New Mac Nvidia flasher....WHO KNOWS PLATYPUS?

[MacVidCards]

As Cindori says, everything you need to flash in OSX is outlined in this thread. You need to have a little comfort in terminal and be able to load the kext. But it most definitely works on any Nvidia card that already has a driver loaded. So you would need to fire it up in the 2006 , run the steps above to flash with EFI64 rom and then shut off and place card in EFI64 machine.

Or flash in any machine running DOS or capable of running DOS.

 

[i-rui]

thanks for the replies

i don't have a dos machine i can flash from, nor do i have a 2006 mac pro

My 2008 mac pro has a ati 2600 in it. If i install the 8800 in a different slot would i still be able to flash it (would the 2008 mac pro be able to recognize it if it has the efi32 rom on it?)

 

[Cindori]

nope.

but you can boot dos on your mac...

 

[i-rui]

do you think after you've finished coding this nvidia flasher it will ever be able to flash the efi32 card in my 2008 mac pro? I could probably wait a month if you think it will

or should i just concentrate on finding a solution through dos or windows? (does it have to be dos? i might be able to flash on a windows xp machine)

 

[Cindori]

i believe rommy noted that the card must be recognized and initialized for it to be flashed in osx, so a 32 efi card in 64 efi mac would be a no-go

flashing dos isnt hard.
download some bootcd package and drag some nvflash utility there, burn to cd, reboot and google up the correct commands to use

 

[Krazubu]

Come on guys this nvidia flash tool has been there for ages inside the 1st mac pro update for 7300GT in 2007
http://support.apple.com/downloads/GeForce_7300_GT_Firmware_Update

I had it somewhere in my files but I could never get anything off it. It always says "ERROR: No NVIDIA display adapters found" but I'm on hackintosh.

 

[Cindori]

That old one didn't even run on macpros.


Btw, my tool releasing in 1 week

 

[MrCheeto]

I'm needing help here getting a GeForce FX 5200 to work in my PowerMac. I don't have any other machines with an AGP slot.

Ideas?

NVFlasher returns "IOIteratorNext Returns NULL" when trying to get ROM information from the card. I'm using a PCI card as the active card to flash the AGP card.