OSX freeze after installing official nVidia Fermi drivers

[shaithis]

So for the record, an MSI N460GTX Hawk flashed with a Gigabyte GTX460OC rev2 BIOS seems to solve my KP. I guess I will get back in a few days to confirm stability over a more statistically significant time period.

Have you checked the nvidia BIOS version of those 2 roms? (You can see it in nibitor or FBE) I did post a number of weeks ago in this thread saying there had been a firmware update to fix PM issues, the fix may be related to a specific nvidia release version.

 

[dmemoryleak]

I use MacPro3,1 otherwise my Cinebench OpenGL tests are dismal. I also tried adding my card id in AppleGraphicsManagement.kext but in the end MacPro3,1 worked better for me. That did not solve the freeze problem though!

 

[dmemoryleak]

Have you checked the nvidia BIOS version of those 2 roms? (You can see it in nibitor or FBE) I did post a number of weeks ago in this thread saying there had been a firmware update to fix PM issues, the fix may be related to a specific nvidia release version.

My original BIOS version was:
Version: 70.04.1B.00.02
Vendor: MSI
Date: 09/07/10
GF104 Board - 10410001

I replaced it with :
Version: 70.04.13.00.01
Vendor: Gigabyte
Date: 07/14/10
GF104 Board - 10410001

So both ROM are a few months old. The gigabyte one is even older apparently. I am now trying a more recent MSI BIOS file from december.

 

[thejoebot23]

How come you don't just have chameleon load your testing roms? Wondering because I am going to start testing roms soon. I don't have an extra HD to try windows on so I am going to find roms and have chameleon load them, no need for window OR risk flashing mistakes.

 

[thejoebot23]

http://www.insanelymac.com/10-6-7-being-seeded/

"The seventh chapter in Apple’s Snow Leopard has been seeding to devs with the main focus being on Airport, Bonjor, SMB, and Graphics drivers"

uh oh!

 

[chancekang]

Have you checked the nvidia BIOS version of those 2 roms? (You can see it in nibitor or FBE) I did post a number of weeks ago in this thread saying there had been a firmware update to fix PM issues, the fix may be related to a specific nvidia release version.

My original BIOS version was:
Version: 70.04.1B.00.02
Vendor: MSI
Date: 09/07/10
GF104 Board - 10410001

I replaced it with :
Version: 70.04.13.00.01
Vendor: Gigabyte
Date: 07/14/10
GF104 Board - 10410001

So both ROM are a few months old. The gigabyte one is even older apparently. I am now trying a more recent MSI BIOS file from december.

I am not an expert but I don't think flashing a different vendor's bios is a very good idea, unless you are 100% sure that they share the exact same specs and settings. It's not irreversible, but definitely sounds a bit too risky to me.

 

[chancekang]

For those who stick with wallsaver, do you guys have to restart the app every once a while? It randomly stop working every hour or two on my system. I have to manually re-activate it from time to time, very annoying.

 

[frnic]

Chancekang, no, it runs for weeks here, no problems.

 

[boardmember]

chancekang, do you by chance have Little Snitch installed? If so, every time the LS window pops up to ask you to approve a connection, it will stop the Wallsaver. I could find no workaround.

 

[chancekang]

chancekang, do you by chance have Little Snitch installed? If so, every time the LS window pops up to ask you to approve a connection, it will stop the Wallsaver. I could find no workaround.

Yes, you are right! But I think it quits more often than that. Sometimes it stops running even if there are no events from LS.

Anyhow, I tried Mach Desktop instead. So far so good. It's 4.99 in the Mac App Store. But I found a trial version here: http://goo.gl/aud3b, so you can try it before purchase. This one works fine with LS and some of its themes consumes less cpu resources than wallsaver. The one I go with is "Dwarf", it uses less than 4% of cpu versus 7~8% in wallsaver(flurry).