On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
Ok I got everything up and running now but I still can not get the
video card to work, the computer won't even boot up... The video
card I got for it is a: PNY Tech Inc GeForce FX5200 DDR 128mb I
tried running the disc that came with it and there isn't any
download for the Apple only PC's, how do I get this to work??? I
know there is a way because so many of you told me about it and the
guy I got it from told me it would work too but he didn't know how
to do it... It only cost me $15 so it's not a lot of money...
This is probably a PC card with a PC ROM, and to work in a Mac you'll
need to flash the ROM over to a Mac ROM. This isn't too hard, but
you'll need another PCI video card so that you can see the display
when you're flashing the 5200 (I'm assuming it's an AGP card?).
You can get ROMs for the FX5200 at MacElite ROM downloads. The FX5200
is natively supported in OS X once you've got the ROM flashed over to
a Mac ROM.
Also another thing was partitioning this 250g HD into 2 125g??? It
read 128g and when I split it, it slpit up the 128 into 2 64's so I
just left it 128 and single for now...
You're going to need to enable LBA48 support so that the full 250GB is
recognized.
There are multiple ways to get around this artificial 128GB limitation:
1)Use commercial software from Intech. You can format any larger than
128GB HD so that it's recognized in MacOS (OS9) by using Speedtools
3.5 for OS 9 to format the HD as HFS+. You can add greater than 128GB
support to OS X by using the Intech Hi-Cap kernel extension for OS X.
2)You can modify the firmware directly using instructions from here:
<http://nanchatte.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/128gb-large-hdd-lba48-support-on-the-g4-cube-with-leopard/
>
3)You can use the freeware program Overdrive from GenThree to add
LBA48 support:
<http://www.macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=1953>(may need to register
to download?)
Any of these three methods will remove the artificial 128GB limit so
that larger modern HDs can be used. Since PATA HDs are more expensive
than SATA, it might be better to get an SATA PCI card and switch over
to SATA HDs. If you already have an older PATA HD greater than 128GB
any of these three solutions will work for it.
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