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Seems as if the little boy didn't have sex for a loooong long time.
Why so offensive?

This is a forum, if you don't like users asking for help, than this is definitely the wrong place for you.
Everyone has their off days though, and Cindori does help a lot of people with graphics card information.
 
Seems as if the little boy didn't have sex for a loooong long time.
Why so offensive?

This is a forum, if you don't like users asking for help, than this is definitely the wrong place for you.
I used to answer alot more questions here.

After you answer the SAME EXACT QUESTION for the 10th time you realize that while many people may come here and search for an answer, others just come and pose a question, expecting an answer custom made just for them.

The value of a place like this is the experience of a group can be mined by others. WHich cards work and what is needed to be done to make them work is buried here in 100's of posts. But any Gurus here can't be expected to do this digging. The people in need of answers need to do this digging.

In an effort to cut down on repetitive questions, Cindori spent hours distilling information down into his "Golden Guide". To continue asking easily answered questions after such an effort is insulting to him.

Also, if you truly believe he is a "little boy" you should probably not be referencing his sex life. There are other boards to discuss such things, this isn't the place.
 
Seems as if the little boy didn't have sex for a loooong long time.
Why so offensive?

This is a forum, if you don't like users asking for help, than this is definitely the wrong place for you.

I'm offensive for pointing out the most invaluable tool, especially for GPU-models and flashing, yet you're the one throwing personal insults :rolleyes: There are 45 search results for "4870 zwfl", and I'm sure the answer for OP is in one of them.
 
I would certainly not asked, I would get a clear answer?


find your little exaggerated, but it can also understand.

I feel sometimes so, in my professional


but more about the behavior to talk about a user, to treat the problem as

I find so strange :D
 
This occurs even with the right cabling (i.e. get the mini 6 pin to standard 6 pin PCIe power cables initially created for the X1900 either from ATI or Svideo.com)?


It's technically possible to replace the existing ROM chip on the board (with the right equipment and skills), but Apple will never write the firmware in EFI64 for those systems.

what for? there is no need for that

Extracting the firmware from an '08 might work, but it's not exactly correct given the different parts used on the board (i.e. different chipset and resulting CPU microcode is a little different too, though the '08 systems can run some of the 53xx series CPU's). It would be a substantial gamble to attempt IMO.

yeah, chipset is different, even if drivers are compiled as EFI bytecode it will be difficult to combine them and new efi (or UEFI? i don`t remember from wich generation they started to use UEFI). anyway it`s simpler to use second bootloader to load 64bit kernel

In the long run, a new system is definitely needed, and not just for graphics cards. EFI32 won't support newer versions of OS X for much longer (if at all, depending on whether K64 ONLY occurs in 10.7 or 10.8).

probably that`s only highest point of iceberg, will apple continue to maintain kexts for old platforms? definitely no.
 
I would certainly not asked, I would get a clear answer?


find your little exaggerated, but it can also understand.

I feel sometimes so, in my professional


but more about the behavior to talk about a user, to treat the problem as

I find so strange :D

Did you use Google translation?

Cause i honestly can't understand a single sentence in this message.

BTW english is also not my native language.

Oh and for your graphic card update. This is exactly the reason people like Cindori are getting tired. You don't read anything. You don't understand anything your doing. You should not touch your system. Sell this card and buy a Apple one OR get your head out of your but and read read read.

EDIT: typo
 
Everyone has their off days though, and Cindori does help a lot of people with graphics card information.

I know this, and I really appreciate all his effort in answering and developing the flashing software, still no reason to get rude. I mean we're all adults, we should be able to communicate with a decent amount of respect.

I used to answer alot more questions here.

After you answer the SAME EXACT QUESTION for the 10th time you realize that while many people may come here and search for an answer, others just come and pose a question, expecting an answer custom made just for them.

Also, if you truly believe he is a "little boy" you should probably not be referencing his sex life. There are other boards to discuss such things, this isn't the place.

Understandable, but how do you separate those people from people who really searched, but didn't find the right answer?
To be honest, personally, I'd rather ask if I'm not a 100% sure about how to flash a $300 graphics card, instead of just try it and eventually destroy it.

And btw; 17 isn't that little, don't you think? It was just an expression. Should have said someone instead. :eek: No offence!
 
Thats really easy.

Write what you did find. Write what you did according to x procedure. Write what you don't understand clearly.

1- This is what i did.
2- I followed this procedure ... step1 .. bla bla bla.
3- I'm supposed to have result A but i have result B. Clearly this is wrong.

How is that hard?

Instead you have a message.

I have problem ... 4870 card ... panik (its prettier with a k).

Honestly how can someone help this guy based on that? Without going to all the steps he should have included in the first place?
 
what for? there is no need for that
It was a question, not a statement.

I was wondering what was the power cable method used?
The 6 pin PCIe power connectors do need attached to a sufficient power source, and this can vary for the different models ('06 - '08 = same vs. '09 - no Molex connector at the optical bay). But if power isn't taken from the logic board's additional graphics power connectors, you could be drawing too much current from the rail used.

As per the rest, it's still EFI 1.10 based, though modified. They haven't gone to EBC (would eliminate the EFI 32 vs. EFI64 issues) or UEFI x. Yet anyway.
 
successfully :D


i use the safe mode and flash it


:apple: XFX Radeon HD4870 ATI


my brother says: "you're not normal, if you do something with IT"

no matter :p

thx all people here
 
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