High Sierra 10.13.6 and Boot Rom 140.0.0.0... Gone too Far?

[stupots]

Hi, I wanted bootable NVMe and Nvidia support, and I knew the 387.10.10.10.40.122 drivers worked OK on 10.13.6 so didn't think anything of applying the prerequisite Mojave firmware 140.0.0.0... then when I tried to install the drivers (using the nvidia-update script on github) it said that there wasn't a supported driver for my 10.13.6 macOS. Now i've RTFM it looks like I should have stuck on High Sierra boot rom 139 and done without NVMe support if I wanted to use my 980ti? Is there any way to downgrade back to 139 on a Mid 2010 cMP?

Thanks

Stu

 

[tsialex]

Hi, I wanted bootable NVMe and Nvidia support, and I knew the 387.10.10.10.40.122 drivers worked OK on 10.13.6 so didn't think anything of applying the prerequisite Mojave firmware 140.0.0.0... then when I tried to install the drivers (using the nvidia-update script on github) it said that there wasn't a supported driver for my 10.13.6 macOS. Now i've RTFM it looks like I should have stuck on High Sierra boot rom 139 and done without NVMe support if I wanted to use my 980ti? Is there any way to downgrade back to 139 on a Mid 2010 cMP?

Thanks

Stu

It's not a BootROM problem, BootROM has nothing to do with NVIDIA drivers. The problem is that NVIDIA WEB drivers are tied to specific macOS versions. To work with this week new release of Security Updates, NVIDIA drivers need to be updated.

You can use the pulled 108 version, someone here is hosting it, people reports that this NVIDIA WEB driver version works with multiple macOS 10.13.6 releases.

 

[startergo]

Hi, I wanted bootable NVMe and Nvidia support, and I knew the 387.10.10.10.40.122 drivers worked OK on 10.13.6 so didn't think anything of applying the prerequisite Mojave firmware 140.0.0.0... then when I tried to install the drivers (using the nvidia-update script on github) it said that there wasn't a supported driver for my 10.13.6 macOS. Now i've RTFM it looks like I should have stuck on High Sierra boot rom 139 and done without NVMe support if I wanted to use my 980ti? Is there any way to downgrade back to 139 on a Mid 2010 cMP?

Thanks

Stu

http://www.macvidcards.com/drivers.html

 

[IanK MacPro]

Hi, I wanted bootable NVMe and Nvidia support, and I knew the 387.10.10.10.40.122 drivers worked OK on 10.13.6 so didn't think anything of applying the prerequisite Mojave firmware 140.0.0.0... then when I tried to install the drivers (using the nvidia-update script on github) it said that there wasn't a supported driver for my 10.13.6 macOS. Now i've RTFM it looks like I should have stuck on High Sierra boot rom 139 and done without NVMe support if I wanted to use my 980ti? Is there any way to downgrade back to 139 on a Mid 2010 cMP?

Thanks

Stu

You can force install any version of the Nvidia driver using a script in terminal.

You'll need to boot into recovery mode first to disable SIP.

Once done boot back up and run this script in terminal

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update/master/nvidia-update.sh) 387.10.10.10.40.122

replacing the driver version at the end of the code with whatever version you want to install.

Im currently running OSX 10.3.6 with Nvidia driver 378.10.10.10.25.106 as this was the last driver that worked with dual cards. If you're only running a single Nvidia card then you can install the latest drivers with no problem.

Hope this helps.

 

[h9826790]

You can force install any version of the Nvidia driver using a script in terminal.

You'll need to boot into recovery mode first to disable SIP.

Once done boot back up and run this script in terminal

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Benjamin-Dobell/nvidia-update/master/nvidia-update.sh) 387.10.10.10.40.122

replacing the driver version at the end of the code with whatever version you want to install.

Im currently running OSX 10.3.6 with Nvidia driver 378.10.10.10.25.106 as this was the last driver that worked with dual cards. If you're only running a single Nvidia card then you can install the latest drivers with no problem.

Hope this helps.

For single card system, no need to put any driver version at the back, the script will automatically install the latest good driver in the white list.

 

[stupots]

Thanks all! I am constantly amazed at @tsialex's knowledge... A new driver came out today (.123) and my card now works perfectly with it. I'm currently re-installing High Sierra on a Samsung 970 Evo, so am very happy.

These forums are great.

Cheers

Stu