Nvidia Quadro 4000 not working properly

Hi all,
I am really hoping that some one can help me with a very frustrating issue with my new Mac Pro and Nvidia Quadro 4000 card.
I purchased my Mac Pro from an Apple store and added the Quadro 4000, I need that card as it is supported by Adobe Premiere CS5 to enable the GPU acceleration. The reason I went to the store to buy instead of online was to get advice about the card as I have not used a Mac for 5 years now. I was told that they are not familiar with the card, but put it in and run alongside the ATI card.
When it arrived I put it all together, except for the Quadro 4000, and it all worked perfectly. I have 2 x 27” Cinema Displays attached. I installed production studio CS5 and then extremely carefully added the Quadro card.
Without going on about all the drama with it not working with the ATI card and then removing that and installing only the Quadro, it is not doing what I bought it to do. Adobe is not recognising the device, I have updated to version 5.0.3 of Premiere Pro, which supports this card.
I think I know what the problem is, but I have no idea how to resolve it. I put the Quadro in and then installed the drivers. My research says this is wrong (there were no instructions in the box and the read me file on the disc just said I need a specific cuda driver), so I removed it, put the ATI in and hunted down all the Cuda (Quadro stuff) files, deleted them, reinstalled drivers and reinstalled the card. No change, it drives one display and Premiere still cant see it.
I have tried to find answers on the internet, Apple are not very helpful as it was a third party item they have no training on (although purchased from Apple).
The only thing I have read is it may need to be on OS 10.6.5, I updated to 10.6.6 and/or because I installed the card before drivers. I have read that I need to sort out ‘Permissions’ but can’t find out how.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really need to get this thing working as I have a very expensive computer I can not use.
Thanks
Phil
Oh, one other thing, it is supposed to run two displays, one via display port and the other via DVI, but I am having no joy here either, and there seems to be no DVI male to MDP female adapter????

You are making it (sounds like to me) harder than it is.
You do not mention which ATI card, but you should use both side by side unless you have the 5870 which is using the two pci 6-pin power connectors on it.
With Mac OS people generally never need to delete drivers by hand.
ATI 57x0 and Quadro work better together. Or even ATI 4870 and GTX 285 in the past. Use the ATI for monitors and Quadro for CUDA and Mercury.
FYI for Quadro 4000 Mac Owners upgrading to 10.6.6:
Included in today's 10.6.6 related apple docs is one noting new Quadro 4000 owners need to Reinstall the Nvidia Quadro driver update after updating to 10.6.6.
To save you a lot of clicks (the doc links to the nvidia product page) - here's the page with the current (as of this AM) Quadro OS X 10.6.5 Driver page which still shows the 11/16/2010 driver date/v256.01.00f03. But the file I downloaded this morning is named "Retail_256.01.00f03v5.dmg" (28.9MB) - dated Dec 17th. The file I downloaded back in mid-Nov does not have the "V5" in the filename and is larger (37.3MB). I don't own this card and not dug into the pkg to see what changed (i.e. did they remove the extra kexts for other models perhaps?) but just a FYI.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/jan11/010611.html#quadro4000
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4499
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.01.00f03-driver.html
Reinstall the 10.6.6 combo update manually is sometimes a good idea (some of us use only combo updates when it comes time to update OS X).
Here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349

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As I'd mentioned in another thread, the card began shipping last week. I expect that it will take a couple months before places like Apple and Amazon to dig through the large number of backorders they have (I don't think this card is produced in mass quantity, even on the PC side).
My system setup is a Mac Pro 8x2.26GHz, 32GB RAM, 8TB HD storage, nVidia Quadro 4000 2GB driving the primary display, and nVidia GT120 driving a secondary display. I'm considering getting third party power supply unit that sits in the second optical drive bay, and would plug into the Mac Pro's power supply, and then provide additional power supply connectors that would allow me to plug in my GTX-285 as a secondary graphics card (since it uses 2 connectors, and the Mac Pro only has 2 total).
Even when my machine was using a GTX-285 and the GT-120, I could see a difference in performance when dragging an application window (particularly if it's a 3D app) from main display to the secondary (the GT-120 is a significantly lower power card, with only 32 CUDA cores and 512MB video memory). With the Quadro driving my primary display the difference is much more noticeable now.
From what I understand, there are some technical issues with using ATI and nVidia GPU's in the same machine, so attempting to use with a 5770 may not work. But if you were able to use them together, it would make more sense to have the Quadro card driving your primary display, since it's likely going to perform as well or better than any other card you might be able to pair it with.
I've already given some thought to a second Quadro card down the road. As the drivers mature, and the apps I use evolve to make better use of CUDA and OpenCL, and my own workflow and skills improve to the point where I'm doing more 3D modeling/rendering (and stuff like ray-tracing), then having 2 of these cards in a single machine could really come in handy. Today it appears that all those CUDA cores and VRAM are serving to help make the apps faster and more responsive at design time, but rendering is still very CPU-centric. But tomorrow those apps will hopefully be able to tap into the GPU to help improve render times.

