Shomoha Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I have ATI Radeon HD 3870 4x in my Folllowing system, it is for one year I have installed leopard OSX 10.5.6 that has been upgraded to 10.5.8 with no problem it is working with full spec. Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H ver1.0 AMD Phenom X4 Quad-core 9650 2.3GHz Processor ATI 3870 x4 AHCI SATA HDD GUID 2 gig DDR2 1066 Ram unfortunately I haven't find any working driver for Snow until now. any friend has any succesful experience in snow with this Ati card? thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208383-ati-radeon-hd-3870-snow/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxherman Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Shomoha, can you please post more info about upgrade process (my system crashes, on such upgrade)? And what 10.5.6 build you originally used? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208383-ati-radeon-hd-3870-snow/#findComment-1391875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shomoha Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Shomoha, can you please post more info about upgrade process (my system crashes, on such upgrade)? And what 10.5.6 build you originally used? Thanks! Dear Maxherman I have used IPC Mac 10.5.6 and some simple choises in cofig. that if you want I will give you, after installation I used -x and installed my Ati driver and very simple it has been upgraded successfully (offcourse in first boot I have booted with -x and then I have installed again my Ati driver) its hardware near perfect is working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208383-ati-radeon-hd-3870-snow/#findComment-1392841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usal Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I have a ati 3870 working great on Leopard but need more information to upgrade to Snow Leopard. Has anyone done it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208383-ati-radeon-hd-3870-snow/#findComment-1392869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usal Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I found some hope in the Apple Support forums. "OS X has included drivers for the card since 10.5.7. I'm using the card with 10.6.2 now. i've been using the card since I had 10.5.8 installed." "Just for the record: Using Snow Leopard OSX 6.2 the ATI HD 3870 is a drop-in (or plug & play in Orkish). Install & boot up without using the driver software supplied by ATI. Works great. Thanks to those who responded." It looks like you will lose TV out and 2nd DVI port but I do not care about those issues right now. Now is there a retail Snow Leopard Install dvd that comes with 10.6.2? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208383-ati-radeon-hd-3870-snow/#findComment-1392904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 I just had a thought after reading the comments on netkas' PC EFI 10.6 post. Someone mentioned that their 4650 lost outputs because PC EFI 10.6 assigned a different framebuffer to it than PC EFI 10.5. Perhaps real Mac Pro's with the 3870 use a different framebuffer than what people have been trying to use on their hacks? I imagine this has been considered, but I thought I would throw it out there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208383-ati-radeon-hd-3870-snow/#findComment-1427457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0xer23 Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 I was able to start SL with this card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208383-ati-radeon-hd-3870-snow/#findComment-1600581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zondajag Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 I was able to start SL with this card. The hd3850 agp card was meant to have the same gpu as the 3870 pci-express card. I have a ati 3850agp card and was wondering if anyone on this board has got it working in snow leopard. Before i get 100 negative people say agp isnt supported in sl, ill just say AGP can run on SL quite well (the nvidia ones by what i know) Anyone FULL CI/QE/resolution on any AGP Video Card in Snow Leopard?? - InfiniteMac OSx86 Also I have found a kext online for ati hd 2600 Pro for Snow Leopard here: http://leopardkext.blogspot.com/2010/07/at...00-pro-agp.html I have two agp machines one with a p4 3.0ghz and an agp ati hd 3450 which is acting as a media pc and a pentium d 3.4ghz pc with an agp ati hd3850 graphics card which is my main machine. I would like to run snow leopard on either but I understand graphics drivers have always been a problem when it comes to hackintosh machines (well atleast a problem for those who don't know the tricks, which i don't :/ ). I get the feeling that when some hackintoshers fix a particularly obscure problem they don't always see it as obscure so may not think a tutorial will be needed for others. If there is anyone out there who has got the ati hd3xxx cards working please explain in detail how you did it, here I was able to start SL with this card. The hd3850 agp card was meant to have the same gpu as the 3870 pci-express card. I have a ati 3850agp card and was wondering if anyone on this board has got it working in snow leopard. Before i get 100 negative people say agp isnt supported in sl, ill just say AGP can run on SL quite well (the nvidia ones by what i know) Anyone FULL CI/QE/resolution on any AGP Video Card in Snow Leopard?? - InfiniteMac OSx86 Also I have found a kext online for ati hd 2600 Pro for Snow Leopard here: http://leopardkext.blogspot.com/2010/07/at...00-pro-agp.html I have two agp machines one with a p4 3.0ghz and an agp ati hd 3450 which is acting as a media pc and a pentium d 3.4ghz pc with an agp ati hd3850 graphics card which is my main machine. I would like to run snow leopard on either but I understand graphics drivers have always been a problem when it comes to hackintosh machines (well atleast a problem for those who don't know the tricks, which i don't :/ ). I get the feeling that when some hackintoshers fix a particularly obscure problem they don't always see it as obscure so may not think a tutorial will be needed for others. If there is anyone out there who has got the ati hd3xxx cards working please explain in detail how you did it, here ps: would this help? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=214208 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208383-ati-radeon-hd-3870-snow/#findComment-1602553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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