Xfx ati 4650 hd

[krillinballz]

I have been trying for about 2 years now to make my ati 4650 work and i just cant do it so im looking for help one more time this time i post my Pc specs and maybe that might help move this along better. My specs are GA-p35c-ds3r 4gig ram Q8300 quad core 2.5gig intel cpu Ati 4650 hd. I have literaly tryed every thing nothing works i get kernal panic and black screens. So any one that can help please do i want this to work. Another question Dose the 8800 gts work with mac if so i will get one off ebay.

[krillinballz]

Ok i found some random boot file on line and now every thing works On my Xfx ati 4650 hd but the qe/ci im run retail mac os x 10.6.6. Any idea's

[krillinballz]

The Boot loader i found was chamelon rc5 rev660 still the only problem i have is the qe/ci any help is much appreciated. Thanx in advance.

The Chamelon bootloader rc5 rev660 have my ati 4650 working with out any kext but as i stated only problem is the qe/ci on Mac 10.6.6 retail.

[wastez]

Hello,

To enable qe/ci i think you have to insert your vendor + device id @ iopcimatch into the atiradeonx2000.kext.

Greetz

[krillinballz]

Thank you Very much wastez i never though about that will give it a try

[krillinballz]

It did not work Seems the Bootloader in some way is acting as a driver for them and not using kext files at all i dont understand this. ????

[wastez]

Sure it uses the kexts files but not all of them. For resolution are the ATI4600controller.kext, ATIFramebuffer.kext and ATISupport.kext and for qe/ci are the ATIRadeonX2000 kexts.

How did you insert your id??? Does it look like that? 0x94981002
It should be the right id composed of device id+vendor id..... But youīve to check if itīs right because i looked for it in the Internet

Did you install the exotic graphics update? I donīt know exactly if itīs need for your card but i think so.....
For 10.6.6: http://www.kexts.com/view/804-qe-ci_radeons_patch_for_10.6.6.html (if you install it youīve to check the ATIRadeonX2000.kext again)


Greetz

[krillinballz]

I was sure it used kext's to but i removed all of them and still got full working ati card minus qe/ci. I know this might sound odd and every thing but i cant explain it other then what i have post. And yes i know how to insert the id of my video card i have been trying to do this for 2years. This boot loader is by fair the most progress i have made.

[snakeo2]

@ krillinballz

I too have been looking for a while how to make my ATI 4650 work..but no luck so far. Could you please explain how you got it to work? Are you getting more than one resolution? Thanks in advance.

[krillinballz]

Snakeo2 Honestly I used Multibest to set up every thing for auto,bootloader after i install all that stuff. I replace it with a Chamelon bootloader rc5 rev660 then restart this bootloader does teh rest pretty much

[snakeo2]

krillinballz,

Thanks.

So basically, after you installed Snow Leopard and fixed the audio, network, sleep, etc., you simply downloaded and installed it with Chameleon Bootloader rc5-rev660 and it worked? I will go ahead and give it a try. Thanks.

[krillinballz]

welcome i mean it all works but the qe/ci im still working on that

[krillinballz]

Well i found a copy of 10.6.7 delta combo update off a torrent site did a fresh install and using mulibest default boot loader i got much better outcome i think i ever thing was in order on video card but ram read 256 not 512 and ge/ci but it showed much better resluts for me not having to use the other bootloader. I moded the stock kext 4600contoller and atiradeonx2000.kext used kextutiliy to reinstall them now i get a black screen on boot any idea's.

[0xcafebabe]

I have the same card and I had the same problem starting from 10.6.0.
It turned out that the framebuffer of this card is different from what Chameleon assumes, maybe there are different version of 4650 out there. In the end, I patched AsereBLN Booter 1.1.9 (based on Chameleon RC4) and now I got the 4650 fully working including QE/CI.
The patched boot file is attached.

[krillinballz]

Why Thank you very much wish you had posted a few days earlyer lol i ordered a 8800 gts 320mb card to complete my hackintosh. But again thank you very much

[krillinballz]

Guess i might as well try this hell i tryed tryed every thing else and i love to know i can make the god forsaken video card work befor i replace it lol.