My Radeon 9600 is the Mac edition, and the monitor connectors pose no
problem. My monitor is a ViewSonic 930m connected via the DVI
connector. No problems with Safari, either.
This is why I always look for genuine Mac components and have avoided
flashed PC cards.
Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX
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Follow-up: ADC - AGP video card issues for MDD and G5 [2 Updates]
Follow-up: ADC - AGP video card issues for MDD and G5
frrob <fr...@earthlink.net> Dec 18 10:35AM -0800
Hello again:
You'll recall my travails last week with the Radeon 9800 Pro that I
couldn't get to work properly/reliably in my 1.25 gHz DP MDD. I
finally
gave up on it, and reverted to the stock 9000.
But I purchased a 9600 XT on eBay, which I received yesterday. The
machine
wouldn't power on with the card until I taped pins 3 & 11, which
didn't
surprise me. But I taped the pins and the machine started right up,
and the
card works fine, with a couple of caveats, which I'll get to in a
moment.
However, much to my chagrin, I discovered that the 9600 XT, and
presumably
other AGP/ADC video cards meant originally for the G5, does not have
its
ADC connector in the same place as the 9000, or other G4 AGP/ADC
cards. The
ADC connector for the 9600 is further back on the card than that of
the
9000. Color me stupid, but, never having poked around inside a G5, I
did
not know that the G5 and G4 had different physical locations for the
ADC
connector. I figured ADC was ADC. D'oh!
So, though the card works, I've really gained nothing by getting the
9600.
I wanted an AGP/ADC card into which I could just plug my Apple 23
inch ADC
display. I can use my DVI - ADC adapter with the card, but what I
wanted
was a straight ADC connection.
So, first question: my subsequent research indicates that the only
AGP/ADC
card that offers Core Image hardware acceleration, and will
physically work
with the ADC connector of the MDD, is the Radeon 9700, which,
apparently,
had a version that was designed for the MDD. Is this correct, or are
there
others I'm not aware of?
Furthermore, there is one issue with the 9600 when I use it with the
DVI-ADC adapter and my 23 inch cinema display. For some reason, and
this
*only* happens with the DVI-ADC adapter and the cinema display, when
I load
pages in Safari that have Flash content, Safari either hangs and
becomes
unresponsive, or quits altogether. I then get a dialog that says
"Safari
has quit unexpectedly. This may have been caused by the Flash 10.x
plug-in." This only happens with the 9600 - DVI - ADC - 23 inch cinema
combination. Any ideas what is going on here? I am guessing, but
perhaps
for some reason the Core Image hardware acceleration of the 9600
(which the
9000 doesn't have) doesn't play well with Flash and ADC? I can't
imagine
why, but there it is.
Finally, my second question, which may be moot, but: has anyone ever
tried
to somehow adapt the ADC connector of one of these G5 ADC cards to
the ADC
connector of an MDD? It seems to me that it could be done and could
work.
The ADC connector only has two leads, which supply power for the
display,
correct? It seems to me that you might be able to come up with some
kind of
franken-connector or jumper that would let you go straight ADC.
Anyone know
anything out there?
Thanks,
Rob J.
Peter Devlin <pdim...@mail.com> Dec 18 07:47PM
> It seems to me that you might be able to come up with some kind of
> franken-connector or jumper that would let you go straight ADC.
Anyone know
> anything out there?
I've seen a G5 AGP Pro 8x card converted to work in a non pro G4 4x
slot
- not a pretty sight. But afaik the adc in the mdd has two
connections in
the agp slot - thus the taping of pins 3 and 11 on 8x cards which I
believe
in the mac slot supply power for the adc connection. In between the
4x agp
mdd and the 8x agp G5 the layout of the slot was converted to agp
pro design
to keep adc - apple should have gone for dvi/vga at that point (had to
eventually) but they have always liked to have their proprietary video
connectors going way back...
Pete
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