It's fairly straightforward to do, but you've got to have a PC to do it.

I've done a couple ATI cards in the past, but my last one, a 5750, I just 
bought already done.

Dan

> On May 31, 2016, at 7:18 AM, Ed Booher via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Going to post instructions on how to do that?
> 
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
>> Triumph!  I have been dicking with this cheap PC HD 4870
>> video card ($36, works, 1GB VRAM) trying to get it flashed
>> with Apple EFI firmware.  Various attempts failed with varying
>> degrees of miserability.  Finally got waist-deep in the muck
>> using emacs and dd, among other things, and was able to
>> make a composite image that the card likes, and that seems
>> to work perfectly even for boot screens.
>> 
>> So now both Macs have decent 4870 videos that El Crapitan likes.
>> 
>> 
>> -- Jim
>> 
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