Take a look in /lib/live/mount/persistence/sdc*/flash where * corresponds to a number, to find out type the command ls in /lib/live/mount/persistence.
The number will probably be 1 or 2, but if they will not work you can always find out.
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The number will probably be 1 or 2, but if they will not work you can always find out.
Just pick the correct post and the correct guide. You are using the new version of the software with the old guide...
Automatic Brightness Switch - BOOT MOD
iMac 2009 - Core i5 - SSD 256GB - FirePro W6170M
👍 ACTIVATED INTERNAL LED & 100% Brightness on BOOT 👍😄😄😄😄 0-60sec Timer relais !
YOU HAVE THE CHOICE - cable for 3.3V supply voltage to Inverter
CHECK the 12V power supply for positive 12V and negative 0V
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Automatic Timer Relais Module active (on Boot up to 60 sec)
After the adjusted time the relais switch back from 100% Brightness
and activated internal Screen to native Brighness Control on macOS !!!
...dimming the screen after 60 sec - but no defect - intention 😁 !!!
Take the 12V supply from HDD, you don't need it if you have SSD - and
look for the correct 12V / 0V (don't switch the power supply cables)...
😄🤣😁 WUHAHAHAHAHAHA 😁😆😇 I love it ... super cool !!!
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You must be a very good electrician! I do not understand anythingAutomatic Brightness Switch - BOOT MOD
👍 ACTIVATED INTERNAL LED & 100% Brightness on BOOT 👍
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😄😄😄😄
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YOU HAVE THE CHOICE - cable for 3.3V supply voltage to Inverter
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CHECK the 12V power supply for positive 12V and negative 0V
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Schematics
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Automatic Relais Module active (on Boot up to 60 sec)
After the adjusted time the relais switch back from 100% Brightness
and activated internal Screen to native Brighness Control on macOS !!!
Take the 12V supply from HDD, you don't need it if you have SSD - and
look for the correct 12V / 0V (don't switch the power supply cables)...
😄🤣😁 WUHAHAHAHAHAHA 😁😆😇 I love it ... super cool !!!
It is specific for iMac 2009 with W6170 and no boot screenYou must be a very good electrician! I do not understand anything
(and no OCLP boot picker) - my screen stays black until the
login screen - until now...
Without boot screen or boot picker an installation of a secondary
OS was difficult (High Sierra native & Big Sur patched...or WIN10).
Sometimes you only can bring the data to SSD with a secondary
iMac, HDD copy station or some other dirty tricks...
...but only if you have a patched 3rd party video card !
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My WX4130 works pretty stable now after some sudden black screens this morning. I patched again...now it seems to work. One obeservation: My valley score is comparable (FPS 40, Score 1672) to similar machines like mine. Surprisingly my geekbench 5 metal score is much lower then comparable machines - see copy of excel sheet attached. My score is only 11.864. Most of them have 19k. Any plausible explication why ?
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Ahhh….wasn’t aware of that. This should be collected in the excel as well. Mine was under 12.1
The Geekbench 5 Metal benchmark results are not reproducible in general. For that reason that benchmark is pretty much useless. Use MetalBench 2.
You should prepare an OpenCore BootCD and no more dirty tricks are needed, just a prepared UBS installer for your macOS of choice..It is specific for iMac 2009 with W6170 and no boot screen
(and no OCLP boot picker) - my screen stays black until the
login screen - until now...
Without boot screen or boot picker an installation of a secondary
OS was difficult (High Sierra native & Big Sur patched...or WIN10).
Sometimes you only can bring the data to SSD with a secondary
iMac, HDD copy station or some other dirty tricks...
...but only if you have a patched 3rd party video card !
Enabling the backlight with this mod does not bring you an EFI boot screen back - this needs a program loaded from either the firmware (making a firmware mod as described on post #1) or from the vBIOS, which turned out to be complex (lack of space in addressable BIOS space of 128k).
You only current option is using the GOP vBIOS I have uploaded and a OpenCore BootCD. But the W6170M is a really nicely playing card. Just install and boot, High Sierra does not need OpenCore, only to enable the OC boot picker or the use of external displays.
If you would like to add to the initial post, here are the Mac and GPU specifications:
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)
Model Identifier: iMac11.2
Part Number: MC508xx/A, MC509xx/A
Dell Precision GPU *Samsung memory
AMD FirePro M4000 1GB GDDR5
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Operating System: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G14042)
New GPU:
Original GPU:
Hardware-side installation: Exactly the same as with the original GPU, no mods needed.
Software-side installation*: fully compatible with macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, all functions available, no mods needed.
*with macOS Monterey 12.1 (21C52) and preferably always, you will need the necessary drivers previously installed in /Drivers and config.plist edited, otherwise recovery and installation only will work, and the system will boot with this as result:
To recap as the first step I replaced the original GPU with an AMD FirePro M4000, then I flashed this ROM, then I installed OC on an internal SSD, you can also do it the same way on the internal HDD via SATA/USB adapter, again thanks to OCP-TUI I downloaded and created a partition containing the macOS installer, then I resized the disk to create another empty APFS partition to install macOS on the same SSD.
1. Replace GPU (! do not reassemble your iMac yet if you have not installed OC previously)
2. Install OC on your primary drive, or follow the steps above to format it and create a recovery partition.
3. Flash ROM
4. Boot the installation/system
Note: it is important to follow all the steps for OC, OCP-TUI is just not enough, you have to copy AMDGOP.efi to /Drivers and edit config.plist.
