Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-06 Thread t...@io.com
On Dec 6, 12:58 am, Justin The Cynical cyni...@penguinness.org wrote: On 12/5/10 12:03 PM, Clark Martin wrote: The type of RAM probably only indicates the version of the card.  The usual problem with flashing a card with Mac firmware is that the flash ROM isn't big enough to take the

Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-05 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 12/4/10 6:43 PM, dc wrote: I recently brought my old 733 Digital Audio back to life. Currently it's sporting a modified 5200 from a G5, but after digging in my parts pile, I've found a 9600XT from Sapphire. If the VRAM chips (there should be 4 of them on the fan side of the card) are

Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-05 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 5, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: If the VRAM chips (there should be 4 of them on the fan side of the card) are square it can probably be flashed, if they are rectangular it cannot be flashed for a Mac. If it looks like it may be compatible the info on themacelite

Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-05 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 12/5/10 12:03 PM, Clark Martin wrote: The type of RAM probably only indicates the version of the card. The usual problem with flashing a card with Mac firmware is that the flash ROM isn't big enough to take the Mac firmware. To which I have seen reduced ROM's as the 'solution' to

Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-04 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 12/3/10 9:23 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Dec 4, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: It's been a while since I looked into this, and I'm not finding much now. . So, does anyone know of an active site, IRC channel, or even still have the info for doing this? *snip*

Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Haas
On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Justin The Cynical wrote: Looking around on google, I'm only finding old and apparently abandoned web sites, if they even exist any longer and not much in the way of archives on archive.org So, does anyone know of an active site, IRC channel, or even still have

Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-04 Thread dc
I recently brought my old 733 Digital Audio back to life.  Currently it's sporting a modified 5200 from a G5, but after digging in my parts pile, I've found a 9600XT from Sapphire. If the VRAM chips (there should be 4 of them on the fan side of the card) are square it can probably be flashed,

Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-03 Thread Justin The Cynical
It's been a while since I looked into this, and I'm not finding much now. I recently brought my old 733 Digital Audio back to life. Currently it's sporting a modified 5200 from a G5, but after digging in my parts pile, I've found a 9600XT from Sapphire. Looking around on google, I'm only

Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-03 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 4, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: It's been a while since I looked into this, and I'm not finding much now. . So, does anyone know of an active site, IRC channel, or even still have the info for doing this? I'd be interested in what folks have to offer,