7800GS in a MDD G4

I have a dual 1.25GHz MDD G4 Mac (originally dual 1.0GHz) and a BFG GeForce 7800GS with the copper heatsink.
I flashed the card with the ROM from themacelite.com described as "GeForce 7800 GS generic (nvflash, gotoh), tmeperature sensor removed for G4 running Leo (gotoh) ²" successfully and taped over pins 3 and 11.
I have both OS 9.2.2 and 10.5.8 on my MDD, and have been trying to figure out how to get this card working. I modified NVDAResmanPPC.kext and NVDANV40HalPPC.kext and added my card's numbers (0x00f510de) and repaired the disk permissions both from inside of 10.5 AND from the 10.5 DVD, yet when I reboot with my card installed, I get 2 popups saying (System Extension cannot be used: blah blah blah, was installed improperly and cannot be used"
If I go to System Profiler, the card registers as a 7800GS, but Core Image is "software" and Quartz Extreme is "Not Supported".
If I run a game like Halo Demo, it doesn't open, giving me an error saying "An unrecoverable error has occured, and Halo Demo cannot continue.", which I assume means it found no OpenGL card.
What do I do? Any suggestions? I see japamac has a 7800GS in his QS, and has played with a Gainward Bliss 7800GS too. Help please? Thanks!

japamac wrote:
Your kext mod isn't taking, likely you didn't clear the kextcache.
Disk Utility doesn't do well with kext permissions. Use Terminal:
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/any.kext
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/any.kext
kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions
Find the following and trash them:
/System/Library/Extensions.kextcache and
/System/Library/Extensions.mkext
After trashing the kexts, restart.
x_x So everything was working ok until I installed Virtual PC 7, and it broke something in Leopard.
So I reinstalled fresh after erasing the drive, updated to 10.5.8, then changed the kext files again. Upon reboot I was greeted with "System Extension can not be used" etc and did what you said for each of the 3 kext files and trashed the Extensions.mkext. Extensions.kextcache doesnt exist in my Mac, even when showing hidden files. After all that, I rebooted and now Im stuck at a blue screen with only a movable mouse. Safe mode of course still works. Ideas? Thanks.

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    This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
    Here is KB article HT1776 with their tips.
    Mine follow;
    USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.If you've set your Mac to receive faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.
    If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Receive Faxes On This Computer box.
    If that doesn't work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password).
    If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
    Hope this helps!
    P.S. One member here reported this (Michael Gleason);
    "I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
    Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB cards.
    Also, here is Apple doc.#305262 about PCI cards and sleep.
    tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
    After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.
    Tristan Currier noticed this; "I have a Canon printer(shared) and my imac would not sleep. I opened up printer/fax in system prefs and noticed it said the printer was in use when it was off. Opened up the printer queue and noticed about 7 pending documents. Deleted them all and now it sleeps.
    Check the printer queue!"
    Good Luck!  DALE

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