#Old mac pro video cards mac os#
is a great site dedicated to those who build "hacintosh" computers out of pc parts and they have a lot of in depth information on getting mac os to work on intel based builds including the latest release of mac os sierra.
#Old mac pro video cards drivers#
If it's an nvidia based gpu then you could be in luck as nvidia does post drivers for "pc" based nvidia cards to be used in macs. Need to know exactly what video card you are using in your mac, even if it's the base one installed originally. I'm guessing that you have one of the three mac pros (1,1) listed here * Is there a trick to making a PC card work or are the ones I've tried just incompatible?
I do not want to spend a lot of money on a new card. I tried several using the native card and a new card and it shows a screen that says you need to pick which speed for different slots, but none of them actually produces any video either by itself or on a second monitor with the native one still installed. I have several PC cards but the computer just doesn't recognize them. It will open links but it is really annoying. The guy in the video said that it would need a new video card to just use a PC card as a new Mac card would be really expensive and that the only drawback would be a blank screen until it booted.Īctually, the only video problem with the video card that came with it that I've seen is only in browsers, where the cursor or the hand that clicks links has a white trail around it. I came across the trick to put El Capitan on it and it worked. No new browsers since Lion isn't a supported OS any more. I was so frustrated because it couldn't run any of the Mac OS's past Lion and software was becoming uncompatible (e.g. I'm new here, so go easy on me I wasn't sure if I should post this on the video card forum or the Mac forum, so if I put this in the wrong place, just let me know.