iVoyou Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Any ideas on the 3rd gen version? I have a 23" Cinema and really want it to work. DVI works out of the box with a lower resolution monitor. None of the pathces have worked for me. If there are no fixes, what video card do you guys think I should get. The GECUBE X1600XT looks promissing (supposedly working with a monitor that has the same resolution as mine), except that someone else says that he has stability problems. Also the X1800XT looks promissing. Any ideas? Thanks, Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altagor Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 to change resolution add to boot.plist this <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1280x1024x32</string> in string type your resolution I work with this solution but color calibration does not work QE CI Mirroring is OK. I try everythig boris, toadman, saphire bios flash - DVI is black. It's funny, this same DVI output work with analog converter, but this not resolve the problem. Toadman in other post say somthing about atindrv 10.4.5 version but i dont have it. Sorry or my english Goatsec 10.4.6 + AMD update AD 3500+ Venice ASUS EAX1600TX no 3 GA-K8N51GMF-9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootstrap Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I've tried Borisbandenov method for my Asus EAX1600 silent Rev.1, Display went black with mouse cursor only. I have to take out card to return to OSX desktop (Intel Mainboard with GMA900 integrated) if this is the case how can I get Product and Vendor ID's. to apply 2nd Guide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I've tried Borisbandenov method for my Asus EAX1600 silent Rev.1, Display went black with mouse cursor only. I have to take out card to return to OSX desktop (Intel Mainboard with GMA900 integrated) if this is the case how can I get Product and Vendor ID's. to apply 2nd Guide? when the screen is black , did you try the other vga output ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootstrap Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 when the screen is black , did you try the other vga output ? Card has vga and dvi, it was connected to the vga out put, also reboot only report 16Meg ram when the card has 256meg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 Card has vga and dvi, it was connected to the vga out put, also reboot only report 16Meg ram when the card has 256meg on boot its always shows 15 mb thats normal.. its the vesa driver useing 16 mb u got to use the dvi ouput with a dvi to vga converter... the dvi has a analue output... so it works.. but analogue on the dvi outout its simple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootstrap Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 on boot its always shows 15 mb thats normal.. its the vesa driver useing 16 mb u got to use the dvi ouput with a dvi to vga converter... the dvi has a analue output... so it works.. but analogue on the dvi outout its simple Checked both input from vga & dvi and used dvi-vga converter nothing but mouse cursor with black backrground with small bit of color on the screen. I've been trying to get this to work for a week now. Did Boris method from new install OSX86 10.4.6 all product and vendor ID's modified all .kext I don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Braams Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 i got hold of a second harddrive so i thought, let's give it another go. I removed my original harddisk to have a backup and inserted the second one. Installed 10.4.6 (Myzar) and after a few hickups with booting, i get DVI out on 1024x768 with no options to choose from any resolution. But hey, i got DVI out without doing anything at all. Then i installed Boris's solution and i notice that there are more then 1 devices in the lines i should modify. After continuing the machine boots but when de desktop is to appear i get a black screen. On VGA everything is working (as expected). Can it be that the DVI connection has a different code? My code says 0x71c0 and 0x1002 for ATI. But when i look to the PCI cards installed i see a "display" with 0x71e0 and i see the Radeon X1600 with 0x71c0. I repeated Boris's solutionwith code 0x71e0 but without succes. Any thoughts on this???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted August 28, 2006 Author Share Posted August 28, 2006 ok...i'm ready to test with a Myzar 10.4.5 ISO. only problem is that i need a copy of it. anyone have a copy i could use? it seems to have vanished from torrent sites. i have an FTP server ready to accept it. PM me if you can help. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa_6 Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 I have the same asus silent 71c0 version. I noticed that when I remove ATIRadeonX1000GL.bundle and ATIRadeonX1000VA.bundle files it boots up OK but ofcourse no CI and QE. Could it be theese files that should be replaced with some others? I have tried with all tricks, even the Sapphire flash, but always a glitched desktop or a black desktop when the bundle files is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 I'll try and troubleshoot this soon with the recently d/l'ed Myzar disc on my 2nd gen. card. I'll post my findings here as soon as I figure something out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 i hope to have later the firmaware of my working asus .. the first one to work... i will share here . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 cool! thanks aberracus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I might have v3 of this video card - see post #69 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=asus&st=60 In 10.4.6 - before boris Shows as VGA Compatible Controller and id 71c0 QE/CI Supported Magnification on the dock works Can't change the resolution Have some blocks on screen near mouse In Jas 10.4.6 - doing manual Boris using the indicated 71c0 - during bootup it goes to black If I change <string>ATY,wormy</string> to <string>display</string> - nothing happens If I change <string>IONDRVDevice</string> to <string>IOPCIDevice</string> and reboot that is where it goes to black with no video on any output Using boris automated gives me black video as well In JaS 10.4.7 install with x1600 support loaded during bootup it goes to black screen In JaS 10.4.7 with no x1600 support loaded the video card shows up as 71c0 CE/CI are supported and video at 1024x768 I can't change resolution size at all. Followup - I tried to change resolution manually using Open "com.apple.boot.plist" in Text Editor. Add this in: <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>"1280x1024x32@60"</string> but this got me flashing colors during boot-up which hangs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altagor Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 i have the same problem with v3. Any method doesn't work flash other bios too. To change resolution type 1280x1024x32 without @60. For mouse artifact use mouse locator (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=5499&hl=mousepose&st=40). Calibration adn rotation doesn't work, i no have idea