EFI GTX 570 crashing on boot…

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EFI GTX 570 crashing on boot…

Posted by Pedro Conforti on August 30, 2012 at 3:36 am

Hi there,

after a long wait (due to brazillian customs law), I’ve finally got my GTX 570 to use with Resolve, with the modded firmware by macvidcards. Installed it inside my 3,1 Mac Pro (slot 1), next to my old GT 120 on slot 2. Turn the Mac on, and first boot went fine: I could see both cards happy together on my Snow Leopard 10.6.8 System Information window.

But after installing the Quadro 4000 driver and the certified 4.0.19 CUDA driver, the installer reeboted the machine. I heard the boot sound, apple symbol showed up, gray screen came in and then… nothing. I was staring at the spinning symbol for some time, until it froze. Hard drives went on sleep and the machine just hanged.

So here’s everything I have tried to far:

– boot a few other times: same problem;
– boot in safe mode: immediately some text came over the apple screen (looking like old MS-DOS)
– boot using a different system disk (same 10.6.8 and drivers installed though): same problem
– boot from Mac OSX 10.6 installation DVD: same problem (so drivers installation was not the problem, right?)
– boot without the GT 120 (and monitor connected to the GTX 570): same problem, but instead of hanging on the gray screen, the “you need to restart your computer” screen with creepy “curtain” effect shows up
– exchange slots: same problem

So the only way I could boot normally again was by removing the GTX570 from the Mac Pro. Then I’ve tried a few other times to insert it back, but the problem would come back again.

I am not sure what is going on because the card was recognized at first, but after reebooting to finish the driver installation I couldn’t use it anymore. I’ve sent a message today to David asking for help, but got an automatic reply from eBay informing that the shop will be closed until september 7th, so I don’t know if he will be able to help before that. But I have a project with a serious deadline problem and was counting on this to finish it… so if anyone could PLEASE help me on this anyhow I would be very thankful!

Pedro

Pedro Conforti :: Colorist
Link Digital
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Mac Pro 8 core 2.26Ghz 48Gb RAM
OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)
GTX 570 2.5Gb
Tangent Element
Decklink HD Extreme 3D

Ori Dè rascher replied 13 years, 6 months ago 9 Members · 20 Replies
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Rohit Gupta
August 30, 2012 at 3:55 am

Can you try to boot up with the GT120, and install Mountain Lion on a new partition. Once you have installed it, can you try to put back the 570 and check if it works.
David Chai
August 30, 2012 at 4:04 am

Just use a normal PC evga 570, just need lo

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David Chai
August 30, 2012 at 4:05 am

Just use a normal PC evga 570 2.5GB, just need lion 10.7.4, latest nvidia drivers and latest cuda, works without flashing.

David

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David Baud
August 30, 2012 at 4:15 am

I believe you need to have the CUDA driver version 5.0.17 installed for the nVIDIA GTX 570 card. I am guessing that the Quadro 4000 will be just fine with the same driver.

David Baud
Editor & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com
Pedro Conforti
August 30, 2012 at 4:30 am

Thanks for the reply, Rohit. I’ve just purchased Mountain Lion on App Store, so I am downloading it right now…

Meanwhile I have tried resetting the PRAM and also booting in 64bit mode. No luck. :/

Will try your suggestion and write back with the results.

Thanks

Pedro Conforti :: Colorist
Link Digital
———————–

Mac Pro 8 core 2.26Ghz 48Gb RAM
OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)
GTX 570 2.5Gb
Tangent Element
Decklink HD Extreme 3D
Pedro Conforti
August 30, 2012 at 4:37 am

Thanks David… but would the lack of this driver cause the machine to crash on boot like this?

Last time I’ve checked, BlackMagic recommended version 4.0.19. Are you using 5.0.17 with a GTX570, with a Quadro or something else?

And which NVIDIA driver (not CUDA) version?

Thanks,

Pedro

Pedro Conforti :: Colorist
Link Digital
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Mac Pro 8 core 2.26Ghz 48Gb RAM
OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)
GTX 570 2.5Gb
Tangent Element
Decklink HD Extreme 3D
Juan Salvo
August 30, 2012 at 5:04 am

Have you followed Dave’s instruction for installation in the macvidcards site?

https://macvidcards.com/2011/29/fermi-cards-come-to-the-mac-pro/

Colorist | Online Editor | Post Super | VFX Artist | BD Author

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David Baud
August 30, 2012 at 5:50 am

Hello Pedro,

My MacPro 4,1 system setup is different than yours: I use an ATI Radeon HD 5770 in slot-1 and the nVIDIA GTX 570 in slot-2. In order to install the driver for the nVIDIA card I followed the instruction there:

https://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-270.00.00f06-driver.html

For the record I did not flash my EVGA GTX 570 card since I am using it headless (just for GPU).
It says you need to have Lion installed (OS 10.7.4), but I don’t know if you can still make it work with Snow Leopard.

Yes I believe if your system does not recognize your graphics card in slot-1, it could crash when trying to boot…

I hope this help,

David Baud
Editor & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com
Margus Voll
August 30, 2012 at 6:03 am

sometimes you need to swap the cards from slot1 to slot2

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Margus

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DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro
Juan Salvo
August 30, 2012 at 6:18 am

Pedro I just noticed your signature, are you using Snow Leopard? SL does not support the 500 series cards, only 400. Lion and Mountain Lion support 500s and Mountain Lion also supports 600s. This is all spelled out on the macvidcards site.

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