Hello all, I've been following the Radeon 7000 "flashing" threads closely, trying to archive relevant information.
Unfortunately, the "source site" for this project is in German, and the individual (Mitch?) who did the German-to-English translations did not put his presentation together coherently enough for idiots like me to comprehend his chain of thought <G>. >From what I have been able to gather reading the information posted there and here, there are possibly _two_ courses of action to flash the Radeon 7000 PC to be usuable on the Mac: FIRST WAY (requires a PC): - Flash the card on a PC with the "PC flasher" that was put together in this "package": <http://people.freenet.de/amichalak/7000PCI.sit> - And then, use the ATI Mac ROM updater to "finish off" the card and make it "Mac-ready". SECOND WAY (No PC required): - Obtain a certain version of ATI's _Mac_ ROM updater software that is missing the "hooks" that prevent it from "seeing" non-Mac-specific ATI Radeon 7000 cards. Because this updater cannot "distinguish" Mac-specific Radeons from the PC-version Radeons, this particular flasher (and this one ONLY) can be used on a Mac to update the ROMs on the PC-specific card to make it "Mac-ready". Recently, this message was posted in SuperMacs by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ======= 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" ======= QUESTION: How does one "identify" WHICH VERSION of the ATI ROM updater software that he has on disk? The posting above makes mention of "208 rom updater V1" and "208 rom updater V2". Apparently the "key software" for performing this entire operation "on the Mac side" is this mysterious "V2" updater, which ATI neglected to make "Mac-specific". Surely, it has been withdrawn from ATI's download page, but I sense that _someone_, somewhere, still has this updater software around. I checked around, and found two versions of ATI's "R7000-ROM-208" software: 1. Revision of 12/9/02 2. Revision of 1/22/03 What I have are "VISE" archives containing the installers. I currently DO NOT have a Radeon card at all, so I haven't tried to install the software itself. The Installers contain the following versions of the ATI updaters Both "revisions" contain the following ROM versions: - 208 (current) - 119 But this _still_ doesn't make mention of the "V2" updater. Since I don't have ready access to (or working knowledge of) a PC, tracking down a "Mac-only" solution would be a significant step. I may have "read the previous message wrong", and a Mac-only solution may indeed be impossible. But if there _is_ one out there, let's smoke it out! I sense a major "coup" here. I would urge other list members posting on this issue to carefully edit their postings so that -- when assembled -- the various bits and pieces of information can be easily digested and assembled into a working tome. <G> - John -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
