gofreakmedia Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Since installing my system las months, I have had a great prototyping and testing experience with my hacktosh. However the last few days I have been noticing drive failures, complete system freezes, and just general problems booting etc. I have come the conclusion this was the result of my original test drive I used for the installation - a western digital 35.0GB raptor 15k rpms. As of today I am preforming a clean installation and figured I might as well create a step to step guide for anyone else, who has beat their heads against the walls with a similar transitional setup. I will be including some screens, and system pictures on completion of the thread. Here are the specs of my base setup. ESX Whitebox Vsphere 4.1 Host - Openfiler & Freenas, 24TB Iscsi san Motheboard - Ram - Primary - Nics - Primary OSX Machine Motheboard - Ram - Primary - Nics - Primary Windows / Gaming / *nix Machine Motheboard - Ram - Primary - Nics - Network Setup Original Topic --- Topic Tile: 5870 Problems with EVGA SLI Classified X3 (solved), Log Detail and Reference files posted Posted Nov 29 2010, 02:20 AM Hi All, I am having a pretty annoying problem with my Diamond 5870, seems no matter what I do or Framebuffer I use I cannot get it to work. Every time I boot, I get greeted by the sound of my graphics card fans running at 100% with no video. Tried switching ports, etc still nothing, tried using a custom rom and others off the interweb. Any suggestions? Thanks Installation: Osx 10.6.4 (installed vanilla, then did combo update) My Specs: Motherboard: Evga x58 Classified x3 Ram: 12GB Video: Diamond 5870 1GB in Slot 1 Device ID - 6898 Vender ID - 1002 Consolidated Posts from original thread topic - Update #1 --- More System Info --- Hardware Overview: Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro3,1 Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 2.65 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 8 MB Memory: 12 GB Bus Speed: 528 MHz Boot ROM Version: [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url].tonymacx86.com SMC Version (system): 1.30f3 Serial Number (system): G88451235J4 Hardware UUID: 5FFCAF86-9D64-5F3E-AB99-4BBECA44A7D7 Display: Type: GPU Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x6898 Revision ID: 0x0000 Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes --- Update #2 After making sure that I had the rom file placed inside the right directory, I was able to boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes, but it seems like Q&E is not enabled also my resolution is suck at 1024x768. Here are is the copy paste from the graphics panel output in the system profiler. Thank you Unknown: Chipset Model: Unknown Type: GPU Bus: PCIe Slot: Slot-1 PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x6898 Revision ID: 0x0000 ROM Revision: 113-B7710C-176 EFI Driver Version: 01.00.318 Displays: Display: Resolution: 1024 x 768 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Display Connector: --- Update #3 Text Output from Kernel.log as an attachment Attached File(s)  kernel.txt ( 169.81K ) Number of downloads: 0 --- Update #4 Looks like I now have it working, still missing displays on second DVI and DP connections. Here are new outputs from system profiler. Seems that osx thought I had already done the recent graphics update, so I installed it manually and now it seems like its working. Is there any thing special I have to do to get the other two screens recognized? Thank you ATI Radeon HD 5870: Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Type: GPU Bus: PCIe Slot: Slot-1 PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 1024 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x6898 Revision ID: 0x0000 ROM Revision: 113-B7710C-176 EFI Driver Version: 01.00.318 Displays: SyncMaster: Resolution: 2048 x 1152 @ 60 Hz Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Rotation: Supported Display Connector: Status: No Display Connected Display Connector: Status: No Display Connected --- Update #5 I noticed that if I told my my boot plist not to load the rom for the video card and I force the bootloader to use various AtiFb's I just get the same problem where I started. Full Fans 100% and no screens.  --- Update #6 Card confirmed working, limited to one screen using Vervet FBs not working: Zonalis LSPCI output 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:6898] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:0b00] -- 02:00.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:aa50] Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device [1002:aa50] --- Update #7 It appears that I got this working, maybe it was more of an issue of sitting down and trying all possible methods until the problem was solved. The frame buffer that ended up working was Uakari. I included a screenshot  (warning its 6144 × 1152) I have also included the boot file used, my dsdt.aml, and my Extras folder for anyone else who has an EVGA Classied x3 Board and a Ati 5870 - tricky. Thank you! 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