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So I'm putting this here in the hopes that someone might know an answer, but more importantly to document the issue for anyone else searching the web.
I use my machine in both OSX and Windows. For gaming I boot into windows. The card I have is a PCI-E card that has beefy power requirements. Both the PCI-E power supplies on the MB are used to power the card. In 10.6 this was no problem. In 10.6.1 this was no problem. 10.6.2 and 10.6.3 will both cause the machine to KP during the boot up process, well before you can get into single user mode or safe mode. As of now, I have confirmed that by unplugging the video card's power, the card appears to go into some kind of "safe mode" with the fan fully on, and the machine will boot just fine. I'm going to try switching the video card slots to see if that makes a difference, but I think the Mac side has to have the primary video card in the first slot to work. Anyone else run into this before? Have any other suggestions? Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Sneaky Punk
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A Windows video card in your Mac Pro will cause a KP, if it is the only or first card installed.
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I shot the sherrif.
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Stupid thing is specific to OSX updates too, which is really F'ing annoying. I'll see what else I can try, but I don't think I have any other options at this point other than unplugging it when I want to boot into OSX or reverting back to 10.6.1 or 10.6. Very annoying knowing that there's nothing wrong with the machine, software or third party hardware but I still can't get it to boot. Anyone know if there's a way to tell OSX that a specific PCI-E slot is disabled at a very low level, so that during the boot up process it just ignores that slot? Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Sneaky Punk
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Everything I've read online about this issue says that you have to unplug it, unless you want to mess with the machines firmware (which is risky).
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I shot the sherrif.
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Have you come across any reason why it works in previous builds of OSX but not .2 and later? That's what really annoys me. If I downgrade back to 10.6.1 I'll be fine, but there are some annoying quirks that are fixed in 10.6.2 (printer drivers for an HP printer I have to be exact) that it would be nice to have fixed.
Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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I suspect Apple has done it to push people into buying the HD4870.
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I shot the sherrif.
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Quirky, weird update.
Apparently, if you hold down the alt key during the boot process to select from either the Windows boot drive or the Mac boot drive, then proceed to select the Mac boot drive, it will boot just fine. (sometimes. other times it KP's again. what a piece of CRAP.) If you have your machine set to boot into OSX by default and *don't* manually select the boot drive, it kernel panics. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Well, you cannot expect a video card without EFI firmware to be problem free in a machine with EFI firmware.
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I shot the sherrif.
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If anyone can point me in the right direction to editing out the availability of this PCI-E slot in my Macs EFI please feel free. I can always restore it if I hose it up too badly. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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It is used! By being plugged in its memory gets allocated address space, drivers get loaded, etc, etc... It's quite possible that something Apple has put in to fix one of its own display issues is causing the Windows card to barf!
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I shot the sherrif.
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I boot into Windows for gaming, and a high quality windows gaming card is less than half as much as the closest actual Mac supported video card. Plus this one also has passive cooling, meaning less noise. The Mac ones didn't.
It just annoys me that it would work no problem in their initial builds of 10.6, and then fail so catastrophically down the line for a card that OS X won't even use anyway. The stock graphics card is still in the machine, and still in the primary PCI-E slot. This is just the second card. If there were some way to just tell the EFI to ignore that slot I would be happy. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Have you tried asking Apple? You'd probably need to talk to an OS engineer, which is doubtful over the phone, but maybe possible through the developer program. And yes, it is frustrating to have an OS update bork it. |
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