Dell Precision 670 - Paxville - BIOS A07 - GT210 black screen (ML & M)

[vanguart]

ML and Mavericks are 64bit kernel only... 32/64bit kernels stopped at Lion. Will look at your IOReg + DSDT tonight.

Ook, thx

[vanguart]

Just tried booting  just only with -v . no results.

boot -f -v . ok ,

the App"s seems slow ..

[Hervé]

A couple of things with kext cache:

1. make sure your AMD kernel is copied as 'mach_kernel' at HDD's root.
2. if myHack/myFix do not seem to rebuild cache properly, do it manually with following Terminal commands:

• sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
• ls -l /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/

You should see something like that once kext cache has finished rebuild:

pc30:~ admin$ ls -l /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/
total 33992
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     89429 Jun  1 19:17 IOKitPersonalities_i386.ioplist.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     89429 Jun  1 19:18 IOKitPersonalities_x86_64.ioplist.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        41 Jun  1 19:17 KextPropertyValues_OSBundleHelper_i386.plist.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        41 Jun  1 19:18 KextPropertyValues_OSBundleHelper_x86_64.plist.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  17214481 Jun  1 19:18 kernelcache
pc30:~ admin$ 

[Hervé]

Hi, try the attached /Extra. It's basically a mirror copy of my ML 10.8.5 /Extra folder in which I have replaced my DSDT by your DSDT patched with details of your nVidia GeForce G210 as taken from your IOReg dump. I've also patched Device (PCI0) so that the root _UID is changed from 4 to 0 (so no need to boot with PciRoot=x or PCIRootUID=x).

 

Replace your existing /Extra with the attached, the re-run myFix (quick).

Extra.zip

 

You can also use the attached HWMonitor app to monitor CPU and GPU T° and frequencies. Place it in /Applications folder, run it, then click on the Finder's bar icon to go to Preferences (via gearing  icon in top right corner of pop-down menu) where I recommend you don't select 'Check for updates' and select 'Start HWMonitor at login'.

HWMonitor.zip

 

 

Let me know how it goes but everything should work, you have exactly the same Precision 670 as me, graphics card and DSP/IO cards apart.

[vanguart]

make sure your AMD kernel is copied as 'mach_kernel' at HDD's root.
- Yes !
 
But your new boot pack doesnt working, i got black screen, no boot , no cameleon screen .
why ?

[Hervé]

Did you boot with any flags or options? Just use -f -v.

[vanguart]

here is a little modified . please see the changes i"ve done.

System booted fast, no needed -f , or -x .

 

why is it ?

-> arch=x86_64 ? is 32 and 64 ??

 

I think the main problem is your patch (video card patch) is not working from your DSDT.

 

 

Vanguart modified EXTRA.zip

[vanguart]

Did you boot with any flags or options? Just use -f -v.

I can not digit it, cause i cant get cameleon screen , the system get black screen (total) after de cursor stop  in the screen.

[Hervé]

arch=x86_64 -> 64bit kernel mode. That's the only supported kernel mode in ML or Mav, so it's the default mode with those.

 

I see you're back with your EFI string, so if this works for you, keep it!

 

Here is the code I had entered in your raw DSDT:

                Device (GFX0)
                {
                    Name (_ADR, Zero)
                    Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized)
                    {
                        Store (Package (0x16)
                            {
                                "AAPL,slot-name", 
                                "PCIe x16", 
                                "@0,compatible", 
                                Buffer (0x0B)
                                {
                                    "NVDA,NVMac"
                                }, 
                                "@0,device_type", 
                                Buffer (0x08)
                                {
                                    "display"
                                }, 
                                "@0,name", 
                                Buffer (0x0F)
                                {
                                    "NVDA,Display-A"
                                }, 
                                "@1,compatible", 
                                Buffer (0x0B)
                                {
                                    "NVDA,NVMac"
                                }, 
                                "@1,device_type", 
                                Buffer (0x08)
                                {
                                    "display"
                                }, 
                                "@1,name", 
                                Buffer (0x0F)
                                {
                                    "NVDA,Display-B"
                                }, 
                                "NVCAP", 
                                Buffer (0x14)
                                {
                                    /* 0000 */   0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00,
                                    /* 0008 */   0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x07,
                                    /* 0010 */   0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00
                                }, 
                                "VRAM,totalsize", 
                                Buffer (0x04)
                                {
                                     0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x40
                                }, 
                                "device_type", 
                                Buffer (0x0C)
                                {
                                    "NVDA,Parent"
                                }, 
                                "model", 
                                Buffer (0x13)
                                {
                                    "nVidia GeForce 210"
                                }
                            }, Local0)
                        DTGP (Arg0, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, RefOf (Local0))
                        Return (Local0)
                    }
                }

 

And here is the code your EFI string converts to (with PCI root still set to 4):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>PciRoot(0x4)/Pci(0x4,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
<dict>
<key>@0,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@0,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@0,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-A</string>
<key>@1,compatible</key>
<string>NVDA,NVMac</string>
<key>@1,device_type</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>@1,name</key>
<string>NVDA,Display-B</string>
<key>NVCAP</key>
<data>
BAAAAAAAAwAEAAAAAAAABwAAAAA=
</data>
<key>NVPM</key>
<data>
AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
</data>
<key>VRAM,totalsize</key>
<string>0x40000000</string>
<key>device_type</key>
<string>NVDA,Parent</string>
<key>model</key>
<string>nVidia GeForce 210</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>display</string>
<key>rom-revision</key>
<string>nVidia GeForce 210 OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

or

 

The only thing I did not include in the DSDT patch is the NVPM info. So, here it is:

dsdt.aml.zip

[vanguart]

tried it, with your new boot pack, doesnt working , video card fail (black Screen).
Pro Tools Hd10 seems slow , 2 min to start , in SL 10.6.8 with your boot pack (no mixed pack) Pro Tools Hd10 starts in 25 seconds
and without your boot pack he gets 2 min too