Q: ATI Radeon HD 5770 in MacPro 1,1

Hi Grant

i have the kanex dvi, it does not recognise my other monitor. is there a thunderbolt driver i need to install??

jim

The Mac does not use special drivers for individual displays -- it customizes its driver with the data provided by the display when connected.

There is no known way to light up a ThunderBolt display except with a computer manufactured with a ThunderBolt port, of which the 65lb Mac Pro tower is not a member.

The Kanex adapters I can find do not say ACTIVE prominently in their advertising. To light up three displays, you will need all adapters to be ACTIVE. Debug it with just two to see whether it would work if you had ALL the right adapters.

Thank you grant i have tried everything but can not seem to get it working

oh well keep on trying

jim

how much are you willing to sale the 5770 card for? i have the same kind of mac and i would like to try it  since i was considering buying one?

Same MacPro, same card, same anomaly on my 30' display.

I found a solution to this.

When the coloured snow lines appear after the startup, I press the power button on the MacPro to sent it to sleep mode.

So when i goes to sleep, I wait for a few seconds for the drives to stop spinning and the wake from sleep and everything is ok.

Some times I can see dark lines at the display that goes away after a while.

/ Vangelis.

I use this card on MacPro1,1 ,but the card's fan can't spin automatically. Sometimes I need use my hand to spin the fan. Why?

Okay this was your first post into forum and thread and have to ask you DarrenHsu,

Was or is this an Apple version of the card or not? a PC version? flashed?

And you have 10.6.5 or later (drivers were messy in 10.6.5 so later).

An SMC Reset - power on with it unplugged and all cables pulled for 10 seconds only, then reconnect.

With a "clean" 10.6.8 so avoid all problems.

iStatPro or Temperature Monitor - what are you seeing for fans and thermal sensors incl. FBDIMMs, RAM can cause odd problems. Amazon has excellent kit of 2x2GB $28.95 - unbelievable.

And of course good 6-pin aux power connection.

I bought the card at 4/2 from apple store. The OS is 10.7.5. I reset SMC & nvram ,but doesn't work. Sould I need to reinstall the system?

take the card back. take the mac in. no the system should not need to be but updating to lion over 10.6.8 which accumulated old stuff... clean lean and the less is more to a good solid system

as I said I would not even trust fbdimms. they age and die from heat releated stress. those new ones on amazon run cold while earlier fbdimms ran 10-15*C hotter and too hot really.

If the card's fan does not spin automatically, the card is defective. If still under warranty, have the seller repair or replace it. There is no point in debugging a broken part -- the repaired one may work fine.

Did you plug in the power supply cable?

Update

I've been operating for 3 months now without any issues.  I followed all reset suggestions and what not and thankfully have not had the problem in some time.  I can't say that one specific thing cured the problem but for now, I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping this problem is a thing of the past.

Hello CRboy27. So, do you actually own a Mac Pro 1,1 (2006) and installed an ATI RADEON HD5770 like the one are selling in apple store http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC742ZM/A/ati-radeon-hd-5770-graphics-upgrade- kit-for-mac-pro-%28mid-2010%29 and this is working OK for you? I have one Mac Pro 1,1, the original video card got broken and need to buy a new one. This HD5770 is going to work to me? However, I understand that you kept the originally shipped NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT, so you are running both cards in your machine.

Bringing this up to the talking, it is possible that just using the 5770 is not going to be enough to me,  and my computer won't run, don't you think? I will appreciate your advice.

Thanks in advance

The Apple-frimware 5770 (about US$250) works in every model Mac Pro, and Drivers are in 10.6.5 and later. A genuine Apple card will include the one required 6-pin aux power cable in the box.

A PC-only card does not contain the firmware needed to show a picture under Mac OS X. Some PC cards flashed to Apple firmware do not show the Startup screens, which makes Alternate booting and debugging difficult.

Have a Mac Pro 1.1 with the original GeForce 7300 GT and am considering upgradding to the Radeon 5770.  What performance gains could I expect?  I have looked all over and can't seem to find what the benefits of upgrading are. 

Running OSX 10.7.5