Finally got it. GOT IT, I tell you! Much thanks to Will and Rob or help, guidance and support.
I had a PC friend help me, and the main thing he did was confirm how Plug and Play works. For the old-school DOS and Windows crowd this is old news. For the SuperMacs crowd with no real Windows experience (like ME) I'll recap, since it's critical to understand it in order to successfully flash the Sapphire card over to the Mac side. I think. When you introduce a new video card to the PC and turn it on, it assumes you want to use it right away. This action shuts off whatever video adapter that was previously being used (either motherboard video or another video card) and hands over video to the new card. Unbeknownst to me, this is exactly what I did two weeks ago when I installed the Sapphire into the PC, connected the monitor to it and turned it on. But since I only got half-way through the flashing procedure, that card no longer showed video the next time it was installed. The PC would disable the original video as before but since the Sapphire's ROM was now crippled by me, we had what you call a major roadblock. So what we did was to install the Sapphire AND a third video card (which freaked out me PC friend), as it happened an old ISA-slot card. Here's what happened. With the monitor connected to the ISA video card (nothing on the Sapphire) it finnally completed POST and booted into Windows, which offered to find a driver for ... the card in the PCI slot! Well, needless to say I didn't need that but was too curious to see what would happen. Not surprisingly, Windows 95 just didn't have the right driver for a Radeon 7000 (duh) but the important thing was that it booted and found a video card in the PCI slot. That means that the mac7k.bin ROM file from the intial try was utter crap and no doubt left the card as a broken PC video card, and that my problems over the last two weeks were the result of not having a third video card to boot with. I'll wager if I had done the full ROM install the very first time it would have worked. So I rebooted to my original floppy and this time did it "all in one step" by using the full ROM file. Got it on the first try. Piece of cake. No trouble at all (I'm in complete denial about the last two weeks, OK?). Quickly slapped it in a nearby 7200 and it showed output when booted! One item of note as compared to Luis' mention yesterday about running the full ROM: he mentioned something about it saying it was "done" when completed. I got no such confirmation; it just went back to the A:\ when it was done. Not completely encouraging at the time. -David -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
