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Hi, all!

 

It was mind-bogglingly difficult, but I finally got Snow Leopard 10.6.3 installed and booting from the hard drive! :yes:

 

But for the life of me, I can't get that last big thing working right: My XFX nVidia GeForce 240 GT 512MB graphics card & Dell display.  I think the most likely problem is that I can't find or install any nVidia drivers for this card.  Oh, I've tried several, but when I try to install them, I always get this message:

 

Unsupported System
This computer will not support GeForce or Quadro Mac OS X edition cards.

 

For the record, the nVidia CUDA installer I have installed fine.

 

Note what may be uncommon with my big Dell display: During boot up of any OS (Windows and others), the display is filled with static/snow until the OS finishes loading.  Oh, I can read everything that's there, but everything's covered with a semi-transparent layer of snow.  My guess is that's a result of the GeForce card being run in basic/BIOS mode, because once all the other OSes load the nVidia driver, the display becomes beautifully crystal clear.

 

So since I can't install a driver into Snow Leopard, the Leopard part doesn't matter because all I see is the Snow part :P

 

Here's the tech details (ask if you need more, please):

Mobo: ASUS P5WDG2 WS Pro
CPU: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q9650 @ 3.00GHz - 64-bit
RAM: 4GB
GPU: XFX nVidia GeForce GT 240[X] 512MB DDR3 PCI-e
Display: Dell U2713HM-IPS-LED CVN85

 

I was forced to use a combination of installation techniques (but none from the verboten sites) to install the OS, but I started with a NawCom ModCD.  Since no other boot loader worked for me, I settled on Clover, which worked fine.  I used an Auto-Patcher to generate and patch my DSDT.aml file.  My only installed hard drive is a 1 TB MBR disk with 1 FAT16 part, 1 NTFS part, and 1 MacOS X Journalled part, which is the boot drive.  I'm not sure what other info I should provide...

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

 

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Hello

 

If you using Chameleon, try enable Graphicsenabler in org.chameleon.boot... use Chameleon Wizard to make this(i believe has support in 10.6.3)

 

If don't work try use this kext: http://www.hackintoshosx.com/files/file/2646-nvenabler-kext/

Install With Kext Wizard help, update caches and see if work...

 

or this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/256103-supported-graphics-cards-with-full-qeqi/

Same kext above, but it's for Lion

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Thank you most kindly for your reply, PimentelX86 !

 

Right at the moment, I'm in the process of creating a clone of my OSX disk (which will take some hours), so I can't try your suggestions yet, but I will soon.

 

In the meantime, I recently noticed something unexpected about my OSX configuration, which may well be at least a part of my graphics problem.  I've only completed one Hackintosh install so far (and my memory of exactly what steps I had to take is poor), but I was pretty sure I specified (maybe with Clover? and/or in the SMBIOS?) that my hackintosh was supposed to emulate a Mac Pro (string = MacPro3,1), which is a desktop machine.  However, when I ran Apple's System Info (or profiler?, forgive this newbie his ignorance, please), it reported my machine to be a MacBook Pro, a laptop!

 

Could that explain at least part of the problem I'm seeing?  After all, a laptop is not supposed to support a dekstop graphics card like the nVidia GT 240, so any attempt to install a desktop driver for the card would obviously fail.

 

What do you think?  And do you have any advice about how to correct the problem of the machine reporting itself to be a laptop?

 

Thanks again!

 

 

 

 

Hello

 

If you using Chameleon, try enable Graphicsenabler in org.chameleon.boot... use Chameleon Wizard to make this(i believe has support in 10.6.3)

 

If don't work try use this kext: http://www.hackintoshosx.com/files/file/2646-nvenabler-kext/

Install With Kext Wizard help, update caches and see if work...

 

or this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/256103-supported-graphics-cards-with-full-qeqi/

Same kext above, but it's for Lion

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