PNY GTX 770 4GB Help

[richieD]

So I've recently built a Hackintosh with the following components:

Asus Sabertooth X79
LGA 2011 Core i7 4820k
32GB Gskill

I installed Mavericks 10.9.1 on it and am using a chameleon Bootloader.
Everything is currently working very well minus the GPU.
It is detected as "display 3 mb". I've attempted to install the web drivers, but that doesn't seem to help. Multibeast doesn't seem to detect it either and only gives me the option to install intel drivers.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Adrian B]

So I've recently built a Hackintosh with the following components:

Asus Sabertooth X79
LGA 2011 Core i7 4820k
32GB Gskill

I installed Mavericks 10.9.1 on it and am using a chameleon Bootloader.
Everything is currently working very well minus the GPU.
It is detected as "display 3 mb". I've attempted to install the web drivers, but that doesn't seem to help. Multibeast doesn't seem to detect it either and only gives me the option to install intel drivers.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

The GTX 770 should be detected and run directly from Mavericks. Download and run DPCIManager. Take a screen shot of the DPCIManager App (not the complete screen) and post back here using the manage attachments feature below.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/basics/105527-how-take-screenshots-os-x.html


Proper genuine Apple support of your processor is due soon as is a complete 'drivers' update from Nvidia.

Adrian B

 

[richieD]

Attached is an image from DPCIManager.

Also will these drivers just appear in an update to Mavericks?

 

[Adrian B]

Attached is an image from DPCIManager.

Also will these drivers just appear in an update to Mavericks?

I see that it is showing up as a GTX 680. Could you also select the PCI option in DPCIManager and take another image please. You will need to widen the image by hovering your mouse cursor over the bottom right corner. The icon will change. Press and hold the left mouse button and you can now change the size/shape of the app to make all the text readable.

Updated Nvidia drivers are really a little overdue - probably not helped with the holiday period. There is existing support within OS X, its just that Nvidia normally have an update filled out by now. Apple may have something further released soon although they have probably been kept busy on other projects.

Adrian B

 

[richieD]

Attached are 3 screenshots from the PCI tab.

 

[Adrian B]

I think that you should do a fresh Installation using UniBeast and MultiBeast 6.1.0. Do not install any web drivers/kexts from a third party.

Adrian B

 

[richieD]

I'd very much prefer not to have to do a clean installation, do you have any other suggestions that might help?

 

[Adrian B]

I'd very much prefer not to have to do a clean installation, do you have any other suggestions that might help?

I had wondered if it might have been a device id issue, but the GTX 770 has been around for months - its hardly a new card. Something is not correct although the card is picked up and everything looks OK on DPCIManager.

I don't know what 'drivers that you used, but I suspect that they haven't helped. Certainly a fresh vanilla installation will clean them out of thew system.
GTX 770 problems are extremely rare and mostly down to simple mistakes.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...ckintosh-not-working-since-new-gtx-770-a.html

Check your BIOS is correctly set up and the card is in the first x16 PCIE slot on the motherboard. No boot flags should be required for the GPU. What did you use for the install? -v npci=0x2000

Adrian B

 

[richieD]

I downloaded and installed these drivers from Nvidia's website:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html

The card is installed in the first PCIE slot. For the install I used -v cpus=1 npci=0x2000.
What should I be looking for in BIOS?

 

[Adrian B]

I downloaded and installed these drivers from Nvidia's website:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html

The card is installed in the first PCIE slot. For the install I used -v cpus=1 npci=0x2000.
What should I be looking for in BIOS?

Its only a CUDA update - the rule is with graphics drivers, if it aint broke, don't fix it.

The only things that I imagine you will be able to check over in your BIOS will be that the First PCIE slot is correctly allocated for PCI-E 3 speed cards. I would assume that whilst the machine is powered off you have double checked the power connections to the GPU are firmly connected. DVI-D, HDMI or DisplayPort cable is being used to connect to screen with a minimum resolution of 1920x1080.

Adrian B