I was playing around with video card flashing a while back and stuck
a Mac BIOS on a PCI nVidia FX5200-based card I had laying around...
At the time, it wasn't much of a discovery, since the card wouldn't
work with the NV30 kernel extensions from OS X any newer than 10.2.8
(which didn't really do much acceleration under 10.3 and didn't work
at all under 10.4) but since the release of 10.4.3 and PCI-Express-
based Macs, Apple had to remove the video driver lockdown to AGP-
based devices and hence, the FX5200 works fine :D
The card is from PNY, though I don't think they make them any more
and I got the BIOS from http://littlevampirebites.com/fxflash/,
though I had to clock down the memory speeds in the BIOS using
NiBiTor under Windows before it worked because they used slower ram
on this card than Apple's AGP FX5200s.
Some pictures, of course:
http://ndt-uk.net/images/stories/picture-1.jpg (System Profiler shot)
http://ndt-uk.net/images/stories/ripple.jpg (I guess this is what
everyone wants to see!)
http://ndt-uk.net/images/stories/dscf3962.jpg (Picture of the card in
situe)
http://ndt-uk.net/images/stories/dscf3961.jpg (closeup on the card info)
This won't work on an OldWorld machine, since video cards need a
workaround in the BIOS to work pre OpernFirmware 3 [needless to say
this doesn't exist in nVidia video BIOSses], but this might make the
ideal card for somebody who's hanging on to a B&W G3/Yikes! G4 and
wants to use Aperture/Motion (albeit slowly!) :)
Jason Mayfield-Lewis
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