if anyone needs it, I can provide a link to the seller on Aliexpress, the cards are as indicated by him new, and the price is $100, immediately stitched and ready for installation) if you write something)
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Hi there. I've found the card on AliExpress. I assume it's the same one of the reviews has your same photos in it.
Could I ask how much of a hassle was it to install?
I've currently got a A1311 with a Radeon 6770m in it. No problem swapping the graphics card out, but haven't dived into the software side yet.
The seller sent out the card with the proper vbios for your machine. Besides that, could you explain the process you used to get it working? I see the sellers detailed description, but would love to hear your thoughts and process on this.
If it is the correct seller, then you should take reference the seller's description and guidance. It's in English and very detailed.
Absolutely. But I would also like a buyers perspective as well. The guide is in English, but it's not 100 percent perfectly clear as well.
The more information we have from multiple people's experience the better, don't you agree?
Hardware wise, from your statement: "No problem swapping the graphics card out", I assume you have enough experience with this 2-3 hour process. This is the hard part of the GPU upgrading work. And it's the same as all other cards.
Software wise, you can prepare the OS disk before swapping cards. It would take less than 15 minutes of actual work from the seller description, if you know your trade and your iMac. It would take more to learn about it if you started from zero knowledge like I did.
Troubleshooting can take weeks or months.
hello) it's not difficult, you don't need to make modifications, you just take the old one and put a new one
before installing in the Efi folder of the bootable disk with macos, you need to write Opencore Legacy Patcher, the seller will provide you with a cable for the desired image, you only need to write it, and after replacing the card, everything will start without problems) there is no need to rearrange the system) by the way, it works perfectly with Windows, games they work, everything is great) you just need to disable the processor graphics, the instructions are here)4 332,40 грн. | New AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 WX3200 4GB Metal Video Card for iMac 11,2 / 11,3 / 12,1 / 12,2 A1311 A1312 Ventura Supported
Thank you for that.hello) it's not difficult, you don't need to make modifications, you just take the old one and put a new one
Have you been able to update MacOS past High Sierra?
I'll order. I'll post it as soon as I install it.
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Have a nice day, everyone.I have an imac 27 2011.I bought an Amd m6100.When starting the imac, the screen is black, there is a system startup sound.But 3 LEDs are not lit.Does this mean that the m6100 is faulty?Or do I need to flash another vbios?
Guys, I need help. I have install a M6000 into several imac 12,2 2011 27" imacs this past 6 months but now I'm having a problem. My previous installs I have upgraded the CPU with an intel Xeon e3-1275 but this time I'm using an i7-2600. This may or may not have something to do with the problem.
My issue is this: Upon a cold power-on boot, OCLP picker works, the default Big Sur partition boots and after the inital Apple Logo appears for 3-4 seconds the screen clears, the backlight comes on but I get no output displayed (blank screen). I know the imac is now waiting for login but nothing is on the screen. This only happens on power-on, not on reboot.
I can work around this issue 2 ways, one is at the OCLP picker menu hit space and choose "reset nvram" and reboot. Upon reboot the OCLP picker auto-starts the Big Sur partition and this time the graphics come up. The second way is to again hit space and choose "recovery", let recovery boot then reset and again the OCLP picker auto-starts Big Sur and this time the graphics work.
I have built OCLP using the latest 0.6.1 but I am finding that using any GUI version I cannot set the MMX GPU type to AMD (GCN) in Developer settings, it will not stick. So I rebuild OCLP with the last TUI (0.4.10) and followed the instructions on the "complex to manage" page with the same results.
One other thing, if I build OCLP with 0.2.4 TUI and install it, OCLP picker comes up, default Big Sur boots, Apple logo appears, disappears, then the imac reboots (OS crashes) and at the second reboot again everything starts fine. I then compared config.plists (0.6.1 with 0.2.4) and removed all the 0.6.1 unique settings so it matched the 0.2.4, but the same results - no graphics. What am i doing wrong? I thought it might be related to the iGPU on the i7-2600 but that appears to be disabled by OCLP.
