Frequently Asked Questions About NVIDIA PC (non-EFI) Graphics Cards

[flowrider]

Thanks for the reply, Lou. Very much appreciated. When you say 'the rear piece has to be removed' I assume you mean the black extension in pic 1, not the heatsink(?) in pic 2, yes?
One other question which is really worrying me is if I install the card and boot the Mac and it doesn't work, what will happen and how do I get out of the situation? I simply can turn off the Mac and put the original AMD 5770 card back in? Mightn't be hard at all, I just can't afford to screw up my Mac for any period of time. Thanks in advance for your help.

Wade

Yes, Pic 1.

Yes, to the second question. Hold power button for 5 seconds.

Lou

 

[Rootarty]

How to connect a PC Quadro 4000 to MacPro monitor?

Yes, Pic 1.

Yes, to the second question. Hold power button for 5 seconds.

Lou

Thanks again for the info, Lou. So hold the power for 5 seconds to turn of the Mac and then swap the original card back in, if the Quadro doesn't boot, yes?

Next I need to how (the best way) to connect my macPro monitor to the card. I need to buy an adapter of of some sort I assume. I have attached a photo of the MacPro monitor cable ends and the sockets on the PC Quadro. Could Lou or anyone advise me on this please.
Much appreciated,
Wade

 

[MacVidCards]

Thanks again for the info, Lou. So hold the power for 5 seconds to turn of the Mac and then swap the original card back in, if the Quadro doesn't boot, yes?

Next I need to how (the best way) to connect my macPro monitor to the card. I need to buy an adapter of of some sort I assume. I have attached a photo of the MacPro monitor cable ends and the sockets on the PC Quadro. Could Lou or anyone advise me on this please.
Much appreciated,
Wade

How did you have that connected to 7300GT?

If it is TB, you can't.

If it is MDP, you need a DP to MDP adapter. Startech has a nice one for $7 (US)

The Quadro will work if you are on 10.7.5. As you are on a 1,1 flashing ti would be pointless, so you could leave 7300GT in for boot screens.

 

[flowrider]

Next I need to how (the best way) to connect my macPro monitor to the card. I need to buy an adapter of of some sort I assume. I have attached a photo of the MacPro monitor cable ends and the sockets on the PC Quadro. Could Lou or anyone advise me on this please.
Much appreciated,
Wade

The top cable is a Mini Display Port cable.

The middle cable is a USB cable.

The Bottom cable is the MagSafe cable.



To use the card you'll need a Display Port to Mini Display Port cable like this:

http://www.monoprice.com/Search/Index?keyword=mdp+to+dp

The USB cable plugs into a USB Port on your Mac to activate the additional USB ports on the monitor. If you don't need additional ports, the cable doesn't have to be used.

The MagSafe Cable is only needed if you wish to charge a Mac laptop with a MagSafe connection from your Apple display. As with the USB cable, this cable doesn't need to be connected.

The only cable you'll need to get power from the Nvidia Card to the Apple Display is the Mini Display Port to Display Port Cable.

Lou

 

[flowrider]

How did you have that connected to 7300GT?

If it is TB, you can't.

If it is MDP, you need a DP to MDP adapter. Startech has a nice one for $7 (US)

The Quadro will work if you are on 10.7.5. As you are on a 1,1 flashing ti would be pointless, so you could leave 7300GT in for boot screens.

Dave, you're confusing this poster with another.

It was connected to an ATI (AMD) card, I assume a 5770.

The Monitor is an MDP not TB. The TB monitor doesn't come with the MagSafe Cable, and the markings on the MDP cable appear to be MDP.

The poster is on a 5,1 Mac Pro.

From Nvidia's site, it appears to me that the Web Drivers support the Quadro 4000.


Lou

 

[Rootarty]

How to connect a PC Quadro 4000 to MacPro monitor?

The top cable is a Mini Display Port cable.

