As some of you have suspected, the card was recognized when I plugged it in my PC. It won't display past the Windows XP startup screen, but I know that's something to do with not having the correct drivers. Bottom line: if it displays ANYTHING, it's gotta be working to some capacity.
So my next course of action is to flash the ROM so that it will work in my Mac. All of the methods I've seen involve making a PC boot disk, running a utility while booted up with that disk, then transfer it over to the Mac and flash the ROM to the newest version. Is there a fairly straightforward (and as foolproof as possible) guide that someone can point me to? BTW, the guy who sold me the card apologized for it not working and refunded me all of my money saying not to worry about returning the card. So if I can get it going, it's a dbl-win. Thanks for all of the advice up to this point. On Feb 11, 6:28 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 10, 2:17 pm, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > It SHOULD "just work", as the only difference between this and a retail > > Radeon 7000, iirc, was the lack of the other ports. Have you tried it on a > > more modern monitor than the old 19" one? It's remotely possible it's > > putting out a signal that won't work on the monitor, but my suspicion is > > that it's a dead card. > > I ran into a similar problem with the Radeon 7000 in a Beige G3 when I > used it with a Radius Intellicolor 20e CRT monitor. Unfortunately, > that was about seven years ago and I don't remember the details. > There was a way for me to get it to work. And I'm not even certain it > was with the Radius. Maybe it was with an IBM 18.1" LCD from 2000. > > At the time I suspected that it had to do with some newish, at the > time, signalling system that monitors were using to signal or detect > which resolutions were available. And I was able to get around it > somehow. > > I may have done something like using a VGA to Mac adapter coupled with > a Mac to VGA adapter. Or maybe booting with extensions off. Once I > had the thing booted and the resolution set to a lower level things > were fine. The problem appeared to be that the video card defaulted > to too high of a resolution for the ones supported by the monitor, or > something. > > It's possible I posted a question about it in one of these lists, so a > search of posts back around 2002 - 2005 might turn something up. > > Jeff Walther -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
