Lenovo W530 sierra 10.12.4 issues (HD4000)

[my03]

Hi Forum (and Rehabman),

So i've sold of my ancient machines (Lenovo T61 and X61) and have gotten a W530 (using HD4000 gpu + nvidia K1000m). While i understand that the Nvidia discrete gpu is off limits for osx, i have had some successes (and issues) with the HD4000 igpu.

I'm currently running Sierra 10.12.2 on the W530 (no major issues at all). I had to specify GraphicsEnabler=No at installation time and later on (while installing Clover) using ig-platform-id=x01660003 for having the installation recognising the 1.5gb of VRAM of the IGPU (im having the FHD display: 1920x1080). No worries.

But when trying to upgrade Sierra from 12.2 to 12.4, i can't get it to boot to OSX in any way. Its getting stuck in some ACPI error and is getting stuck at this stage. Is anyone here running a W530 on 10.12.4 and would care to tell how you managed to run the update via the app-store?

 

[RehabMan]

Hi Forum (and Rehabman),

So i've sold of my ancient machines (Lenovo T61 and X61) and have gotten a W530 (using HD4000 gpu + nvidia K1000m). While i understand that the Nvidia discrete gpu is off limits for osx, i have had some successes (and issues) with the HD4000 igpu.

I'm currently running Sierra 10.12.2 on the W530 (no major issues at all). I had to specify GraphicsEnabler=No at installation time and later on (while installing Clover) using ig-platform-id=x01660003 for having the installation recognising the 1.5gb of VRAM of the IGPU (im having the FHD display: 1920x1080). No worries.

But when trying to upgrade Sierra from 12.2 to 12.4, i can't get it to boot to OSX in any way. Its getting stuck in some ACPI error and is getting stuck at this stage. Is anyone here running a W530 on 10.12.4 and would care to tell how you managed to run the update via the app-store?

Read FAQ, "Problem Reporting"
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/faq-read-first-laptop-frequent-questions.164990/

 

[my03]

I ended up with downloading 12.4 (full) and re-created the unibeast stick using that (using the latest available unibeast) and could reinstall everything nicely (including HD4000 working with ig-platform-id 0x01660004 (giving me 1.5gb vram), but despite installing the ps2voodoo package for keyboard/mouse, i couldn't get those to work (tried several times, cleaing up between each try). So after making a new installation once more using this same stick and adding the ps2voodoo pack, it worked once again. A little bit odd, but since it works now...

A more generic question. I know it has been asked in the past, but perhaps things have changed in recent times:

Is there a way to get (only) the nvidia quadro gpu working in osx? I don't mean anything Optimus, but the pure, discrete Nvidia gpu? I can disable any os-awareness of optimus as well as tell the machine to use discrete/nvidia exclusively (i.e no igpu involved). When i try to run it like this, i never reach the desktop (tried with nvidia-web-drivers + inject nvidia/without inject nvidia, without nvidia-web-drivers + same option as above). Are there any ig-platform settings for nvidia?

I did try to use gpu-z to exctract my nvidia rom, but it came up with some error when i did that (thinking that i could utilize the video rom-file in clover somehow).

 

[Feartech]

I ended up with downloading 12.4 (full) and re-created the unibeast stick using that (using the latest available unibeast) and could reinstall everything nicely (including HD4000 working with ig-platform-id 0x01660004 (giving me 1.5gb vram), but despite installing the ps2voodoo package for keyboard/mouse, i couldn't get those to work (tried several times, cleaing up between each try). So after making a new installation once more using this same stick and adding the ps2voodoo pack, it worked once again. A little bit odd, but since it works now...

A more generic question. I know it has been asked in the past, but perhaps things have changed in recent times:

Is there a way to get (only) the nvidia quadro gpu working in osx? I don't mean anything Optimus, but the pure, discrete Nvidia gpu? I can disable any os-awareness of optimus as well as tell the machine to use discrete/nvidia exclusively (i.e no igpu involved). When i try to run it like this, i never reach the desktop (tried with nvidia-web-drivers + inject nvidia/without inject nvidia, without nvidia-web-drivers + same option as above). Are there any ig-platform settings for nvidia?

I did try to use gpu-z to exctract my nvidia rom, but it came up with some error when i did that (thinking that i could utilize the video rom-file in clover somehow).

if your graphics is optimus, then no, only your intel will work

if you have no intel graphics but only Nvidia, then yes

 

[my03]

Got it. Thanks feartech. I'll abandon that thought then