video card upgrade

[Fl0r!an]

Your card could be modified to show boot screens on other ports as well, the seller just doesn't know better. But I guess if he was competent at all he wouldn't have to rip of Mac Users with 6+ year old GPUs.

I'd return the card and do it myself properly.

 

[hotrod351]

as the link about the card stated = 60 day money back, no questions asked. yeah i dont get it. im not going to sit with my head all the way back looking at my hdtv screen, and im certainly not going to buy another display when i have a beautiful 20" Apple Cinema Display that has served me well for many years. seeing as it boots fast though the dvi then i guess the original apple HD5770 would work and boot as fast though DVI
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thanks orph, ill check them out.
[doublepost=1458485537][/doublepost]maybe he will fix this card so it will boot properly on DVI
[doublepost=1458486848][/doublepost]the seller also sells these that will boot though DVI with boot screen. so there is a way of making this HD5770 boot fast without having to go though the VGA, but with the DVI. how difficult is that to do.

 

[hotrod351]

pulled it out and put my old NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB back in. at least it works properly.

 

[orph]

how meany displays do you need to run?
is it just one hdtv display and one apple display, i assumed you ran a lot of displays as you mentioned having 4 GPU's installed before.
if you do just need 2 displays look at the nvidia sticky https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...out-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/

as i mentioned i have a GTX 660 from EVGA in my macpro 3.1 on osx 10.10 it's just a pc card no flashing or messing around just one power cable + the card i have 2 DVI ports that work & a hdmi port which works (and can send sound to my TV when watching films etc) + a display port (or something never used it but assume it works fine)
you can grab them cheep on ebay used

edit
at the mo i have two 1080p displays pluged in via DVI + my tv via hdmi works fine

 

[hotrod351]

my model came with 4 video cards, thats just how i got it. anyway i now have a flashed HD5770 and it works perfect. both DVI and HDMI outputs work as they should. now i can enjoy Yosemite.

 

[orph]

cool have fun ^^

 

[gpzjock]

I flashed my own Sapphire Vapor-X HD5870, no boot screen but boots from SSD in 15 seconds on a MP 3,1. Shame they can't all be like that. Glad you got a 5770 that works as you want.