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The M6100 does not work in the 27" 2011 imac (12,2). The imac will have nvram issues. This is discussed in the thread on page https://forums.macrumors.com/thread....1596614/page-735?post=31026910#post-31026910
Hello,
After numerous intents to flash this card with the SSH-method, I suspect my card is not the Nvidia K2000M card (see attachment). Could anyone help me confirm that the card is or is not the Nvidia K2000M?
Thanks in advance.
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The pictures show an Nvidia 2000M, while you need the K2000M - easy to confuse those two, but the K means Kepler and is the most important part of the name for us.
Well it ALWAYS comes back to reading the first page post again, this issue seems to be known with the AMD GCN V1-3 (Venus cards), page 1 in BRIGHT RED FONT:
Sleep and wake is broken... Needs a PRAM reset on each cold boot - DO NOT USE IN 2011 iMac12,x systems.
Ok, so not exactly a PRAM reset, a Nvram reset will fix the issue or booting into Recovery mode (for some reason) will fix the issue. Like I said I've installed this card half a dozen times in 12,2 models with the Xenon CPU and no issues. I never thought about it because it always worked. I spent hours going though this thread and never found mention of this issue with these cards.
So my next question is can I (should I) just flash the AMD EFI boot support BIOS changes on the imac and adapter, the post indicates it works with Venus adapters and that also provides EFI picker. The cold start should be fine, right?
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I re-ran OCLP 0.2.4 TUI, setting only the 2 values mentioned (Assume Metal GPU - AMD GPU, and Set Generic Bootstrap - EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi), then hand edited the config.plist and added at CAIL values. As I said above, on cold boot it crashes right after the Apple logo, reboots and starts the graphics just fine. Now I looked at the crash, the backtrace shows the crash in the AMDRadeonX4000 module (Process: WindowServer). This makes sense, but why?
Here's the crash.
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffffb09bb42f70 : 0xffffff800988822d mach_kernel : _handle_debugger_trap + 0x3fd
0xffffffb09bb42fc0 : 0xffffff80099d0be3 mach_kernel : _kdp_i386_trap + 0x143
0xffffffb09bb43000 : 0xffffff80099c11da mach_kernel : _kernel_trap + 0x55a
0xffffffb09bb43050 : 0xffffff800982ca2f mach_kernel : _return_from_trap + 0xff
0xffffffb09bb43070 : 0xffffff8009887a4d mach_kernel : _DebuggerTrapWithState + 0xad
0xffffffb09bb43190 : 0xffffff8009887d43 mach_kernel : _panic_trap_to_debugger + 0x273
0xffffffb09bb43200 : 0xffffff800a09bcea mach_kernel : _panic + 0x54
0xffffffb09bb43270 : 0xffffff80099c15a6 mach_kernel : _sync_iss_to_iks + 0x2c6
0xffffffb09bb433f0 : 0xffffff80099c128d mach_kernel : _kernel_trap + 0x60d
0xffffffb09bb43440 : 0xffffff800982ca2f mach_kernel : _return_from_trap + 0xff
0xffffffb09bb43460 : 0xffffff7f8a6990a7 com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4000 : __ZN23AMDRadeonX4000_AMDHWVMM13endVMPTUpdateEv + 0x19
0xffffffb09bb43560 : 0xffffff7f8a64bf6f com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4000 : __ZN31AMDRadeonX4000_AMDAccelResource20BatchPrepareMappingsEP37AMDRadeonX4000_AMDGraphicsAcceleratorPKPS_j + 0x1f9
0xffffffb09bb435b0 : 0xffffff7f8a64c0e3 com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4000 : __ZN31AMDRadeonX4000_AMDAccelResource12BatchPrepareEP37AMDRadeonX4000_AMDGraphicsAcceleratorPKPS_j + 0xf3
