I have a Matrox MGA Millennium PCI video card, scavanged from a PC. I
installed it on my beige G3, downloaded the drivers & a flasher file
(vers. 3.0.1), from Matrox's site, I might add, & tried to flash it for
Mac...it went through the reset, erase, & program stages, then announced
that an error occured, do it again...which I did. Same result. Then I got
tired & rebooted, & the G3 would not start up, until I removed the Matrox
card. (The G3 will start up with the card in if the "VGA" dip switch is
set to ON. I had also set the other switch ON to un-protect the BIOS, of
course.)
This also means that I can't just try the card with my monitor, since the
VGA switch has to be off in order for the card to work (if I gather
correctly), but in that case the Mac won't boot; it bongs, but then just
sits there, no picture.
Is this thing hosed, did I ruin it somehow, or is it a dyed-in-the-wool PC
card, & nothing is going to make it otherwise. Anybody have one of these,
from back circa 1996, when they sold them for both PCs & PCI Macs. I'm not
able to tell very easily from their web site whether they sold them
PC-/Mac-only.
--
Over,
Jutso
http://pages.ripco.net/~jutso/
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