Solving NVIDIA Driver Install & Loading Problems

[JasperCop]

Is there any place or way to get help. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

 

[P1LGRIM]

Is there any place or way to get help. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

Search for "still waiting for root device"

 

[JasperCop]

Thanks for the help P1lgrim, I was hoping to talk to you at some point. I tried the USB swapping but that didn't seem to work. I did notice that Clover is not recognizing my SSD that has High Sierra on it. I used MultiBeast to create the UEFI with Emulated NVRAM but I feel like that's the problem because when I do that I don't see it in the clover boot mode. Can I use MultiBeast again to fix this and just do a normal UEFI Boot Mode?

 

[wildsync]

I'm trying upgrade a Macpro5_1 (2010) to 10.13.6 (17G7024) and get it working with my Titan-X Maxwell so I can use it as a clone for updating other machines, but I've been experiencing a problem that as me stumped:

The boot SSD is HFS+. To create it, I first took an interim Sierra SSD and upgraded to 10.13 using the App Store installer (knowing that it was going to become an APFS formatted drive). I then created the HFS+ target with Disk Utility, and with carbon copy cloner I cloned the APFS to make a bootable HFS+ drive. Lastly, I've installed the "387.10.10.10.40.128" Nvidia driver to this HFS+ target.

The problem I'm having is that, when "Nvidia web driver" is activate, the Titan-X starts working (ie: screen is not black), but it is VERY VERY slow to respond to keystrokes, and the screen will start tearing apart when I move windows around. This was the same symptom I used to get when I was on 10.10.5 (with this same Titan-X board) and the driver was set to "Default macOS Graphic Driver".

If I switch it back to "Default macOS Graphic Driver" the Titan-X is no longer works (ie: screen goes black) but the computer works like normal (through remote login).

As a test I've tired substituting the Titan-X for a ATI Radeon (5700?) card and with the "Nvidia web driver" selected everything works as expected.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Rick

 

[Adrian B]

@wildsync ,

Is this a real Apple Mac Pro 5,1 machine or a Hackintosh/CustoMac using the Mac Pro 5,1 designation?

 

[wildsync]

@wildsync ,

Is this a real Apple Mac Pro 5,1 machine or a Hackintosh/CustoMac using the Mac Pro 5,1 designation?

It's a real mac. I know... shoot me!

 

[Adrian B]

It's a real mac. I know... shoot me!

No one needs to shoot anyone. Suggest that the MacRumours Forum is better suited to your hardware and requirements:

FAQ - Nvidia Web Drivers

The old FAQ thread has been closed, though keeping a link here in case anyone still needs the information: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/frequently-asked-questions-about-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/ New FAQs will be added here. --- NVIDIA Web Drivers The officially...

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Mac Pro

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Good luck , I am sure that you can figure it out or get an answer fro the wider Mac community.

 

[wildsync]

No one needs to shoot anyone. Suggest that the MacRumours Forum is better suited to your hardware and requirements:

FAQ - Nvidia Web Drivers

The old FAQ thread has been closed, though keeping a link here in case anyone still needs the information: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/frequently-asked-questions-about-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/ New FAQs will be added here. --- NVIDIA Web Drivers The officially...

forums.macrumors.com

Mac Pro

Questions and answers about Apple's professional workstation

forums.macrumors.com

Good luck , I am sure that you can figure it out or get an answer fro the wider Mac community.

thanks for the kind words.. problem solved (answer: did you plug it in?? --- turn off SIP before installing the drivers... everything is working great now!).

 

[DjMikeyLikesiT]

So i just successfully installed High Sierra 10.13.6 on my Z600 using this guide: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/success-hp-z600-high-sierra-installation-guide.248026/

Everything seems to have gone great with the installation, except I am having trouble getting the Nvidia Web drivers working with my 1060. I install them fine, but when i restart the computer to enable them, it switches back to native macOS graphics drivers every time. I would think the solution would be number 6 on this post, but tried it to no avail. The z600 uses a legacy bios. I have attached my plist.config. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Edit: Please disregard i figured it out. Just needed to delete nv disable=1 and add <key>NvidiaWeb</key> <true/> to my config.plist.

 

[itayshelef]

Hi.
I installed today hackintosh 10.13.6 on Z370 HD3 with i5 8400 and GTX 1080 and everything is working except the video driver.
I installed the latest driver on my hackintosh but it refuses to work.
Can you please help me figure out what the problem is?