Apple Security Update 2016-001 for 10.11.6 breaks NVIDIA web drivers

[DSidious]

After installing the Security Update 2016-001 for 10.11.6 on El Capitan I had black screen on reboot until using nv_disable=1 option. I am using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti. But the problem does also effect others.

Since there at the current time there is no new NVIDIA Web Driver released I looked around and found out that an old one works for me. -> 346.03.15b01

I installed the package, rebooted and it worked again. After that the NVIDIA Driver Manager no longer finds the newest (my former installed not working one: 346.03.15f02) driver as an update option. So I'm not sure it will find the future release to fix the current issue with the old one installed. So maybe check for a future driver manually. But maybe the Driver Manager does not find the 15f02 only because it's not compatible.

Source:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/to...pdates-for-el-capitan-update-07262016/page-30

 

[zgonda]

You might say that you have read this post to have this solution : http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/s...patible-to-nvidia-driver-346-03-15f02.201022/ before you take credit.

Do you know why this webdriver version is OK ?
Because it has an "El Capitan "universal build number (15G) in its contents...

 

[hans123]

Anyway, thanks for informing us about the breakage!

 

[DSidious]

Never mind. Did not find it manually navigating through the forum hierarchy. Surely would have found it using forum search instead of google search.

 

[JimmyBear]

Thank you DSidious, you saved my tail. Using Clover Configurator 2, I first had to set the nv_disable=1 flag in the Boot Menu; then I downloaded and installed the old Nvidia driver 346.03.15b01 and rebooted; and finally, went back into Clover Configurator 2 and set nvda_drv=1 in the Boot Menu and rebooted again. All is well, thank you!