5770 removal

[Robert Houllahan]

There is a little clip on the PCIe slot towards the front of the machine which you have to push up to get the card lose. You will have to install two power cables for the 285 (they should be supplied with the card) they attach to the Mac Pro logic board towards the front of the machine.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

Mackbook Pro

[Sean Kapleton]

ok so the coord and black plastic bottom all come with the card when I slide it out of the slot? I selling the ati on amazon for $200 to try to make something back for the nvidea purchases so I need to make sure it’s got everything and is not damaged during removal. just want to be sure and careful – the extreme card was easy to install.
thank you

[Sean Kapleton]

thank you for your reply!

So i have added 2 pics which i just took – you can see the ATI in slot 1 still and the extreme3D in slot 3 but it is still not clear to me where you mean to unclip – is it where the wire is plugged in from the ATI’s single black cord or further towards the power button (front) of the machine? As you mentioned I do see 2 black cords in the box with the 285.

sorry to be a newbie just never had to remove something like this – i have only installed BMD cards and nothing else. Any more specifics would be awesome or if anyone else can chime in having also done this procedure.
thank you

[Bastiaan Houtkooper nsc]

You will have to move that shiny little stainless steal bar, just above your motherboard.
You can push it to the left. There is a knob or handle somewhere to do it more elegant but usuallly I just push it a bit and pull the card in one go.
(The plastic clip was only on the older models.)

Resolve system:
MacPro 8 core 2010 – 16B memory
9TB harddisk (1 system disk, 8TB in software raid 0 for data)
Nvidea GTX285
Nvidea GT120
Blackmagic SDI Decklink
RedRocketcard.
Tangent Wave panel
Transvideo 15″ Cinemontor Evolution

Also running it on a MacBook Pro 17″ (5.2)

[Jens Herold]

Hi,
please do not just push the shiny bar!
I’m sure you will damage the whole mechanism.
Please look to page 76 in the Mac Pro Manual.
https://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Mac_Pro_Mid2010_UG_5686.pdf
“Press the button on the PCI slider and move the slider to the left, which moves the retention bar.”

happy new year!

Jens
creative tools
Hamburg, Germany
https://www.creativetools.de/products/davinci.html

[Holger Hessinger]

To move the steelbar the right way, push the tiny white button on the grey fan-enclosure at the back of the PCI-Slots and slide it away from your PCI-Cards. The steelbar will move to the same direction. After that action it´s much easier to pull the cards.

Holger

[Uli Plank]

The knob is on the grey, rounded plastic box at the far end of the card slots. The whole box tilts a bit if you press it from the card side and frees the cards by moving the metal bar.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Sean Kapleton]

hey uli thanks for the reply

still not so sure about how to do this…maybe I just call BMD or apple for phone support.
thanks for trying!
cheers
sean

[Margus Voll]

Press the button that sits on gray box left from ati.

Slide gray box to the left until the metal bar under ati moves to the left and releases ati.

You also have to remove metal plate on bays that is removed by unscrewing 2
screws either by hand or by a tool. Then slide metal plate dow a bit and remove.

Now ati is free and you can pull it out gently.

Put in new gpu and do things in reverse.

—

Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Sean Kapleton]

Margus you are THE MAN!!
i actually figured it out myself this morning but just saw your post and have to thank you for taking the time to do this!

I gotta say i really love this community and forum – my girlfriend makes fun of me for being on it all the time – especially last night as I posted in bed from my iphone my now seemingly stupid question…anyways thanks to you and everyone who has the patience to help out newbies.

cheers
sean

ps. I have both my 23″ ACD’s plugged into the 285 but I do recall reading many times in this forum about how one has to switch monitors to the 120 for Color or maybe one of them? I will search the forum now to dig up the answer but is this still the case? I ask because I just launched a previous color project with the monitors plugged into the 285 and everything seemed fine – am I missing something here?