At 19:42 -0800 02/18/2003, Will Schou wrote: >Chrisso did a good job of explaining but of course i have to put my two >cents in ;-) >I've read the English and most of the German at the forum site and >here's the deal. >The PC ATI card needs to be in a PC and is then flashed with a generic >MAC ROM flasher. Virtual PC won't work it's been tried. The card is >then moved to the Mac to flash with the MAC ROM update from ATI for the >MAC Radeon Edition /7000 which ATI just made available . It is done >like this because the Mac Edition ROM flasher is an updater and needs a >MAC ROM on the card for it to run and work. When all is done you now >have a Mac Edition 64mb card.(or is it aATI 7000 Mac ed?) The card that >was used was the PC ATI 7000 64 MB DDR PCI Video card. It wasn't made >by ATI but by Sapphire of Germany who makes ATI video cards by license >using I think ATI chips bought from ATI. "Clone" ATI cards are a new >thing and have not been available at retail in the USA. I have found >this card on line for $44.00 including shipping! An amazing price. >Circuit City a chain electronics store has the ATI version for $69.99 >which is about as cheap as it can be found on line by the time you pay >shipping. The ATI card hasn't been tested( we aren't yet sure it is the >same a the Sapphire card) but I'm just about to run out the door and >buy one....unless I change my mind.... I'll update you if I do. Will S
Thanks, Will. Please do keep me updated. Now if there's just some way one can substitute soldering and moving the chip, for installing the card in a PC. I'd rather not mess with a PC and I do like to solder. :-) What is the "generic Mac ROM flasher" which you mentioned? Jeff -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
