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Help needed -- Yosemite + Nvidia Quadro 5000m

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Help needed -- Yosemite + Nvidia Quadro 5000m -- Solved

I have a Dell M6500 Laptop with 16 GB of ram. I had it set up with triple boot ( Well still do ) Set up with Windows 10, LXLE Linux and Yosemite all of which worked perfectly.
Recently the Quadro FX 3800m which it had when I bought it, went bad. I replaced the card with a Quadro 5000m 2 GB card......which let me squeeze another 2-4 years out of this machine........ except, while it was simply a matter of upgrading graphics drivers with Windows & Linux I expected Yosemite to be more difficult. In this regard I certainly haven't been disappointed.
While I'd like to achieve Nvidia Web driver/Native support ........at this point I'd be happy just get it accelerated at all.
I tried sideloading the Wb drivers via Paragon after discovering the built in apple nvidia drivers were causing a blackscreen during the boot process....... but those don't seem to work......at this point ...... I'm a bit lost.......
 
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I did get proper screen resolution by adding my EDID in clover configurator .......... but still no joy insofar as acceleration goes......
 
well I added the card info 0x06da10DE to the Nvidia box in clover config.....but it still black screens unless I add the nv_disable=1 argument.
I searched the internet quite a bit with this and am beginning to fear, especially based on the response here, that this is an insoluble issue.
 
Well I solved it and I thought I'd explain how here in case anyone else runs into the same issue (Unlikely considering how few of these 5000m cards were ever sold .... but just in case).
I managed a proper install of the Nvidia Web Drivers, which didn't initially help.
I then generated and EFI string for the video card using OSX86 Tools and pasted that into the proper place within clover configurator, along with checking the little box to inject the EFI string.
Finally I added the nvda_drv=1 argument to my config.plist.
I'm pasting the EFI string below in case anyone else ever needs it :)

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