HELP! XFX 8600GT 512MB (only 1 hair left on my head)

[MacNugget]

Could really use your help...I have only one strand of hair left (others I tore up in trying to get this card to work).

I have tried Zephyroth's installer, Punk's installer both times tried without touching the info.plist and also by modifying to dev id 0x040210de. No go....blank screen!!!

Should I try to change the vendor ID to something other than 10de ? (since it's XFX)
Is there a gfs_string for booting with pc EFI?

Please Help!

If you have successfully made this card work...will you please share how you did it?

[jshanh]

You said your getting a blank screen? It might be something other than the graphics card? Have you ever been able to boot into Leopard without
editing the info.plist's? If so than good, I have the same card as you and this is what I did to get full hardware support with the 8600gt.

Go through all the steps in this tutorial, Ive got the same card as you.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=53052&hl=geforce%208x00&st=1480

This is what I did, downloaded all the files it asks for, including the new NVinject 0.2.0

edited all the files it ask to edit in step three
I also edited NVDANV40hal.kext and added the device id there as well because someone told me to do so also.

after going through all the other steps in that link, editing all the files is asks to edit, including the NVDANV40hal.kext, mine works great.
I have full CI/QE support!
Unfortunatly, to get the full 512mgs of ram, it looks like we need to flash our cards which could actually fry them if something goes wrong, so Im happy with full support with only 256mgs.

Hope all goes well.

[MacNugget]

jshanh,

Thanks for your reply. I had actually tried exactly what you tried several time with no avail. Unfortunately, I finally decided to send the card back and have been using my 8300GS @ 512 MB with full QE/CE.

In fact I am wondering if I should break down and spend some money on a Q6600 processor an intel Mobo and just go Vanilla. At least then I will be able to use apple updates directly without decrypting etc.

BTW: have you tried enabling 2Dquatzextreme and disabling Compositor? This will give yo noticeable graphics performance boost - I am using it and have been very happy with the results:

In Terminal:
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sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled -boolean yes

Test by rebooting and checking System Profiler. If it does not autoload, change:
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-boolean yes

to

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-boolean true

And for BeamSync:

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sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Compositor -dict deferredUpdates 0

Good Luck!

[naquaada]

MacNugget... what's with your last hair actually?

[jshanh]

MacNugget,

Sorry to hear your cad wont work :(
and thanks for the graphics boost tips!

UPDATE:
After enabling Quartz GL (Formerly quartz 2d Extreme) I get a system crash every 2- 3 mins!
I think its off by default for a reason, after some research, i found thats its still very unstable, so
use with caution.