bioqi Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I have read many threads about users with ASRock 4CoreDual Mobos + problems for nVidia graphic cards. With thestevo patch many bugs from these Mobos are fixed (mainly due to the VIA and not Intel). However GFX are not working yet... Has anyone one of this mobos with a nVidia working 100%?? (all resolutions, QE/CI working...) If so, please share it and explain in detail how you install the graphic cards. [in my case I have a 4CoreDual-SATA2 R2 and a MSI Geforce 7300GS 256MB, PCIe 4x] Greets!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewara Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 i dont get it too. I´ve got the 4Core-Dual SATA2 R2 with Pentium D 920 and Kalyway 10.5.2 with the Stevo 4.5 patched.. I tried EFI Strings, NVinjects in different versions, Natit, NVkush, 8800 GT EFI String and so on. anyone can Help? Please? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1145279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maruchan Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 I have an ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 rev 2 and, from everything I've gathered (both from others and personal experience), you're outta luck with the PCI-Express graphics. I switched from AGP a few months ago and decided to give OSX a try, and while everything works perfect (sleep, shutdown, restart, etc) I cannot get QE/CI enabled with either a Gigabyte 8400GS or with an ASUS EN9400GT. Multiple people have confirmed these cards working and even went so far as to send me the exact Kexts they're using. I've also tried NVInject/NVKush/NVDarwin/Natit, EFI strings, multiple NVCAPs, generating my own NVCAP, etc. with no luck. So, as much as it sucks to admit, I'm guessing it's a matter of the 4x PCIe slot not playing nice with OSX86. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1146126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenta Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Yeah, I've been trying for more than a year to get this to work. No go. Then again I can't get QE and CI working even with an AGP card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1146781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iop762000 Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Hello, I have an Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 and my Asus EN8600GT it's not working in my iPC 10.5.6 but I installed an AGP card Asus 6800 and is working QE/CI with EFI string. But I still want to make my PCIe card to work. I cannot find any solution maybe it's a problem with VIA chipset Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1168864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj95 Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 i tried everything an do not work with qe/ci... don't waste your time, unless some one comes up with a patch Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1169593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kr0nic Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 After countless hours, finally got this board fully stable and working. This is the only way i got it working MB= 4coredual-sata2 rev. 2 bios= 1.9 **USED PURE IDE BOTH HD AND DVDRW** Distro: IPC 10.5.6 PPF5 Options: Kernel = 9.5.0 Voodoo Chipset = VIA (it is the universal 1 for many other chipsets) Ethernet = VIA Rhine Sound = Didn't bother with onboard sound since i used external sound. Notes: I didn't choose any video kexts because that was the option that kept giving me trouble. I have a GeFroce FX 5200 AGP 128MB and the way i got it working is by not selecting any kexts at install, and using NVKUSHcomplete package after install and it worked great! I tried to update to 10.5.7 and bricked it!! so i stayed at 10.5.6 and upgraded kernel to 9.6.0! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1288106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaFrigN Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I have read many threads about users with ASRock 4CoreDual Mobos + problems for nVidia graphic cards. With thestevo patch many bugs from these Mobos are fixed (mainly due to the VIA and not Intel). However GFX are not working yet... Has anyone one of this mobos with a nVidia working 100%?? (all resolutions, QE/CI working...) If so, please share it and explain in detail how you install the graphic cards. [in my case I have a 4CoreDual-SATA2 R2 and a MSI Geforce 7300GS 256MB, PCIe 4x] Greets!! I guess you never read the thread where I had one of those MSI Geforce 7300GS 256MB cards and could not get it to work with my ASRock 4CoreDualVSTA Mobo. Card worked fine in WindozeXP with MSI's drivers, but I tried everything out there for OSx86 (NVinject, Manually adding DeviceIDs, EFI strings, etc.) and I never did get it to work! I gave up and bought a ASUS 7300GT Silent instead and it worked instantly! Everything worked great running 10.5.6 for the past year or so until I decided to update to 10.5.8/Chameleon2RC3! Now I've lost QE/CI support! I don't understand 'cause EFI NVidia OpenGL... or NVInject 0.2.1 (tried both) show for the driver in System Profiler! It's driving me nuts all over again! I really want Chameleon/EFI booting! Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1328898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaFrigN Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 I guess you never read the thread where I had one of those MSI Geforce 7300GS 256MB cards and could not get it to work with my ASRock 4CoreDualVSTA Mobo. Card worked fine in WindozeXP with MSI's drivers, but I tried everything out there for OSx86 (NVinject, Manually adding DeviceIDs, EFI strings, etc.) and I never did get it to work! I gave up and bought a ASUS 7300GT Silent instead and it worked instantly! Everything worked great running 10.5.6 for the past year or so until I decided to update to 10.5.8/Chameleon2RC3! Now I've lost QE/CI support! I don't understand 'cause EFI NVidia OpenGL... or NVInject 0.2.1 (tried both) show for the driver in System Profiler! It's driving me nuts all over again! I really want Chameleon/EFI booting! Good luck. Got it all fixed it up now, woot! Used iDeneb.Tool.v10.5.8.mpkg and selected the NVidia strings option only. I also removed CoreVidia and NVEnabler (neither did the trick) and installed "Netkas_Enabler_for_Nvidia_and_multiple_ATI_cards.pkg". I'm not sure which did the trick but I don't really care 'casue I got QE/CI support back! Oh, and I had also lost ALC888 support (which was working 100% on 10.5.6), but I installed VoodooHDA which is a little rough still but it works. You MUST remove others HDAs (AppleHDA, ALCinject, Azalia) or you might get a KP! Also, install VoodooHDA PrefPanel and put the VoodooHDA helper cli-app in ~/Lib/Audio/ in order to retain level settings across boots. All good 100% on my 4CoreDualVSTA-SATA2 (Rev.1, but I think it's mostly the same board as Rev.2): Sleep/Restart/Shutdown works with VoodooKernel Alpha3 from June'09 (9.7 based from 10.5.7) as it wouldn't sleep with any of the 9.8 kernels available (I tried Vanilla, AnV, and Qoopz 9.8 v2). Sound works with VoodooHDA (0.2.2, will try 0.2.4 from ProjectOSX later 'cause worked slightly better on my ASRock 775i945GZ) ASUS 7300GT Silent PCIe works with iDeneb.Tool.v10.5.8.mpkg NVidia IDs & Netkas_Enabler. My path to 10.5.8 was Kalyway 10.5.2 w/TheStevo's patch, a bunch of updates to 10.5.6 (can't remember, may have been Software Update with re-patching after), and finally 10.5.8 from Software Update, then patched as above. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1329692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomatpelle Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Anyone found a fix for PCI-e x4? I have 9400GT, but i can't get it working with my AsRock 775Dual-880Pro :s Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1338578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATOMIX_Hack Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 I have an ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 rev 2 and, from everything I've gathered (both from others and personal experience), you're outta luck with the PCI-Express graphics. I switched from AGP a few months ago and decided to give OSX a try, and while everything works perfect (sleep, shutdown, restart, etc) I cannot get QE/CI enabled with either a Gigabyte 8400GS or with an ASUS EN9400GT. Multiple people have confirmed these cards working and even went so far as to send me the exact Kexts they're using. I've also tried NVInject/NVKush/NVDarwin/Natit, EFI strings, multiple NVCAPs, generating my own NVCAP, etc. with no luck. So, as much as it sucks to admit, I'm guessing it's a matter of the 4x PCIe slot not playing nice with OSX86. I have an ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 rev 2 and don't work with Asus EN9400GT 1Gb... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1348086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphiz Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I've also got an Asrock 4coredual SATA2 Rev2 and am a bit desperated about the GFX Problem (using Snow Leopard 10.6.5 - mostly vanilla). I'm Using Chameleon 2.0 RC5 with GraphicsEnabler but I'm only getting a black screen when the Desktop should appear. I think this is what the most of you experienced. As far as I can see - DaFrigN is the only one who managed to get a PCIe GFX working on this MoBo. @DaFrigN: Did you tried Snow Leopard and had any success with it? Maybe you have some further hints for getting things to work. ciao Memphiz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/149546-asrock-4coredual-nvidia/#findComment-1605634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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