#WARNING: THIS COULD POTENTIALLY MAKE YOUR COMPUTER UNUSABLE IF THE FIRMWARE DOESN'T WORK PROPERLY. Please make sure you know what you're doing before continuing.#
Manually Flashing The Firmware
- Download the firmware installer.
- Unpackage the package. Find the installer app.
- Locate the firmware within the app's contents. It'll have a name like "MB51_007D_03B_LOCKED.scap"
- Run this command
sudo bless -mount / -firmware /Applications/Utilities/NAME_OF_FIRMWARE_INSTALLER.app/Contents/NAME_OF_FIRMWARE.scap
This should restart your computer and flash the firmware.
Change the Version of OS X Your Computer Thinks It Has
- If necessary, turn System Integrity Protection off.If necessary, turn System Integrity Protection off.
- Reboot into Recovery Mode
- Open Terminal under the Utilities menu
- Type
csrutil disable
- Navigate to and open /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
- Change ProductUserVisibleVersion and ProductVersion to a valid version of OS X (such as 10.9.5)
- Optionally, reverse the steps above (
csrutil enable
for SIP back on)