GFX Strings - How To

[muiterz]

aquamac: do you got a string for me?

[aquamac]

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.

[muiterz]

Sept 22, 2010 1:08:25 GMT aquamac said:

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?

[aquamac]

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.

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[ilikecl]

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.

Thanks!

[muiterz]

Sept 22, 2010 12:51:51 GMT aquamac said:

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?

MY boot.plist which was working before:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>EHCIacquire</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1900x1200x32</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>yes</string>
<key>Instant Menu</key>
<string></string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v arch=i386 debug=0x144</string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>UHCIreset</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>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</string>
</dict>
</plist>

[aquamac]

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!

[muiterz]

Sept 23, 2010 13:34:22 GMT aquamac said:

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.)

[aquamac]

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.

[muiterz]

Sept 25, 2010 8:11:16 GMT aquamac said:

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 posted my boot plist file above: here again:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>EHCIacquire</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1900x1200x32</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>yes</string>
<key>Instant Menu</key>
<string></string>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>-v arch=i386 debug=0x144</string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>UHCIreset</key>
<string>No</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>fe0300000100000001000000f20300001500000002010c00d041030a010000000101060000030101060000007fff04003a00000040003 2002c0068007700730065006e0073006f0072002d0070006100720061006d0073002d00760065007200730069006f006e000000080000000000000222 000000400032002c006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000000120000004e5644412c6770752d64696f64650e0000004e005600500 04d00000020000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001e00000072006f006d002d00720065007600690073006900 6f006e000000340000004e7669646961204765466f7263652038383030204754205b4739325d204f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d10000 0004e00560043004100500000001800000004000000000003000c000000000000070000000022000000400032002c002300730069007a0065002d0063 0065006c006c0073000000080000000000000022000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b0000006469737 06c6179100000006d006f00640065006c000000200000004e7669646961204765466f7263652038383030204754205b4739325d14000000400030002c 006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4120000000400032002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c006500000 0160000004e5644412c73656e736f722d706172656e7414000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d42 12000000400032002c00720065006700000008000000000000021c0000006400650076006900630065005f0074007900700065000000100000004e564 4412c4765466f72636520000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d61632600000040 0032002c0023006100640072006500730073002d00630065006c006c007300000008000000000000010e0000006e0061006d00650000000f0000004e5 644412c506172656e7422000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c6179200000004000 30002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163220000005600520041004d002c0074006f0074006 1006c00730069007a0065000000080000000000002036000000400032002c00680077006300740072006c002d0070006100720061006d0073002d0076 0065007200730069006f006e000000080000000000000214000000400032002c006e0061006d00650000001100000073656e736f722d706172656e74< /string>
</dict>
</plist>

what about editen the dsdt file? i read somewhere that this can help?

and what is wrong about the bios? Which part causes the problem with dual videocards?

[aquamac]

muiterz,

I actually want you to upload it not copy and paste it!

[muiterz]

Sept 25, 2010 15:21:10 GMT aquamac said:

muiterz,

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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[aquamac]

Muterz,

When your system was originally working, were you using graphics enabler or strings.

[aquamac]

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.

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[muiterz]

Sept 25, 2010 20:05:58 GMT aquamac said:

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.