0xffffffb09bb43650 : 0xffffff7fa4602b4a com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 : __ZN19IOAccelCommandQueue15coalesceSegmentEP26IOAccelCommandQueueSegmentPjP26IOAccelSegmentResourceListPK20IOAccelKernelCommandS7_ + 0x5a
0xffffffb09bb43690 : 0xffffff7fa4602ed4 com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 : __ZN19IOAccelCommandQueue20processCommandBufferEjj + 0x2ba
0xffffffb09bb43930 : 0xffffff7f8a63d728 com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4000 : __ZN35AMDRadeonX4000_AMDAccelCommandQueue20processCommandBufferEjj + 0x62
0xffffffb09bb43960 : 0xffffff7fa4604074 com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 : __ZN19IOAccelCommandQueue22process_command_bufferEjj + 0x402
0xffffffb09bb439f0 : 0xffffff7fa46020f7 com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 : __ZN19IOAccelCommandQueue21submit_command_bufferEjjyy + 0x10b
0xffffffb09bb43a40 : 0xffffff7fa4601ee7 com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 : __ZN19IOAccelCommandQueue22submit_command_buffersEPK29IOAccelCommandQueueSubmitArgs + 0x327
0xffffffb09bb43a90 : 0xffffff7fa4600f99 com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 : __ZN19IOAccelCommandQueue24s_submit_command_buffersEPS_PvP25IOExternalMethodArguments + 0xff
0xffffffb09bb43ad0 : 0xffffff800a01c5ae mach_kernel : __ZN12IOUserClient14externalMethodEjP25IOExternalMethodArgumentsP24IOExternalMethodDispatchP8OSObjectPv + 0x1de
0xffffffb09bb43b20 : 0xffffff800a02685b mach_kernel : _is_io_connect_method + 0x35b
0xffffffb09bb43c80 : 0xffffff800997c421 mach_kernel : _iokit_server_routine + 0x4dd1
0xffffffb09bb43d90 : 0xffffff800988d8ad mach_kernel : _ipc_kobject_server + 0x2fd
0xffffffb09bb43e00 : 0xffffff8009863d15 mach_kernel : _ipc_kmsg_send + 0x115
0xffffffb09bb43e60 : 0xffffff800987b372 mach_kernel : _mach_msg_overwrite_trap + 0x2d2
0xffffffb09bb43ef0 : 0xffffff80099a52ad mach_kernel : _mach_call_munger64 + 0x29d
0xffffffb09bb43fa0 : 0xffffff800982d216 mach_kernel : _hndl_mach_scall64 + 0x16
The question is why does this driver not crash after reboot?
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Andy, the M6100 does not work in the 27" 2011 imac (12,2). The imac will have nvram issues. This is discussed in the thread on page https://forums.macrumors.com/thread....1596614/page-735?post=31026910#post-31026910
Hey guys !
There's a guy in my town selling 21" iMacs for parts. He claims they only have GPU issues.
I happen to have a working spare K3000M from an HP laptop.
From what I read in the first post, the K3000M is compatible with 2010 and 2009 iMacs.
BUT it is unclear whether it is only compatible with the 27" or if it also works with 21" + heatsink mod.
Does anyone have information about this ?
I was also unable to confirm whether the only issue with the iMac was the GPU:
How can I check that the problem does not come from the display ?
There's a guy in my town selling 21" iMacs for parts. He claims they only have GPU issues.
I happen to have a working spare K3000M from an HP laptop.
From what I read in the first post, the K3000M is compatible with 2010 and 2009 iMacs.
BUT it is unclear whether it is only compatible with the 27" or if it also works with 21" + heatsink mod.
Does anyone have information about this ?
I was also unable to confirm whether the only issue with the iMac was the GPU:
How can I check that the problem does not come from the display ?
By either 1 of the 2 below:
1. Installing it to a known-to-be-working iMacs.
2. Using an LCD test board (This test board can also be used to convert a dead iMac to a stand-alone monitor.)