On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Alan wrote:

> Based on what I have heard, mac and pc video cards aren't interchangable
> because the bios is mac or pc :(   You have to flash the bios somehow.
> I'm sure there are tools out there, but like the other poster said, it's
> dangerous (or so I heard).
>
> Gotta love hardware huh? :)  I was looking at buying a mac and figured I
> could just throw my older nvidia card in it to upgrade, but nooooo.....
> </rant>

It probably has to do with the different architectures.  Big/little
endian, word alignments, and other addressing things.  I believe PCI is
only a physical spec, and has nothing to do with the data being carried
over it.

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