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update graphics card
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WOW really?
Any problems running under Lion? Is there a difference in getting the Mac version versus the PC version and then update to Mac firmware?
Thank you very much.
Yes. The Mac version is plug and play, the PC card will need tweaking/ flashing. I think all you need is 10.6.7 or higher including 10.7-10.7.2.
hang on, think you forgot to mention something about no boot screens/dvdplayer etc if you go a flashed card unless they've solved those issues now??? (
Yep....
I just bought an ATI 6870 1GB card last night to try to re-flash for my 2008 Mac Pro. So far, I'm not having a lot of luck.
Basically, out of the box (before re-flashing or modifying anything), OS X Lion 10.7.2 recognized the card and used it without any major issues. However, without reflashing it first, it lacks the "EFI" info the Mac needs to display the initial gray boot screen (including the one you get when you hold down option at boot, to select from multiple drives to boot from). Additionally, Apple's DVD Player crashes every time it's launched.
The thing is though? Beyond this part, I'm stuck. I read a lot of info about people who claimed they got DVD Player working and addressed a few other incompatibility issues with a replacement video driver and/or kext file -- but the "6870 package" I found someplace to download, unzip and run didn't fix my DVD Player crashes at all. I'm starting to think if anything, it may have just replaced my Lion 10.7.2 ATI drivers with some older version?
I'm having no luck on the card re-flashing front either. I dumped the original card's firmware using my Windows 7 "boot camp" partition to boot from and running the "GPU-Z" utility. But when I use the "Zeus" application in OS X to try to add the EFI code to the BIOS file I saved? Zeus always crashes with an AppleScript error.
I just bought an ATI 6870 1GB card last night to try to re-flash for my 2008 Mac Pro. So far, I'm not having a lot of luck.
Basically, out of the box (before re-flashing or modifying anything), OS X Lion 10.7.2 recognized the card and used it without any major issues. However, without reflashing it first, it lacks the "EFI" info the Mac needs to display the initial gray boot screen (including the one you get when you hold down option at boot, to select from multiple drives to boot from). Additionally, Apple's DVD Player crashes every time it's launched.
The thing is though? Beyond this part, I'm stuck. I read a lot of info about people who claimed they got DVD Player working and addressed a few other incompatibility issues with a replacement video driver and/or kext file -- but the "6870 package" I found someplace to download, unzip and run didn't fix my DVD Player crashes at all. I'm starting to think if anything, it may have just replaced my Lion 10.7.2 ATI drivers with some older version?
I'm having no luck on the card re-flashing front either. I dumped the original card's firmware using my Windows 7 "boot camp" partition to boot from and running the "GPU-Z" utility. But when I use the "Zeus" application in OS X to try to add the EFI code to the BIOS file I saved? Zeus always crashes with an AppleScript error.