CaiusJulius Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Hey, I finally can upgrade my craptastic hd2400 to a hd3870 - should notice some increase in performance The question is: what should I do exactly, and in what order, so as not to break my current Leo installation? Should I leave in the old card, do some stuff, then change cards, or first change cards, etc...? On a side note: I'm running 10.5.3, and I have the hd2400 drivers for it installed, so right now I have QE/CI support. Thanks a bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuz_242 Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 well, i´m in a similiar situation. moving from gforce8600gt (full osx support) to a ati3870. as there where no drivers for ati installed the system fails to boot. as i did not want to ruin my running osx install i started installing a second system on an external hdd. well, this should have worked as the releases i used come with ati drivers. but this did not work and hence im trying to get my new 3870 to work. (first on test install and then on real). concerning your case moving from hd2400 to hd3870 could/ should work flawless, if your drivers (ati..2000..kext) contain the device id of the new card (0x95011002). or try newest driver package. good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaiusJulius Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 So basically... without touching anything, I install the hd3870 drivers right now with the old card, then shutdown, change cards, and it should work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuz_242 Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 jup, but you could even try without new drivers first cause hd2400 and hd3870 may use similiar drivers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaiusJulius Posted June 6, 2008 Author Share Posted June 6, 2008 I've just installed the 3870 drivers and rebooted with still the 2400 in... it's fine so far. I'll test the 3870 tomorrow, but it's 99% it will work . Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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