Excuse me, where did I go wrong?I flashed the BIOS you provided. I took a closer look. The PCB board is a bit different. Mine is 109-C42241-00. Under the MAC OS 10.13 system, the display memory capacity is abnormal. , Hope to get help, thank you very much!
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iM 4,1-14,4 2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade
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could you provide more context / all the steps you performed ?
Also please add a signature.
Tks
Ok.... well thanks a lot for everything, I thing I can live very well with what I have, but I wil for sure keep aan eye in here for possible new updates for my card just in case something else can be fix it for the future. Like the HDMI connection support, and maybe other things I did not get realize....but like i said, for the moment I'm quite happy.
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Hi all! I installed Catalina(dosdude1 patch) on an iMac(late 2009) with a Quadro K610m. Flashed with the K610M_EG2.rom .. i get image, log in and get to desktop. The issue i'm having is that it looks like there's some issue with the driver.. whenever i move any window, it doesn't refresh/render whats inside.
I can't find something regarding this issue on guides/videos that i've seen.
(It worked fine on High Sierra.)
Thank You in advance.
I can't find something regarding this issue on guides/videos that i've seen.
(It worked fine on High Sierra.)
Thank You in advance.
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Checked performance for my K3100M card with Unigine Valley and it's only 2/3 of the expected score, more like a K3000M than K3100M ??? Also checked the preloaded vBIOS size, which is 216KB, not 262KB as published in the 1st post. Just wonder if there is a way to read this preloaded vBIOS content attached below, claiming to be @nikey22 's K3100M ROM?
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Thank you very much for your answers Tiger A.Hi mate,
I am not an expert here but feel may be able to answer your questions
Yes, the RAM chips need to be cooled. But they don't generate a lot of heat. 1mm gap is by design. The original one also has this gap. You can either use the thermal pads or paste. The RAM on the other side are air-cooled. It's all by design, so all are cool.
Yes, you can trust the GPU heatsink temperature reading. You should also attach the ODD temp sensor on to the GPU heatsink to provide extra protection (the MFC only works after login).
It could be caused by the old OSX. Not sure what to recommend.
I'd presume it would allow you to go back to the original released version of 10.6.6, but not tested.
May I ask: what would be the reason for going back? I'd thought most people want to go forward by installing metal GPU cards for Big Sur / Monterey, like in my case.
Have a good evening / night.
One reason I have to be able to run the original old operating system is to be able to continue to use software that still do the job I need them to do and otherwise would cost lots of $$$ to get new versions as the older ones would not run with the new OSs. It is great to have the flexibility to run the newest, the oldest, and everything in between.
Cheers.
iMac 12,2 / A1312 / EMC2419 / 27" / i5 2400 3.1GHz (for now i7 2600 3.4 GHz in plan) / 32GB RAM / 1TB HDD / 1TB SSD (coming soon) / NVIDIA GTX880M 8GB vRAM/
Oof. I just tried the GPU upgrade on a mid 2011 iMac12,1 and failed.
Went with the AMD M5100 (Green). Everything went smoothly and I was careful reassembling. (I'm in IT, and do electronics on the side so it was all pretty simple)
Plugged everything back in.. powered on. Fans spun up to 100% and I instantly smelled that I let the smoke out of something. Tore things back down.. the top of the PSU seems to be where the odor is coming from. No odor from around GPU or logic board.
I'm pretty bummed, everything was going so well :-(
Waiting for the caps on the PSU to discharge, then i'll start checking things out with a multi-meter. Everything seemed to be well seated and I really didn't "force" anything.
Went with the AMD M5100 (Green). Everything went smoothly and I was careful reassembling. (I'm in IT, and do electronics on the side so it was all pretty simple)
Plugged everything back in.. powered on. Fans spun up to 100% and I instantly smelled that I let the smoke out of something. Tore things back down.. the top of the PSU seems to be where the odor is coming from. No odor from around GPU or logic board.
I'm pretty bummed, everything was going so well :-(
Waiting for the caps on the PSU to discharge, then i'll start checking things out with a multi-meter. Everything seemed to be well seated and I really didn't "force" anything.
Very sorry for your encounter and also very concerned because I've ordered a red M5100.
It's a real predicament because you don't really know what exactly caused the PSU to get fried and fixing/replacing the PSU may not solve the issue and most likely will repeat the same disaster......😓
Disable post-install patches, reboot from the usb patcher after installing to apply patches selecting all but "legacy video support"
This has been answered multiple times. The vBIOS provided here have the same size as the BIOS chip, this way you can use flashrom and a clip to upload it. Basically these are padded with zeros at the end. nvflash on the other side gets the non zero bytes from the chip.
The best OpenGL results you get running the last fully OpenGL based macOS version - which is High Sierre. All my cards show 10-20% less OpenGL Valley performance on Monterey (if not worse).
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A broken PSU will not be caused by the GPU replacement, more likely it had a problem before. Had a failing PSU once (always starting up with a cracking noise, it was one of the big caps dying).
After playing around with all these GCN cards I assume you only see an SMBUS collisions after putting the new AMD card in causing the fans going wild. This happened with WX4150 cards in the same model, too.
Additionally the GCN cards will not allow sleep/wake in iMac12,2 and I assume the same will happen with the iMac12,1.
