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> From: PCI PowerMacs
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:36 PM
> To: PCI PowerMacs
> Subject: Re: PCI cards from peecees (conversions to Mac)
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> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs)
> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:44:47 -0700
> > Subject: Re: PCI cards from peecees (conversions to Mac)
> > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > on 9/10/01 7:49 PM, James S Jones at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Matrox has a flash updater that will turn a Millennium
> from a PC to Mac
> > > card. It's on their web site, though not easy to find.
> It didn't do
> > > quite what I had in mind, though. After the update, it
> was recognized in
> > > one of our G4s (it wasn't before). But, through the Mac
> knew what it
> > > was, it didn't work. I've yet to try it in my 8500s.
> >
>
> I ask all w/ owner of Millennium cards for Macs to look at their
> Flash chip markings that starts w/ 28... or 29... for example:
>
> 28c256, 29c512 or 29010 etc. It's small retangular chip above the
> chipset bit to the left.
>
> Do this same for the Millennium II also because I wanted to
> know this
> details so I can come prepared when I find a used
> Millennium II card
> pc version and convert that too for Mac.
>
> Thanks!
>
> I suspect mine's flash chip is too small for this conversion. If
> true, I can find larger one off the junker boards and use that and
> try again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason (Wizard)
>
There is a web site somewhere that details the Matrox upgrade
procedure, unfortunately I cannot remember the url.
Regarding the bios chip, it must be 512 or larger as the Mac code is
larger than the PC code, and the 256k chip will not hold it.
on the Mill2 that I upgraded I had to change the chip, I replaced it
with a socket so I can easily change it back if I need to, currently I
am using a 29020 (2mb chip) as it was all I had to hand.
don't forget you need the Matrox drivers as well as the flash update,
you can get both from:
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/previous/prv_mac.cfm
Ben.
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