The easiest way to install Nvidia 9400 GT

[Subrat Nayak]

I tried many hour searching for drivers for my new XFX NVIDIA 9400 GT [512 MB]. I installed iDeneb v1.4 [10.5.6] and tried every nvidia drive on the installation but failed. Also tried Injectors and other things available here but failed. After that I hear about adding EFI string in OSx86 tool but it say about 'apple script Error'. So finally I do these steps and these are very simple....

 

1. Install any OSX86 distro [10.5.6]

2. Dont Select any nVidia driver at Beginning.

3. Go to this Link and download the Installer for the NVIDIA 9 Series Drivers and Install it. But Do not Restart

4. Open OSx86 tool.

5. Click on Add EFI Strings/Boot Flag and open it

6. now do these steps:-

a. Click GFX String [On upper Left]

b. On Graphics Card, Drop down the list and choose Custom Geforce [should be at very last]

c. On the box Type 'nVidia Geforce 9400 GT'

d. Select your cards Memory and click OK

e. Now this stpe is Important. Here you have to choose the right output of your card. to get this got to the your cards manufacture website and see the configuration of your graphics card and find your display output or see on the box or its manual. [Like I have XFX 9400 GT 512 Mb so i go to thispage]

f. Now look at the Hexadecimal EFI String (Device Properties) and copy all that written in the box. open a text editor and copy this. match both to satisfy that you copy exactly same. Now close Disk utilities.

7. Go to your leopard installation drive and Open Library/Preference/System Configuration and copy 'com.apple.Boot.plist' file to desktop.

8. Go to your Desktop and open the file you just copied with text edit: It should look like this:-

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">'>http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>5</string>

<key>device-properties</key>

<string></string>

 

IF any line miss the add them.

9. Now at the last line in between <string></string> add the HEX characters you copied from OSx86 tool [sTPE-6] so it look like this

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>5</string>

<key>device-properties</key>

<string>6c0200000100000001000000600200000d00000002010c00d041030a0000000001010600000b0

01060000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730

69007a006500000008000000000000201c0000006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000

50000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b0000006469737

6c617922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000

0646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000

000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c0000001a0000006e56696469612047

5666f726365203934303020475420000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006

00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e0061006d006500000012

000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4114000000400031002c006e0061006d00650000001200000

4e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d0070006100740069006200

c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163100000004e0056004300410050000000180000000

000000000003000c00000000000007000000001e00000072006f006d002d00720065007600690073

069006f006e0000002e0000006e5669646961204765666f7263652039343030204754204f70656e4

4c20456e67696e65205b4546495d</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

10. Now save this. And open terminal and type

 

cd ~/Desktop/

sudo chown -R root:wheel com.apple.Boot.plist

"Give your Password"

sudo chmod -R 755 com.apple.Boot.plist

 

11. Now close terminal and copy the desktop file to Library/Preference/System Configuration and replace it by iving your password.

 

12. Now Reboot. You going to see your leopard booting with graphics driver.

 

My machine Spec

AMD Athlon X2 6000 Dual Core 3.0 Ghz

Asus M2N68-AM motherboard

XFX Nvidia 9400 GT

2GB+1GB 800 MHz RAM

160 GB SATA HDD

 

Here Is mine

 

Let me know if this helps you. And yes One more thing my Onboard ALC662 Audio Driver is not workin [i choose everything] can anyone let me know that the cheep external USB Audio drivers are working on Leopard......or any other help on this. Thanks.....

[mieze245]

we will see how this works on vanilla install with device ID 0x0641, GeForce 9400 GT 1024 ram...

cannot get QE up will try reload tonight

[comito]

Hi all, insanes Hack people :-D

 

I tried across your guide to set my PNY GeForce 5400 GT 512 video Card. First of all thanks :-)

But I have a problem: the resolution isn't correct. Max resolution is 1360*768, anyway my monitor (Acer v193HQ) support 1366*768.

At the boot promp my Hackintosh says: VESA NVIDIA 14MB (!) but after, System Profiler recognize correctly the video card (QE supported, name, vRam, etc.). So, it exist the possibilty to set correctly the video resolution?

Thanks in advance.

 

My configuration:

Motherboard: M2N68-VM

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+

RAM: 4GB 667

video card: PNY 9400GT with two DVI output

Monitor: Acer v193hq VGA input

Video adapter: DVI-VGA (correctly setted in osxTools efi string)

[ChiefChief]

Nice directions. Screenshots even!

 

For the audio have you tried the AppleHDA patcher? That's what worked for me.

[jeancarlosc]

Follow the steps to restart the system but the screen freezes

[elfdood]

I have a mobo with the 662 chipset and nothing worked, so for giggles I tried the VoodooHDA kext and voila, it worked..

 

Have u tried that one?

[degel3030]

I just wanted to say thanks, the directions weren't perfect but it worked, I'm not enjoying dual screen 1680x1050 goodness

 

Thanks again

[abbeyrolled]

So I tried this method and it locked up at the boot screen. I had to reinstall from scratch. Anyone got any ideas? I'm dying to get my PNY 9400 GT 1gb card working!

[tonik23]

anyone tried on SL yet?

 

I have nVidia 9400 GT 1gb

[Exebat]

Is it possible to get any other file hosting link? rapidshare is always full..

 

//Exebat

[Theonebusman]

I used this way to install my bfg 9400 gt 1gb and it worked perfectly

[Ramagno]

5. Click on Add EFI Strings/Boot Flag and open it

When I click there a window opens saying

AppleScript Error

Can’t make "0" into type boolean. (-1700)

I'm a total noob. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Gatzs]

we will see how this works on vanilla install with device ID 0x0641, GeForce 9400 GT 1024 ram...

cannot get QE up will try reload tonight

 

hi guys!

i got QE (device ID 0x0641, Sparkle GeForce 9400 GT 1024 ram DVI+VGA) in iPC 10.5.6 but i cannot get it in SL 10.6.3 atm. I'm downloading update 10.6.4 and after install i'll try with NVENABLER.KEXT (www.kexts.com).

Maybe.......

I hope!!

 

HARDWARE CONFIGURATION:

Gigabyte G41M-ES2L

CPU E6300

2x2GB DDR2 800MHz

[skullangel]

I've restart the computer accidently

how to fix it?

[dothacker]

Here's the easiest way to use 9400 GT on SL...

 

Install iATKOS S3 v2

choose Chameleon RC5 Bootloader

choose Graphics enabler

then, drivers for your hardware...

 

That's it

[Vienen]

NVKush worked for me on Leopard. Didn't work on Snow Leopard. I'll try this method and let you know if it worked or not.