On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 02:17 AM, Darren wrote:
> Hi Mark, the pc already has 2 cards. Removing the tnt2 and replacing it
> with the
> V3 after disabling the tnt2 drivers achieved nothing with the pc
> freezing on boot
> while trying to find a driver for the card. Without getting further off
> topic, this
> shouldn't happen unless something is wrong. I may try to mount it
> manually
> but the v3 will be replaced I hope so I might be best to leave it alone.
OK, fair cop :). It's probably because the card has a corrupted BIOS ROM.
> I dont completely see the difference between flashing a pc rom on a
> mac or vice versa unless the tool your using works better on one
> particular platform. Thoughts please
IIRC Mac ROM flash programs are often designed to deliberately not flash
PC cards. This may be the case here. PC flash programs are simply DOS
programs and are a lot less fussy. As it stands the card is dead to all
intents.
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