Well, the good news is that the flashing itself turns out to be dead easy. Boot to DOS, run flashrom once to save the current PC ROM to a file, then run it again to install the Mac ROM. That's it. I've done this sort of thing before - I've flashed motherboard BIOSes 2 or 3 times in the past.
The not-so-good news is that I'm pretty underwhelmed at the performance improvement. Things are a little faster, but not as much as I had expected. Window re-draws still lag behind the mouse cursor when re-sizing, etc. Scolling is definitely faster in IE, however. I just downloaded and installed Quicktime 6.1, so I'll give that a try. Quicktime on the old card was un-useable. I'll give it a couple more days. I may end up flashing it back with the PC ROM (that's why you save it first!) and re-install it in my wife's machine. It made a *huge* improvement there. Of course, it currently has an ancient 2 meg S3 card. Or I may just buy another one - for $40 it's hard to beat! The OS X machine was running an ix3D 8 meg Ulimate Rez card, with an Apple ROM provided by someone on here (sorry I forgot who). The card is an ATI Radeon 7000 DDR 32 meg, brand new from CompUSA for $40 after mail-in rebate. It has -36 speed RAM, so speed is not an issue. The only file you need to download is the Flash7000PCI.sit. It has everything you need including decent instructions. Dan _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
