EFI Firmware Update for Mac Pro, Core Duo 2 Macs

I an a newbie and have no skills to fix anything. I have read so many problems with the EFI 1.2 update for my vintage Fall 2006 24" 2GB iMac-- so why would I want to download it?? Does Apple ever recall and fix an "improvement"--that isn't? Should I just ignore this download forever? Thanks.

This darn thing messed up my MacBook (Core2Duo, 2 GHz).

Now the thing will often reboot when I close the lid, and when it doesn't, it will fail to wake from sleep. It also lost my desktop picture setting.

I've just installed the EFI update, no probs except it dissabled all other none Mac applications such as photoshop,entourage,toast etc and will not allow me to reinstall any of them. Fat use applecare they say its a third party problem, has anyone got any suggestions i'm in upto my neck!

Thanks Paulo

My firmware upgrade has been static at about 5% of the progress bar for about a half-hour.


Should I worry?

:-(

I did the firmware update on my Macbook (bought the day after Thanksgiving 06 with all factory ram and HD). Now, nothing shows up on my desktop. When I use finder, the files are still there, but can't drag and drop files or see any on the desktop. Ugh...

My firmware upgrade has been static at about 5% of the progress bar for about a half-hour.


Should I worry?

:-(

Everybodys Macs seem to be working great after the update..except mine!

I use Pro Tools and Reason and its working good like before, but iTunes been crashing and refuses to Force Quit, and everytime that happens, the Finder crashes and doesnt Force Quit either and I have to turn off my computer manually.

I run a iMac 20" Intel Dual Core, 2Gb Ram

After the EFI firmware upgrade of my 2,33Ghz MBP, Running Windows Vista under VMWare Fusion has become extremely slow. Booting Vista takes about 15 minutes now. Before the upgrade this was 2 or 3 minutes. Other OS's still work fine under Fusion, but not Vista.

Anyone else have this problem?

EFI = Extensible Firmware Interface

I was hoping that this would finally fix the issue with the black screen in Windows on my 24" iMac but no joy.