I have flashed a fair few of these and found this garbled video issue plus the reporting of only half of the 64MB being available sometimes. There are two most common reasons: (1) that it is getting too hot, due to there being several cards in your PCI slots or a hot CPU upgrade and not enough fans to do the cooling. This is particularly evident with the latest Sonnet G4 upgrade cards. It can be remedied by putting in extra cooling fans, or swapping the order of your PCI cards around so that the Sapphire 7000 is not right next to a particularly hot running card. (2) The card is not sitting flush in its PCI slot. The quality control on these cards is probably not as stringent as the ATI-produced ones and sometimes the metal bracket that mounts the video ports to the outside part of the computer is not exactly at right angles causing the card not to sit properly in its PCI slot. This can be checked by making sure the card is firmly pushed into the PCI slot, then at first not using the mount plate screw to screw it into place. If this fixes it a little bending of the mounting plate should fix it for good.
Hope this helps. Regards, Pete. > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 20:51:10 -0500 > Subject: [SM] More Sapphire 7000 project > From: Korry Wannebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sorry, I should have been more thorough. Out of the package, I backed > up the PC ROM, then flashed in one step with the "M208_166_166.ROM" in > the archive from the link above (because the card runs at 166mhz with > 166mhz memory). Put it in a couple macs with various monitor > configurations and got the same garbled/scrambled image on each. Then I > put it back in the PC, flashed it back to PC, rebooted into windows, > installed drivers, restarted and played some Quake 3 for a while to > make sure it was OK. It was. Then I went back to dos, flashed to mac > again with "M208FULL.BIN" and got the same thing. That's where I stand. > Not good is it. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
