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Ultimate Thread: 4890 in Mac Pro
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Mackilroy
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Sorry, posted about it in one of the other 4890 threads. Flashing it and installing QE/CI was utterly painless. Everything worked without a hitch, and I'm quite enjoying being able to actually play games on my computer again. Compared to my 7300 (or even my 8800) there's simply no contest.
Drexus
macrumors regular
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 New Edition equipped with Hynix memory
Hi ALL, 😀
Here we are 😀, for thus with :
😀 Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 New Edition equipped with Hynix memory chipsets 😀
here under attached is the EFIROM 😀, (SAPPH_NE_HYNIX_EFIROMFX.rom)
could you please try flashing your NE with the EFIROM and report.
Thanks,
Peloche,
md5
de101d3ba2a99360ad549f5465c281f2
Hi ALL, 😀
Here we are 😀, for thus with :
😀 Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 New Edition equipped with Hynix memory chipsets 😀
here under attached is the EFIROM 😀, (SAPPH_NE_HYNIX_EFIROMFX.rom)
could you please try flashing your NE with the EFIROM and report.
Thanks,
Peloche,
md5
de101d3ba2a99360ad549f5465c281f2
semaca
macrumors member
I see the 'roms' evolve day after day .You people are fast!
Unfortunately , I still couldn't find a pc .I tried 3 stores in a city near me with no luck.I think I'm gonna have to build myself one. Any suggestions?🙂 I'm just kidding.
Great work Peloche.
Congrats to everyone who succeed to make the 4890 to work on a apple machine.
Semaca
Unfortunately , I still couldn't find a pc .I tried 3 stores in a city near me with no luck.I think I'm gonna have to build myself one. Any suggestions?🙂 I'm just kidding.
Great work Peloche.
Congrats to everyone who succeed to make the 4890 to work on a apple machine.
Semaca
semaca
macrumors member
Semaca,
Can't you make a bootable DOS CD or USB key and put the dos program ATIflash along with the ROM posted above (if you have Sapphire NE with Hynix).
Boot your Mac Pro into DOS, then use ATIflash to backup your original ROM, then flash with the new ROM.
I am just remembering my steps for backup up and posting the ROM for the 8800GT Mac Edition when it first came out. Perhaps the difference is that card was already EFI capable and thus it had no problems booting to a DOS environment.
Also I don't know if this will work with two ATI cards, I don't know if ATIFlash can specifiy which PCI-E port you want to flash etc. so if you have two ATI cards I guess it could be problematic.
BTW, much thanks to Peloche for posting the ROM above. I will test it out when I get home later tonight and report on my findings.
Yeap Altimeter88, for atiflash have a look to the link in my signature and look for How to flash under DOS on a PC
Good luck
semaca
macrumors member
I have this card a few weeks by now.Like everybody else I lost my manufacturer rom and I' ve flash the card with a wrong one.So it doesn't boot anymore with the card in it.Chime ,chime, chime...
I saved the original rom on a FAT partition with CPUZ and (I don't remember the reason!) I erased it ,of-course with the rom on it.
So now I'm trying to find someone with a pc who will let me flash back my card.
Semaca
Peloche,
This info was more for Semaca because he was saying he needed to find a PC.
Because I can already boot to OSX I was planning on using Cindori's ATI Flashing Tool in OSX to flash with your new Hynix ROM posted above.
Let me know if you think that's a problem.
Yeap i know that it was for semaca but as you were wondering i've answered 😀.
No you can go with Cindori's tool but as you are the first one to try if i did something wrong you'll get the same chime as semaca 😀 😀
Normally it should work better than Qimonda one, IMHO you can go ahead with Cindori's tool.
Why you have the means to try on your PC before or not ?
semaca
macrumors member
Ouf a bit far, i'm on the north of Paris, but may be somebody from the forum is closer ?
semaca
macrumors member
Not that far. A visit to Paris is always welcome . Now that you got an Apple Store ,it's even more tempting. 🙂
See you guys tomorrow evening.
It was working for one people in OS X and also in OS X for Altimeter88 but not in bootcamp.
I always said that roms were different, astro768's friend had an Hynix with the same stock rom as qimonda, i was sure it was a returned card flashed with the wrong rom.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/8810587/
But here we are i've got Hynix stock rom and is completly different that Qimonda.
I just wanted to report success using the above posted ROM for Sapphire Cards (New Edition) with Hynix memory.
Thanks a lot Peloche, everything seems to be working great!
For those interested I flashed the card with ATI Flashing Tool in OSX and tested in bootcamp and OSX and both work fine.
When booting OSX I get the chime and then the apple with NO flicker. In OSX I still get the power cable message sometimes. I am using one molex adapter routed to the CD-ROM bay and one connecter going to the mainboard.
When booting Windows everything looks and runs great.
So again thanks a lot for all the help Peloche in getting that Hynix ROM and getting it working with bootcamp!
Thanks a lot Peloche, everything seems to be working great!
For those interested I flashed the card with ATI Flashing Tool in OSX and tested in bootcamp and OSX and both work fine.
When booting OSX I get the chime and then the apple with NO flicker. In OSX I still get the power cable message sometimes. I am using one molex adapter routed to the CD-ROM bay and one connecter going to the mainboard.
When booting Windows everything looks and runs great.
So again thanks a lot for all the help Peloche in getting that Hynix ROM and getting it working with bootcamp!
Drexus
macrumors regular
OK. 1: Does this work for my card (can't remember what everyone said the version I have is)
2: Dare I try the tool again when it put me out of commission for 2 days?
Drexus,
If your card is the one you posted a few pages back, mine looks the same and has this info on the box and card:
So if that is your card you STILL need to verify what type of memory you have:
Hynix or Qimondo memory
I was able to simply shine a flashlight under the black plastic fan cover and I could clearly see that my memory chips say "Hynix" on them.
So if you have the Sapphire card with part number above WITH Hynix memory then yes, that new ROM that Peloche posted above should work.
As previously reported the Qimondo EFI ROM does work in OSX but it is NOT the correct ROM and will not work when trying to boot into bootcamp.
So everyone with a Sapphire card with part number above make sure to use the correct EFI ROM for the type of memory you have.
Congrats Altimeter88, keep the file in safe location 😉 in case it disappears from the forum.
Good luck
Hi all,
I have a HD4890 XFX XXX (flashed with the XFX ZDF7 ROM) and upgraded to 10.6.2, installed the QE_CI package that came with the latest ATi Flashing Tool and now I'm getting a flickering display (white lines) when anything 3D is displayed. I did a quick search in mroogle and can't find anyone with a similar problem so sorry if this has been mentioned before.
BTW everything was working perfectly in 10.6.1!
TIA.
I have a HD4890 XFX XXX (flashed with the XFX ZDF7 ROM) and upgraded to 10.6.2, installed the QE_CI package that came with the latest ATi Flashing Tool and now I'm getting a flickering display (white lines) when anything 3D is displayed. I did a quick search in mroogle and can't find anyone with a similar problem so sorry if this has been mentioned before.
BTW everything was working perfectly in 10.6.1!
TIA.