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Luckily for me the GTX card was active and could be seen even without the two additional power feeds. I plugged the two power cables into the RADEON card, the GTX680 DID NOT have the extra power cords running to it so I was worried it would not be visible. **NOTE: To recover the вЂdeadвЂ™ GTX card after I uploaded the corrupted firmware I had to move the GTX card into another PCI slot and reinstall the original RADEON into the main bottom slot to get any video display back. REMEMBER you follow my instructions at your OWN RISK, if it goes wrong itвЂ™s down to you!

Worked for me and, other than the silly mistake with corrupt firmware upload, took about 20 minutes. Once the process has finished you will get a confirmation and are now ready to reboot into OSX with a fully working MacEdition GTX680 You will usually have to confirm a couple of items with a вЂYвЂ™ or вЂYesвЂ™ donвЂ™t worry this is normal! Type the following command into the command line window

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Now is the scary bit, updating the card with Mac firmware. rom вЂ“В This backs up your original firmware to disk, just in case you need to restore a corrupt card like me!) вЂњnvflash -b mygpubackup.romвЂќ (NOTE: mygpubackup.rom can be any name you want followed by. In the command line that appears type the following Launch the NVFlash app by opening the folder it is in, then holding shift, right clicking in the window and choosing вЂ Open Command Window hereвЂ from the popup menu. BIN again and load this rom onto your card it will brick your GTX вЂ“ black screen, no booting, dead machine (I did this and had more work to do to restore back to working order**)!Дownload both of these files whilst booted into windows, place the unzipped and renamed gtењ†80mac.rom file in the same folder as the NVFLASH application.

BIN file once unzipped, if you unzip the. ROM вЂ“ Unzipped file size should be 218,112 bytes, DO NOT decompress the. *You need to Unzip the BIN then change the. BIN files you may have downloaded from elsewhere). (Right click and вЂDownload linked File asвЂ™ вЂ“ This version is already unzipped and ready for flashing вЂ“ Instructions below are for use with.

The Mac GTX firmware is available here.

The NVIDIA GPU flash utility required is, NVFLASH for Windows.

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I was already running a windows 7 32bit bootcamp partition so this was no problem.

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You need to have bootcamp enabled and running on your Mac Pro as all the firmware flashing tools are PC only. I decided to flash the PC card into the MacEdition version. I also noticed in System Profiler that looking at the PCI bus info showed errors and no info, it could see the GTX card in Graphics/Display, but something was not quite right.

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Not usually a problem but, if you want to hold down the ALT key during startup to change boot disks, have a password protected EFI or want to run a disk repair, you are stuck. It turns out that this is normal behavious for PC video cards, you get no video (no grey Apple logo) during booting until OSX loads the video drivers. Turned on the Mac Pro вЂ“ black screen but noises of booting? After a few moment the OSX login screen popped up. Installing the PC card using the two power cables that were already fitted for the Radeon GPU, was easy. So onto Amazon and a PC EVGA GTX680 2GBВ was ordered. However the MacEdition was ВЈ140 more than the PC one! The Yorkshire in me kicked in, and after a little Google action, it seemed that the EVGA standard cards can be flashed into Mac versions, the firmware being the only difference.

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Mac editions of the Nvidia GTX680 and the AMDВ Sapphire HD 7950 were available and had good reviews on BareFeats for the Apps we use.ДЄfter some more research, a GTX680 wasВ decided onВ as it is the same card as the new (well reviewed for FCPX) iMacs, plus the CUDA cores work with Adobe apps. So new machines were considered, but a little research pointed me in the direction of a simple GPU update. Day to day Creative Suite work and renders in FCPX, Motion and AE run really quick, however the original 512MBВ ATI Radeon HD 4870 was starting to show itвЂ™s age with some plugins and effects, most notably anything 3D or lighting/lens flare effects. IN the office one of the machines is anВ early 2009-Intel Xeon X5550 (4,1) maxed out with 32GB RAM an SSD boot drive and 8 CPU cores hooked up to a 30вЂі Cinema display. This post is going to be a little nerdy but, I hope, useful.