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- Dec 26, 2011
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- Motherboard
- ASUS Prime Z270-A
- CPU
- I7-7700K
- Graphics
- R9 280X
Hi,
So my main install / system is Mountain Lion 10.8.5 on an HP z800 with Dual Xeon x5670 6-core processors @2.93GHz
48GB ECC Registered DDR3 1333 RAM installed (12 x 4GB sticks).
In an attempt to improve my system, I swapped out the old / underwhelming nVidia Quadro FX380 that I had been using for a Sapphire Dual-X R9 270x card...
Now, after a few boot issues and two audio-related kernel panics (which I'm guessing must be somehow related to the HDMI port's potential for audio output?) I now have the system booting normally again without any special boot flags or -x safe-booting required.
However, the video card (which I am given to understand is at least decently similar to cards that are natively supported by 10.8.5) is not properly detected or at least not properly functioning as what it is and I am unable to use normal resolution and I assume have zero graphics acceleration.
The card shows up in System Information as:
...
VRAM (Total): 3 MB [Definitely not correct]
Vendor: ATI (0x1002) [This part seems correct]
Device ID: 0x6810 [This appears to correctly identify the series]
Revision ID: 0x0000 [Not sure?]
Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded [I am assuming this is the primary issue?]
The Questions:
1) Okay, so is this something that requires kext editing / swapping / deleting in order to be corrected... or is this one of those instances where I will have to manually amend various files with hardware-specific information?
2) Up to this point I have been building all my systems by simply selecting EasyBeast. I have yet to ever use a custom or motherboard specific DSDT since I couldn't find any for my HP z800 motherboard and everything seemed to work fine using that method. If this does require that level of attention, I am certainly willing to learn how all of that stuff actually works as I am not shy about advanced level tweaking.. I have just yet to do it.
a) That said, are there any good/recommended tutorials on all of that so that I can learn what I'm really doing rather than simply copy/paste-ing information without any actual understanding?
b) Are there any good resources for card-specific kexts or information that might help?
3) This is somewhat unrelated, but if at any point I chose to flash my system's BIOS to the most updated version, would that break my installs or should everything remain functional (provided that any BIOS-specific settings are set back to what they are now)?
Any help / advice is always appreciated.
Thanks,
-strings
So my main install / system is Mountain Lion 10.8.5 on an HP z800 with Dual Xeon x5670 6-core processors @2.93GHz
48GB ECC Registered DDR3 1333 RAM installed (12 x 4GB sticks).
In an attempt to improve my system, I swapped out the old / underwhelming nVidia Quadro FX380 that I had been using for a Sapphire Dual-X R9 270x card...
Now, after a few boot issues and two audio-related kernel panics (which I'm guessing must be somehow related to the HDMI port's potential for audio output?) I now have the system booting normally again without any special boot flags or -x safe-booting required.
However, the video card (which I am given to understand is at least decently similar to cards that are natively supported by 10.8.5) is not properly detected or at least not properly functioning as what it is and I am unable to use normal resolution and I assume have zero graphics acceleration.
The card shows up in System Information as:
...
VRAM (Total): 3 MB [Definitely not correct]
Vendor: ATI (0x1002) [This part seems correct]
Device ID: 0x6810 [This appears to correctly identify the series]
Revision ID: 0x0000 [Not sure?]
Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded [I am assuming this is the primary issue?]
The Questions:
1) Okay, so is this something that requires kext editing / swapping / deleting in order to be corrected... or is this one of those instances where I will have to manually amend various files with hardware-specific information?
2) Up to this point I have been building all my systems by simply selecting EasyBeast. I have yet to ever use a custom or motherboard specific DSDT since I couldn't find any for my HP z800 motherboard and everything seemed to work fine using that method. If this does require that level of attention, I am certainly willing to learn how all of that stuff actually works as I am not shy about advanced level tweaking.. I have just yet to do it.
a) That said, are there any good/recommended tutorials on all of that so that I can learn what I'm really doing rather than simply copy/paste-ing information without any actual understanding?
b) Are there any good resources for card-specific kexts or information that might help?
3) This is somewhat unrelated, but if at any point I chose to flash my system's BIOS to the most updated version, would that break my installs or should everything remain functional (provided that any BIOS-specific settings are set back to what they are now)?
Any help / advice is always appreciated.
Thanks,
-strings
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