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After terrible power issues over the weekend, one of our macPros was unbootable this morning. After pulling all third party ram, and reinitializing the hard drive we installed lion again from the recovery partition. The machine wouldn't upgrade from lion, however, because it reported that it woudn't support either moutnain lion or mavericks. It had been upgraded to mavericks a few weeks prior to the power problems.
It would appear that the machine is self-reporting that it's a MacPro 1,1 rather than the 3,1 that it actually is.
We've tried everything we could think of or find online. Zapping PRAM/NVRAM did nothing. Nor did holding down the SMC reset button on the motherboard. Even trying to re-flash the EFI from a firmware reset disk was rebuffed (presumably because the mac thought it was the wrong version for the hardware).
Does anyone know how to reset this to its proper setting?
I thought perhaps pulling ram might force the system to reassess itself, but it only changed the available ram value, not the Model Identifier in the Hardware Overview section of "about this mac".
I understand that I could use something like chameleon to mask this info, but I'd rather fix it than go down that road.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

By your comment, I'm guessing that this is highly unusual. It felt that way to me too. I was hoping to avoid the apple store zoo this time of year.
Oddly enough, the serial number appears in the window though I haven't cross referenced it with the case to see if it's right.
Thank you kindly for the reply.

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