Re: Flashing a Radeon 7000 PCI

[Ron Stuart]

quattro wrote:

Actually the flasher app used to refuse to reflash the PC based 7000 cards
up until just under a year ago. Up until that time, the flasher would check
the ID of the card and only flash a Mac based card.
About a year ago, ATI released a flasher that conflicted with a driver
(Kensington mouse?) that caused it to crash half ways through the flash
programming. They had to re-release a version that would re-flash if the
flash was corrupt. Hence, PC based cards can now be easily reflashed.
Before that, the easiest way was to pull the flash chip and program it
manually.
Rob

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Subject: Re: Flashing a Radeon 7000 PCI

 

In a message dated 8/17/03 6:40:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<<
... if they hadn't screwed up the Radeon 7000 Mac driver about a year
ago, then reflashing the PC version of this card wouldn't be this easy ...
   

The "raw" boards of all Radeon 7000s are the same, irresepective of PC or
Mac; DVI or not; S-video or not; etcetera.
That ATI didn't take measures to preclude "diversion" of a PC card to a
   

Mac
 

card was their choice.
   

 

I see that a PCI Radeon 7000 card can be flashed, but how exactly? Can 
it be done on a Mac. Can you send instructions. I have a card sitting 
here waiting to be flashed.
Ron
Nova Scotia

 



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