for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 This worked for me to manually lock the resolution Open "com.apple.boot.plist" in Text Editor. Add this in: <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1280x1024x32</string> I still have the blocks problem. I downloaded a file from another thread called ATI.ZIP but have no clue how to install. Any ideas? Here is another funny thing I just noticed with the Asus EAX1600XT I have the computer on a table with case open about two feet away from where I sit. When I move the mouse over the Dock bar on the bottom of the screen or when I resize the Finder window I hear something that sounds like squeeking/chirping coming from the video card. Why the frack would that be happening? Bad video card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Statement: QE + CI indicate as being supported. but I can't change resolution and refresh rate in Display console. Changing the resolution in com.apple.boot.plist is not difficult. Qiestions: Is the card being "fully recognized"? Is this card considered "working"? Am I getting full capacity/performance out of the video card? Can someone with a working Asus eaxt1600xt give us some xbench 1.3 results off which we can gauge whether our cards are working right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 had to sell my asusu card, and brought another from newegg.com, its exactly the same, didnt need to change anything, everything works perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juuni Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 had to sell my asusu card, and brought another from newegg.com, its exactly the same, didnt need to change anything, everything works perfectly. I'm shopping for parts to finish my 'ideal conroe mac' system, been considering this card but it sounds like it's gambling to consider this card. So since it seems to work for you, quick questions: - when did you buy the card? to see if i have a chance to get the same 'series' if i order one now - when you say everything works perfectly, does that include DVI ok? CE and CI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studio12 Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 1. This patch works for me! also with DVI but no CI / QE 2. Boris badenov method didn't work I have a Club3D X1600pro 256MB 2x DVI on 2x 19" BenQ DVI LCD courius: when i install osx i have 2 monitors with the same picture, after applying this patch, the 2nd goes offline. but the first jumps to 1280x1024x32. anyone made same experiences? UPDATE now i have CI & QE i just edited /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents to match mi identifyer 71c2 in the <key>IOPCIMatch</key> like in the borisbadenov method. but actually i did not modified the ATIRadeonX1000.plugin it's working with DVI on my main monitor. 2nd goes to sleep :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberracus Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 I'm shopping for parts to finish my 'ideal conroe mac' system, been considering this card but it sounds like it's gambling to consider this card. So since it seems to work for you, quick questions: - when did you buy the card? to see if i have a chance to get the same 'series' if i order one now - when you say everything works perfectly, does that include DVI ok? CE and CI? I Brought it from Newegg.com September 2, probably you should get the same model as the one i received, go ahead and buy!! my XBENCH results, not OC yet... Results 133.33 System Info Xbench Version 1.2 System Version 10.4.7 (8J2135a) Physical RAM 2048 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0 CPU Test 104.32 GCD Loop 254.26 13.40 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 121.78 2.89 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 73.01 2.41 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 79.98 13.93 Mops/sec Thread Test 206.57 Computation 189.87 3.85 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 226.49 9.74 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 125.88 System 115.01 Allocate 84.77 311.31 Kalloc/sec Fill 156.03 7586.60 MB/sec Copy 126.91 2621.25 MB/sec Stream 139.03 Copy 131.28 2711.63 MB/sec Scale 132.52 2737.85 MB/sec Add 146.17 3113.67 MB/sec Triad 147.78 3161.44 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 170.22 Line 130.25 8.67 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 158.48 47.32 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 153.19 12.49 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 140.48 3.54 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 574.78 35.96 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 159.31 Spinning Squares 159.31 202.09 frames/sec User Interface Test 381.46 Elements 381.46 1.75 Krefresh/sec Disk Test 63.48 Sequential 80.80 Uncached Write 80.45 49.40 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 77.61 43.91 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 76.40 22.36 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 90.07 45.27 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 52.28 Uncached Write 20.25 2.14 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 126.17 40.39 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 90.19 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 123.03 22.83 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tha_toadman Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share Posted September 14, 2006 aberracus, very impressive results! i don't intend to turn this into a 'xbench' thread since there's already one here but i got '120' on my rig with disabled qe2d, beamsync, and no disk check...with the disk check, it went down to '109'. i think i'm going to upgrade my hard drive soon to a SATA II drive from seagate (as opposed to the SATA I WD that I currently use). also good news from 'studio12'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juuni Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 I Brought it from Newegg.com September 2, probably you should get the same model as the one i received, go ahead and buy!! Cool! Looking at your benchs, looks like QE and CI probably work as well. But... what about DVI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studio12 Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 But... what about DVI? on my Club3D X1600pro 256MB 2x DVI DVI is working on1st monitor. QE & CI also. My Xbench rating actually is about 100. So i Wonder why aberracus has about 133??? (I also have an conroe 6400 @ 2.13 GHz with 2Gigs 667 MHz Ram, 320 Gig Seagate 7200.10 S-ATA) Maybe i only own an X1600pro and aberracus a XT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceTea Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Post your complete Xbench results to allow a comparison. What mobo are you running? on my Club3D X1600pro 256MB 2x DVI DVI is working on1st monitor. QE & CI also. My Xbench rating actually is about 100. So i Wonder why aberracus has about 133??? (I also have an conroe 6400 @ 2.13 GHz with 2Gigs 667 MHz Ram, 320 Gig Seagate 7200.10 S-ATA) Maybe i only own an X1600pro and aberracus a XT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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