Hey guys with Lance and Mac Sound Solutions
And today I did a $20.00 upgrade to my mac pro 5-1 and it's probably the best 20 bucks
It definitely is the best 20 bucks because most things cost more than that that I've spent on my mac pro
My mac pro lives in the closet over here next to you know on the other side of my mixing board
So I don't hear the sounds it's making when I'm mixing and I always had trouble with my Bluetooth
Signal and I love using a trackpad. I have the original Apple Magic Trackpad
so that was always like, you know, the cursor would just
Randomly move all over the screen if I plot my phone next to it. It would go completely bonkers
so then I went out and got that one of these little dongles and
It worked for a while
But the problem was it would like disconnect and then I'd be connected back to the Mac Pros
Bluetooth card, and so I wanted to do something that's going to be a
Permanent fix and I know you can go out there and you can buy these newer faster Wi-Fi
Cards with Bluetooth right on the same card that install is more difficult though
I use Ethernet because I have gigabit internet so I don't use Wi-Fi
Just hard, you know hardwired to my router. So I found this kit on Amazon cost $20
You could probably outsource all the parts yourself for maybe
$10 but
You know, it was just the right length of cable and everything for me. So I just
Pony DUP the 20 bucks and I highly recommend it because if you're having bluetooth issues
This you can put the tena anywhere you want it. It's sitting on my desk right in front of my trackpad
So it's great
You know
I haven't had any
signal issues since I've done this I can plop my phone right next to my trackpad with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on and it doesn't
Disturb it in any way, I'll show you how I did the install
First you want to unplug your computer from any power supply
Also discharge any static electricity that might be on your body or use one of those little straps that keeps you from
Shucking your computer and then you want to slide out your processor
Tray, put it somewhere safe and then lay your Mac Pro on its back. So it's flat instead of standing up
So here's a shot of where the Bluetooth card is located
The Wi-Fi is more in the front of the computer and a Bluetooth is in the lower right hand side behind the CPU tray
Okay. So now that the Mac Pro is lying flat on its back
We can look down and see the Bluetooth card and the little gold
Connector that we want to remove from the card the connector is very tiny. So basically you just want to get
get your hand down in there grab the actual gold connector and
Maybe put your fingernails under there a little bit and just slowly
Pry it up sort of a back and forth motion and it will unclip itself
And here's a shot of it disconnected, you know, you want to wrap a little tape around it
Electrical tape so it doesn't short out anything on the board because you're just leaving it sort of dangling in the computer
I also removed my graphics card
Because to fit my hand in there to get the new bay door into its slot and feed its cable
Underneath the GPU to get it to the card would have been pretty much impossible
so you got to pull out your graphics card before you put in the new cable and
The first thing you want to do now is once your graphics card is out is to put this in place and the wire
Should be facing into the computer and it should go in the third PCIe
Bay door slot. And here it is installed and you can see that the wire
Although it's kind of hanging over the second empty PCIe slot
It actually wraps around
The first PCIe slot and I taped it down to the logic board. So
Wouldn't get in the way when I'm putting the graphics card back in and then I fed the little gold connector
That's like the one we removed
Into the area where the Bluetooth card is
And you don't want to put your graphics card back in there until you're done with the install of the antenna
Okay, so the trickiest part of the whole install is this right here
You don't want to use any extra force
But you do have to use a little to get it to snap in and my suggestion is to line it up
Exactly the way your old cable was connected. Don't try and put it in at a different angle
I tried that and it didn't work. I thought it was just a circle and it would snap in but no there's actually a little
Indentation there. So you have to line it up the same way. The old cable was on
which in my case was a zit at about three o'clock and
Then once you think you got it lined up you push down
And it should snap into place
Just don't try and push it too hard if it's not snapping into place and just line it up and try it again
Just take your time and be patient
There's no rush. You don't want to bend the connector or the
Receiver on the board it will snap in and you'll go. Oh I got it
So one thing I didn't mention before as you can see
There's a little clip that the old wire was underneath and then connected to the board
So I removed it from that clip
I guess I could have left the old wire clipped down there or clipped the new wire on the clip
But it was nicely solidly connected and it's coming into the logic board at a different angles
So I didn't want to put it under the clip and then cause it to pop off the board
So I left it as is so final step is to connect the long antenna
extension cable to the outside of your computer
at the connector there and then
Put the other end wherever you is closest to your track or your mouse
In my case. I just put it on my desk and he gives you a little antenna
Which you screw on to the end of the extension cable that you're gonna put on your desk or wherever
Is close to your trackpad or Mouse?
thankfully they gave me a black one instead of this ugly beige one and
You're done power your five one backup and you'll be in Bluetooth heaven
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