Hello everyone...
I have a problem with my 8800GT Alpha Dog Edition. I installed Iatkos v5 with no EFI strings or nvinject. I then used EFI studio to install the EFI for 8800GT. It worked perfectly, and my graphics is working pretty well. But i have some problems, sometimes when I right click, the menu that appear is empty, or when i move my mouse over the text in the menu it turns into blue squares. Another thing that sometimes happens is that my screen starts as a grey mess with small dots, like bad reception on a TV. Also, if i put the computer to sleep, when it wakes up, my graphics slows down veyr much about ever 5 seconds. So when i am moving my mouse, it will lag every 5 sec, or the dock will lag. Also if I use the flurry screensaver, I have first a black screen. Then as the flurry moves over it, it creates a grey "burn in". Another problem i have is in some shades of black, i get vertical black/grey lines. For example, in the picture of the entire earth, i have a thin strip of this at the bottom. in the picture with lightning and black, the whole black part on the bottom has these lines.
i am running 10.5.5 on a P5W Dh Deluxe.

no problem all working great

ideneb 10.5.6

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are you using EFI strings? is your 8800GT XFX XXX? thnx

Hopefully this will not be the case for you but green vertical lines and other artifacts happend just before the Memory chip on my 3D card died.

Mabe its just a driver issue though and in that case make sure you dont have any third party gfx drivers installed (leftovers)

btw. the grey dots (like tv) happend to me too for a while (maybe still) when going out of sleep mode. It restores after a few seconds to normal state though so I huess thats no biggie, but other then that it should do fine with EFI string.

Good luck bud!

Hi,

I can't get my 8800GT 512 (G92) card to work with CI/QE, keep getting GeForce kernel panics.

Tried everything I can think of, so far:

EFI Strings, Nvinject, Natit, ChameleonRC3 GraphicsEnabler=y and in each case I get a kernel panic.

As this is an nNforce board I've modified the kexts removing all the &&amp stuff and replacing with just the ID of the gfx card (i.e 0x061110de), made this change to kexts GeForce/NVDAResman/NVDARHAL50/Nvinject.

Same problem, I get a KP in GeForce. I've tried this on both 10.5.8 retail partition and also 10.5.6 iPC partition, same problem.

Also tried a 9600GT but have the same problems - with either card and EFI set I can only boot in safe mode, although I get some artifacts.

Only other likely thing I haven't tried is running Marvin's AMD patcher (as it crashes), although I believe Voodoo kernel patches on the fly anyway ?

I have been using an old 6600GT with EFI and absolutely no problems (full CI/QE).

The motherboard and processor are quite old but the same (8800gt) card works fine in Vista.



The rig : MSI K8N Diamond SLI, Athlon x64 3200, Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel/System 9.5.0



Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mates, could we have a little guide on setting up CI/QE for 8800GT via EFIstudio ? (or OS86tools)

I am on Vanilla SL I add the required string to plist and do a reboot but CI/QE doesn't show at system profiler. Am I missing something ?

With Snow Leopard, CI/QE never show at system profiler, because every Intel Mac already has CI/QE.
Try to drop a new dashboard widget : if you see the water effect, you have CI/QE enabled.

Cheers mate, that put everything into place. It definitely feels as if CI/QE was active but I couldn't see it in the system info sheet.

Thanks again