Leopard dies after graphics change
My Kalyway Hackintosh worked just fine with my old 7600GT, but my 7600GT died because of... playing fallout 3. Anyway: I had to buy a new graphics card, and it's a GeForce 9800GTX+. But... Guess what. Leopard refuses to boot. It stays in…
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- @Skydog Published 2009-03-19
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- Leopard 10.5
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- 2,314 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2009-03-19 – 2009-03-20
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My Kalyway Hackintosh worked just fine with my old 7600GT, but my 7600GT died because of... playing fallout 3.
Anyway: I had to buy a new graphics card, and it's a GeForce 9800GTX+.
But... Guess what. Leopard refuses to boot. It stays in the apple boot screen forever.
When in text-boot mode, it stops somewhere around the NVinject part.
I have Read/Write access to my Mac partition on my Vista, so if any of ya got any tricks up their sleeves to revive a Leopard after a graphics card exchange, then I'm ready to try it all.
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1 technical responses curated from 2 original dispatches
Remove your old graphics kexts. Find out what you need and then install it
Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #2399)
| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @Skydog | Primary Author | 1 | 2009-03-19 |
| @erick2red | Contributor | 1 | 2009-03-20 |