I got one of those video cards but mine is the 5200 and it won't work it has
to be flashed on a PC... I have the same machine too a Power Mac G4 M5183...
Did the one you have come out of a Mac??? If so it probably already was flashed
so I would say it would work...
-----Original Message-----
>From: Aerendel <jimwelling...@gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 16, 2010 11:19 AM
>To: G-Group <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com>
>Subject: Graphic Cards Compatibility with M5183 "Digital Audio" but back of
>computer looks like AGP Graphics set up
>
>Will a EVGA (brand) nVidia GeForce 6200 LE ("8x" AGP card work with a
>M5183 (digital Audio?) (the back panel looks like AGP Graphics set
>up)
>
>Most problems are weird, but, Somebody donated an older Mac G4 to the
>local museum here. I'm on the Museum Board of Directors and people
>think I'm a mac genius because I kept their beige G3 alive and running
>their slide show for years.
>
>The donated Mac 4 has a toasted video card (It's at the museum and I'm
>not, so I can't find the model number, but...) I put the AGP Rage 16MB
>VRAM card from my work horse M5183 (with a 1.4 GHz processor) into
>that computer and *it* works fine. But when I tried to use the PCI
>card that is still inside the M5183 and connect to the internet, it
>lasted about 5 minutes and shot half a zillion error messages across
>the screen I rebooted tiwce, and this happened again, both times. I
>took a photo of the error message filled screen on the final crash,
>but the camera's flash went off and it's really tough reading that, I
>could probably spend some time copying all the numbers for you and
>post them here if that would do any good. But I think the bottom line
>is it crashed due to a memory conflict with the ethernet card. (that's
>my best guess)
>
>So I decided to try to get a new AGP Video card for the M5183. There
>is a store on eBay that has 8 GeForce4 TI 4600 128 MB VRAM cards left
>for 89.50 U$ plus shipping each. I went into my friendly neighbourhood
>computer store and the guy there can get me the 6200 LE card for
>$69.00 (and no shipping charges) but it is an 8x card and further
>research says it should work as long as I don't boot into OS9.2.2
>which I need to do every now and then, but I can probably run a VGA
>monitor off the other card, as long as I'm not connected to the
>ethernet/internet.
>
>But does anybody know if the 6200 LE is one of those magic cards that
>is backward compatible with 2x/4x AGP slots (it has the three part
>insertion connectors, so it will fit in place, but---)
>
>Thanks,
>
>-----Jim (Aerendel)
>
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