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stanza33
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I'm planning to buy an ASUS GeForce 9400GT low profile card for an old Dell GX280 I'm currently using with OSX (Tiger) on.

 

I haven't yet decided if I'm getting the 512Mb or the 1Gb model.

512Mb model: http://i44.tinypic.com/sb33mc.jpg

1Gb model: http://i41.tinypic.com/2921e8l.jpg

 

That depends mostly on which one is more compatible with OSX. I'm also not sure wether Low Profile cards of the GeForce 9400GT differ from the regular ones in terms of hardware.

 

Anyone with a low profile ASUS Geforce 9400GT card here who's had good results on Leopard (or Tiger)?

 

Would you recommend it?

 

If I go for the 1GB model? Will it cause trouble on OSX?

 

Thanks in advance

mine is the low profile one... Working fine

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Yes Both should work for Dual Head or mirroring if thats what you require.

 

No, I meant 2 different screens, expanded. Possible?

Powerful enough to show 1920*1200 on one and 720p on the other..?

 

Thanks

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So now I have read the entire thread but did not quite get a clear answer if "Palit GeForce 9400GT SUPER + 1GB DDR2 PCI-E VGA / DVI / HDMI SILENT" or "Palit GeForce 9400GT SUPER 512MB DDR2 PCI-E VGA / DVI / HDMI " certainly will work. It seems that there is hope to get them to work but would like to have a straight answer from someone who got it to work fully. I just don't want to buy a card that does not work, because that is exactly why I buy a new one. (can't wait until my HD4670 supported).

 

Would really appreciate an answer :)

 

Thanks in advance!

 

EDIT:

"ASUS GEFORCE 9400GT 512MB DDR2 PCI-E VGA/DVI SILENT" is of interest also

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>>Palit GeForce 9400GT SUPER 512MB DDR2 PCI-E VGA / DVI / HDMI

 

Is working: Retail 10.5.6, Efi-string, DVI and VGA, HDMI with HDMI/DVI adapter not yet

 

On DVI after some sleeps i ve got no screen and had to put on and off

the monitor to get back the desktop.

 

 

Anyone got two digital outputs without editing tne nvcap??

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Hi,I´m new at this forum.

I have the NVidia 9400 GT.

I´ve installed iPC 10.5.6 PPF5 Final and my screen resolution is 1024x768.

If I run Windows Vista my screen resolution is 1680x1050 .

How can I get 1680x1050 pixels in iPC?

My Display is LG Flatron M2294D.

Thanks.

 

Hi,

I have the same card (MSI GeForce 9400 GT), with the same distro, working perfectly.

All I did was:

1- Select in the "Install / Video Drivers" this option: "MacBook Pro Latest NVIDIA kexts"

2- Make a GFX String with OSx86Tools for my card and apply it.

Very easy, even for me that is a real noob !

 

PS: For the GFX String, you'll need a NVCAP String. I dumped the bios of my 9400 under Windows with Nibitor, obtained a *.rom file, from wich I extracted the NVCAP string with NVCAP Maker.

 

Hope this will help...

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WhatTheFiber
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Hey just checking if anyone has a 10.5.6 grpahics update for tiger 10.4.8 becouse i am in love with tiger and leopard just seems old to me now. but i relly want to write a new driver for 10.4.8 but i cant untill i get the update for tiger anyone think they can help

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stolid
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first of all kudos to Mcnutty and all those for helping us out.

 

now i have been following every single post on this topic but i still cant get my dual monitors to work ( one VGA , one DVI ) also i used the OSx86 tools to modify the EFi strings but it still doesnt properly show the graphics card name in About This Mac...

 

i downloaded the kext's on the first post but then i followed the #31 post to try to make it work and deleted the NVinject.kext and modified the boot strings...

 

i have tried all the different output options DVI/DVI , VGA/DVI , DVI/VGA but the two monitors refuse to start together....in all the options the VGA works but not the DVI and if the DVI and VGA are plugged in together none of them display, both of them go black.

 

but when i have only the VGA plugged in and it is displaying properly and then connect the DVI its switches over to that and the VGA monitor goes black...tried detect devices in display options but then it hangs.

 

any ideas?! please help.

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Pilgan11
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Hey just checking if anyone has a 10.5.6 grpahics update for tiger 10.4.8 becouse i am in love with tiger and leopard just seems old to me now. but i relly want to write a new driver for 10.4.8 but i cant untill i get the update for tiger anyone think they can help

 

Dear Tazs,

 

I'm newbie here, could you help me, send a driver for Nvidia Geforce 9400 GT 512 Mb, here is the detail :

 

Device Id : 0x0641

VGA card Brand : SPARKLE Nvidia Geforce GT 512 Mb

 

Regards,

Pilgan11

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Pilgan11
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I've got my 9400 GT fully working with CI/QE now thanks to tips from Fireofanor, Taz, and most importantly Aqua-Mac who's created an installer with the latest Apple nVidia driver release that updates drivers for the new cards/GPUs. That is the key.

 

Short guide on how I did it:

 

1) Download and install Aqua-Mac's nVidia driver installer. Don't think you need to remove exisiting nVidia kexts. Don't reboot yet, though installer will ask you to.

