On 16/6/10 05:56, "Mark Sokolovsky" <coolmar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been an expert on computers since the dawn of the DOS systems, and
> this is something i really am stumped on. I have an Nvidia GeForce 6200 AGP
> with 256Mb DDR2 RAM AGP 8X, and it's a PC card. Can somebody show me step by
> step instructions to get it working on my PM G4 Sawtooth? I really am even
> now bugged by the Nvidia GeForce 4's performance with a measly 64Mb of RAM.
If you're familiar with dos that's the way to go for video card flashing
- on an old windows pentium pc - boot it up in dos from a floppy boot -
remove the boot floppy and insert the disk with the utilities for flashing
and the rom(s). The dos utilities are Flashrom, Atiflash for ATI and Nvflash
for Nvidia cards. Run the dos commands to flash the card bios - shutdown the
pc and put the card in a mac.....
It can get a little more complicated depending on the card - some are
definitely not flashable, some have hardware partial locks on the rom chip
so a reduced rom is required - and for some Nvidia cards the mac rom may
need editing to include some of the info from the pc version of the rom -
bootstraps etc.
Here's a general explanation though...
<http://themacelite.wikidot.com/nvidia-general-flashing>
Nvflash is available here along with all the other utilities
<http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/Utilities/BIOS_Flashing/NVIDIA/>
Pete
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