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hey guys,

 

since a few days my hack-pro is up. the config is like listed.

 

ga-p35-ds4 rev 2,0

q6600

8800gtx, xfx, XXX-edition ( yes, i like X´s :< ) has only few more mhz.. round 630.

8gb g.skill pc8000 ram

samsung f1 640gb

samsung s203p

 

 

everything is working great: usb, lan, sound, sleep, restart, shutdown even the graphicscard is now working - but only with 256mb ram.

 

i tried some kexts at the beginning - nvinject, nearly all versions. i also modified them with the VRAM,totalsize, but they never worked at all ! ( guess i did sth wrong, but havnt figuered out exactly what.

 

then i tried nvinstaller 4.1. this works atm - 8800gtx detected, sleep working and everything is cool except the thing with the ram. the card has 768mb ram, only 256mb are deteced.

 

not that i mind - i mean i still would keep the card - getting this problem fixed or not - but maybe there is some1 who has an 8800gtx working with 768mb ram and could tell me how he or she got his card working. maybe send me a allready modified kext? i actually dont think the problem is the "xxx-edition", with few more mhz.

 

best regards

 

 

simon quint

 

 

btw: when i want to get windows back on that harddrive ( need some programs for overclocking, then come back to osx ) do i have to mind anything? actually i get an error when i try installing windows.

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what are you using to determine how much memory is active for your card? the stuff in system profiler is simply cosmetic. load up 'opengl extensions viewer' (google it) and see what it says for 'report' tab.

 

originally with nvinject or nvkush, it would report 256M but opengl extension viewer would see my full 512M like this:

 

Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

OpenGL Engine
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation


Memory: 512 MB


Version: 2.0 NVIDIA-1.5.28

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eheh,

 

thats what it says:

 

Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX OpenGL Engine

Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

Memory: 768 MB

Version: 2.0 NVIDIA-1.5.26

 

i guess its fully working then? great though :)

 

thank you very much !

 

best regards

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