[G4] Video cards

[Mel Krewall]

The G5 has an 8x AGP slot, such that the card might be incompatible  
with older Macs. I bought an ATI Radeon 9600 that comes in the G5s and  
it would not allow my Quicksilver 2002 to boot with the card installed.  
However, xlr8yourmac.com posted this link ->  
http://www.techseekers.net/modules.php? 
name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=71
that shows how to get the 9600 working in an older Mac. It has a good  
explanation of what the issues are. Is the Geforce the one that comes  
standard in the G5? You may be able to use this to help you find out if  
the Geforce can work in your machine. If it's a PC Geforce, you will  
need to flash the ROM in a PC with the Mac firmware to get it to work.  
The third page of the link explains this as well, although you need a  
source for the Mac ROM, and it's not really a simple procedure.
HTH,
Mel

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are  
still rolling."
  ~ Mark Twain


On Dec 30, 2003, at 10:56 AM, Paul Pippen wrote:

> I have a 450 agp and want to put a new video card in.  I am trying to  
> run
> two monitors.  I bought an nVidia G-force fx 5200.  My machine sees  
> the card
> but it will not run my monitors.  I assumed that it would work since  
> the new
> g5's come with this card.  I am a novice at video cards. Help...?
>
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