kapono Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Hey, I just purchased an R9 280X hoping to use it with my hackintosh, (replacing an nvidia gtx260) but I seem to be unable to boot except in to safe mode (-x). I have tried the normal GraphicsEnabler=Yes/No dart=0 -v -f etc.. but none work without -x. I have a GA-Z87X-UD4H which boots perfectly fine with the gtx260. Only change was to use the 280X. What are my options from here? Are there certain kext's I can move or replace to see if I can get this going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapono Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 Alright, so further investigion (it's been awhile since I had to fix stuff in hackintosh I've forgotten my way around). The card has vendor: 0x1002 device ID: 0x6798. I don't appear to have ATI7000Controller.kext (10.9.1), should my system have this kext or is that from 10.8? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranticJohny Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 The kext name is AMD7000Controller in mavericks. Your id is inside: 0x67981002. Set GE=No and try to boot without kernelcache. Try different ports (DVI, HDMI, DP). Chameleon/Chimera should be on EFI partition or use clover. If you get a white screen or black screen after boot, push power button for sleep and wake after a minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapono Posted April 5, 2014 Author Share Posted April 5, 2014 I had tried booting without kernel caches and ge = no but no dice. If I boot using the IGFX I can see the card being recognized correctly. The farthest I get trying to boot the r9 is the end of the verbose output, no screen changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampage Dev Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 Its a BIOS issue. I have 2 XFX 280X Double Black cards for testing at this time and I had to flash the BIOS to get them to somewhat work. The BIOS is the issue and I am still working on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapono Posted April 5, 2014 Author Share Posted April 5, 2014 Is there anything I can do to assist you in the work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rothnic Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 Its a BIOS issue. I have 2 XFX 280X Double Black cards for testing at this time and I had to flash the BIOS to get them to somewhat work. The BIOS is the issue and I am still working on it... I'm having an issue with a DD card. It seems like the bios posted online are all older, so I might try some of them. Mine is labled: 15.043.000.005.000000_113-TAHITI_XTL_3GD5_H_130805KLB1_W8 . Attached if it is of any use. I can't upload it to the TechPowerUp bios directory, because it says it is already posted. I don't see anything this new though. Edit: OK, after flashing the 10/17 bios from TechPowerUp I was able to get the card working with GraphicsEnabler=No, and without using safe mode. So, make sure you don't have a newer bios if it isn't working for you. 15.043.zip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapono Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 Flashed using the 10/17 bios for techpowerup, it worked, barely, but only momentarily. Everything was laggy and then the system finally freed zone kernel panic'd. Also, windows would bsod with this bios. Bad flash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rothnic Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 (edited) Flashed using the 10/17 bios for techpowerup, it worked, barely, but only momentarily. Everything was laggy and then the system finally freed zone kernel panic'd. Also, windows would bsod with this bios. Bad flash? Sorry, forgot to follow up here as well. See my post here: I ended up failing to get it working in both OSX and Windows 8.1. For all those who don't yet know our position about tonymac, and your [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] software, your Forun, Tolls, links, thank you for reading http://www.insanelym...ort-tonymacx86/ p.s : pls read the forum rules !!! InsanelyMac doesn't support tonymac's tools. #2 Rules Edited April 13, 2014 by iFIRE removed tmac link!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmotic Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 My XFX 280x came with firmware version 15.044. 15.044: Freeze on loading screen 15.043: Freeze on loading screen 15.040: Works but has artifacts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rothnic Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Has anyone found a bios that works for both osx and windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maffel Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Has anyone found a bios that works for both osx and windows? Flash a working bios for windows and use clover to load vbios at boot that works in mavericks. Ended up working for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudenesspa Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I have xfx 280x running on my machine.....10.9 and 10.10. You need to have bootloader on EFI partition in order to boot without IGFX enabled. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rothnic Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Flash a working bios for windows and use clover to load vbios at boot that works in mavericks. Ended up working for me. Which version did you end up using? And, could you post the configuration line you used to load the vbios? I messed around with this but was never sure I was doing it correctly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xptomac Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I had this problem with yosemite , xfx r9 280 dd black oc edition so what i did was dumped my gpu bios then checked it with vbe7 tool and wrote the subsystem id down. downloaded Asus HD 7950 3072 bios from techpowerup and changed the the subsystem id to the one i wrote down Then save the bios, then flashed it with atiwinflash. booted up and it was perfect gl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codinger Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 You could try to install clover to efi and select ati inject happy hackintoshing OSBeast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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