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[HowTo] Get the 2nd gen. EAX1600XT SILENT working (black heatsink)

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RiceTea
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Your CPU and memory appears to be actually a bit faster than the installation of Abberacus. You are let down essentially by the graphics. Did you switch beam sync off (provided you are using a TFT and not a CRT monitor)? Doing so should boost your Xbench score nicely.

 

ASUS P5LD2-VM, Sockel 775, Intel 945G, mATX

Conroe 6400@ 2.16 GhZ

2048 MB RAM, DDR2, 667 MHz

CLUB 3D ATI X1600pro 256 MB 2x DVI

MYZar 10.4.4 incl. 10.4.5

HDD: 7200.10 SATA drive

Pioneer DVR111

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mmm.. my memory is too a ddr2 667, pstriot to be exact, the same model wich tom hardware said has the greater value for the price, it can be overclocked to 900mhz... my memory is running at 652 mhz and 4.4.4.12 timing. The cpu is the same exactly, Conroe 6400. My sata drive is a WD 320GB SATAII.

 

My TFT Samsung 205bW is connect via DVI

 

Ok my xbenchs are better now after overclocking: 151

 

Results 151.30

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.7 (8J2135a)

Physical RAM 2048 MB

Model ADP2,1

Drive Type WDC WD3200KS-00PFB0

CPU Test 129.47

GCD Loop 309.04 16.29 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 148.56 3.53 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 93.82 3.10 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 97.37 16.96 Mops/sec

Thread Test 257.34

Computation 231.64 4.69 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 289.46 12.45 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 160.91

System 156.35

Allocate 122.98 451.63 Kalloc/sec

Fill 193.08 9387.98 MB/sec

Copy 170.16 3514.50 MB/sec

Stream 165.75

Copy 156.40 3230.43 MB/sec

Scale 157.33 3250.37 MB/sec

Add 177.34 3777.73 MB/sec

Triad 174.08 3724.06 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 191.41

Line 160.25 10.67 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 199.01 59.41 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 193.51 15.77 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 176.11 4.44 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 249.32 15.60 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 202.50

Spinning Squares 202.50 256.88 frames/sec

User Interface Test 474.49

Elements 474.49 2.18 Krefresh/sec

Disk Test 61.84

Sequential 77.87

Uncached Write 71.76 44.06 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 73.44 41.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 85.86 25.13 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 82.18 41.30 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 51.29

Uncached Write 19.38 2.05 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 136.86 43.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 92.94 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 119.90 22.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

I think this same wonderfull videocard is the one stoping my mobo to get to 2.8ghz, actually its running stable with 2.61 ghz.

 

Studio 12 something is wrong with your system your becnhmarks are too low.

 

The Toadman, s not the HD is the processors, conroe is WAY faster then anything intel or amd has.

 

One interesting point, the Xbench for the MacPro standard 2.66 ghz is around 160.....

 

Cheers

 

Aberracus

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I think my buddy has a v3 of Asus EAX1600XT

 

CE/CI work but resolution switching does not work.

Trying to change resolution manually making change in com.apple.Boot.plist

 

Want to change to 1680 x 1050

 

It works in Windows but will not work at that resolution in OSX86 (10.4.7)

 

Any ideas? Would be much appreciated

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tha_toadman
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zedzed,

 

you have to use a resolution that's compliant with the VESA standards (either 2.0 or 3.0 depending on your card). The absolute highest setting for any 2.0 cards is 1280x1024 (x32 -- if you want to specify 32 bit depth or 24 bit, etc) I don't quite know what the max is for the VESA 3.0 but a quick search at 'google' might answer that one for ya.

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I think my buddy has a v3 of Asus EAX1600XT

 

CE/CI work but resolution switching does not work.

Trying to change resolution manually making change in com.apple.Boot.plist

 

Want to change to 1680 x 1050

 

It works in Windows but will not work at that resolution in OSX86 (10.4.7)

In Windows, the card is operating under the control of drivers so all of the features of the card can be accessed.

 

In OSX without Boris, you are operating without drivers, just VESA, and VESA only supports a handful of resolutions.

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had to sell my asusu card, and brought another from newegg.com, its exactly the same, didnt need to change anything, everything works perfectly.

 

 

Do you get full QE + CI + Resolution switching?

Any chance you could pull your video card BIOS and share it with us here?

 

Thanks

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well, i learn something new each time i come back to OSX...

 

this time around, i discovered that when dual-booting (using WinGRUB), for some odd reason...this method will not work...? :blink: i verified things 2x and still stuck at 1024x768...this sucks. :mellow:

 

doesn't seem to make sense to me but i wanted to post what i just discovered.