To use the card you'll need a Display Port to Mini Display Port cable like this:

http://www.monoprice.com/Search/Index?keyword=mdp+to+dp

Lou

Thanks heaps, Lou and MacVidCards. I'm getting close to a solution I think.
But the link Lou posted above seems to be male mini DisplayPort to male Display Port. I have been looking online at the adapters that come with the Quadro4000 cards and it seems I need a female mini DisplayPort to male DisplayPort adapter. This one from StarTech will do the job?

http://www.startech.com/Cables/Audi...ideo-Cable-Adapter-Male-to-Female~DP2MDPMF6IN

Attaching a pic, too. Is this the apapter you meant, MacVidCards?
Am I on the right track here, guys?
Appreciating your input,
Wade

 

[MacVidCards]

Thanks heaps, Lou and MacVidCards. I'm getting close to a solution I think.
But the link Lou posted above seems to be male mini DisplayPort to male Display Port. I have been looking online at the adapters that come with the Quadro4000 cards and it seems I need a female mini DisplayPort to male DisplayPort adapter. This one from StarTech will do the job?

http://www.startech.com/Cables/Audi...ideo-Cable-Adapter-Male-to-Female~DP2MDPMF6IN

Attaching a pic, too. Is this the apapter you meant, MacVidCards?
Am I on the right track here, guys?
Appreciating your input,
Wade

That's the adapter you want if your Display has MDP in. Newell has them for $7 usually, as I mentioned.

TB displays can't be connected to cMP from what I know.

Power cable from 5770 should do it. Card can be flashed to Mac Q4000 but will always only have 2 displays. Not a K4000. Would be a F4000 is names made any sense. Will probably require new EEPROM. (solder job)

A clever flasher could turn it into Dual DP card with boot screens. We may soon have an EU agent.

 

[Rootarty]

How to connect a PC Quadro 4000 to MacPro monitor?

That's the adapter you want if your Display has MDP in. Newell has them for $7 usually, as I mentioned.

TB displays can't be connected to cMP from what I know.

Power cable from 5770 should do it. Card can be flashed to Mac Q4000 but will always only have 2 displays. Not a K4000. Would be a F4000 is names made any sense. Will probably require new EEPROM. (solder job)

A clever flasher could turn it into Dual DP card with boot screens. We may soon have an EU agent.

Thanks for the info, MacVidCards. If MDP means Mini Display Port, then yes, that is what my MacPro (mid2010 5.1) monitor has.

About the adapter, you mentioned earlier that Startech has one and I found one for $10 there, and now you said Newell has one but I can't find Newell online. Could anyone provide a link?

But anyway, I'm living in Tokyo so it seems I should probably order through Amazon Japan :
http://www.amazon.co.jp/StarTech-Di...to+Mini+DisplayPort+Video+Cable+Adapter+-+M/F

Sorry guys, I'm a complete newbie to graphics card and only know a few things I've read recently on forums etc. I had no idea what MacVidCards meant when he wrote :
" TB displays can't be connected to cMP from what I know.

Power cable from 5770 should do it. Card can be flashed to Mac Q4000 but will always only have 2 displays. Not a K4000. Would be a F4000 is names made any sense. Will probably require new EEPROM. (solder job)

A clever flasher could turn it into Dual DP card with boot screens. We may soon have an EU agent. "

At the moment I only need to get this PC Nvidia Quadro working on a single monitor on my MacPro (mid2010 5.1). If this female mini DisplayPort to male Display Port adapter (see pic) will do that (in theory), I'll order it and give a try.

Yes, guys?

 

[flowrider]

Thanks heaps, Lou and MacVidCards. I'm getting close to a solution I think.
But the link Lou posted above seems to be male mini DisplayPort to male Display Port. I have been looking online at the adapters that come with the Quadro4000 cards and it seems I need a female mini DisplayPort to male DisplayPort adapter. This one from StarTech will do the job?

Since you won't be using the Apple cable, and both the Card and the Display have female ports, you will need a cable with male parts on both ends, per the link I supplied. You use the adapter cable only if you plan to use the Apple supplied cable.

Lou

 

[MacVidCards]

Since you won't be using the Apple cable, and both the Card and the Display have female ports, you will need a cable with male parts on both ends, per the link I supplied. You use the adapter cable only if you plan to use the Apple supplied cable.

Lou

When did Apple Displays have Female MDP ports?

I have a 24" and a 27", both only have the cables he pictured. In true Apple fashion, there are no other options.

 

[flowrider]

^^^^I have never owned an Apple Display, but I have never seen any display with a male video port. Is the pict I attached not a female MDP port?

Lou

 

[MacVidCards]

^^^^I have never owned an Apple Display, but I have never seen any display with a male video port. Is the pict I attached not a female MDP port?

Lou

Picture is from an iMac.

Or maybe a TB display, I don't know.

Certainly not a MDP Apple display.

They connect one way and one way only, a male MDP cable, as pictured by the guy asking.

