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need driver for Mac GeForce 6800 Ultra

I just purchased a Mac Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics card to replace my dying Mac Nvidia 9600 Pro.

Can't boot past the multi language restart message on startup.

Need the driver,and have tried so many locations online to no avail.

Someone out there have a driver I can download or software for this card?

need driver-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.5.8), geforce 6800 ultra

Posted on May 31, 2015 10:13 AM

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May 31, 2015 3:54 PM in response to minstrel1956

Just checking,but it's for sure not a PC card? It is a Mac ROM card?


I'm reasonably sure that 10.4.x & up have the extensions shown here,or later ones...


http://xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/mac_6800ultra_review/index.html


Here's the ones on my G5 Quad...


NVDANV10Hal.kext

NVDAResmanPPC.kext

NVDANV20Hal.kext

NVDANV30Hal.kext

NVDANV40Hal.kext

NVDANV40HalPPC.kext

NVDANV50Hal.kext

NVDAResman.kext


Here's the ones on my G4 Mini...


NVDANV10Hal.kext

NVDAResman.kext

NVDANV20Hal.kext

NVDANV30Hal.kext

NVDANV40Hal.kext

Jun 1, 2015 11:45 AM in response to BDAqua

I finally got it to work.

Removed the battery on motherboard and waited 15 minutes before putting it back in.

While waiting I removed the old card and put in the new one.

After the 15 min I booted and it recognised the card,no problem,checked graphics properties

and it showed the new card.

So I guess the battery is used to power the boot settings info,which had the old card in the startup sequence?

I am a newbie to Mac's and have built this PPC from the empty case to a great working machine.

The Specs are:


G5 PowerPC Tower with Dual PPC 2.0 MHz Processors

Mac Leopard 10.8 OS

250 GB Western Digital Caviar Hard Drive

250 GB Samsung Hard Drive (for Backup)

LG Multi DVD Burner

Mac Nvidia 6800 Ultra (256 MB) Graphics Card

4 GB Kingston Memory

Added Mac Bluetooth and Airport Extreme Cards with Mac external Antenas

Logitech Usb Wireless Keyboard and Mouse


This has been a learning experience since I usually only build PC's

I love this machine it Rocks.

need driver for Mac GeForce 6800 Ultra

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