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10.9.3 kills third monitor

The setup: 2 x 30" Cinema Displays connected via dual-port mini-DP to DVI adapters, connected to thunderbolt ports, and 50" TV connected to HDMI port, in new Mac Pro. All three monitors were working on 10.9.2, only one Cinema display and TV show up after update. Mac Pro has dual FireProD500 cards, 32 GB RAM, 12 cores.

Not sure if this is isolated to new Mac Pro's: older models with two mini-display ports and DVI to HDMI adapter may or may not still work.

Had to restore back to 10.9.2 to get all three monitors working again. Maybe they would work with mini-DP to DP cables? Not sure, have no way to test.

More users with same issue:


http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/30200

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on May 16, 2014 12:26 AM

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May 16, 2014 6:35 PM in response to Steve Guluk

The 10.9.3 update disabled my second monitor as well, on my 2008 Mac Pro. It was just fine in 10.9.2.


I have another internal drive that still has a bare-bones 10.9 system; I can boot from that, and the second monitor comes back on, as happy as can be. That's not a solution, though - I have to boot from the primary drive to get anything done at all.


Very frustrating.

May 17, 2014 9:29 PM in response to James Weisbin2

To everyone who hasn't seen this -


gatd4



down load kext utility here http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/Kext-Utility.shtml


download Kexts here https://www.dropbox.com/s/a510p6a9immdboc/Kexts.zip


unzip the file


delete all Geforce and NVDA kexts located in your system/library/extensions


open kext utility and drop the all the kext files you downloaded on the window


wait till complete


reboot


now all monitors working again!


*****


gatd4's solution worked perfectly for me! It might not work for non-NVDIA Macs, but it worked on my 2008 Mac Pro. Thank goodness - good luck!

May 17, 2014 10:11 PM in response to James Weisbin2

Hopefully Apple Engineers sort this issue but us Desktop developers and users are second place to the moble users. We are but beta testers for releases that used to be solid.


Again, "Hopefully" this gets sorts soon or that Apple OS programers are aware of the problem.


The backup solution for me personally created a very unstable environment. I had to go back and take the upgrade and lose the second monitor... 😟

10.9.3 kills third monitor

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