up ONLY from the touchscreen.
I want to update the firmware on my Godox devices, but I'm not on Windows, and the G1/G2 applications from Godox, and the F1/F2 applications from Flashpoint only run on Windows. Is there a way to update the firmware on a Godox flash or trigger without having a Windows machine?
For all other devices, or from Linux, however there are a few different ways you can do this, if you don't want to, say, purchase a cheap Windows tablet or haul that old Windows XP box you thought you'd retired out of storage.
If you're on OSX, you can install Windows on a Bootcamp partition, and run the G1/G2 or F1/F2 applications from there. This has the disadvantages of actually still using Windows and requiring space for a full installation, but will have the advantages of speed, and no issues with USB hardware recognition.
If your device is the AD200 or later, and has a .dfu (Device Firmware Upgrade) update file that requires the Godox G2 updater, then you can use the open source dfu-util on the command line to copy the .dfu file to the device, as outlined by burning1rr on reddit. The basic steps, according to that reddit post, after installing dfu-util are:
dfu-util, however, cannot be used for updates that require the Godox G1 application, since those firmware updates are not DFU compliant. It is also unknown if the G3 updates are DFU-compliant, as Godox is posting them as .bin files.
If you're feeling cheapskate and want to try doing this for free, you can use the open source VirtualBox and a free 90-day Windows Developer's VMs from the Microsoft website. It should also work with Parallels or VMWare.
Often, without Windows, it's impossible to update firmware on devices that don't support operating systems other than Windows, unless some kind open-source developers take it upon themselves to support the products.
I'm pretty happy with Windows 10 as my primary development box. It can do most anything I want, run a half-dozen Linuxes, and has a shiny new open source Terminal, and has great support for Docker now.
The Mac and Linux instructions usually say something like "plug it in and party on" but folks like myself with Windows have to set up a WinUSB Driver (libusb-win32 or libusbK) as dfu-util uses those libraries to speak to USB devices.
If you plug in a device, the vast majority of Windows users want the device to 'just work.' My non-technical parent doesn't want Generic USB drivers so they can flash the firmware on their mouse. I, however, as an aristocrat, sometimes want to do low-level stuff and flash an OS on a Microcontroller.
Zadig is a Windows application that installs generic USB drivers,
such as WinUSB, libusb-win32/libusb0.sys or libusbK, to help you access USB devices. It can be especially useful for cases where:
- you want to access a device using a libusb-based application
- you want to upgrade a generic USB driver
- you want to access a device using WinUSB
Here you can see me finding the ST device within Zadig and replacing the driver with WinUSB. In my case the device was listened under STM32 Bootloader. Be aware that you can mess up your system if you select something like your WebCam instead of the hardware device you mean to select.
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