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Flashing 5770 and 5870 for Mac Pro 2008 and later (EFI64 for now boys, sorry)

Spanky Deluxe said:
Unfortunately, The Rominator will not be coming back so anyone looking for ROM mod requests will have to study this thread and netkas' site and try to do it themselves.
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Very sad. :( How come?

I assume ROM modding requires well-directed tinkering with a hex editor, at least that's what the XYZ thing from Cidori's Golden Guide makes me think.

I'd be very grateful for instructions, maybe by Netkas? I think I can handle a hex editor, but dunno what to do exactly.
 
:confused::confused:

What happened to Rominator?? And WHY ???

Someone please speak up and enlighten us. He was/is an invaluable member of this community, and the the Mac Pro forum specifically.

:confused::confused:
 
Cindori said:
everyone should read the Golden Guide in my signature. it's made with 4800 series cards on mind but it applies alot to 5800 series cards too. I'll update it when real 5800 flashing gets started.

zeus support for 5800 is not yet confirmed, likely no. will get support once apple releases it.
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So Zeus workds with ATI 5700 already?
My 4890 doesnt support sleep, picture crashes after returning from sleep.

Thinking of replacing it with a 5770.

Regards
Claus
 

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Spacedust said:
Click on PCI cards. This will tell if you have PCI-Express 1.1 or 2.0 after flashing.
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Seems to be 1.1. GPU-Z in windows seemed to indicate this too.

To be honest, I'm not that fussed... this machine's main use is development, and TF2 runs at full res with maxed out settings at 60fps with vsync without problems.
 

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succes ati saphire hd 5770

I have success with this card:

http://www.pccomponentes.com/fotos/...express/sapphire_radeon_hd_5770_1gb_gddr5.jpg

On a Mac pro 4,1..Booted from lastest version of The Ultimate Boot CD ( 5.0.2) + Atiflash + Saphire_vanilla.rom

This command: atiflash -p 0 Saphire_vanilla.rom -f

Screen show only when os x booted completely.

Performance: Not much like original GT120 OEM at the moment?may be better with Mac pro 5770 ROM + original 5770 pc rom to create custom hybrid rom.

Thanx Netkas !!?

ATI Radeon HD 5770:

Modelo de chipset: ATI Radeon HD 5770
Tipo: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Ranura: Slot-2
Anchura de canal PCIe: x16
VRAM (total): 1024 MB
Fabricante: ATI (0×1002)
ID del dispositivo: 0×68b8
ID de la revisión: 0×0000
Revisión de la ROM: 113-B9710C-238
Versión del driver EFI: 01.00.417
Pantallas:
W2353:
Resolución: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Profundidad de píxel: Color de 32 bits (ARGB8888)
Pantalla principal: Sí
Duplicado: Desactivado
En línea: Sí
Rotación: Compatible


Nombre: ATY,Vervet
Tipo: display
Driver instalado: Sí
Bus: PCI
Ranura: Slot-2
ID del fabricante: 0x1002
ID del dispositivo: 0x68b8
ID del fabricante del subsistema: 0x1002
ID del subsistema: 0x2543
ID de la revisión: 0x0000
Anchura del enlace: x16
Velocidad de enlace: 2.5 GT/s
 
Do I get this right that flashed radeons 5X70 show no boot screen before the OS X desktop?
In that case the flashing procedure would be less than interesting to me... Might as well spend more $$ on an Apple card.

Darn, these new radeons are hard to flash. And the Mac Pro EBC ROM doesn't work on PC cards yet.
 
jeanlain said:
Do I get this right that flashed radeons 5X70 show no boot screen before the OS X desktop?
In that case the flashing procedure would be less than interesting to me... Might as well spend more $$ on an Apple card.

Darn, these new radeons are hard to flash. And the Mac Pro EBC ROM doesn't work on PC cards yet.
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Best of luck getting an apple card... I'm in Aus and the best they could give me was "sometime this year", meanwhile my machine was without a display card... I was having to RDC into it...
 
My first post here on MacRumors, so I'd like to say a big hello to everyone and give my big compliments to such an active Mac comunity, in particular, Netkas, Rominator and Cindori for all their work and dedication they have put into hacking away those roms and graphic cards into acceptable price options (read: being able to flash PC cards into Mac compatible/usable ones).


Anyhow, I was just wondering, would flashing a 5870 with Netkas currently available rom void any chances of being able to flash with a proper Mac 5870 card rom once this becomes available ?

I see that there are already at least 1 or more members here in MacRumors with the 5870, but so far haven't shared that precious ROM, I'll be more that glad to provide ftp space if needed :)

It's hard to see a Shapphire 5870 card I bought for a nice price, "collecting dust" as I wait for a final rom :(


Cheers!
 
undir said:
Anyhow, I was just wondering, would flashing a 5870 with Netkas currently available rom void any chances of being able to flash with a proper Mac 5870 card rom once this becomes available ?
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I'm waiting for the Apple card, so I'm not following closely the flashing efforts (so I might be corrected shortly), but my understanding is that the Apple ROM won't work on a PC 5870 because there isn't enough space on the card.

But in theory, no, if they got the Apple ROM to work you could reflash with that at any point. But to be safe, at this point, I would wait for them to get it worked out, or wait for the Apple card. There is a chance the Apple ROM won't flash to the PC version ever.
 
goMac said:
I'm waiting for the Apple card, so I'm not following closely the flashing efforts (so I might be corrected shortly), but my understanding is that the Apple ROM won't work on a PC 5870 because there isn't enough space on the card.
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Unfortunately it's not the only reason. Actually, the Apple ROM is 128 KB so it would fit in a PC card as is. But some PC cards somehow have a BIOS section that is larger than Apple's, so they can't accommodate the EFI (EBC part). Other however have enough space, but they don't work after the EBC is added. No solution yet.
 
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