you have to follow the whole story. They issued the 208 rom updater V1. it goes back to a kensington mouse extension, that caused some macs to corrupt the ati display card, and crash half thru the update process.
so to un-screw the mac users ati had to issue an update to the "rom updater" (V2) that was capable of un-screwing a corrupt rom, WALA!!, a pc rom is screwed up ( to a mac), so it flashes the rom with the mac code, because the updater thinks the card is screwed. ( they should have checked for the pc sig!!, but thats their mistake) prior to that the previous updater always checked for the mac sig!!, which prevented the updater flashing the "wrong card" as to it allowing the actual code to use the 64m of memory is a different issue. we need to take the 2 updaters apart, and see what they are doing. steve on 2/19/03 6:55 AM, Jeff Walther at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 01:34 +0100 02/18/2003, Chrisso wrote: >> Hi listers, >> >> slightly off topic, but I think interesting for upgrading our old machines. >> A guy from Germany has just successfully flashed a Radeon 7000 (64mb PC >> version) with a Mac ROM, and it seems to work flawlessly. >> The card is a rare PCI version, originally designed for HP workstations and >> only available in the US. Best: It's really cheap compared to our 32mb >> version, I think $59, not sure... >> Here's the link to the (German) forum thread, there's some info in English >> language in the original post: >> >> http://www.falkemedia.com/cgi-bin/forum/forum.cgi?board=hardware;action=disp >> lay;num=1045243482 >> >> The whole thread is a little bit confusing (because mitch, the guy who did >> it, is a little bit confused), but I think there's all the info you need. >> Hope this is a good news for you, > > I read the parts I could and I'm still confused. Would someone care > to post a brief summary of the technique? I got the impression from > Mitch's writing that he flashed it in a PC, but then there was > something about a modified flasher and it just got confusing at that > point. > > Jeff -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
