Can't get Mac to boot up using nVidia GTX 550ti

[stinkdog2008]

Hello,

I haven't installed a hackintosh since 10.10.3, so it's been a while.

I got the hackintosh (OS X 10.11.2) installed using Clover. (When I install on my setup, I have to unplug the cable to the graphics card and install using the onboard graphics Intel HD Graphics 4600). Was able to run multibeast. Got the network driver to run. Can't get the audio driver to run, but I made a post about that in a different thread.

I'm trying to get my graphics card to work. I have the nVidia GTX 550ti.

So far I installed the CUDA driver 7.5.21. I also installed the nVidia Web Driver 346.03.04f01. I turned off the computer, plugged my graphics card back in. Went to boot menu and selected my mackintosh. A black background with an apple logo appears with a bar. The bar goes halfway, then the screen goes black and the computer stops working.

So thats where I'm at so far. Not sure what my next step is.

 

[slim.jim]

What version of OS X are you running?

Boot with -v to see where it is stopping.

To use the Nvidia Web drivers you need to boot with nvda_drv=1.

 

[stinkdog2008]

Sorry for not putting that in the thread! I installed OS X 10.11.2

I turned the computer off, plugged in the graphics card, and got the to boot screen. Went into Clover to add a boot command. It had the nvda_drv=1 command already inputted. I added the -v and tried to take screenshots as fast as I can since the screen disappears quickly. I added them as attachments.

The second picture is the last set of text the screen shows before it goes black and is unresponsive.

 

[slim.jim]

Inject/NVidia/True

 

[stinkdog2008]

What does that mean? And what do I do?

 

[VioletDragon]

Open Clover Configurator. Mount EFI Partition. Open your Config.plist with Clover Configurator. Go to Graphics section and tick inject nvidia. Save and Reboot.

 

[stinkdog2008]

So I downloaded Clover Configurator and I mounted the EFI partition. It keeps saying can't find config.plist. Not sure what that means.

I'm sorry I'm such a noob at this. I've never used Clover before. I used Chimera only in the past, so I'm totally new to Clover.

Edit: I went into Multibeast and clicked inject Nvidia. It installed and I restarted. I put my graphics card PCI-e cable back in and tried booting, still not working.

 

[VioletDragon]

Open Clover Configurator go to Mount EFI. Click on Mount EFI Partition. If you get a box with more drives click on Check Partition and look for your Boot drive which should be the first /dev/disk0 (internal, physical look at 1: EFI EFI which for an example disk0s1 then click on Mount EFI partition for an example click on disk0s1 once you've done that click on Open Partition then go to EFI\CLOVER click on Config.plist it'll open up in Clover Configurator. Go to Graphics section and tick inject nvidia.

 

[stinkdog2008]

So I decided to redo my Unibeast flash drive. As I was going through the installation, I saw that I could inject nvidia before the installation, so I did.

Then after I did a fresh install of 10.11.2, I ran multibeast and selected my choices (selected to inject nvidia. I still can't get my audio to work though, but that is a different story).

I finished multibeast and installed the latest nvidia driver. I did NOT install the nvidia CUDA driver..

I turned the computer off, plugged the PCI-e cable back into the graphics card and put the monitors back into to graphics card output.

Turned the computer on, did not use any boot loaders, and it works and the computer recognizes the graphics card!

I don't know which step that I did different made this work, wether it was redoing the unibeast drive or not installing the CUDA or what, but I'm glad it's working.. for now!

Thank you guys for your help.

 

[slim.jim]

Glad you got it working. CUDA is completely optional and it isn't what OS X uses to render the desktop so that shouldn't have been the cause. Not injecting Nvidia was likely the issue.