> From: mailadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:39:02 +0800 > > 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 >
I think I'm still waiting for the whole story ;-) But thank you for your chapter. You didn't mention the Russian coder that changed the flasher so it would work. I'm also wondering about the fact the card has to be flashed to a generic MAC Rom in a PC before using the MAC Rom updater. If the flasher doesn't check for the pc sig why is this step needed? Was your chapter on the german site? I've not read all the german stuff.... well Circuit City has a nice web site even offered to do a hold on the video card so it would be waiting for me. Got to the store it's an AGP card not PCI. So much for helpful chain stores. They don't even have the one I wanted even though the website listed it.. No one local seems to at least the large places where it would be easy to return. CompUSA I found also has House brand Video cards with the ATI chip on board logo but not the one I was looking for. I guess I'll have to order the Sapphire bargain card. Will S -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
