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OSX freeze after installing official nVidia Fermi drivers

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ello Guys
A friend of mine installed on my PC the snow leopard 10.6.6 and I have the following configuration:

Cooler Master HAF 932
Corsair 850W series gold
Motherboard GIGABYTE-X58A UD3R
Video Card NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB
06 sticks of 2GB memory 12GB 1333 Kingston Total
01HD 400GB for the system MAC
01HD 500GB partitioned Windows and Windows System Information Windows
Data 1TB MAC 01HD
Install Snow Leopard 10.6.3 updated for 10.6.6

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4, 1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 3.07 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 12 GB
Connection Speed Processor: 4.8 GT / s
Boot ROM Version: MP41.0081.B04
Version of the SMC (system): 1.39f5
Serial Number (system): 10KGZ0AKE79
UUID Hardware: 7CB55A90-51C7-AC5C-BFFB-F35E194864A7

GeForce GTX 460:

Model Group for Integrated Circuits: GeForce GTX 460
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0e22
Revision ID: 0x00A1
ROM Revision: 70.04.13.00.01
Monitors:
E2350:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32 Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
E2350:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32 Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported

Power supply: Corsair 850w Gold series

It turns out that the machine is working normally except that there are times that it freezes out of nowhere.

And sometimes when I'm copying files 50, 60 or 80GB hard drive to another and just freezes.

And just now it froze the window of print but continued working.

Someone has gone pro this problem, can you help me?
I've spent the past 24 memtest86 + with getting the computer to test 52 hours and nothing appeared wrong in the memories

Grateful
 
rodineinunes said:
ello Guys
A friend of mine installed on my PC the snow leopard 10.6.6 and I have the following configuration:

Cooler Master HAF 932
Corsair 850W series gold
Motherboard GIGABYTE-X58A UD3R
Video Card NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB
06 sticks of 2GB memory 12GB 1333 Kingston Total
01HD 400GB for the system MAC
01HD 500GB partitioned Windows and Windows System Information Windows
Data 1TB MAC 01HD
Install Snow Leopard 10.6.3 updated for 10.6.6

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4, 1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 3.07 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 12 GB
Connection Speed Processor: 4.8 GT / s
Boot ROM Version: MP41.0081.B04
Version of the SMC (system): 1.39f5
Serial Number (system): 10KGZ0AKE79
UUID Hardware: 7CB55A90-51C7-AC5C-BFFB-F35E194864A7

GeForce GTX 460:

Model Group for Integrated Circuits: GeForce GTX 460
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0e22
Revision ID: 0x00A1
ROM Revision: 70.04.13.00.01
Monitors:
E2350:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32 Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
E2350:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32 Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported

Power supply: Corsair 850w Gold series

It turns out that the machine is working normally except that there are times that it freezes out of nowhere.

And sometimes when I'm copying files 50, 60 or 80GB hard drive to another and just freezes.

And just now it froze the window of print but continued working.

Someone has gone pro this problem, can you help me?
I've spent the past 24 memtest86 + with getting the computer to test 52 hours and nothing appeared wrong in the memories

Grateful
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Welcome to the community. Read through some of the pages in this thread and you'll see all of us in here have had the freezes. The current solution is to set a video to loop with Quicktime/VLC while the computer is running, or to use Wallsaver.
 
rodineinunes said:
Thanks. Would if I put the ATI HD 5770 will solve this problem?
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Yep, ATI 5770 is fully supported with no freezes.
 
Do you have another to indicate that is compatible with the same performance of the GTX 460?
 
rodineinunes said:
Do you have another to indicate that is compatible with the same performance of the GTX 460?
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It's definitely compatible, but not the same performance. People are getting all kinds of cinebench numbers witha 460, ranging from 21fps to 35fps. It's a per case basis.
 
is there any compatible with the same performance as the gtx 460? Like the GTX 460 here where I live is much more expensive than 5770 and bought less than 30 days I thought I'd switch to another
 
rodineinunes said:
is there any compatible with the same performance as the gtx 460? Like the GTX 460 here where I live is much more expensive than 5770 and bought less than 30 days I thought I'd switch to another
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I believe the 5870 is comparable in specs, and also fully compatible in OS X
 
namote said:
---------------------Caution!!!!---------------------I'm not Enlgish guy.

I'm using palit gtx 460 1GB with custom DSDT to inject graphic card info with HDMI audio enabled.
The key part of my dsdt is following..

Device (PEGP)
{
Name (_ADR, 0x00010000)
Name (_PRW, Package (0x02)
{
0x09,
0x05
})
Device (GFX0)
{
Name (_ADR, Zero)
Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
{
Store (Package (0x1A)
{
"AAPL,slot-name",
"PCI x16",
"@0,compatible",
Buffer (0x0B)
{
"NVDA,NVMac"
},

"@0,device_type",
Buffer (0x08)
{
"display"
},

"@0,name",
Buffer (0x0F)
{
"NVDA,Display-A"
},

"@1,compatible",
Buffer (0x0B)
{
"NVDA,NVMac"
},

"@1,device_type",
Buffer (0x08)
{
"display"
},

"@1,name",
Buffer (0x0F)
{
"NVDA,Display-B"
},

"NVCAP",
Buffer (0x18)
{
/* 0000 */ 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00,
/* 0008 */ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x07,
/* 0010 */ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
},

"VRAM,totalsize",
Buffer (0x04)
{
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x40
},

"device_type",
Buffer (0x0D)
{
"NVDA,GeForce"
},

"model",
Buffer (0x17)
{
"nVidia GeForce 460 GTX"
},

"rom-revision",
Buffer (0x25)
{
"nVidia GeForce 460 GTX OpenGL Engine"
},

"hda-gfx",
Buffer (0x0A)
{
"onboard-1"
}
}, Local0)
DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
Return (Local0)
}
}

Device (HDAU)
{
Name (_ADR, One)
Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
{
Store (Package (0x02)
{
"hda-gfx",
Buffer (0x0A)
{
"onboard-1"
}
}, Local0)
DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
Return (Local0)
}
}
}


Anyway, This enable the HDMI audio without a problem. So, HDMI thing.. may not cause freezing...



I found my IOFBMemorySize (Video memory) is 134217728 which corresponds 64MB by typing "ioreg -l | grep IOFBMemorySize" in terminal.

Can anybody fix this problem?
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I must say that this fix worked flawlessly. I just didn't have the guts to turn off the wallsaver yet, as I do not believe that this will solve my freezes. Nice feature though.

Thanks

EDIT: Sorry, it didn't.

Please take a look at this post:
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/10/ ... tions.html
 
jb044 said:
Haven't got the hardware or the intention to try that one, but it could work. Don't see how you could do it without DSDT edits and graphicsenabler=no, but perhaps simply adding info for your 9600GT and deleting the 460 device is all you'll need?

You should boot OSX and Windows with the 9600 and switch to the 460 in Windows later on for your gaming.
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If I were to try this I assume I'd want and need to remove the Nvidia Update / Fermi Drivers and enable my card through DSDT editing only.. ? What's the best way to make sure I've removed the Fermi drivers completely? I'm not sure which extensions are installed.
 
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