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February 15th, 2023 00:00
Aurora R7, AMD Radeon 7970 Dual-X
Hi all
I just got the Aurora R7 second hand, it came with the standard i5 8400, 8gb DDR4, GTX 1060.
I pulled my AMD Radeon 7970 Dual-X oc ed from my old desktop and fitted it in the Aurora R7. At first it worked but now I get no picture at boot to access bios.
I run Windows 10 and macOS Catalina dual booted with clover and all installed on Gpt disks using UEFI. The Aurora R7 Bios upgraded during first boot and setting up and updating drivers and stuff. It was in legacy mode just booting Windows 10.
I changed a few bios settings, switched to UEFI in bios, set it up for booting macOS, etc, I also without thinking enabled Secure Boot.
Now when i boot i get no picture at all from my radeon,. If i put the 1060 back in it works great, but nothing from the radeon, ive reset bios,. Removed battery etc, still nothing, not even in legacy. I put my radeon back in my old system, boots fine and works no problem in uefi with secure boot on or off.
Can anyone please advise, what can i try next?
I really like the 1060 however Nvidia cards, pascal,. Will not work on macos, no drivers or support so i really need my radeon working in the R7. Im so frustrated, this R7 is a complete mystery.
ProfessorW00d
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February 15th, 2023 05:00
Put the Dell OEM GTX 1060 back in so you can boot into BIOS and disable Secure Boot. Then try your 3rd party graphics card.
GrayG70
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February 15th, 2023 07:00
Thanks yes it boots fine in Legacy however thats no good to me i need uefi,. So i left uefi on and disabled secure boot,. Still no joy. Turns out my vga bios is not uefi,. So i reflashed its bios if a uefi one,. Went smoothly no issue, do again i reset bios on r7 and tried booting with secure boot on,. Still no joy which is odd considering my vga bios should now allow the card to work with secure boot. I disabled secure boot in boot section and removed factory boot keys in secure boot in security section and disabled it and left uefi on,. Still no joy. Seems this system is completely geared around win 10 and wont work at all with my card except in legacy boot which is no use to me. On my old computer i had a gigabyte board with uefi and secure boot and my radeon worked fine.
I feel my only solution is to ditch the mobo, buy a new one by gigabyte and rebuild system in my old case based on this i5 8400. Its a shame but theres nothing more to try, appears to be this strange board Dell have used.
Vanadiel
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February 15th, 2023 14:00
Mac OS is not supported on a non-mac device like an Aurora R7. So you will run into all kind of issues.
I am not aware of any PC directly supporting Mac OS as it's not within the Apple licensing agreement.
GrayG70
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February 15th, 2023 15:00
Ok thats an off reply indeed considering how long the hackintosh scene has been around. My previous custom build was from rsearching parts all compatible with mac, i.e I5, motherboard, Amd gpu etc and was built referring to info on a mac hardware site,. Hence Macos has been installing directly with all drivers directly to my hdd for the last 6 years, the only addition was eindows on a seperate hdd and Clover, now opencore installed to the Uefi,. Not hard,. People run multiple operating systems these days. Sorry if that sounds salty but youre reply is completely devoid of any substance to my post.
Anyway thanks all for the replys, the 1060 is now working with Nvidia webdrivers on Macos Monterey do when ive time ill just update to that.
Vanadiel
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February 15th, 2023 16:00
I am well aware of the Hackintosh community. but in the end it's not supported on a PC, hence the reason why you run into all kind of issues. Same reason why Windows 10 works fine, because that is supported.