TL;DR, and update: Stopped booting when I selected web driver under the nVidia menu because it overwrote org.chameleon.Boot.plist. See
http://www.tonymacx86.com/yosemite-...ng-apple-logo-screen-load-bar.html#post937698
Hi All,
I just got my GTX 970 card. I'm running 10.10.1, so I had to get those drivers (and not the 10.10 drivers linked from the original post).
installed nVidia web drivers for 10.10.1, on a Gigabye GA-EX58-UD6 motherboard and added kernel argument before putting card in (people on the first page of this thread advised putting card in first then installing drivers).
Rebooted
Using nVidia menu item in top bar, swapped to nvidia web drivers (it had defaulted to default OSX drivers).
Tried a game, but top resolution choice was 1080P when before I could go high as the screen’s native resolution (1440x2550).
Made sure I was on nvidia driver then rebooted. Now the drive chooser screen in Chameleon is lower res, there’s a Tony Apple at the top, and when I select my boot drive, I get a load screen with the Tony red apple logo instead of the grey Apple logo, and the progress bar slows to a crawl. I think it still progresses, but it’s slow. I don’t know if it’s going to finish loading, but if it does, it’s on pace to finish in maybe 20 minutes. It almost appears frozen, but the bar occasionally ticks closer to the right. but it's a pixel-wide tick.
What happened that my boot loader screen would change resolution, and why is the Tony logo showing instead of the Apple logo?
EDIT:
A little more detail, I have 2 SSDs, each with Yosemite. I closed drive a ->b with carboncopycloner. Booted with drive b but I wound up having to run Multibeast on it to get a bootloader running successfully.
OK, so it was on drive b that I attempted to install the driver and add nvda_drv=1 to Kernel Flags as mentioned in the first post (but again, did this before I put the card in the system).
I tried to boot off of drive a, which did not have any changes made (no nVidia driver, no nvda_drv=1 added), and I had the same problem (OSX boot screen bar grinding to a halt).
I think I was having trouble with the CMOS not saving settings. Would be reset to IDE for SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (instead of AHCI), for instance.
I replaced the battery, but I was still getting the slow OSX progress bar load. And the BIOS occasionally still gets reset.
I put the old video card back in, booted up to drive a (non-updated), and it booted successfully again.
Question: would installing the driver before putting the card in cause these issues I'm having? even though I did load into 10.10.1 once successfully with the GTX 970 installed in the system.
Currently cloning a->b again to try that install again, but any ideas would be helpful. I'm just not sure what else it could be.
Update: I realized I used the version of Multibeast for 10.10, not the current one for 10.10.1 would that possibly help?
), just swapped out the GT 640 and installed the GTX 750, reconnected my existing monitors, and it booted up as if nothing had changed!
