On 1/20/11 5:19 PM, Kris Tilford of ktilfo...@cox.net sent > On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:07 PM, DLC wrote: > >> Earlier, he had purchased an NVidia GeForce Ti4600 128Mb Card (a 2x/4x >> AGP according to specs) from a member of the SwapList. In his older >> sawtooth, running Tiger, it ran flawlessly. I was told this was a >> made- >> for-Mac card (not a PC-flashed unit). > > The Mac card is called a GeForce4 Titanium or GF4 Ti for short. If > this card says "4600" on it anywhere it's a flashed PC card, and my > understanding is that this would also require moving resistors on the > card in addition to flashing the ROM to Mac. > > You might look at these photos to see if your card looks like the real > Mac cards?: > <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/geforce4_ti/geforce4_titanium_Mac.html >> > > This card should work in Leopard. Since you're not getting QE/CI > support, you might do a "kextstat" command in Terminal and see what > video card kexts are loaded. If you don't have any nVidia kexts > loaded, then you've got a software issue. You should be able to get > this card working unless it's got problems. If it's a flashed PC card, > you may need to "tweak" it to get it working.
Hi Kris, Thank you for the heads-up. I'll check out the photo from xlr8 when I can (their server seems to be down at the moment). My guess is that you're correct - it just may be a flashed card. Though I cannot find 4600 at all, it also doesn't have the EEE listing which I was told at: http://www.welovemacs.com/nv.html the card should have (here is what they say): (quote) EEE Code Note: All Apple Video Card have a special three digit "EEE" code embedded in the Video Card serial number which positively identifies the part. Please note that this is the serial number of the Video Card, NOT the serial number of the machine. The Video Card serial number is on a tag which has the format "xxxxxxxEEEx". The "EEE" code is the three letters immediately preceding the last digit of the serial number. (end quote) Checking the kext load makes sense, though the issue would be getting the card to respond enough to load enough OS to run the terminal. Thanks again, Dana -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
