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Race to dump the 4870 ROM, Who's first?
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288-1e131-000sa
I have this card (288-1E131-000SA, qimonda memory, sku 11133-19) and flashed the sapphire 1GB ROM from here:
http://groths.se/atiflashingtool/ROMS.zip
This booted in my mac and even worked fairly well on dragon age, but after some period of time would get noise elements flashing on the screen, one time I got white noise covering the entire screen, random stuff. So, I tried the qimonda ROM in this post and this ROM bricked my card. It is back to the PC for me. Maybe there is some other difference...but anyone using this should beware.
I have this card (288-1E131-000SA, qimonda memory, sku 11133-19) and flashed the sapphire 1GB ROM from here:
http://groths.se/atiflashingtool/ROMS.zip
This booted in my mac and even worked fairly well on dragon age, but after some period of time would get noise elements flashing on the screen, one time I got white noise covering the entire screen, random stuff. So, I tried the qimonda ROM in this post and this ROM bricked my card. It is back to the PC for me. Maybe there is some other difference...but anyone using this should beware.
Leonoid or Rommy
as last attempt to make this card work in OSX I have scavenged the web for other versions of the ROM
I found three, attached here. please take a look and see if there is any room for EFI in any of them. or I will just sell this card and declare it the 1st non-flashable 4890
as last attempt to make this card work in OSX I have scavenged the web for other versions of the ROM
I found three, attached here. please take a look and see if there is any room for EFI in any of them. or I will just sell this card and declare it the 1st non-flashable 4890
definitely you are using wrong bios or flashing it wrong ;-)
First of all which memory is on your board?
If it`s qimonda then my version of bios MUST work. Probably you should flash it from DOS, i dunno why but ZEUS makes card unworkable.
If it`s hynix then try this version if it`s not work, then problem is more complicated.
And use DOS tools from ati.
Ok I'm very new to this. I bought a Ati Radeon 4870 512mb and am having trouble finding a ROM for it. I have spent some time in this thread but don't want to read 81 pages unless its completely necessary. This is the card I bought http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...236995&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_500wt_1182
I know it says Visiontek but nowhere on the actual card does it say Visiontek. can anyone point me in the right direction?
I know it says Visiontek but nowhere on the actual card does it say Visiontek. can anyone point me in the right direction?
Asus 4890...
@Cindori
Only 7.BIN Had enough room.
So you can try that one.
If that fails please tell me if the PC version works fine in windows.
That one answers a few questions of mine if it would still work.
If that fails we don't have to try anymore...
@Cindori
Only 7.BIN Had enough room.
So you can try that one.
If that fails please tell me if the PC version works fine in windows.
That one answers a few questions of mine if it would still work.
If that fails we don't have to try anymore...
Cindori and the other rom/flashing experts may be interested in this
i recently bought and flashed a 4870 without realising that DVI-VGA adapters were not supported and had been thinking that my problems were related to using a rom that was not fully compatible with my card.
im able to get one monitor working through a dvi to vga adapter, but only if my other monitor is also plugged in ( both identical monitors both via VGA adapters) without the second monitor plugged in the first gives an error "frequency out of range"
it seemed to me that the card was detecting the display from one socket and setting correct resolution/refresh rate ect on the other, cant be specific what gave me this impression, at the time i was trying all sorts to get them both working, at some points using one monitor on my second card.
anyway dont know if thats any help to anyone who knows more about the roms than me, help to be able to give vga support?
SYSTEM spec: mac pro 1.1 running SL 10.6.2/windows 7
flashed card: xfx HD 4870 zwfl ver C.0 flashed to ZWFL/ZWFC rom downloaded from the start of this thread.
second card HD 2600 XT (apple)
cheers to everyone who has worked on making it posible for us mac users to get reasonably priced graphics cards
i recently bought and flashed a 4870 without realising that DVI-VGA adapters were not supported and had been thinking that my problems were related to using a rom that was not fully compatible with my card.
im able to get one monitor working through a dvi to vga adapter, but only if my other monitor is also plugged in ( both identical monitors both via VGA adapters) without the second monitor plugged in the first gives an error "frequency out of range"
it seemed to me that the card was detecting the display from one socket and setting correct resolution/refresh rate ect on the other, cant be specific what gave me this impression, at the time i was trying all sorts to get them both working, at some points using one monitor on my second card.
anyway dont know if thats any help to anyone who knows more about the roms than me, help to be able to give vga support?
