Re: Success at flashing a PC ATI Radeon 7000

[Tom Bannon]

I've flashed several versions of the PC Radeon 7000 for use in Macs.  
Just last week I flashed an ATI retail box 64MB, single VGA version for 
use in my beige G3.  It works fine except for random video problems 
(screen is a garbled mess) on waking from sleep.  I saw the same thing 
on another  32MB card I flashed and had been using in a G4 upgraded 
9600.  I didn't bother hunting for any updates to fix this problem and 
just used the copy of the Mac ROM I had from a about 6 months back.  
There may be a solution to this problem by now.

All I do is either power off the monitor manually when I know I won't 
be using the Mac for awhile or set the energy saver on the monitor to 
cut off the display instead of doing it through the Mac.

When I had the 9600 I was originally running two monitors off of the 
Radeon 7000 Mac Ed.  Then I added the flashed PC card and tried a 
single monitor on each.  In that case I saw a very slight improvement.  
I don't still have the 32MB card for comparison, but the 64MB version 
in the G3 doesn't seem any faster to me.  It will be a step up from 
on-board video though.

Tom

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