XFX NVIDIA GEFORCE 9400 GT 512 - QE problem

[sinanziric]

OK i have xfx geforce 9400 gt 512 and i dont have QE enabled.

 

I tryed a lot of things, EFI strings, injectors, but nothing

 

Is there any way to make it work or should i buy new one.

[J313C]

OK i have xfx geforce 9400 gt 512 and i dont have QE enabled.

 

I tryed a lot of things, EFI strings, injectors, but nothing

 

Is there any way to make it work or should i buy new one.

 

Do you resolve your problem? I have exactly the same problem and the same XFX GeForce 9400 GT 512 MB, I hope to find the answare soon or can someone help us please

[shanwookie]

Do you resolve your problem? I have exactly the same problem and the same XFX GeForce 9400 GT 512 MB, I hope to find the answare soon or can someone help us please

 

I have it installed with 10.5.7 (iDeneb 1.4 updated) on an Intel DG45ID MOBO. The DVI dual link is pushing my Dell 22" LCD. My res is only 1024x768. I am fiddling with getting it to work with OSX86 Tools, Kext Helper and a few injectors/kexts that I have downloaded. I will post back with what works and what works well.

 

A review for the card on tigerdirect.com says it does work.

[mr_christer]

did you try nvinject 0.2.1 512MB ?

 

this made dual screen work for my 9800...

[J313C]

Thank you for your answer guys, my video card works an 80% the problem is that I dont have the QE supported... can someone knows how to get work the QE support on this video card?

[Giorgio_multi]

Hi to all.

 

For complete QE/CI on 9400GT:

 

Delete every injector that you have: NVinject.kext, NVKush.kext, NVDarwin.kext ...............

 

Download and install Nvidia 9 series driver of aqua-mac and install it. Don't reboot, with OSX86 Tools create a customized GFX String and reboot.

 

Giorgio

[J313C]

Hi to all.

 

For complete QE/CI on 9400GT:

 

Delete every injector that you have: NVinject.kext, NVKush.kext, NVDarwin.kext ...............

 

Download and install Nvidia 9 series driver of aqua-mac and install it. Don't reboot, with OSX86 Tools create a customized GFX String and reboot.

 

Giorgio

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your answer Im going to try this when I had time, and post the results

[Alolivei]

Hi Guys,

 

It took me two days to put my XFX Geforce 9400 GT fully working, and I would like to share with you my experience.

 

First of all, I started with a fresh install using iATKOS 10.5.7 and then iPC 10.5.6 with no success: all the classic Black screen, Blue screen, sound but no video, kernel panic, turnoff your computer in many languages problems etc, etc reported in other posts.

 

I saw it all, and here is my roadmap to success.

 

Begining with a fresh install, select a basic intall or any drivers you already know will work with your hakintosh, BUT video.

 

Reading other posts and playing with this board on Windos Vista I discovered it doesn't make a good job choosing witch output it should use, so I hooked my LG L173SA monitor over the VGA port trough the instalation process.

 

By doing this, all the install process and part of the post install was made under 1024x768 Vesa mode.

 

There were a few anoying problems like bad scrolling at Safari window content if using the scroll button of my mouse, but minimizing (click on - ) the app and then getting it back fix it.

 

First I installed Aquamac's drivers from http://rapidshare.com/files/155562098/NVID...rivers.zip.html

 

I generate my EFI string by Aquamac's instructions about using GFX string creator of OSx86 Tools, and choose 512 MB VRAM, VGA-DVI.

 

Bellow is my resulting /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Boot Graphics</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string></string>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

<key>Quiet Boot</key>

<string>No</string>

<key>Timeout</key>

<string>5</string>

<key>device-properties</key>

<string>6a02000001000000010000005e0200000d00000002010c00d041030a010000000101060000010

101060000007fff04000e0000004e00560050004d0000002000000001000000000000000000000000

000000000000000000000000000000220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730

069007a006500000008000000000000201c0000006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000

650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e740e0000006e0061006d00650000000b0000006469737

06c617922000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000

00646973706c617922000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000

0000b000000646973706c6179100000006d006f00640065006c000000190000004e56494441204765

466f726365203934303020475420000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c0

0650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616314000000400030002c006e0061006d00650000001200

00004e5644412c446973706c61792d4114000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004

e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c

00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163100000004e005600430041005000000018000000040

00000000001000600000000000000000000001e00000072006f006d002d0072006500760069007300

69006f006e0000002d0000004e56494441204765466f7263652039343030204754204f70656e474c2

0456e67696e65205b4546495d</string>

</dict>

</plist>

 

The next step should be restoring permissions and touching the Extensions.mkext file with OSxTools, but using Aquamac's drivers and install process took me to Kernel Panic on the first boot.

 

I was able to get rid of it by erasing the /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAResman.kext file Aquamac's installed.

 

This is a know bug reported in many other posts. You can give it a try without erasing the file and rebooting with -f-v flags.

 

If you have kernel panic too, just reboot with -s flag to single user and erase /System/Library/Extensions/NVDAResman.kext

 

If you got this far, I suppose you know how to do that but don't forget to follow screen instructions on how to mount your volumes RW in order to erase the file.

 

Ok, after rebooting I got the anoying video problems solved, my Video RAM and board model was correctly shown but still could not set my video preferences from "System Preferences" and QE was still disabled.

 

If you got lucky and everything is Ok, stop here or else...

 

Next step, I installed MacNutty's kexts from http://depositfiles.com/files/3p3og9olw with Kexthelper.

 

Those kexts replaces NVDANV50Hal.kext and puts a new NVinject.kext and NVDAResman.kext

 

This time, after restoring permissions and touching extensions.mkext my next boot (don´t forget to flag -f-v) was flawless and QE and Hardware acceleration were both enabled AND I could select resolutions and refresh rate from System Preferences.

 

Then I turn off my computer and changed the conection to the DVI output, turned on again and voila ! everything working beautifuly.

 

At this point, I strongly recomend you to backup your /System/Library/Extensions/ before installing the rest of your hardware or updating from Apple.

 

I even update from Apple to 10.5.8 without video problems, but got no sound after that and had to restore my last AppleHDA.kext in order to get sound back.

 

NVIDA GeForce 9400 GT:

 

Modelo do Grupo de Circuitos Integrados: NVIDA GeForce 9400 GT

Tipo: Monitor

Barramento: PCIe

Largura Lane PCIe: x16

VRAM (Total): 512 MB

Fornecedor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

ID do Dispositivo: 0x065b

ID da Revisão: 0x00a1

Revisão da ROM: NVIDA GeForce 9400 GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]

Monitores:

Conector do Monitor:

Estado: Nenhum Monitor Conectado

L173SA:

Resolução: 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz

Profundidade: Cor de 32 Bits

Core Image: Hardware Acelerado

Monitor Principal: Sim

Espelho: Desligado

On-line: Sim

Quartz Extreme: Compatível

Rotação: Compatível

QuartzGL: Compatível

 

That's all folks !

 

Best Regards from Brazil

 

Alolivei