Dual PCIE Video cards 8800 GT 512Mb 8600GT 256Mb
Can someone point me to a good tutorial on how to get PCIE cards to work at the same time I have searched around found a couple of tutorials Involving EFI Strings but it always ends with a kernel panic. 2.40 GHz Intel Quad Core Asus…
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Can someone point me to a good tutorial on how to get PCIE cards to work at the same time I have searched around found a couple of tutorials Involving EFI Strings but it always ends with a kernel panic.
2.40 GHz Intel Quad Core
Asus P5K-Deluxe
8Gb PC2-6400 RAM
PNY NVidia 8800 GT 512Mb With CI/QE
PNY NVidia 8600 GT 256Mb
I have also tried this with a NVidia 7900GS 256Mb and a NVidia 8500 GT 256Mb in place of the 8600 GT all work happily together on windows.:-/
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Here is my plist generated by EFI Studio:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
<dict>
<key>@0,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@0,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@0,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-A</string>
<key>@1,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@1,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@1,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-B</string>
<key>NVCAP</key>
<data>
BAAAAAAAAwAMAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=
</data>
<key>NVPM</key>
<data>
AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
</data>
<key>VRAM,totalsize</key>
<string>0x20000000</string>
<key>device_type</key>
<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
<key>model</key>
<string>nVidia GeForce 8800 GT</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>rom-revision</key>
<string>nVidia GeForce 8800 GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string>
</dict>
<key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
<dict>
<key>@0,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@0,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@0,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-A</string>
<key>@1,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@1,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@1,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-B</string>
<key>NVCAP</key>
<data>
BAAAAAAAAwAMAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=
</data>
<key>NVPM</key>
<data>
AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
</data>
<key>VRAM,totalsize</key>
<string>0x10000000</string>
<key>device_type</key>
<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
<key>model</key>
<string>nVidia GeForce 8600 GT</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>rom-revision</key>
<string>nVidia GeForce 8600 GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>Here is the Kernel Panic Sorry Taken With a camera phone) Any help would be apeciated
Never mind I figured out a different solution I made a custom dsdt file that made it possible without EFI strings.
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@goleskNever mind I figured out a different solution I made a custom dsdt file that made it possible without EFI strings.
Hi .. Please dou you mind to post your DSDT file so I can take it for reference?
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