I just tried the flash, & am happy to report that I am currently using the card in my Mac with absolutely no issues. However, I hope I will never again have a reason to go inside a Hewlett-Packard. I had to remove the power supply just to get to the PCI slots. from there, i booted into DOS, ran the flashrom, & presto-chango!
-Antonio John Albert wrote: >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
