Asus en210 Silent experience

[lordanubis]

Hello,

Has someone an Asus en210 Silent working?

With QE/CI etc with what ports and connectors?

I guess this one is interesting for many of us.

Thank you very much.

 

[MacMan]

Hello,

Has someone an Asus en210 Silent working?

With QE/CI etc with what ports and connectors?

I guess this one is interesting for many of us.

Thank you very much.

NVIDIA 210 cards are difficult to get working. The only way I know of is by using EFIstrings.

 

[RAMChYLD]

Hi,

I too have an Asus EN210 Silent and the card is detected as unknown, but QE/CI appears to work with it with GraphicsEnabler=y. I was initially able to get it working by manually installing Chameleon RC5 Pre12, but then after downgrading because I somehow lost sound and believed that it was caused by the upgrade, then reupgrading after reinstalling MultiBeast, I'm not able to get it detected again.

I've tried the EFI string method but it doesn't appear to work.

I've tried patching info.plist in the NVDAHal50 and NVDAResman kexts but it only resulted in kernel panics.

I've tried NVInjector and various other enablers and they didn't work since.

The card IDs itself as 0x0a2310de instead of 0x0a6510de. Hardware wise my card is the 1GB GDDR2 model.

 

[RAMChYLD]

Bump!

Finally got the card working. Turns out that I was on the right track with the EFI String, and NVInjector was interfering with things. Throwing out the NVInjector kext and setting GraphicsEnabler to Yes got the card recognized. QE/CI is working (tested by adding a widget to the dashboard).

I followed the info on this guide: http://forum.netkas.org/index.php?topic=222.0 to get my EFI String.

After adding the keys to com.apple.boot.plist in /Extras and making sure GraphicsEnabler=Yes, remove NVEnabler and/or NVInjector kexts (or any other video injector kexts you may have installed) from /Extra/Extensions if you have them installed. Restart, and with any luck your card will be recognized. I should also mention that I ran software update prior to that and it picked up an NVidia driver update, so it is probably wise to do that first too.

I've added the info to the Wiki. I'll upload the key I generated too for the sake of those with a 1GB GF210.

Cheers!

 

[lordanubis]

Bump!

Finally got the card working.
I'll upload the key I generated too for the sake of those with a 1GB GF210.

Cheers!

Thats greater then Great.

Please let us know where you will upload your link. Thank you

One more question, what about the other connectors?
Did you connect two displays too, even for a test?

 

[RAMChYLD]

Bump!

Finally got the card working.
I'll upload the key I generated too for the sake of those with a 1GB GF210.

Cheers!

Thats greater then Great.

Please let us know where you will upload your link. Thank you

One more question, what about the other connectors?
Did you connect two displays too, even for a test?

I'll upload the key right here. So far I only tested it with one connector, but it appears to detect two connectors in System Profiler, so there's a fair chance that dual video may work.

This is the key I used. It was generated using the tutorial by a fellow named sWORDs from Netkas' forum (link).
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Key is broken into several lines for the sake of the page formatting, when keying into com.apple.boot.plist please make sure it's a single line with no breaks.

This key is for a 1GB board on PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0), which I assume is default on most setups. It is also set for DVI-I/DVI-I output, which I assume maps to the DVI-I and HDMI ports on the card. Reckon it should work with any 1GB GeForce210 cards with two DVI-I connectors.

NVEnabler.kext must be removed from /Extra/Extensions, and GraphicsEnabler must be set to yes for this to work. I didn't have NVInjector.kext installed, but if you did install it, it might also be a good idea to remove it.

I've updated the wiki as necessary.

Good luck!

 

[eguru]

@RAMChYLD,
cAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW YOU HAVE DONE THIS BY STEP BY STEP. THAT WOULD REALLY HELP A NOOBIE LIKE ME

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

 

[mmhardky]

Bump.


I have bought new hardware for a new Hackintosh and unfortunately I bought this card (Asus 210 1GB HDMI)


I know that the rest of my Core i3 hardware is perfectly compatible as it is from the tonymacx86 recommended builds. Just the graphics card is different.

After I reboot after installing multibeast, I just get a black screen. Can anyone please explain what is said in this thread in a form of a guide?


Thanks!

 

[enklined]

mmhardky, did you every get it working? According to the Wiki for the Geforce 210 (EN210 SILENT) card: "No EFI or Kext tweaking Needed, Fresh install 10.6 updated to 10.6.6 - installed multibeast 2.7 (graphics enabler = Yes) and tonymac Nvidia update, rebooted and voila all detected and working OOB"

Let me know how it works out for you - I was looking t buy the EN210 myself (low cost, and silent).

 

[e-zoli]

mmhardky, did you every get it working? According to the Wiki for the Geforce 210 (EN210 SILENT) card: "No EFI or Kext tweaking Needed, Fresh install 10.6 updated to 10.6.6 - installed multibeast 2.7 (graphics enabler = Yes) and tonymac Nvidia update, rebooted and voila all detected and working OOB"

Let me know how it works out for you - I was looking t buy the EN210 myself (low cost, and silent).

I have an Asus g210 512 silent, it's working perfectly :
I use to have problem with animation (opening closing programs) but with this settings it is like my ati 5770.

Multibeast 3.7.1
graphics - nvidia 256.20.05f01
bootloaders - Chimera v1.4.1 r877
boot options - 32-bit apple boot screen (I haven't tried 64-bit yet)

I think the other settings are depend on motherboards.