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Quartz Extreme Radeon HD 3850

Everything is working perfect except my video card is showing up under system preferences as a Radeon HD 3800 instead of 3850 and Quartz extreme is not enabled. I need this enabled to properly install LOGIC. I have tried a few different…

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@cysftbf Published 2009-08-04
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Everything is working perfect except my video card is showing up under system preferences as a Radeon HD 3800 instead of 3850 and Quartz extreme is not enabled. I need this enabled to properly install LOGIC. I have tried a few different natit and many other kexts. Does anyone else have experience getting this card working?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3.1GHz - Processor
M3A78-EM - Motherboard
AMD 780G/SB700 - Chipset
Integrated ATI Radeon™ HD 3850
Gigabit LAN - LAN
Realtek® ALC1200 8 -Channel High Definition Audio CODEC - Audio
Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
I have 2 other RAM chips that I forget the company but I can get that if needed. It seems to recognize the ram fine though.
LG Black 22X

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