Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iM 4,1-14,4 2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade

Status
The first post of this thread is a WikiPost and can be edited by anyone with the appropiate permissions. Your edits will be public.
G

globetribe

macrumors member
Mar 7, 2021
48
23
Umarx said:
with CL I am able to boot with one of my internal HDD which has 10.11 (attached) but I can not boot with HS in ssd as the display breaks. Can I option + boot to avoid CL and see or will I loose the CL boot too that way.

Edit: I removed the CL USB and booted to a black screen. With and without option pressed.

In CL I selected Pre-Boot (HS in SSD)and it also went to black screen towards end of startup progress bar.

I plugged the USB back and booted and got CL boot screen.

Stuck in the loop....
Click to expand...
I am far from expert here but did you follow point by point what's explained in the spoiler "A Short Plan of the Complete Hardware Upgrade Process" of the first post ?.
Did you boot your computer to High Sierra using a second display plugged in the mini port and without Catalina Loader ?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Umarx
The_Croupier

The_Croupier

macrumors 6502
Oct 11, 2018
419
281
passatgt said:
As far as i know it was a company machine and it was never serviced before. It's the base model, so not a CTO. But i just googled the part number and looks like some of these imacs had an 8pin vsync cable that connects to the logic board instead of the display. Anyway, its interesting :) At least i know what this unlabelled connector does on the logic board, i always wondered about the use of that.
Click to expand...
Half your luck 👍 1 less cable to detach when upgrading your gpu 😜
 
  • Like
Reactions: BadBiscuit and Ausdauersportler
G

globetribe

macrumors member
Mar 7, 2021
48
23
passatgt said:
Anyone seen this cable before? Its from a 2011 27" iMac, 2 pipe heatsink. It connects directly into this unlabelled connector on the logic board. I've taken apart a few iMacs before, but i never seen this cable, it always coming from the display and connects to the LED backlight board.

View attachment 1748205

View attachment 1748206
Click to expand...
I had the same question when reassembling the iMAC and looked at the Apple Repair Manual.
It's the Backlight Power connector, mentioned as unused as no backlight on display.

1616592669853.png
 
Ausdauersportler

Ausdauersportler

macrumors 603
Nov 25, 2019
5,002
5,808
1DE said:
Hello there. What about installation of MXM 3B R9 M290X in iMac Late 2009 with Core i5-750? I saw nothing about vintage AMD cards on first GCN (in particular, tremont) in this thread and i want to know is it possible and what problems will i probably face. So, what do you think?
Click to expand...
Likely no DRM an no Apple TV. It is worth an experiment but I had only one shot I would go with the Polaris+ cards having full software support by Apple.
 
S

segers909

macrumors regular
Jun 7, 2009
210
47
Belgium
Ausdauersportler said:
The AGC patch is included in some Big Sur patchers... you just need to find out in which. And it is a plist patch, not a replacement with older versions.
Click to expand...
I found the original patch method here, and applied it successfully to match my specific board-id. And now displayport works! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

For people on Google: macOS Big Sur AppleGraphicsControl AGC patch black screen
 
1DE

1DE

macrumors newbie
Mar 24, 2021
13
2
Moscow
Ausdauersportler said:
Likely no DRM an no Apple TV. It is worth an experiment but I had only one shot I would go with the Polaris+ cards having full software support by Apple.
Click to expand...
Why do you think there'll be no DRM and Apple TV (TV+, I suppose?)? I thought, modern iMacs with Retina displays get most of modern features. Or it will be caused by software issues with installing not proper graphics crad? By the way, where you got your RX480 and how much did it cost? I don't mind moving to it)
 
Last edited:
A

arkade

macrumors newbie
Jan 30, 2016
21
0
OK I am a little nervous...

System 2011 iMac i5-2500 16GB RAM, newly istalled 780M with BR3 vBIOS from nicky22, High Sierra.

Seemed to work great. Ran Unigine Heaven fine, results as expected. Same with Geekbench 5 Metal.

I then tried with Valley and left it. Came back and it had restarted with a kernel panic crash report (below).

I then tried Valley again. I stepped away just for a moment and heard it shut down. There was the grey screen "your computer restarted because of a problem" error with green vertical lines! Ahhhh! Panic. Shut it down. I guess it is overheating so would benefit from copper shims...but have I already nuked the card if I got the green lines?!?

Here's the panic report:

