Mac OS 10.6.7 & Nvidia Quadro 4000

[Mr_P]

If you are considering upgrading to MacOS 10.6.7 and are using an Nvidia Quadro 4000 graphics card - you must also upgrade the Nvidia Quadro 4000 drivers:

Nvidia Quadro 4000 Driver (10.6.7):
Retail_256.01.00f03v7.dmg (http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro_Certified/256.01.00f03/Retail_256.01.00f03v7.dmg)
(web page (http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/quadro-macosx-256.01.00f03v7-driver-uk.html))

Nvidia CDUA Driver (10.6.5 onwards):
CUDA 3.2.17 driver for MAC (http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Mac/Quadro_Certified/3.2.17/cudadriver_3.2.17_macos.dmg?&rfrr=www.nvidia.co.uk)
(web page (http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/macosx-cuda-3.2.17-driver-uk.html))

Otherwise, you may experience Catalyst crash at startup with previous Nvidia Quadro 4000 drivers.

Nvidia Quadro 4000 drivers must be downloaded from the Nvidia website - the drivers included in MacOS 10.6.6 / 10.6.7 dont work... (!)

Suggest downloading the Quadro 4000 .DMG file before upgrading to 10.6.7 - as safari seemed to crash too, once 10.6.7. was upgraded (before Quadro 4000 upgrade...)

1) Download Quadro 4000 .DMG
2) Download & Upgrade 10.6.7
3) Upgrade Quadro 4000 driver


Simon