Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Is anyone working or planning on working on anything for 512 mb video cards? I'm not too keen on flashing a rom to the card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschool Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Is anyone working or planning on working on anything for 512 mb video cards? I'm not too keen on flashing a rom to the card With so many informations about the 512mb card you are asking for you´ll get fully satisfied with the answers... Rgds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 PNY Nvidia 7600 GS to be precise. Is there anything in the works as far as drivers or something that will enable any 512 cards to work on osx86? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=45938http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=45938 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 I did see that and I am not too keen on flashing and hex editing my video card. I have no idea what I'm doing with hex editing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixblicker Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Currently there is no other possibility to get a 512MB nvidia-card running without flashing the rom. Sorry! np_ was starting on creating a soft-fix for this but it's got very very quite on this subject. You might ask at macvidia.com about the progress! BTW: I flashed my QuadroFX 2500M and it works absolutely perfect under Windows/Linux/Mac OSX. No issues at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBits Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Whats so hard about flashing? Just read and do what it says http://www.macvidia.com/index.php?option=c...mp;topic=1082.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 11, 2007 Author Share Posted July 11, 2007 Whats so hard about flashing? Just read and do what it says http://www.macvidia.com/index.php?option=c...mp;topic=1082.0 I'm sure it's not terribly hard, I have some computer skills. It's the DOS and hex editing that kinda trip me up. How can I hex edit my card when the instructions only tell you for the 7950? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 my 6 series 512 is running fine, but 7 series and up w/512+ requires flashing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotoh Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 instructions in the first page are working for every GeForce 7, and for those who don't want to do it themself or are not just plain sur about it, I do "on demand" modding of their ROM... Just submit your original ROM at macvidia. PS : it only works for PCIe cards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 12, 2007 Author Share Posted July 12, 2007 I do have a PCIe card so this works out great. Thanks to everyone gotoh I might take you up on your offer. Just one question do I burn nvflash to a cd then boot from it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 theres also a solution that is not as harmful as a rom flash its editing the iopcifamily.kext more info here : http://www.macvidia.com/index.php?option=c...msg7325#msg7325 always overlooked... -D- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 -D- Those instructions are confusing. I will however try this method first before any flashing. Now my question to you is: Do I need to input my device ID into GeForce.kext and have natit installed before I do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 yes, this is just a patch for your card to not lock up on boot cause of ioatafamily -D- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzrabbit Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 My 512MB has worked out of the box since 10.4.7 with a native install not with dd copy from vmware, with no changes at all. And thats with the old Titan.kext Asus G-Force 512MB EN6600 Silent with full CI,QE & QE2. But it had to be a native install or all it had was a Vesa support. ZZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 1. First of all you need xcode and http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsour...ily-79.1.tar.gz (developer subscription is necessary, but free) 2. Unpack the IOPCIFamily-79.1.tar.gz 3. Copy the iopci.patch to the IOPCIFamily-79.1 directory (what?) 4. Use Terminal.app, cd into the IOPCIFamily-79.1 directory (what?) 5. Patch the source by typing "patch -i iopci.patch". If you see errors here, than restart at step 2. 6. Open IOPCIConfigurator.cpp in your favourite text editor and check the line starting with #define NVIDIA512 to include your PCI-ID. Read the comment in the source code. 7. Compile the kext with "xcodebuild" in the Terminal.app 8. Your shiny new kext is in IOPCIFamily-79.1/build/Default 9. You really should know what to do with it... (don't forget fixing permissions) (I have no idea) 10. On reboot one of the couple of first lines in VESA mode should read "IOPCI NVIDIA ...". If you see that, than the card was reconized and the range adjusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 16, 2007 Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 I'm stuck on number three and the rest. I don't now where the patch file is. could someone talk me through this please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 is there anyone that could help me with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playerzoors Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Slip Kid: I don't think that method helps to enable QE/CI, in the thread where this method originated, it was mentioned that all this method does is recognize the 512mb card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjepsen Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 sooo... where do you get that "iopci.patch" file? can't seem to locate it anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deniz1992 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 will that flashing stuff work with Nvidia 8500GT SUPER 512MB???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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