dsc106 Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 I currently have an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium. I have a 7800gt currently installed. I would like to upgrade to a 9800gt later this year when it releases so that I can play all the new games in my vista partition. However, my guess is that Leopard will not be supporting the 9800gt on the hackintosh? My 7800gt works perfectly. I would like to use the 7800gt in my Hackintosh, and the 9800gt in Windows, without having to physically swap the card out when I switch OSes. Is there a way that I can use my second PCI-E 16x slot to install the other card, and then when I reboot to go into the bios and disable the PCI-E slot that I don't want to use? (ie to toggle between activating PCI-E slot 1 or 2? So I wouldn't be using SLI, I'd just being using one card at a time, with the other PCI-E slot disabled... so I'd have 2 PCI-E gfx cards installed and choosing which PCI-E slot to use). If not... is it likely that the 9800gt will be supported in leopard this holiday season? In hackintosh? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55908-is-it-possible-to-select-which-pci-e-slot-to-use/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggie Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 i was thinking of a similar thing with my pc, i have 2 pcie 16 slots on my ga-965p-dq6 cause my x1600 is working fine and im thinking of getting a hd2900 when they get cheaper or something my guess was that you can have both installed but you have to plug the monitor into one of the cards in your case for osx you plug in the 7800... not sure though, they may be just clashes with the hardware stopping you from doing that eg. kernel panics or something at startup from the new hardware im interested to see what other say about this... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55908-is-it-possible-to-select-which-pci-e-slot-to-use/#findComment-399654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
delish Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 having both a 7600GT and a ATI 1900xt in my system worked (can only have drivers installed for either, or it crashes) the downside is the card thats not active runs the fan on 100% all the time, was the same in both OSX and Vista. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55908-is-it-possible-to-select-which-pci-e-slot-to-use/#findComment-399796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 Delish, what did you do to get both cards running? Did you need any extra drivers? What bios settings? And yes, I forgot, I suppose I would have to swap monitor plugs to the right card every reboot... but thats not TOO bad. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55908-is-it-possible-to-select-which-pci-e-slot-to-use/#findComment-399978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 bump - can anyone else give me some tips on the best way to go about doing this both in Windows and in Mac, in regards to enabling the cards (best to do this in Bios? Windows Device Manager? NVIDIA windows control panel? What about in MAC?) and to go about setting up drivers. Also, rather than having to manually swap the monitor plug back and forth on every boot, is there a DVI y-splitter or something? Kind of like a KVM switch, but not for the keyboard & mouse (I'm already running two PCs next to eachother on a KVM switch, so rather than that, I'd like to have a video input selector box to select which output to input into my monitor, or a y-spliiter if that is handled via software?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55908-is-it-possible-to-select-which-pci-e-slot-to-use/#findComment-456735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsc106 Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 AND - I think in Windows I should be able to disable the video card I don't want to use VIA device manager... how do I disable the video card that I do not want to use under OS X and make it select to use the 7800gt? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55908-is-it-possible-to-select-which-pci-e-slot-to-use/#findComment-456871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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