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Race to dump the 4870 ROM, Who's first?

Hi Cindori,

thanks so much for your support, I will donate if my card will work.
Sadly the new Natit you posted did not work, my screens stayed black the whole time (23" Cinema Display). I installed bootcamp and installed the latest catalyst drivers and it seems to work in XP, GPU-Z also showed a working card.
I managed to save the original Bios from the card and attached it (thanks in advance for you efforts).
I tried to use winflash to try some roms but winflash never started :-( it´s the newest version. Is there another tool to flash the 4870 under windows.

Kind regards,

David
 

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i researched your ROM and indeed it is not compatible with no natit or mac modified roms we have made yet.


so I will make new natit for you that should work.
natit is not necessary for you since you have only nvidia cards and they wont be harmed in flash,
but its a good way to check if card works before starting to get into flashing.
 
In the end, I went the long way to ensure things were reversible: I installed Windows 7 on the MacPro via Bootcamp so I could take a rom dump using GPU-Z, then burned a CD rom with the atiflash utility plus the modified 4870 rom.

I basically followed this guide to the letter (but used Fusion for the building of the bootCD):

http://web.me.com/jacobcroft/4870Flash/4870Flash.html

one thing is when I booted using the bootCD to flash the ATI card, while booting into the DOS prompt, my MacPro seemed to hang: in fact, it was running but I had to wait a few minutes (!) before it got through whatever it was doing. In the end, it all worked exactly as listed.

After I flashed the XFX HD 4870, and all is fine now. With the new modified ROM, MacOS doesn't kernel panic and I can boot into bootcamp Win7 no problem.

Thanks for all your help.

- Steve
 
Hi Cindori,

the card is exactly the one one the picture, I bought it on ebay because it looked exactly like the one on the picture you have in the folder of your OSX ATi flashing tool. But the rom in this folder is just for the 1GB card you said.
So the new Natit worked for me, so I would just need a working rom and flash the card when the I booted it with the new natit? I will search the forum if any Sapphire rom will work, if not I´ll sell the card since I´ve absolutely no clue how to make a rom file.

again, thanks for your great support.

David
 
have tried to make my one rom using the manual here in the forum but it always says "no such file or directory" in the terminal. Had all files in the same folder and tried different locations for the files.


kind regards,

David
 
hi FAD, you can remove natit using ati flashing tool as you will not need it anymore. I only wanted to see if it would work.


i will make a mac rom for your card so you can flash.
 
Hi Cindori,

first of all I just donated you 20$ for your support !!! Thanks for your rom, sadly I flashed a non working rom on the card when I got it to boot under OSX with your Natit. Now it won´t boot with the Natit because the rom I flashed to it was not made for the card (my fault). If I just would have waited for your rom :)

To the numbers on the card:

HD4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E DUAL DVI/TVO

PN 288-10E85-030SA SKU# 11133-03

The next two weeks I´ll have no access to my mac pro, but when I´m home again I´ll get back on the flashing stuff an WILL get it to work.

Thanks again for your support, I really appreciate.

kind regards from cold, dark and rainy norther germany,

David
 
If your mac still boots with 7300+4890 you can flash no problem since the tool does not harm nvidia cards so you don't need natit.

if your mac dont boot with 7300+4890, you can still make a boot CD and flash.

thanks from, snowy woods of northern sweden ;)
 
yesterday I managed somehow to boot in osx with 4870+7300, flashed using the atiflashing tool and the rom you made for me, removed natit and installed the Quarz and Core image support, restarted osx... it now takes 7 minutes to boot and the screens stay white all the time, there is no apple logo. Without the 4870 it boots in 30 seconds with apple logo etc.

In OSX there are just funny white and coloured things happening on my screens when attached to the 4870... Flashed again, but nothing changed. In Windows the card runs perfect with the original rom, very strange...

this time with regards from southern germany (will be back on 1.12)

David
 
Yeah I made mistake when sewing rom for you, I used EFI from 4890 card.

I will make new one for you later today.
 
Interested in buying a flashed XFX 4870 1GB?

Anyone interested in buying my flashed card and the cables off me? I'm parting out and selling off my mac pro, going to be buying the 27" imac. SO I figured if anyone here wants to do this but is worried about doing it or just doesn't want to mess around with all this stuff I would offer them my card.

I haven't been following the thread, but I do know they changed some stuff on the cards. This is the XFX card from before they did that, it's about 6 months old.

If not I'm going to leave it in it when I put it on ebay, but I figured if anyone from MacRumors wants it I would much rather sell it to someone who needs one.

It has always worked great for me, I ran dual 23" cinemas off of it with nary a problem since I flashed it.

$210 via Paypal takes it and the cables. the $10 is to cover paypals retarded fee system.

Just PM me if intersted.
 
Gigabyte 4870 512

Hi, i have noob question.
I have as title says Gigabyte 4870 with 512Mb and I want to flash it to work on PC with installed Snow leopard 10.6.2
So I have searched this forum upside down to find rom for my graphic card and I have found some roms that are for Gigabyte 4870, but I am not sure that it is my card.
So if I patch my card with wrong rom what's happen than?
Can I re patch it again with rom for my card or my card is dead and I can't use it any more.
 
Ok, I will do it for the weekend I have to install windows first. I will contact you when I dump my rom. Thanks
 
Hi Cindori,

any news on my rom for the 512MB 4870 Sapphire with the black fan in the middle? Last time you made one with an 4890 EFI. I really don´t want to rush, especially because I don´t have acces to my computer right know, just to prevent things get forgotten.

Thanks again for your great swedish support !!!

Kind regards,

David
 
I flashed the rom of my XFX 4870 and I can start Snow Leopard but my TV, connected in the second DVI (I can't connect my ACD 30" there), is the principal Display. How can I change that ? I want to have my ACD in dvi 1 and being the principal display.

PS: sorry about my bad english :)
PS2: Thank to all that help me writting this awesome thread !!!
 
Hey,

to make the 30" ACD the primary Display go to System Preferences/Displays and choose the arrange Displays Setting. You should see two blue screens that you can arrange, to make the 30" ACD the primary display just drag the grey menu bar from the one screen to the other.

Kind regards,

David
 
Hi F.A.D. I knew that and I did it first before posting. I posted from Snow Leopard but I can't see the Apple Logo at the start.
 
It Works!

Just flashed an XFX ZWFL card for my mac pro 1.1,

And it works like a charm!!! Just the power cable message on startup,
but i can live with that.

Thank you very much!!!

Regards

Stefan
 
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