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Re: GFX Strings - How To « Reply #556 on Sept 22, 2010, 1:08am »
Hi, I am currently away from home on business and will not return till the weekend. I will sort out a string then. The PCI addresses you gave in the last post are the correct type.
Hi, I am currently away from home on business and will not return till the weekend. I will sort out a string then. The PCI addresses you gave in the last post are the correct type.
ok, thanks a lot! can i put the string directly in the chameleon bootfile? or do i have to do more than just putting the key in the bootfile?
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Re: GFX Strings - How To « Reply #558 on Sept 22, 2010, 12:51pm »
Here is your com.apple.boot.plist worked out with device properties for your cards. If yours has other specific boot instructions (above the device properties), you may have to delete mine and add yours but make sure you do it right otherwise your machine may not boot. It goes in your chameleon Extra file. The device properties are the important bit. If you don't know what youi are doing post up your com.apple.boot.plist from your Extra file.
Re: GFX Strings - How To « Reply #559 on Sept 22, 2010, 9:42pm »
hi all,
I also have a Quadro FX 1400 that I am trying to get working from a HP XW8200.
I have tried following the guide here, but haven't been able to get the correct out.hex.
In conjunction with using EFI studio, I've been able to get the card recognized as a Quadro FX 1700, but I am not able to change resolutions, and I don't believe QE/CI are enabled.
Any help/direction to get this card working would be greatly appreciated.
Here is your com.apple.boot.plist worked out with device properties for your cards. If yours has other specific boot instructions (above the device properties), you may have to delete mine and add yours but make sure you do it right otherwise your machine may not boot. It goes in your chameleon Extra file. The device properties are the important bit. If you don't know what youi are doing post up your com.apple.boot.plist from your Extra file.
hi it won't work and i can't boot anymore, even with the old boot.plist file. very strange.
I have 3 harddisk:
- 1 SSD with snow leopard on it 10.6.3, boot in 32 mode because i can't boot 64 bit - an old harddisk with snow leopard 10.6.2 for fail safe procedure (normally not attached to the mobo) - 1 tb harddisk, 600 gb: data for snow leopard, 400 gb for windows 7/xp
i put the device string in my boot.plist (replaced it) and deleted the linke graphic enabler.
Didn't boot (looking for root device)
after that i replaced more
no boot. (looking for root device)
when i replaced the old (working) boot.plist (by the old 6.2.2 startup to get into snow leopard) it still won't boot???? this is quite weird because i didn't change anything, except for some boot parameters like -x -s -f
is it possible that the parameters did something to my install? like rebuilding the kext or something?
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Re: GFX Strings - How To « Reply #561 on Sept 23, 2010, 1:34pm »
You probably need to navigate to System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup and delete Extensions.mkext and also: System/Library/Caches/com.apple.bootstamps and delete the files within. Have you removed one of the graphics cards, is your bios set to AHCI? Do you have a mac you can boot with your HDD attached to delete the above files?
LOOK you still have Graphics Enabler in the com.apple.boot.plist you have above - you need to remove that for starters!
You probably need to navigate to System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup and delete Extensions.mkext and also: System/Library/Caches/com.apple.bootstamps and delete the files within. Have you removed one of the graphics cards, is your bios set to AHCI? Do you have a mac you can boot with your HDD attached to delete the above files?
LOOK you still have Graphics Enabler in the com.apple.boot.plist you have above - you need to remove that for starters!
i can boot my old backup hackintosh (10.6.2) @harddisk Snow leopard.
I can't boot my SSD anymore, i deleted the cache files, but still no boot.
The file above is my original boot file (with only 1 card). i removed the graphicenabler = key when trying your key.
do i have to do more than just copy past the new key you created? (like the stuff in the starting post, boot 1 videocard and so on?)
i don't have AHCI and can only boot 32 bit (some problems with my mobo, asus p5n32e-sli plus.)
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Re: GFX Strings - How To « Reply #563 on Sept 25, 2010, 8:11am »
Ah you have an Nvidia board. This is probably not going to work due to your bios. Only a few people have got NV boards going with 2 cards then mostly with 9800 GX2 cards, so not really 2 cards. Upload your original com.apple.boot.plist.
Ah you have an Nvidia board. This is probably not going to work due to your bios. Only a few people have got NV boards going with 2 cards then mostly with 9800 GX2 cards, so not really 2 cards. Upload your original com.apple.boot.plist.
I actually want you to upload it not copy and paste it!
allright, its here
it was working with this key before i change the string to your string. When i rebooted and changed the file to the original state it didn't work anymore
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Re: GFX Strings - How To « Reply #568 on Sept 25, 2010, 8:05pm »
This is a correct 2 card com.apple.boot.plist for the information supplied. Try it with 2 cards then if that does not work remove the card from the second slot and try again. The cards need to be the way round you told me. I think the reason your second co.app.boo.plt is not working is because the device properties is out of line. I can fix that but I need to know if you were working on GraphicsEnabler or strings.
This is a correct 2 card com.apple.boot.plist for the information supplied. Try it with 2 cards then if that does not work remove the card from the second slot and try again. The cards need to be the way round you told me. I think the reason your second co.app.boo.plt is not working is because the device properties is out of line. I can fix that but I need to know if you were working on GraphicsEnabler or strings.
thanks, i will try it after my system ccc restore. (made a backup from17 september).
I used graphicsenabler with the device key? no string? What do you mean exactly with strings? I don't have special nvinject or so, or kext.
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and i can't boot anymore, even with the old boot.plist file. very strange.