For what it's worth, I recently installed a 256 MB Radeon 9600 (AGP)
in my MDD, which has two hard drives (both on the ATA bus) and have
had no problems whatsoever. System Profiler reports Core Image:
Hardware Accelerated and Quartz Extreme: Supported.
Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX
On Dec 12, 2012, at 5:48 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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MDD G4 odd start/restart behavior - new video card
faithie999 <[email protected]> Dec 11 03:55AM -0800
i was going to suggest the same thing, if only for a last
troubleshooting
step.
if you have either a spare PC power supply, or a PC that you can
"borrow"
the power supply from temporarily, you could try powering the video
card
from the separate power supply. assuming the borrowed PS doesn't
have a
switch, google for the pinout for the 20 (or 24) pin connector, and
see
which pins you need to short together to turn the PS on.
ken
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Dec 11 08:41AM -0800
On Monday, December 10, 2012 10:14:08 PM UTC-6, Valter Viglietti
wrote:
> had the 400W PS, subsequent versions (FW 800 and 2003) had the 360W.
> Perhaps the design became more power-efficient; I don't know if
the two PS
> are interchangeable.
Are we sure these are different versions and not just another
example of
what happened with, IIRC, the 9500/9600? In that older case, some
times
the input wattage of the power supply was listed. Other times the
output
wattage of the power supply was listed. Of course, the input wattage
was
considerable higher back then. This sent a number of devoted modders
scurrying around hunting for the "higher power" supply, even though
both
numbers referred to exactly the same supply; the two numbers were
simply
describing different qualities of the same object.
I notice that 360 is exactly 10% less than 400. 90% efficiency is
perhaps a bit high, but about in the ball park of what one would
expect
from a good efficient supply, so I find it believable, although not
certain, that 400W is the input wattage of the MDD supplies and 360W
is the
output wattage of the MDD supplies.
Jeff Walther
frrob <[email protected]> Dec 11 09:36AM -0800
Jeff:
From photos of several of these PSUs (both 360 and 400 watt
versions) for
sale on eBay, it seems pretty clear to me that these figures are
output
wattage. From my rough calculations based on input figures on the same
PSUs, it would seem that the input wattage is between 700-800 watts.
Rob J.
gifutiger <[email protected]> Dec 11 04:57PM -0800
Greetings,
If you need drivers you should be able to get them on ATI web page.
When I was using my G4 AGP Graphic 400 I need to install the drivers
(I think there was2) before everything worked Okay.
Well my problem was, if the system went to sleep upon wake up the
screen was scrambled, and the only way out was, Shutdown and restart.
But with the drivers installed sleep & wake up was good.
If you can't find the drivers let me know, I'm sure that I still
have them.
Cheers
Harry
frrob <[email protected]> Dec 11 12:13PM -0800
Greetings all!
On a related, but slightly different note:
What about using an ADC/DVI version of the 9600 (either the Pro or XT)
instead of the 9800? I have seen a number of them for sale on eBay.
Since
they are ADC, they might play better with the MDD. Furthermore, they
don't
appear to have the Molex secondary power connector, so that would be
another problem avoided. Do they not have the molex because they
draw extra
power through the ADC plug on the motherboard, or do they just draw
less
power?
I imagine I'd have to tape pins 3 & 11, but that's not a big deal.
With the 9600 XT or Pro, I'd still have hardware acceleration of
Core Image
and Quartz Extreme.
Any potential pitfalls, or other thoughts on that?
Thanks,
Rob J.
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