On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 10:04 AM, Phil A. Lefebvre wrote: > On 02/23/03 at 2:17 PM -0800, Will Schou wrote: >> I just added an ATI PC 7000 PCI 32mb Video card bought at CompUSA >> for $39.00 and flashed to a mac rom by me for free. Not the easiest >> thing to do but not really hard either. > > Can you post details on how you did it. Sounds like a nice trick to > learn! > -- > __________________________ > Phil Lefebvre > Chicago, IL
Phil, There does seem to be a lot of interest in trying this trick! CompUSA is selling the correct card to use for $49.00 which maybe their regular price. ATI is offering a $10.00 rebate which brings the price to $39.00. I should also mention the PC Radeon ATI 7000 32mb DDR PCI card is a single VGA port card. This is the only difference between it once flashed and the Mac Radeon 7000 which has 2 video ports and TV OUT. Well it's also $39.00 and the Mac card is $129.00 It is also possible to mail order an ATI Sapphire card which is the same as the Mac card once flashed. I'm going to be lazy an sent you a copy of what I've already written for someone else. That and the web address of the German site with the files to download are all you should need. However flashing a video card is not something just anyone can do. I've got one guy emailing me with questions 4 times yesterday. After re-reading his posts and noting he is asking the same questions over an over without seeming to try anything I'm thinking this guy couldn't do an easy Mac OS install let alone something this advanced. German website: http://www.falkemedia.com/cgi-bin/forum/ forum.cgi?board=hardware;action=display;num=1045243482 note this is a german forum and while some info is being provided in English I feel it is becoming a bit of an ugly american expecting english answers on a german forum thing. maybe this is just me...Only one german has protested so many English postings. I flashed my card last Thursday and it has been running straight since then with no issues nor problems. Best of luck Will S > I will try and help you by telling you what worked for me. The > problems encountered doing this on a PC show just why many of us > choice to use a Mac as our main machine! > > First off there is more then one way of doing this listed on the > German site and at least 3 different packages to download now! > I used Mitch's 7000PCI.sit package The Flash7000 package is the same > but includes more versions of the read me file for people using > different Word Processor packages. > The third package well I don't see it now looking over the site but it > has a russian .ru address. Don't use this one....Mitch's version is a > patched version of the russian one which didn't work with the 7000 > card ok that is out of the way ! > > First I printed out a copy of the "Info 7000.rtf " file which any text > editor should be able to open. It says " The way to the MAC Card" at > the top. > Things that go wrong. Some people thinking the "mac7Kbin" file is a > file to open with stuffit. It's not in fact it is the Mac Rom file and > needs to be used as is. > > There are two different ways to do this mentioned on the web site. I > followed Mitch's way which is very well written on this sheet you > printed out. > Things to watch out for: > You have to be booted into MS DOS. The newest and last Windows that > can do this is Win 98 SE. Win ME and newer no longer have true Dos as > part of the code.....and simulated Dos which the new version uses I > don't think will work. The second method of doing the flash uses a > Windows floopy boot disk. This maybe the answer for people who are > using Windows "ME' and Windows XP etc. > You need to have the 7000 PCI package on a pc formated floppy disk. > I'm using Mac OSX which doesn't normally have a floppy . So I burned a > cd with this on it. I then went over to the PC and using this cd disk. > I transfered this to a floppy disk. > I then went to the start menu and choice shut down which gives me > another menu with choices. Choice to re-start in MS DOS.Remove floppy > that you made before restarting machine. Then put the floppy disk back > in and follow the print sheet closely. > Just in case you aren't dos learned the command for reading the floppy > starts with > A:\ > which lets dos read the A drive which is the floppy drive in most PC's > your PC friend will be of help here I hope ;-) > ie the first command will be A:\ then FLASHROM -i > this will give you the ATI PC cards number which will be 0 or 1 > > It took me three tries to get it to work. Notice the info on getting > the number for the ATI card. It will be 0 most likely but in some > cases is 1 usually when the Video card you are booted from is a ATI > card as well it will be 1 rather then 0 > > notice the line where x is replaced with the number 0 or 1 which you > have found out using info on the print out. > > Where I went wrong and ended up with error messages was. you have to > follow the caps and no caps of the letters printed out on the sheet. > I kept missing that the K in the lines that have pc7K an the other > line which has mac7K > that K is a capital K and not small case like the other letters. > > so type lines exactly as they are including spaces . > > If the PC you are using has WIN XP or Win 2000 or WIN Me you will > likelu have to go to the german site and follow the info on doing the > flash using a Win boot floppy . > I hope this helps and that it is clear enough to follow. > Best of luck Will S -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? 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