Will Schou wrote: >Congrats on sticking with it and getting the card to work! One guy >tried it about 3 times and sent it back all in the same day! Ilook >forward to a future post from John on the info I know he is collecting >on the best way to flash these cards. I will caution him and you that >what works for one clearly doesn't for someone else. I believe this is >because of the PC being used has different hardware that interacts >differently with the cards. > Have to agree here. either my PC didn't like 2 vid cards or the original card didn't like sharing. Obviously not everyone has removed all other vid cards to amke this work. I just did it because of all the admonisions about making sure a monitor was plugged into it when you fired up the Mac. My son and I weren' at all sure what would happen afterwards, but he figured the info from the card gets read early and would need to be ccessed again while in DOS, especailly since most vid cards can boot to 640X480 / 256 colors without any driver at all.
>Also there are reports of the Sapphire 32mb >card having different Video ram from sample to sample and different ram >speeds. There have been very few Sapphire 64mb card tested so far so no >word on if it also has this issue. This is believed to affect the >flashing and also the speed at which the card will run. Which of course >is the reason for different ROM files being developed. Oddly enough the >more expensive and faster ATI Mac Edition (not the 7000) runs at the >slower mhz speed but is still faster odd but true. It is possible the >Sapphire card is more like the Mac Edition then the 7000 not sure >yet.It would not have occurred to me to flash the card while using it. >I don't think that is usually recommended but what ever works! > >As to the hanging while starting up. What was your old Video card? > I was using the 7500's built-in video. Right now, the only SuperMacs I have are 500Cs. I have an S900 out on "loan." I don't think I had any ATI drivers before unless the system installs them automatically. I forgot to check. > i >was using the ATI 128 card and i needed to get rid of two extensions >which that card used in order to use the new card. "ATI Graphics >Access' from OS 9.1 kept it from even starting up all the way and the >"ROM update" extension for the older card also caused problems. However >please note the correct Drivers for the new card also has extensions >with the same names as the older versions causing problems. Extension >manager is a good way to look at extensions and see what goes with what >and version numbers and a easy way to turn thing off and on until you >get it right. When running OSX 10.2.4 everything needed will already be >installed. Will S > > which set of drivers are you running, Will. Have you found it's made any difference? Also, is there any way to tell what kind of memory I have? I'd rather not remove the card, but will if that's the only way. I think it was advertsized as having ddr. Steve > > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