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well all...

 

i d/l'ed the 4.8 update and sure enough...neither this method, nor the complete boris method worked at all! my dev id is 71c0 and nothing worked for me. still stuck with 1024x768 unfortunately. i'm still pluggin away at it.

try this one

 

http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Swit...nload-7745.html

 

worked for me to get other resolutions

 

:mellow:

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i d/l'ed the 4.8 update

If you are speaking of the 10.4.8 update, none of the ones currently circulating replace any of the kexts in your system, so you are still running with the same drivers you were before the update. The 10.4.8 kexts have lots of ties to hardware and maybe even the kernel. Cyclonefr and NeoPheus tried to incorporate some of the 10.4.8 stuff into their installer but had to back away from it.

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well, i learn something new each time i come back to OSX...

 

this time around, i discovered that when dual-booting (using WinGRUB), for some odd reason...this method will not work...? i verified things 2x and still stuck at 1024x768...this sucks.

 

doesn't seem to make sense to me but i wanted to post what i just discovered.

 

so now i'm convinced that it has something to do with Darwin...i tried 2x to get the OS to work with the mod but nothing worked. the only way this will work is if OS X is the only OS on the hard drive. I'd love for someone to prove me wrong but the 'boot.ini' method and/or WinGRUB didn't do a damn thing for me. guess i'll just have to emulate instead.

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Okay, I have the v3 and I recently screwed up my drive so that I had to reinstall the OS. I used the repacked version of JaS 10.4.7 and was able to get my card working (as much a it is able to under Mac OSX) with no patching beyond what the install DVD used. I was then prompty dancing around my room for the next few minutes.

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A while back someone sent me a file called

 

Radeon.X1600.Support.pkg

 

I installed it on my gen 3 Asus EAX1600xt card - the one which nothing else would work on.

 

Guess what - it now works - but only on the DVI side.

 

I get full QE/CI + Resolution + my monitor gets recognized!

 

Sweet

 

 

PS: Don't ask me where this package is from - someone sent it to me in email.

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A while back someone sent me a file called

 

Radeon.X1600.Support.pkg

 

I installed it on my gen 3 Asus EAX1600xt card - the one which nothing else would work on.

 

Guess what - it now works - but only on the DVI side.

 

I get full QE/CI + Resolution + my monitor gets recognized!

 

Sweet

PS: Don't ask me where this package is from - someone sent it to me in email.

 

i got problem with my X1650pro (its actually a x1600xt in disguise), can you give me extra info via PM how to get it ?

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OK now fully working (QE/CI, but resolution change it manually via Boot.plist)

 

but still have a glitch..every time i run Keynote presentation or Slideshow on iTunes (i believe this is when QE/CI running), when i stopped it or moving my mouse..

 

the mouse cursor is gone! and changed to little artifact(dots) across the monitor. I once read about this somewhere in the forum, but cannot find it..

 

any kind of help very much appreciated like always :censored2:

 

ah ya.. this is the method im using ; its kinda mix and match from the boris and tha_toadman :

 

1.Delete all kexts execpt X1000's and ATINDRV

2. on ATINDRV.kext/Contents/Info.plist :

- i leave this (changing it into display give me the black screen w/ glicthes) 

<string>ATI,Wormy</string>

- and change into

<key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>IOPCIDevice</string>

3. on ATIRadeonX1000.kext/Contents/Info.plist :

- add 0x71c61002

<key>IOPCIMatch</key>
<string>0x71c61002 0x71091002 0x71c51002 0x71c01002</string>

4. on ATIRadeonX1000GA.plugin/Contents/Info.plist :

- i leave this (change this into 100271c6 give me black screen w/ glitches) 

<key>CFPlugInFactories</key>
<dict>
	<key>10025144-0000-0000-0000-000a27898d3e</key>
	<string>ATIRadeonX1000GAFactory</string>
</dict>
<key>CFPlugInTypes</key>
<dict>
	<key>ACCF0000-0000-0000-0000-000a2789904e</key>
	<array>
	<string>10025144-0000-0000-0000-000a27898d3e</string>

- and changed this -see below- (dunno why its working) - i believe changing this into IONDRVFramebuffer also give me QE/CI working, i dunno why i do this (change it to IOFramebuffer)

<key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>IOFramebuffer</string>

 

this is close to working well.. i really need help to make this working without glitches or artifacts.

 

Hardware used : Gigabyte X1650Pro 256MB dual DVI (using analog adapter due my monitor)

OS X : Jas 10.4.6 with ATI 10.4.5 kexts

 

Any kind of help would be very much appreciated !!

 

and sorry for my English.. :wallbash:

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