bossent20 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Hi everyone. Would really appreciate some help on this please. I had a GTX 275. My mobo is the Gigabyte EX58-UD5. I was using Kakewalk's USB install method and it always worked perfectly well. I sold my GTX 275 and upgraded to a GTX 470, but the system obviously will not boot. Is it safe to add a second graphics card in the other PCI slot so that I have my main GTX 470 card for Windows and at the same time a cheap standard compatible card for OSX? Is this safe and recommended? Would OSX and Windows be able to understand which card I want to use or will I have to force each OS to a certain card? I am doing this so I can just use Kakewalk's USB install method again. Please I am really stuck and would appreciate the time. Many thanks for any help Also... Does anyone know what cheap standard cards (preferabbly nvidia 16x slot card) would be suitable please? I do not intend to spend much. It's only a second card because my GTX 470 will not load OSx Thank you very much for the time and help just to add... if i still had gtx 275, along with my current gtx 470, would i be able to do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.B Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 have you even attempted to find a fix for this, instead of instantly deciding you will just buy a new card, look at this thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=214219 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossent20 Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 hi and many thanks for that link. i have seen this before, but it says you must install 10.6.4 first. but i cannot do that at all. my system will not boot into the installer? can you please explain to me how. i am using kakewalk usb install method, which has my original 10.6 dvd image on it along with kakewalk's kexts. please would you kindly briefly explain how i can do this. i have posted twice before and on there but never any answers. this is really urgent. i do try to find for myself first before asking but never get anywhere. most explanationas are hard to follow too many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.B Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 look again at the thread and search it (on IE ctrl+f) for the number 10.6.0, a post from Frank802 comes up, whcih says that he has it working fine, have you tried it? he does however say that he modded the kext using the guide above, so if possible, try booting into a liveCD and modifying the kext as per the "old howto" section of the guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossent20 Posted August 18, 2010 Author Share Posted August 18, 2010 hi again well.... being as i got my gtx 275 back along with my new gtx 470, is it possible to have windows load the gtx 470 and snow leopard will load the gtx 275? also, if windows could utilise the power of the gtx 470 for gaming, where the gtx 275 is added for physx that would be even better but is the first part possible, to have these two cards boot within its own OS? regardless of posiblity, is it something allowed to do as in is it safe and wise? i mean is the motherboard catered for this type of option? many thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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