The PSU should not been affected, can only assume this happens coincidentally.
BTW: Fan stay at 100% if you forget to reconnect all sensors to the logic board including the heat sink temp sensor.
Hi, can you show me the chip to program on the K2100M?
Tomorrow he will deliver me CH341A usb programmer
Did you use the green highlighted accessory?
Thanks so much for your time
I pulled the PSU this morning.. of course the burnt smells disappeared. I've been inspecting every component on it and don't see any damage.
I just had a realization that the diodes on the new GPU were a bit bubbled... I wonder if ebay sold me a bum card :-| The iMac12,1 is such a PITA to remove the motherboard from.
If you got a broken card I would try to get a red Dell M5100 if and only if you do not need system sleep working. Still reasonable pricing and on eBay some unused spare parts can be found...
Otherwise my personal favorite is still the green Dell WX4130 for his particular system.
Just in case:
Still own my own test/development cards and will be happy to sell all of them (M5100, W6170M, W5170M, RX480, WX4150, WX7100). Only via PM, please!
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Hi Ausdasuerportler, just new in the forum. I would like to buy you WX4150 but I don't know how to PM you on this forum.
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You need to reinstall Catalina with post-install-patching disabled. There is a complex way to pull the legacy video patches out of the system, but it is more complicated than simply do a fresh install on top of the existing one.
If you take some time and read the really short section on the first post you will find the installation instructions (Spoiler: Installing macOS Catalina (unsupported)).
I'm sorry @Ausdauersportler @The_Croupier, my bad. At first, didn't know where you could disable the post-install-patching.. and just ended trying the apply the patch without the video patch selected.
Found where was the selection of the post-install-patching... disabled...new installation... and it's fixed! =)
Thank You once again you guys!
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Ok time for another sanity check. I still cant figure out why the OS feels like running through thick molasses, despite benchmarks appearing healthy.
It's things like, just running the pointer through menu items, opening Finder windows, using Mail and Safari that seem laggy and sluggish.
Suspecting maybe RAM or the SSD, I've run tests on the SSD which seems fine, and ran the ASD for this model and it passed all the checks including ram tests without issue (just a red mark for the HD temp sensor)
The way the system is behaving reminds me of how things run on a Hackintosh if the SMBIOS is set with the wrong System Definition.
So just checking, are we *sure* things are running normally on Big Sur with these models?
As it would stand to reason that things could be running poorly considering Big Sur was not designed to run on this System Definition.
It's things like, just running the pointer through menu items, opening Finder windows, using Mail and Safari that seem laggy and sluggish.
Suspecting maybe RAM or the SSD, I've run tests on the SSD which seems fine, and ran the ASD for this model and it passed all the checks including ram tests without issue (just a red mark for the HD temp sensor)
The way the system is behaving reminds me of how things run on a Hackintosh if the SMBIOS is set with the wrong System Definition.
So just checking, are we *sure* things are running normally on Big Sur with these models?
As it would stand to reason that things could be running poorly considering Big Sur was not designed to run on this System Definition.
-----As I recall, that'd be this post, #15,400 in this thread. I've been keeping it open in another tab as reference to go back to once I can set some time aside to do that with my 4170. (As @Ausdauersportler noted, however, it's highly likely that I link to that's long been added to post #1.)
Hi,
thanks a lot for sharing all your knowledge here. As i posted on github i have Graphic-Cards Issues with my iMac11,1.
The thing that makes me think about is, do you have an idea why this only appears now, after i updated to opencore and Montery last week?
Before i was using the iMac daily without issuses running Catalina (using the Catalina Patcher from dosdude).
Is there something in the drivers of the graphic card, that did not get used?
btw. I just bought a used iMac12,2 so i can change the Card and will get you updated anyhow.
Thanks,
Richy
Welcome to the iMac metal GPU replacement thread!
We had similar posts on GitHub, Discord, and finally here reporting GPU failures after a macOS upgrade. Even some NVIDIA replacement cards fail after upgrading from High Sierra to Mojave or later. Some cards work within the small 21.5 models and fail running the same macOS within a bigger 27 model (I have a K610M on my desk showing this problem). Drive a bigger display == more demanding to the GPU.
There is no pattern, there is no specific macOS version to blame and because we all lack of the tools to analyze a GPU, it's components, or video memory we can only conclude that it is a hardware problem. Possibly enabling dtrace might give you the ability to dig deeper into the software stack were it happens. But getting artifacts is surely not a driver issue.
Each new macOS version is more demanding even on the Desktop when it comes to the GPU. More transparency features, more data to redraw, more gimmicks, more of everything. A modern GPU can handle this task easily, a ten year old known to fail one possibly not.
Honestly I do not want to spend any time in discussing broken hardware and the hope of getting a software patch to solve it. This will simply not happen.
This thread was started because - even back in 2013 - the ATI cards were known to die in masses and very quickly. So it cannot come really surprising to experience another card failing? Apple even offered a hardware replacement of the GPU at least for the 2011 models.
Check the first post of this thread, there is are there tables of replacement cards. If you really want to use Monterey try to find an AMD card and update your BT/WiFi card, too.
Take your pick!
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Thanks a lot for taking the time! I will think about it and see what fits best for me!
All the best from Austria!