Yes, the temperature of ODD is 37/40 during normal desktop, 45/50 using youtube, 55/60 benchmark valley.. and the fan up rpm when temp is above 45. i set up.. full speed when reach 55°...but i'm downloading Catalina for full acceleration.. i think to reinstall macos Catalina.. is better for my K4100M?
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iM 4,1-14,4 2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade
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I am running Monterey with my K3100M card: very smooth, almost everything works for my use-case. I use Chrome for DRM content streaming.
I have a problem. Help me
My network card sometimes doesn't work
I mounted the K2100 and started osx
Black screen but works in wifi mode
I have a d-link DUB-e100 USB network card.
Can be used with the @The_Croupier utility
I am very discouraged
My network card sometimes doesn't work
I mounted the K2100 and started osx
Black screen but works in wifi mode
I have a d-link DUB-e100 USB network card.
Can be used with the @The_Croupier utility
I am very discouraged
Is this still needed? I got a backup GT120 for emergency reason in case my other gpu fails. I could get the vram of it to a file.
Hi! Thanks for finding this!
We would need the firmware or vBIOS only, you may leave the VRAM on the board
I guess we got the vBIOS version. Unfortunately the development stopped. While I have a lot of AMD cards to test in such a system I do now own one. Tried two times to buy an MXM C2D system, one was dead (logic board), the other one killed me nearly while making tests when touching the PSU.
Before I try this again I have to find a GPU dead system locally. And a 27 system would be better, it is by far more easy to handle when changing the GPU….
I am still looking for possibilities to come along with this lvds in my 9,1 iMac . Still waiting for my dell card , one week to go. Should be in Frankfurt airport at costums 🙄 by now….Hi! Thanks for finding this!
We would need the firmware or vBIOS only, you may leave the VRAM on the board
I guess we got the vBIOS version. Unfortunately the development stopped. While I have a lot of AMD cards to test in such a system I do now own one. Tried two times to buy an MXM C2D system, one was dead (logic board), the other one killed me nearly while making tests when touching the PSU.
Before I try this again I have to find a GPU dead system locally. And a 27 system would be better, it is by far more easy to handle when changing the GPU….
Yes the 24 inch iMacs before the 27 inch macs are a pain in the a… when it comes to maintaining.
Yes, it is!
The worst thing that can happen is a black screen after a PRAM reset which your can cure by pressing alt/option on the first boot.
You will not have brightness control unless using OpenCore or OCLP.
Which card?
The next C2D 27 is 150km away to the north and I do not want to waste four hours and another 60 Euro shopping + 30 Euro gasoline into this experiment....
I assume there must be 2012-2015 LVDS based PC laptops using AMD MXM cards so we could possibly get away with just a lot of vBIOS flashing and some minor adjustments...M4000, M6000..
I do not understand
I was unable to patch the network card problem but does it work?
Now what do I do
Which network card problem? There is no with High Sierra.
If you want to know how to update (macOS) your iMac just move back to the first page and first post of this thread and read the "update" section.
No, OCLP has all - ALL - patches included. For your iMac11,3 there is no other option - which you could have found out by reading the docs
Hi everyone,
I'm new in the forum and i'm looking for some answers.
I have installed in my iMac 27 inch 2011 with succes the NVIDIA GeForce GTX870M by nikey22 6144 MB.
The only problem I have is when I connect a second screen de iMac doesn't recognise it.
It's anything I can do to fix that?
I'm connecting the screen in one of the thunderbolt poort.
Thanks a lot!!
I'm new in the forum and i'm looking for some answers.
I have installed in my iMac 27 inch 2011 with succes the NVIDIA GeForce GTX870M by nikey22 6144 MB.
The only problem I have is when I connect a second screen de iMac doesn't recognise it.
It's anything I can do to fix that?
I'm connecting the screen in one of the thunderbolt poort.
Thanks a lot!!
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well, you can have a drive for free now😅 take this as a road trip if you have time, hope you enjoy and have a safe drive. Finding another one closer by would be a better option though😅
I have search on internet and I found OCLP means (OpenCore Legacy Patcher) well I don't have any idea what that is.
I guess we have to ask nikey22, it seems he was the patcher seeing the GPU description.
but unfortunately, I don't know this guy.
I guess we have to ask nikey22, it seems he was the patcher seeing the GPU description.
but unfortunately, I don't know this guy.
Whatever macOS version you are planning to use:
It all has been described in detail on the first post. How can you guys ignore the docs all day long?
@mmoraguescoll
Hi there, as far as I know, at least one monitor can be attached via the Thunderbolt ports on the back of the computer. In order to get both working, The Thundbolt DROM needs to be decoded and modified. This is a huge undertaking.
Let me give you an example:
imac21.5" -TDROM:
ee 80 11 22 33 44 55 01 00 ae 3e 32 ca 01 54 00 01 00 01 00 01 01 08 81 80 02 40 26 00 00 08 82 90 01 40 26 00 00 02 c3 02 c4 02 c5 08 86 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 87 80 03 88 a0 03 89 c0 03 8a 60 04 8b 50 00 04 8c 50 00 04 8d 50 00 0e 01 41 70 70 6c 65 2c 20 49 6e 63 2e 00 07 02 69 4d 61 63 00
Nick.
Hi there, as far as I know, at least one monitor can be attached via the Thunderbolt ports on the back of the computer. In order to get both working, The Thundbolt DROM needs to be decoded and modified. This is a huge undertaking.
Let me give you an example:
imac21.5" -TDROM:
ee 80 11 22 33 44 55 01 00 ae 3e 32 ca 01 54 00 01 00 01 00 01 01 08 81 80 02 40 26 00 00 08 82 90 01 40 26 00 00 02 c3 02 c4 02 c5 08 86 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 87 80 03 88 a0 03 89 c0 03 8a 60 04 8b 50 00 04 8c 50 00 04 8d 50 00 0e 01 41 70 70 6c 65 2c 20 49 6e 63 2e 00 07 02 69 4d 61 63 00
- Green = CRC-8 for the red UID
- Red = UID (first byte of UID "80" is Thunderbolt Bus ID) *obfuscated*
- Blue = CRC-32C for all the remaining bytes (yellow and black)
- Yellow = 9-byte Preamble (specific to imac 21.5")
Nick.