 

[flowrider]

^^^^Ok Dave

Your one liners are still zingers. As I've said, I have never owned an Apple Display. I thought the pict I attached was a Cinema Display, upon during further research, see pict attached. I have concluded that MAYBE the Display has no video port at all, and the cable is hard wired to the display. Is that the case? If so, it might have been nice to say so up front rather than make me look like an ass.

Lou

 

[Rootarty]

Female Mini DisplayPort to male DisplayPort adapte

Hi Lou and MacVidCards,
Appreciate all the help. Yes, my MacPro monitor only has 3 USB ports on the back and not all the extras that iMac has, unfortunately. I can unplug the power cable from the back (see pics) but the Mini DisplayPort just doesn't come out....I gave it a good try.
So, I'll order that little female Mini DisplayPort to male DisplayPort adapter I posted the photo of before, cross my fingers and see if the PC Quadro will work.
Thanks so much again for the input.
Wade

 

[flowrider]

^^^^The StarTech is available for only $4.41.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/945120-REG/startech_dp2mdpmf6in_displayport_adapter_6.html

Lou

 

[sebseb]

unfortunately. I can unplug the power cable from the back (see pics) but the Mini DisplayPort just doesn't come out....I gave it a good try.

You should change unfortunately to fortunately, cause that cable is not meant to be disconnected. ONLY the power cable can be disconnected. If you had pulled it out and ripped a cable, you had some soldering to do.

Good luck

 

[peepo.com]

750ti & 980

wrong page

 

[Demigod Mac]

The adapter Lou linked works on my MVC 780 and Apple LED 24"

There is one issue - it doesn't like the boot screen. Sparkly rainbow pixels on a white screen and then it goes dark when OS X login screen should appear. Happens on every different brand of DP-mDP adapter I've tried.

If I disconnect the monitor and plug it in after the startup chime, it works perfectly. I suspect it's an issue with the ACD because connecting my Mac to my TV via the HDMI port works perfectly, boot screen,  logo and all. I haven't been able to get my hands on a regular Displayport monitor to test, though. Curious to see if yours has the same issue.

 

[MacVidCards]

The adapter Lou linked works on my MVC 780 and Apple LED 24"

There is one issue - it doesn't like the boot screen. Sparkly rainbow pixels on a white screen and then it goes dark when OS X login screen should appear. Happens on every different brand of DP-mDP adapter I've tried.

If I disconnect the monitor and plug it in after the startup chime, it works perfectly. I suspect it's an issue with the ACD because connecting my Mac to my TV via the HDMI port works perfectly, boot screen,  logo and all. I haven't been able to get my hands on a regular Displayport monitor to test, though. Curious to see if yours has the same issue.

I have never seen this issue.

We test on real Apple Displays as well as Dell and Asus 4K.

Sparkles usually indicates insufficient current for all data to get there.

 

[jazz boy]

Holy lifesaver batman!

There has been a fair amount of confusion about the NVIDIA PC card support since it was last enabled in the 10.7.3 web driver. I'm going to use the term PC card to describe a stock card with no EFI, that is, any old NVIDIA graphics card that you can buy online or from your local computer store.
<SNIP>

Thank you and thank you again!!! I was having no luck with the web drivers in my 2006 Mac Pro. With your instructions I now have an Asus GTX970 Strix running in my old beauty with Yosemite via Sfott. This is simply too cool!

 

[Asgorath]

10.10.1 driver is available here:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro_Certified/343.01.02f01/WebDriver-343.01.02f01.pkg

Or, as always, you can just force a check via the NVIDIA Driver Manager preference pane and it should download automatically.

 

[m4v3r1ck]

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Cheers

 

[marceli7]

Hello!
Short report:

VGA: GTX 970
OSX: Yosemite 10.10.1
nv web driver: WebDriver-343.01.02f01.pkg
CUDA driver: cudadriver-6.5.25-macos.dmg
and…

CUDA works in Adobe Premiere CC2014!

 

[MassMacMan]

^^^^^^^ Great news. I can verify this with my GTX970, although CUDA-Z still has problems, as does Nvidia CUDA Preferences. See below. I'm now going to try out several of my benchmarks and report any improvements that may be seen - or not!

 

[marceli7]

It's a bit different on my side.
I see this:


but CUDA-Z looks good.


After setting Mercury to use CUDA I see huge speed improvement playing and rendering timeline

It's about 5x faster then old ati 5770 running OpenCL.

Bottom line: AfterFX, no go. Errors after enabling CUDA renderer.