Will an iMac drive a Seiki 4K display?

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  1. mrkennethtong, Sep 19, 2013
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    mrkennethtong macrumors member

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    I too just paid for SwitchResX and still nothing. I am trying to select it from Settings>Display but nothing. Double clicking it does nothing.

    Will try a different cable...Using a Amazon one.

    As per the picture, don't know what now : (
     

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  2. mrkennethtong macrumors member

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    Omg progress

    Progress! As per picture, but the TV says invalid format!
     

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  3. mrkennethtong macrumors member

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    Got ittttttt

    Succcceeeeessssssssss.
     

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  4. omvs macrumors 6502

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    Nice! What did you have to use for the timings?

    I'd also be curious if anyone ever manages to eak out > 30Hz from their displays. I think it should be possible to get at least 35Hz out of the mac / accel adapter, but cant get my display to ever lock that fast.
     
  5. mrkennethtong macrumors member

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    Was about to watch a movie from the Laptop, noticed it was 24Hz, thought what the hell, will try it, then boom. Now the entire thing doesn't work again when I added a custom 24Hz resolution.
     
  6. omvs macrumors 6502

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    Your display probably can't handle that mode. This page describes the way to recover fairly well:

    http://www.madrau.com/support/faq/files/Ive_defined_a_new_resolution_an.html
    At the time I hadn't found this page, and did the last one (but with a different monitor hooked up), which allowed me to boot as normal.
     
  7. genebob, Oct 14, 2013
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    genebob macrumors newbie

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    Am I correct in understanding that some of you are able to get things working right out of the box using the Accell active adaptor without using the patch or SwitchResX?

    I have the 39in Seiki hooked up to a brand new MacMini using the Accell adaptor and something weird is happening. When I first boot up the mini, the TV shows that its at 3840 x 2160 and given the size of the Apple logo at start up it seems to be true. Then the whole thing blanks out for a minute and drops back down to 1080p.

    Any thoughts?

    I did previously get it work using the patch and SwitchResX on my old iMac as a second screen but it was clearly overloading the machine a bit and I couldn't get the refresh rate high enough. Just now I tried it on the MacMini with patch and SwitchResX and I get half a screen lit up with a bunch of semi-translucent horizontal lines and a compressed version of my desktop behind it.
     
  8. omvs macrumors 6502

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    I had SwitchResX installed on my mac mini (2011), but hadn't been using an override to make the 3840x2160x30Hz - that mode just appeared and worked. I *did* do a test on a coworkers rMBP who had never used SwitchResX, and in that case it also went straight to 3840x2160x30Hz on the accel adapter.

    As an experiment, I just hooked up my coworkers mac mini (2012) with the accel adapter, and his did not show the 3840x2160x30Hz mode - that behaved almost exactly as you described - inside OSX it locked at 1080p, but the bootscreen locked to UHD.

    Maybe you do need SwitchResX afterall when using the Intel-based video (my mini had ATI). It could be all you need to do is disable the HDMI 1.3a in switchresx...?

    (NOTE: Installing SwitchResX on my coworkers machine wasn't an option or I'd have tested...)
     
  9. genebob macrumors newbie

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    I just tried disabling HDMI 1.3a and all I still get is the garbled half screen. I just tried rebooting into it at UHD resolution and its still the half screen and now I can't reach the login box. So I'm off to the office to try to hook this think up to a different monitor and restore it back to a usable resolution.

    Any other thoughts or suggestions? Ironically it did get UHD when I used my 2.9GHz i7 iMac which is about 3 years old; not well, but at least it worked.
     
  10. Tom the MacUser macrumors member

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    Make sure the Underscan slider in Displays in System Preferences is set to Off.
     
  11. postalp macrumors newbie

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  12. iSayuSay macrumors 68030

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    Oh I'm sorry I didn't get the memo that ALL major studios shoot movie in 3D.

    That must be why many of 3D movies are nothing more than colorful cartoon for kids with low quality plotline.

    Most quality movies with great story and direction need not and should not be 3d.
     
  13. almgreen macrumors newbie

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    Wanted: Accell B086B-008B-2 (UltraAV Mini DisplayPort 1.1 to HDMI 1.4 Active Adapter)

    Ok if anyone of you guys have a Accell B086B-008B-2 (UltraAV Mini DisplayPort 1.1 to HDMI 1.4 Active Adapter). I will pay $100 + Shipping

    Please advise if anyone of you guys want to sell your Accell B086B-008B-2
     
  14. genen macrumors newbie

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    I have the same problem... It seems like the latest gen mini without ATI card is only able to go up to 18Hz refresh at 4k. The older minis with ATI cards are able to go to 30Hz. :-(

    18Hz is the only custom mode on switchresx that seems to work on the Mini. Anything lower causes the crazy 1/2 screen issues and anything higher comes back as 'unsupported' after a reboot.

    Interesting I also notice that right at boot the Apple logo is at 4k 30Hz for a brief moment before screen goes black.

    rMBP 15 works with 4k res right out of the box with no need for switchresx.

    I'm using the active Accell adapter like everyone else.

     
  15. Dcgod macrumors newbie

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    Late 2012 Mac Mini - Same deal

    I have the same issue with the late 2012 mini. Everything works perfect out of the box at 30hz on my late 2013 rMBP 15". The previous patch that enables over 165hz only works on <10.9 and the author hasn't figured out a way to enable this yet on 10.9+. If anyone figures it out, post it please. ;-)

    Here is how it was done on 10.8.3,4,5 from the terminal on the late 2012 mini

    sudo perl -i.bak -pe '$before = qr"\x0F\x85\xDE\x03\x00\x00"s;s/$before/\xE9\xC5\x03\x00\x00\x90/g' /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
    sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions
     
  16. Rudy69 macrumors 6502a

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  17. WooHu macrumors newbie

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    Late 2011 MacBook 17" 4K

    Has anyone been able to get 4k@30hz using the accell adapter with any 2011 macbook and a 6770m/6750m? I want to be able to use it as a second display and just want to check before I purchase the 39" seiki.

    Also has anyone tried hdpi mode?
     
  18. seltzered macrumors newbie

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    Threadbump, Curious about this same thing for the 6750m 1gb video card on the 2011 mbp 15", in theory it should work.
     
  19. <blank> macrumors newbie

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    Hi guys, I found an interesting issue on my 13" rMBP (Intel HD4000) where the EFI (boot screen) will support 4k@30Hz (with Accel Active Adapter) but once OSX boots up it's back to 1080p.

    When looking at System Info, the Displays section shows Adapter Type: DVI or HDMI. I believe this is why the Pixel Clock is limited to 165 MHz, the computer thinks you're on an HDMI connection so it artificially limits you to 165MHz. If it wasn't for this, Mavericks should probably be able to support 4k@30Hz as evidenced by the EFI supporting it briefly during boot.

    So now the question remains: how do we get the computer to detect the Accel adapter as DisplayPort instead of HDMI?
     
  20. solisami macrumors newbie

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    13" retina mbp with seiki 4k ?

    Hi, i second this question : will it works well at 3840 * 2160 with the retina 13"screen (intel 4000 hd graphics) ??
     

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