How do you setup HDMI audio with "Nvidia Quadro 4000 for Mac"?

So I just purchased a new Mac Pro:
Mac Pro (5,1) 3.33 GHz 6-Core
8 GB Ram
ATI Radeon HD 5770
1TB HDD
OS 10.8.3
I also purchased a new Nvidia Quadro 4000 for Mac Graphics Card because the 3D animation software I'm using (Blender) requires this card to accelerate render times.
I have installed the card and all is working well as far as I can tell except for the HDMI audio. According to the specs on Nvidia for this card, it DOES support HDMI audio through the Display port. I have my HDMI cable plugged up and the video works great. However the audio option does not show up in the System Preferences. (Here is the page for the graphics card. Look under "specifications" at the bottom for the audio part. http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-4000-mac-us.html).
I did find a link for a kernel addition for HDMI audio but it stated "non-Apple Nvidia cards" and this one is specifically for Mac. Here is that link: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1499797. (I also plan on posing the same question there.)
The reason I want the HDMI to work is I'm using a TV as my monitor.
Now I did try the HDMI with the ATI Card and both the audio and video work great.
What I did for a quick work around is install both cards and use the GPU processor on the Nvidia for the animation program and use the ATI for the actual port and this fixes the hdmi audio issue. However this takes up pretty much all of my PCI slots and seems like a waste of space and power.
Has anyone else run into this problem and found a solution?? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I went ahead and tried that extension that I found. It worked!
I guess Mac just didn't include the audio support in the driver that it includes. Below is were I found the instructions and download. It includes a shell script that installs the kernal from the Terminal prompt. The instructions were clear and installed with out a hitch. There were also instructions to remove it if there were issues.
Here is the link:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1499797
Thanks again and hope this helps.

NVidia Quadro 4000 and early 2008 Mac Pro (3,1)

Hi to all.
I think my display card just died.
I've been wanting to get the NVidia Quadro 4000 for a while now as I do editing professionally and would like to make the Adobe Production suite zippier.
So now, I have no functional card for my monitors. Can I use the NVidia Quadro 4000 for my Dell monitors? One of the Dell's has a DVI-D2 input but the other has only VGA as far as I can tell. Or does it make more sense to get a different card? Or both the Quadro and a lower level card?
Also, does the NVidia Quadro 4000 need extra power and if so, how easy is it to connect and would I be able to use the DVD burner?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Running Snow Leopard, 18GB RAM

So many questions and so little time... lunch!
There is Wikipedia.
AMD = OpenCL
Nvidia = OpenCL and CUDA
CUDA is part of every Nvidia card, GeForce GTX or Quadro
Open source compiler to make CUDA and OpenCL much easier and better (OpenCL is 4-5 yrs old but a pain to code and optimize with a lot of micro management. Not today but AMD's support for just OpenCL is limiting. But something to support both technologies is a year away probably.
Dual boot is a must! Clone your system / or install Lion on 2nd drive
Setup Assistant to import from 10.6 to Lion so you have both.
Clones as backup.
Out of the box: the startup is missing on screen without the modification. The drivers are normally and only found bundled into OS X which is why you don't normally see or have to go to AMD to get the latest driver. Or downgrade to a better working driver. you have to rely on OS X and version.
That is why GTX 5xx and 10.7.3
OWC charges more than Amazon or Apple and charges for 6-pin cable. The 5770 does work - with 10.6.5 or later. It does not work with older OS - no driver. It does not allow you to boot from your 10.6.0 DVD and install.
You could order the GTX 570 (I'd skp on 560, I have looked into both but up to you). And 680s are not supported yet, and still scarce. But great card for the $499.
The GTX 570 2.5GB was the one recommended with its 2.5GB VRAM. $349.
http://www.evga.com/products/
To get a boot screen means modifying the card which means sending it to Calif and $100 + shipping.
Some people use the GTX purely for CUDA and still use ATI 5770 for their monitor.
Oh, yes, died. No card on hand as backup or spare.
Shame. I'd toss coin and then go with.... Q4K but
http://www.amazon.com/PNY-DisplayPort-Profesional-Graphics-VCQ4000MAC-PB/dp/B004 CRS78O
You could wait and see. I'd over night the Q4K for $810, then see how that does, it does have 2x the VRAM. And you could use GTX 570 or 680 down the road when you do upgrade to Lion plus.
Comparing 5770 to Q4K:
http://www.jigsaw3d.com/articles/gpu-performance-review-nvidia-quadro-4000-for-m ac
Quadro CUDA driver support
http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html

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