Wed Mar 24 14:28:34 2021

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff7f8b58af1a): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00070000: CFG 0x119f10de 0x00100406 0xb0000000, BAR0 0xb0000000 0xffffff91f8ab4000 0x0e41f0a2, D0, P2/3
Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff91f67e3220 : 0xffffff8007e6ae76
0xffffff91f67e3270 : 0xffffff8007f94484
0xffffff91f67e32b0 : 0xffffff8007f86654
0xffffff91f67e3320 : 0xffffff8007e1ce60
0xffffff91f67e3340 : 0xffffff8007e6a8ec
0xffffff91f67e3470 : 0xffffff8007e6a6ac
0xffffff91f67e34d0 : 0xffffff7f8b58af1a
0xffffff91f67e3550 : 0xffffff7f8b658e19
0xffffff91f67e35b0 : 0xffffff7f8b816f5b
0xffffff91f67e3600 : 0xffffff7f8b816e40
0xffffff91f67e3640 : 0xffffff7f8b815fe8
0xffffff91f67e3780 : 0xffffff7f8b8116c8
0xffffff91f67e3800 : 0xffffff7f8b810e1a
0xffffff91f67e3870 : 0xffffff7f8b6b3117
0xffffff91f67e38f0 : 0xffffff7f8b8e1ed4
0xffffff91f67e3950 : 0xffffff7f8b8d560c
0xffffff91f67e3a40 : 0xffffff7f8b8d5b29
0xffffff91f67e3ac0 : 0xffffff7f8b6e7c2e
0xffffff91f67e3b20 : 0xffffff7f8b6e7160
0xffffff91f67e3b90 : 0xffffff7f8b6e6b4b
0xffffff91f67e3cc0 : 0xffffff7f8b6ea227
0xffffff91f67e3d10 : 0xffffff7f8b90d584
0xffffff91f67e3d70 : 0xffffff7f8b6e9e6d
0xffffff91f67e3dd0 : 0xffffff7f8b55fd30
0xffffff91f67e3e90 : 0xffffff7f8b525aaa
0xffffff91f67e3ed0 : 0xffffff8007ea4aa4
0xffffff91f67e3f40 : 0xffffff8007ea4605
0xffffff91f67e3fa0 : 0xffffff8007e1c557
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAResman(10.3.2)[6DE4BC26-EEC1-379B-AD41-532FB0A529CD]@0xffffff7f8b51e000->0xffffff7f8b7f7fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[F763C275-306F-358F-B6B0-0FD93486BD5F]@0xffffff7f88694000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(519.21)[B9EB0174-55E4-3CB1-9802-E74BB1BD5EF0]@0xffffff7f891a8000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(519.23)[81D774E8-DD11-3866-B90A-E855215EDB60]@0xffffff7f88df5000
dependency: com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl(3.20.18)[39C0D061-25CF-3D9B-815F-D99FF4E1455B]@0xffffff7f89181000
com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAGK100Hal(10.3.2)[60E264DA-1FBB-37D2-A834-8A15DBD562D3]@0xffffff7f8b7f8000->0xffffff7f8b9a5fff
dependency: com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAResman(10.3.2)[6DE4BC26-EEC1-379B-AD41-532FB0A529CD]@0xffffff7f8b51e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[F763C275-306F-358F-B6B0-0FD93486BD5F]@0xffffff7f88694000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
17G14042

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: Fri Oct 30 13:34:27 PDT 2020; root:xnu-4570.71.82.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 5E83A13A-32F5-3604-8591-50E2F2F70DC6
Kernel slide: 0x0000000007c00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8007e00000
__HIB text base: 0xffffff8007d00000
System model name: iMac12,2 (Mac-942B59F58194171B)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 5387451318352
last loaded kext at 1668063575932: com.apple.driver.AppleXsanScheme 3 (addr 0xffffff7f8ba42000, size 32768)
last unloaded kext at 1904362039221: com.apple.driver.AppleXsanScheme 3 (addr 0xffffff7f8ba42000, size 32768)
 
1DE

1DE

macrumors newbie
Mar 24, 2021
13
2
Moscow
arkade said:
OK I am a little nervous...

System 2011 iMac i5-2500 16GB RAM, newly istalled 780M with BR3 vBIOS from nicky22, High Sierra.

Seemed to work great. Ran Unigine Heaven fine, results as expected. Same with Geekbench 5 Metal.

I then tried with Valley and left it. Came back and it had restarted with a kernel panic crash report (below).

I then tried Valley again. I stepped away just for a moment and heard it shut down. There was the grey screen "your computer restarted because of a problem" error with green vertical lines! Ahhhh! Panic. Shut it down. I guess it is overheating so would benefit from copper shims...but have I already nuked the card if I got the green lines?!?

Here's the panic report:

