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Desperately Need Help With GeForce 9800 GTX!


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This is my last resort, if I cannot get my graphics working properly in Mac then I'm going back to Windows. I've so far tried tons of various EFI strings and kext files, I even tried DSDT but my NVCAP is not listed in IORegistryExplorer and the guides aren't straightforward. With everything I've tried my computer either freezes on startup or I get 5MB VRAM and unknown GPU. So unless someone can list me other things to try, I'm giving up.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Graphics: XFX GeForce 9800 GTX XXX-Edition 512MB DDR3

Machine:

OS X 10.6.8 SL

Dell XPS 600

Pentium D 3.4GHz Dual Core

2GB (for now) PC2-5300 DDR RAM

nVidia nForce 4 mobo

SATA HDD

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Have you tried this?

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2011/10/uni...lion-using.html

 

And you can select the drivers for NVidia graphic cards in [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. It should work fine.

 

BTW, I finished those 2 quiz to reply this thread.

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  • 2 months later...

Thinking that lion might fix it, I tried to install it. Since I have a Pentium D 945, I must use a legacy kernel. I tried using atom kernel for lion, no reboot loop but it freezes at 'Kernel is LP64". My processor is 64-bit.

 

Just found this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=274619

 

I'm going to try it now, I'll get back with the results.

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I know it should according to other posts I've seen, but it just doesn't work for me. Maybe I'm enabling it wrong. With installing chameleon 2.1 I put the org.chameleon.Boot.plist in /EFI volume and have <key>GraphicsEnabler</key><string>Yes</string>, I also have the same file in /Macintosh HD/Extra. I think it's using the one on the EFI disk but am not sure. Under system profiler -> Graphics/Displays it shows 3 MB VRAM, and doesn't say QE enabled or anything. Also youtube freezes and when I tried to take a screenshot of it, I got a blank white image.

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