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With all of the nooks and cranies of the Mac Pro, you do not want to be fishing for screws or lifting the forty pounds of magnificent aluminum above your melon, shaking it for a lost screw. Speaking of toolboxes, the supplied screwdriver with magnet was a welcome addition to this kit as the card attachment screws are tiny and easily lost without a magnetized tip to securely grab the screw. Very simple, but patience is probably a good tool to have in your toolbox. My experience went smoothly and the card immediately was recognized upon re-bo ot and voila, I had bandwidth to use. The latter can be difficult because there is no room for fat fingers and the attachments are different than most mac users are accustomed to using. The trick comes with selecting the right antenna wires, in this case Wires 1 and 3, and plugging them onto the card terminals. After locating the wifi slot, one merely needed to move the antenna wires out of the road and secure the card with the provided screws.
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But this upgrade was relatively simple, in spite of warning on several mac fix-it sites.
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Adding a wifi card to a Mac Pro can be daunting because of the tight quarters and numerous screws to be removed. The guide is based on this MacRumors thread.My recently-acquired 2009 MacPro was built at a time when wifi was still an optional add-on for Apple. When possible use small pieces of tape to fix wires to ensure they stay securely connected and don’t move much.
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The loose end of our Bluetooth data cable must be connected to the motherboard: The loose end of our Bluetooth antenna extension cable should be connected to the existing Bluetooth antenna cable (disconnected previously from the old Bluetooth card). Tighten the adapter in place with one of two screws holding the old card. Slide the card with all 4 antennas attached into the mPCIe adapter then slide the adapter into the mPCIe slot. Connect three existing Wi-Fi antennas and one Bluetooth antenna extension cable to the card exactly as shown below: The new card with adapter goes in the PCIe slot where your old Wifi card was.
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There’s a version of the mPCIe adapter that doesn’t require soldering! Amazon, Ebay. Network Card BCM94322MC Dual-Frequency 300M Mini PCI-E WiFi Card for Mac Pro MB988Z/A 20.39 20. Some smart guy sells similar kit for around 215 USD + shipping but normally you get it for less than a quarter of the price (and free shipping from China) The Broadcom card mentioned in the kit is used in many iMac models thus natively supported by macOS.
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The upgrade kit described here is 100% native, doesn’t include any external cards, antennas and doesn’t require any additional software installation. We take zero responsibility if you damage your computer somehow (highly unlikely but you never know).