 

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Dear Friends,

 

I couldn't download from this link alway said "The download Limit for the file is reached". Could you give me another link

 

BR,

 

Pilgan11

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Pilgan11
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10.5.6 update works fine with me

Asus EN9400GT

 

no drivers needed, just add the hex to boot.plist

reboot with -f

 

9400GT:

 

Chipset Model: 9400GT

Type: Display

Bus: PCIe

PCIe Lane Width: x16

VRAM (Total): 512 MB

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x0641

Revision ID: 0x00a1

ROM Revision: 9400GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]

Displays:

GDM-5410:

Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 85 Hz

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Hardware Accelerated

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

Rotation: Supported

Display Connector:

Status: No display connected

Results	210.55	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.3
	System Version		10.5.6 (9G55)
	Physical RAM		6144 MB
	Model		MacPro3,1
	Drive Type		WDC WD10EAVS-00D7B1
CPU Test	171.84	
	GCD Loop	278.63	14.69 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	162.64	3.86 Gflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	107.71	3.55 Gflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	234.98	40.92 Mops/sec
Thread Test	783.24	
	Computation	846.50	17.15 Mops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	728.77	31.35 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	355.76	
	System	318.98	
		Allocate	274.32	1.01 Malloc/sec
		Fill	353.54	17189.74 MB/sec
		Copy	341.17	7046.77 MB/sec
	Stream	402.14	
		Copy	434.95	8983.78 MB/sec
		Scale	383.10	7914.71 MB/sec
		Add	416.36	8869.40 MB/sec
		Triad	379.40	8116.37 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test	284.06	
	Line	229.41	15.27 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	297.81	88.91 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	243.19	19.82 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	227.14	5.73 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	729.62	45.64 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	218.21	
	Spinning Squares	218.21	276.81 frames/sec
User Interface Test	474.48	
	Elements	474.48	2.18 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test	76.16	
	Sequential	116.06	
		Uncached Write	87.85	53.94 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	149.46	84.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	92.48	27.06 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	179.28	90.10 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	56.68	
		Uncached Write	22.56	2.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	149.96	48.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	78.72	0.56 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	145.47	26.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

Dear Stanza & Anybody,

 

Please Help !!!

I have been try guide from post#31, but still QE : not supported. And the last I already to edit com.apple.Boot.plist using nano editor but we found failed when I try to save.

 

This is my Device Id : 0x0641 (I think we have the same Device Id)

 

Your advise is appreciated,

 

Best regards,

Pilgan11

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QUAK3
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Hi,

Nvidia 9400GT 1GB Driver Installation Success, Problem Change Resolutions.

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iPC_OSx86 10.5.6 Universal PPF5 Final

Asus P5GC-MX/1333

2GB RR2 667 Mhz

Axle3d Nvidia 9400GT 1GB DRR2

 

screenshot2009051118h32.png

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tempest.nano
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I have installed 10.5.6 (Chameleon v2.0 RC1) using a BFG 9400GT 512MB (DVI/Svideo/VGA) with the monitor on the DVI port. I have tried using a custom EFI string (osx86 tools) using the custom NVCAP (as well as all the standard ones) for this card which yields no QE/CI. The drivers in this thread which seem to work like a charm, but the card runs at full speed for 3-10 minutes (gaming included), then everything becomes choppy no matter what I am doing. All 3d games, apps and desktop effects are very slow from that point on until the next reboot. I amhopelessly lost, and any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

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Pilgan11
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i got graphics working 100% yesterday and i figured out that the kernal panics where from a bad amd updater i got off of piratebay

 

but zip your kexts and upload them to mediafire and post the link and i will work it them and i think i can get yours working 100% too Oh and Download the pref pane called "Secretes" http://secrets.blacktree.com/ and go to the system tab on the left and scroll down and enable quartz open Gl and Disable Beame Sync

 

--->

Guys I wanna say this forum Awsome,

 

After long journey follow this threads I Got QE Support (sorry wrong System Profiler attachment, I will corrected later) Open GL Test passed.

But now I got some issue :

1. Still showing unsupport parameter (plz see attachment #2)

2. If i waching movie using DVD, showing message "Skipping over damage area". (picture quality it's great for me),

3. Cannot burning DVD.

4. My top resolution only reaching 1024X768, how to get higher resolution?

 

Any suggestion & solution will be appriciated.

 

BR,

PILGAN

SP.tiff

glviewergt400_3.tiff

glviewergt400_1.tiff

glviewergt400_2.tiff

xbenchtest1.tiff

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MayhemMechanix
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GAHHHHHH!

 

 

This is so bloody frustrating!!!

 

I had video and sound working, but was experiencing Kernel panics when my system was idle.

 

I wiped the system, re-installed, now I'm back to sound not working, Video not working at all. I've downloaded and installed so many different versions of the NVIDIA drivers that it's not funny.

 

One week ago, I could run applications that required Quartz Extreme and OpenGL, now I can't at all. Second Life keeps giving me a "Can't make GL Context" and freezes

 

 

To make matters worse, When I do a search using the exact same keywords on this forum, I never get the same results as I did earlier... A good example, this morning, I finally found an Audio Driver for ALC888 that not only worked but showed ALL of the ports, now I can't find that thread with the link to the drivers to save my life.

 

Can someone please tell me how to get my 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT working again?

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