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Notes on turning a HP Z400 Workstation in to a Mac Pro 5,1 running OS X Sierra

Notes on turning a HP Z400  into a Mac Pro 5,1  Sierra The HP Z400 that I am running has a a Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz quad core chip in it.  The Z400 is a workstation with a Quad Core Xeon Nehalem Processor. It has 12 gigs of Non ECC Ram on it.  It uses a SSD 500g Samsung Hard Drive, though it works well with a cheaper SanDisk SDD as well.  This matches most closely to a 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 in the Clover SMBIOS settings.  And it seems to do very well in that mode.   Z400 3.2 Intel Xeon Quad Core  , BFG GeForce GTS 250   This off an existing Sierra HDD that I somehow got working. The problem with Sierra and High Sierra seems to be the graphics card. I have two Raedeon RX 560 cards which work well with Sierra 10.12.6 and High Sierra 10.13.6. But they are glitchy with earlier builds than 10.12.6 BIOS Settings  Shutdown Fixes  The BIOS settings above will help with shutdown issues. These settings in Clover's...