Trouble Activating NVIDIA Web Drivers in High-Sierra

[DJ Dilbert]

Posted this on the Nvidia forums too. But MR has rarely failed me. Hoping for the same.

I’m trying to upgrade my 2010 8-core Mac Pro (5,1) with the Asus GTX1060 6GB OC on my system running macOS 10.13.6 (high-sierra).

While still using my base card (ATI HD 5870), I installed the web driver and CUDA driver from NVIDIA and restarted. When it came back up, I went into the menu and clicked to enable web drivers and restarted again. When it came back up, it was still listing as “Default Graphics Driver”.

I even clicked the Web Drivers option and shut down instead of restarting, swapped the cards out and started back up. The GTX card doesn’t display and when remoting in with my iPad, it doesn’t recognize the GPU and still shows the menu as “Default Graphics Driver”.

The card has the white LED showing power is connected and the fans are spinning. So It is powered up, just not getting detected properly.

More info on the card:

• single 6-pin power
• using DVI for display

More info on the System:

• 6GB RAM
• 8-core
• 1TB HDD
• 512 GB SSD
• Latest OS/Patches

I’m completely lost as to what to do now. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

 

[howiest]

Did you perhaps install the recent Security Update Public Beta 2018-003?
If so, there's no compatible web driver at this time. As per usual these security updates break the Nvidia web drivers.

 

[h9826790]

Posted this on the Nvidia forums too. But MR has rarely failed me. Hoping for the same.

I’m trying to upgrade my 2010 8-core Mac Pro (5,1) with the Asus GTX1060 6GB OC on my system running macOS 10.13.6 (high-sierra).

While still using my base card (ATI HD 5870), I installed the web driver and CUDA driver from NVIDIA and restarted. When it came back up, I went into the menu and clicked to enable web drivers and restarted again. When it came back up, it was still listing as “Default Graphics Driver”.

I even clicked the Web Drivers option and shut down instead of restarting, swapped the cards out and started back up. The GTX card doesn’t display and when remoting in with my iPad, it doesn’t recognize the GPU and still shows the menu as “Default Graphics Driver”.

The card has the white LED showing power is connected and the fans are spinning. So It is powered up, just not getting detected properly.

More info on the card:

• single 6-pin power
• using DVI for display

More info on the System:

• 6GB RAM
• 8-core
• 1TB HDD
• 512 GB SSD
• Latest OS/Patches

I’m completely lost as to what to do now. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

You may try

1) Check if anything waiting for your approval in System Preference -> Security & Privacy -> General. If yes enable them, and try select web driver again.

2) Try using terminal command

sudo nvram nvda_drv=1

3) Try disable BOTH SIP and Gatekeeper, and select web driver again.

4) Try using the following terminal command with SIP disabled

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

You don't need all of them at the same time. Only try one at a time. The above is my recommended order.

 

[tsialex]

If you tested your GTX 1060 into a PC or another Mac Pro and it works, perhaps you have the same problem that some people with TITAN/TITAN X are having with NVRAM corruption.

Four different people here were having problems with TITAN and TITAN X GPUs working into one Mac and not into another, three of the four were NVRAM problems that were resolved with a BootROM reconstruction, just one had backplane problems.

 

[DJ Dilbert]

You may try

1) Check if anything waiting for your approval in System Preference -> Security & Privacy -> General. If yes enable them, and try select web driver again.

2) Try using terminal command

sudo nvram nvda_drv=1

3) Try disable BOTH SIP and Gatekeeper, and select web driver again.

4) Try using the following terminal command with SIP disabled

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

You don't need all of them at the same time. Only try one at a time. The above is my recommended order.

I’ll give those a go this week.

If you tested your GTX 1060 into a PC or another Mac Pro and it works, perhaps you have the same problem that some people with TITAN/TITAN X are having with NVRAM corruption.

Four different people here were having problems with TITAN and TITAN X GPUs working into one Mac and not into another, three of the four were NVRAM problems that were resolved with a BootROM reconstruction, just one had backplane problems.

Do you have any suggestions on where has those instructions?

Thanks both

 

[DJ Dilbert]

You may try

1) Check if anything waiting for your approval in System Preference -> Security & Privacy -> General. If yes enable them, and try select web driver again.

2) Try using terminal command

sudo nvram nvda_drv=1

3) Try disable BOTH SIP and Gatekeeper, and select web driver again.

4) Try using the following terminal command with SIP disabled

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

You don't need all of them at the same time. Only try one at a time. The above is my recommended order.

I'm just now getting around to trying this out after being sick for a few weeks. What are SIP and Gatekeeper? What could happen by disabling them? Is there anything I need to take precautions for?

 

[Synchro3]

I would first start macOS in safe mode (holding Shift), and then in system preferences -> security -> allow Nvidia driver

before playing with SIP and Gatekeeper.

 

[DJ Dilbert]

I would first start macOS in safe mode (holding Shift), and then in system preferences -> security -> allow Nvidia driver

before playing with SIP and Gatekeeper.

I tried that and it didn't work. I found another topic located here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/gtx-titan-x-flash.2016113/page-2#post-26097356 that fixed it by resetting my PRAM first. Then the web drivers worked after restart, installed the new GPU and it's working great now!