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)
Model Identifier: iMac11.2
Part Number: MC508xx/A, MC509xx/A
Dell Precision GPU *Samsung memory
AMD FirePro M4000 1GB GDDR5
3yf07
Operating System: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G14042)
New GPU:
Original GPU:
Hardware-side installation: Exactly the same as with the original GPU, no mods needed.
Software-side installation*: fully compatible with macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, all functions available, no mods needed.
*with macOS Monterey 12.1 (21C52) and preferably always, you will need the necessary drivers previously installed in /Drivers and config.plist edited, otherwise recovery and installation only will work, and the system will boot with this as result:
To recap as the first step I replaced the original GPU with an AMD FirePro M4000, then I flashed this ROM, then I installed OC on an internal SSD, you can also do it the same way on the internal HDD via SATA/USB adapter, again thanks to OCP-TUI I downloaded and created a partition containing the macOS installer, then I resized the disk to create another empty APFS partition to install macOS on the same SSD.
1. Replace GPU (! do not reassemble your iMac yet if you have not installed OC previously)
2. Install OC on your primary drive, or follow the steps above to format it and create a recovery partition.
3. Flash ROM
4. Boot the installation/system
Note: it is important to follow all the steps for OC, OCP-TUI is just not enough, you have to copy AMDGOP.efi to /Drivers and edit config.plist.
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Go back and search what I wrote about needing OpenCore and the complexity of the initial setup
These (HD7000 family) cards (M4000, M6000, M5100, W6170M) will not work without!
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Just managed to get a M5100 (Red Dell 109-C42241-00) (Hynix Memory) running on a Late 2009 C2D 27" last night. Attached is the EFI folder as these are a pain in the arse to setup in the first place. Hope this helps to ease the setup pain for others. Easiest way is just to mount the EFI on another Mac and just copy it over. Is there any way to correct the reported VRAM size by the way?
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You got a card with a different memory type. Check my post again, there is a list of there vBIOS for different memory types included.
The setup using OCLP 0.3.4 - which by the way creates such config automatically - has been described several times and your EFI will be out of date, soon.
The best method is to create and keep a bootable OpenCore CD. This way you will even be able to survive a EFI corruption and a misconfigured OpenCore config.plist.
In the end I took the easy way out, I don't need this Mac except for storage.Go back and search what I wrote about needing OpenCore and the complexity of the initial setup
These card will not work without!
And frankly I wouldn't even want Apple to know that I'm using an operating system they don't approve of, that's why I abandoned the idea of installing Hackintosh and instead bought Windows 11 on my desktop computer.
However, the most important thing is that I couldn't be happier to have my beloved iMac up and running again.
Thank you all for your contributions!
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Yep that was it, I had used the Hynix rom from the original post. I didn't spot there were AFR & BFR variants of the same memory type. Its reporting correctly now. Thanks.
Any ideas for the Firepro s7100?
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Im asking while more and more cgn chips are under "inspection" by this community.
AMD FirePro S7100X Specs
AMD Amethyst, 725 MHz, 2048 Cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 8192 MB GDDR5, 1250 MHz, 256 bit
Im asking while more and more cgn chips are under "inspection" by this community.
Honestly it was you continuously asking for iMac10,1 support which made me buying one to test this all out.
Did not expect it could be that easy at the end.
Honestly I expect (or I am concerned) to see the same problems as with the W6170M - unusable or barely usable within the iMac12,2.Any ideas for the Firepro s7100?
AMD FirePro S7100X Specs
AMD Amethyst, 725 MHz, 2048 Cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 8192 MB GDDR5, 1250 MHz, 256 bit
Im asking while more and more cgn chips are under "inspection" by this community.
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I am observing unregular black screens/crashes with iMac 11,3 and WX4130. Currently I cannot determine if this a sleep/wake issue. Still observing it. Sometimes the system is very stable over many hours eg. a full day (even under high stress like doing the Valley Benchmark with ULTRA Settings with max. temp in the area of 85-89 degrees in peak from AMD GPU, heatsink and ODD sensor at 50-51 ....no outage). Sometimes, with no load, suddenly I have a black screen out of nothing. It's a real crash as I cannot connect from second iMac via network or desktop sharing. Any known issues or hints what this could be?
EDIT: I am using macOS 12,1
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Check your mount again - do you have a copper shim between the GPU die and the heatsink with thermal paste on both sides?
A temperature difference of nearly 40 degrees between GPU die and heatsink is (very) worrying. I never observed a temp. difference of more that 10 degrees with WX4130/WX4150/WX4170 under continued full load - it was more like 5-6 degrees (even with the measly heatsink in 21.5’ machines).
Take a visit at my special installation post of the WX4130.
My temps are only a few C different and the fan always works properly.
You experience over heating shutdowns.
Yes - I did it like described in post #1 using a 15x 15 x 1 copper shim. I used K4-Pro thermal paste under and above shim. I used K5-Pro vor the VRAMS.
I will re-visit it. Maybe I missed something. I also connected the ODD sensor close to GPU on heatsink. see pictures and temperatures of Mac-Fan-Control (under load using Unigine Valley with UTLRA setting)
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Try flipping the shim upside-down. (Those shims are slightly bent due to press-cutting, and the way you positioned it will leave a small gap between the shim and the heatsink.) Even better - use fine grit sandpaper attached to a solid, even, hard surface to 'polish' it first, clean it with isopropyl alcohol, and mount it again. Since you repositioned the ODD temp. sensor, you can use it without MacsFanControl. (At least that's how I use it...)