SYSTEM spec: mac pro 1.1 running SL 10.6.2/windows 7
flashed card: xfx HD 4870 zwfl ver C.0 flashed to ZWFL/ZWFC rom downloaded from the start of this thread.
second card HD 2600 XT (apple)
cheers to everyone who has worked on making it posible for us mac users to get reasonably priced graphics cards
Your observations are correct. we have known this for awhile.
Apple has (once again) switched the channel that the EDID info goes down related to output. The same trick was used on Nvidia 5200 & 6800 cards. When we initially flashed them we had reverse, only VGA worked with DVI showing up only in rare circumstances. (such as using identical displays on both outputs so EDID was correct in both ports)
When we did the Nvidia cards we had someone smart enough to re-route the DVI. (Arti Itra) Sadly we have never had an ATI genius come along and help fix the issue with ATI cards. Since it is the dying standard that isn't supported while DVI is, it is again doubtful that we will ever find answer. My guess is here again there is a tiny little resistor sending those EDID down wrong path. Some clever deductive soldering or a ROM writing genius....one or the other is needed.
After the grande fiasko with an 4890 vapor-x "post #2499 in 4890 thread" it´s now time for next fiasko
Asus hd 4870 512mb
http://www.webhallen.com/hardvara/94723-asus_ati_radeon_hd_4870_512mb-pci-e-2xdvi-tv-ut_demo
it was a long shot.... but at least it works in bootcamp right away but crashes in osx both with orginal bios and the sapphir 512 efi rom from cindori.
it would be fantastic if somone could help me perhaps with an modded bios
Asus hd 4870 512mb
http://www.webhallen.com/hardvara/94723-asus_ati_radeon_hd_4870_512mb-pci-e-2xdvi-tv-ut_demo
it was a long shot.... but at least it works in bootcamp right away but crashes in osx both with orginal bios and the sapphir 512 efi rom from cindori.
it would be fantastic if somone could help me
perhaps with an modded biosThank you man im super greatful
It works perfekt in bootcamp and it dosent frezze osx on startup anymore and i can see the card in "about this mac".
But for some reason it´s goes black just when the desktop is suppose to appear in osx 10.6.3?
fritzflint 10.6.3
@fritzflint
Yup some Dual DVI cards don't work with the new 10.6.3 kext.
You can simply replace them with the ones from 10.6.2 I attached to this post.
Simply boot in windows and replace the 10.6.3 files from system/library/extensions with the old 10.6.2 from the attachement.
Reboot into OSX and it probably works but buggy now.
You will need to rebuild extensions permissions and cache for it to work correctly.
You can do that with options in multibeast or kext utility or osx86tools etc
Good luck.
@fritzflint
Yup some Dual DVI cards don't work with the new 10.6.3 kext.
You can simply replace them with the ones from 10.6.2 I attached to this post.
Simply boot in windows and replace the 10.6.3 files from system/library/extensions with the old 10.6.2 from the attachement.
Reboot into OSX and it probably works but buggy now.
You will need to rebuild extensions permissions and cache for it to work correctly.
You can do that with options in multibeast or kext utility or osx86tools etc
Good luck.
Leonoid
the dualdvi.zip is the exact same thing
but with patched 10.6.2 kexts
also includes kexthelper to install them.
http://groths.org/dualdvi.zip
the dualdvi.zip is the exact same thing
but with patched 10.6.2 kexts
also includes kexthelper to install them.
http://groths.org/dualdvi.zip
Dual DVI Kext
@Cindori
I just passed him the same files you send me.
But when I used it I had removed my original graphics card.
So I couldn't use kext helper to install them because of my blacked out screen.
And being to lazy to put it back I just dragged them from windows and fixed them later.
@Cindori
I just passed him the same files you send me.
But when I used it I had removed my original graphics card.
So I couldn't use kext helper to install them because of my blacked out screen.
And being to lazy to put it back I just dragged them from windows and fixed them later.