Wed Mar 24 14:28:34 2021

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff7f8b58af1a): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00070000: CFG 0x119f10de 0x00100406 0xb0000000, BAR0 0xb0000000 0xffffff91f8ab4000 0x0e41f0a2, D0, P2/3
Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff91f67e3220 : 0xffffff8007e6ae76
0xffffff91f67e3270 : 0xffffff8007f94484
0xffffff91f67e32b0 : 0xffffff8007f86654
0xffffff91f67e3320 : 0xffffff8007e1ce60
0xffffff91f67e3340 : 0xffffff8007e6a8ec
0xffffff91f67e3470 : 0xffffff8007e6a6ac
0xffffff91f67e34d0 : 0xffffff7f8b58af1a
0xffffff91f67e3550 : 0xffffff7f8b658e19
0xffffff91f67e35b0 : 0xffffff7f8b816f5b
0xffffff91f67e3600 : 0xffffff7f8b816e40
0xffffff91f67e3640 : 0xffffff7f8b815fe8
0xffffff91f67e3780 : 0xffffff7f8b8116c8
0xffffff91f67e3800 : 0xffffff7f8b810e1a
0xffffff91f67e3870 : 0xffffff7f8b6b3117
0xffffff91f67e38f0 : 0xffffff7f8b8e1ed4
0xffffff91f67e3950 : 0xffffff7f8b8d560c
0xffffff91f67e3a40 : 0xffffff7f8b8d5b29
0xffffff91f67e3ac0 : 0xffffff7f8b6e7c2e
0xffffff91f67e3b20 : 0xffffff7f8b6e7160
0xffffff91f67e3b90 : 0xffffff7f8b6e6b4b
0xffffff91f67e3cc0 : 0xffffff7f8b6ea227
0xffffff91f67e3d10 : 0xffffff7f8b90d584
0xffffff91f67e3d70 : 0xffffff7f8b6e9e6d
0xffffff91f67e3dd0 : 0xffffff7f8b55fd30
0xffffff91f67e3e90 : 0xffffff7f8b525aaa
0xffffff91f67e3ed0 : 0xffffff8007ea4aa4
0xffffff91f67e3f40 : 0xffffff8007ea4605
0xffffff91f67e3fa0 : 0xffffff8007e1c557
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAResman(10.3.2)[6DE4BC26-EEC1-379B-AD41-532FB0A529CD]@0xffffff7f8b51e000->0xffffff7f8b7f7fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[F763C275-306F-358F-B6B0-0FD93486BD5F]@0xffffff7f88694000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(519.21)[B9EB0174-55E4-3CB1-9802-E74BB1BD5EF0]@0xffffff7f891a8000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(519.23)[81D774E8-DD11-3866-B90A-E855215EDB60]@0xffffff7f88df5000
dependency: com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl(3.20.18)[39C0D061-25CF-3D9B-815F-D99FF4E1455B]@0xffffff7f89181000
com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAGK100Hal(10.3.2)[60E264DA-1FBB-37D2-A834-8A15DBD562D3]@0xffffff7f8b7f8000->0xffffff7f8b9a5fff
dependency: com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAResman(10.3.2)[6DE4BC26-EEC1-379B-AD41-532FB0A529CD]@0xffffff7f8b51e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[F763C275-306F-358F-B6B0-0FD93486BD5F]@0xffffff7f88694000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
17G14042

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: Fri Oct 30 13:34:27 PDT 2020; root:xnu-4570.71.82.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 5E83A13A-32F5-3604-8591-50E2F2F70DC6
Kernel slide: 0x0000000007c00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8007e00000
__HIB text base: 0xffffff8007d00000
System model name: iMac12,2 (Mac-942B59F58194171B)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 5387451318352
last loaded kext at 1668063575932: com.apple.driver.AppleXsanScheme 3 (addr 0xffffff7f8ba42000, size 32768)
last unloaded kext at 1904362039221: com.apple.driver.AppleXsanScheme 3 (addr 0xffffff7f8ba42000, size 32768)
Click to expand...
May be. Have you installed additional radiators on VRAM chips?
 
1DE

1DE

macrumors newbie
Mar 24, 2021
13
2
Moscow
arkade said:
NO I haven't just modded the 3pipe heatsink i bought and used thermal paste...
Click to expand...
Sorry, false alarm. It's not needed in case you use big heatsink. But overheat is quite possible caused отвал (i don't know how is it in English. Your chip or VRAM spaired from board). Where you bought that card?
 
A

arkade

macrumors newbie
Jan 30, 2016
21
0
1DE said:
Sorry, false alarm. It's not needed in case you use big heatsink. But overheat is quite possible. Where you bought that card?
Click to expand...
ebay from an alienware computer apparently. Ran Heaven fine so presumably not a duff card. I could see tiny gap betweem chip and coper plate on heatsink but i thought the die was touching anway but maybe not...
 
1DE

1DE

macrumors newbie
Mar 24, 2021
13
2
Moscow
arkade said:
ebay from an alienware computer apparently. Ran Heaven fine so presumably not a duff card. I could see tiny gap betweem chip and coper plate on heatsink but i thought the die was touching anway but maybe not...
Click to expand...
Ok, looks fine. duff = your chip or VRAM spaired from board? I'm not quite good in English specific PC terms)
 
dksp

dksp

macrumors member
Sep 28, 2004
55
18
This leeds me to a question.

I have installed a K2100M last week-end. I used MX-2 (already had it) for the GPU and K5-Pro for the VRAM chips that touch the heatsink. But this card has VRAM chips on both sides of the board. It passed several benchmark tests, some games without any problems. Should I bother installing some additional cooling for those chips (not a lot of space). Or just leave it like that?
 
1DE

1DE

macrumors newbie
Mar 24, 2021
13
2
Moscow
dksp said:
This leeds me to a question.

I have installed a K2100M last week-end. I used MX-2 (already had it) for the GPU and K5-Pro for the VRAM chips that touch the heatsink. But this card has VRAM chips on both sides of the board. It passed several benchmark tests, some games without any problems. Should I bother installing some additional cooling for those chips (not a lot of space). Or just leave it like that?
Click to expand...
I suppose, you should. Anyway, it will increase lifetime of VRAM and card at all.
 
  • Like
Reactions: dksp
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom