Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-11 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:04 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I think the smell may be from solder flux left over from the flashing process. The flashing process does not involve soldering at all, but is accomplished by software on a PC... -- Bruce

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-11 Thread pdimage
On 06/02/2012 07:23, t...@io.com t...@prismnet.com wrote: The HP Fire GL X3 has two DVI ports and has the dedicated DVI chip on board. Apparently, conversion of the Fire GL X3 does yield two working DVI ports. It may require the full Mac firmware (Flash chip replacement) to get that

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-07 Thread t...@io.com
On Feb 6, 5:00 pm, faithie999 faithie...@hotmail.com wrote: what is the URL you used to find the strangedog site? thanks!! http://strangedogs.proboards.com/index.cgi Please trim your quoted text when posting. You really didn't need to include my entire previous message you ask such a short

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-06 Thread faithie999
what is the URL you used to find the strangedog site? thanks!! On Feb 6, 2:23 am, t...@io.com t...@prismnet.com wrote: On Feb 4, 1:49 pm, Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il giorno 4-02-2012 10:54, pdimage ha scritto: Both the X800 and the X850 will convert to mac but

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-05 Thread t...@io.com
On Feb 4, 1:49 pm, Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il giorno 4-02-2012 10:54, pdimage ha scritto: Both the X800 and the X850 will convert to mac but I gather they are very troublesome and the dvi port never works as far as I know. As far as I can remember, the problem

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-04 Thread pdimage
On 03/02/2012 17:04, t...@io.com t...@prismnet.com wrote: Do you know if the X800 has the ROM lock feature. Thomas Perrier's site seems to be specific to the R9800. I have a few X800/X850s kicking around I've been meaning to convert. I thought all I'd need to do is replace the flash chip.

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-04 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 4-02-2012 10:54, pdimage ha scritto: Both the X800 and the X850 will convert to mac but I gather they are very troublesome and the dvi port never works as far as I know. As far as I can remember, the problem with a flashed PC X800 DVI port is it won't drive a DVI monitor, but it will

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-03 Thread pdimage
On 02/02/2012 16:30, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: The flashing process does not involve soldering at all, but is accomplished by software on a PC... -- ErrThat's not quite true Bruceflashing from PC to mac bios has always involved soldering since the

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-03 Thread t...@io.com
On Feb 3, 3:12 am, pdimage pdim...@btinternet.com wrote:     ErrThat's not quite true Bruceflashing from PC to mac bios has always involved soldering since the introduction of rom locks on the Radeon cards. The hardware lock is achieved with tiny resistors and effectively blocks any

Re: Bad Video Card too?

2012-02-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 28, 2012, at 6:29 AM, DBS-Designs by Skip wrote: If I might ask a few questions about this, that would be awesome. My G5 seems to have issues that may be the video card? - The screen gets lines in it - The screen will get blotches in it. The windows get distorted and weird. - It

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:04 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I think the smell may be from solder flux left over from the flashing process. The flashing process does not involve soldering at all, but is accomplished by software on a PC... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-28 Thread pdimage
On 27/01/2012 21:08, Michael McMurtrey skyking...@verizon.net wrote: i recently purchased a Radeon 9800 Pro video card from an ebay seller. It was advertised as 256 Mb VRAM, and there is indeed a sticker on the card which identifies it as such. However, after installation, System Profiler

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-28 Thread Michael McMurtrey
Thanks to those who responded to this inquiry. The card is clearly an original Mac card; the bar code label which contains the serial number also contains the description Radeon 9800 Pro MAC 256M. The seller offers a-7-day money back guarantee, so I will return it. Thanks again for the

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-28 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Bad Video Card? Date:Friday, 27. January 2012 From:Michael McMurtrey skyking...@verizon.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com i recently purchased a Radeon 9800 Pro video card from an ebay seller. It was advertised as 256 Mb VRAM, and

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-28 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Bad Video Card? Date:Saturday, 28. January 2012 From:Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Please download the ATI drivers/utilities and use ATI Displays, which should tell you the real VRAM size

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 28, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: I don’t think so. Please read this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1469304?start=0tstart=0 Please download the ATI drivers/utilities and use ATI Displays, which should tell you the real VRAM size. I used a Radeon X1900 Mac

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-28 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Bad Video Card? Date:Saturday, 28. January 2012 From:Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I used a Radeon X1900 Mac Edition which had the same issue. Including the burning electronics smell

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-27 Thread slvrmoontiger
I would send it back if you are able as card does not function as it should. If it was AS IS then your pretty much stuck. -Original Message- From: Michael McMurtrey skyking...@verizon.net Sender: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:08:48 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Michael McMurtrey wrote: i recently purchased a Radeon 9800 Pro video card from an ebay seller. It was advertised as 256 Mb VRAM, and there is indeed a sticker on the card which identifies it as such. However, after installation, System Profiler reports it as

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 27, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Michael McMurtrey wrote: i recently purchased a Radeon 9800 Pro video card from an ebay seller. It was advertised as 256 Mb VRAM, and there is indeed a sticker on the card which identifies it as such. However, after installation, System Profiler reports it as

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-01-27 Thread Barry Levine
on 1/27/12 4:47 PM, slvrmoonti...@yahoo.com at slvrmoonti...@yahoo.com wrote: I would send it back if you are able as card does not function as it should. If it was AS IS then your pretty much stuck. From: Michael McMurtrey skyking...@verizon.net True. But Ebay sellers like to avoid the