[X4U] Flashing Video Cards

Jon Kreisler jonkreisler at gmail.com
Wed May 31 07:31:55 PDT 2006


Apparently, you need the ATI MAC ROM image flashed (from a MAC version of
the card) to the PC card. There have been reports of limited success with
various ATI video cards. Start with this article and follow links:

http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/action.lasso?-database=faq.fp3&-layout=FaqList&-response=answer.faq.lasso&-recordID=33548&-search

Seems like a lot of trouble and could be a crap-shoot.
Regards,
Jon

On 5/30/06, Richard Gilmore <rgilmor at uwo.ca> wrote:
>
>  A friend of mine bought a G4 Cube on eBay and it works fine but he wants
> to put a better video card in it. It's got a 16MB ATI currently. He's got a
> 128 MB ATI that's for a PC which won't work the way it is now.  He's read
> you can flash the BIOS of the card to make it Mac. Does anybody know
> anything about this or does anybody know of a list/site with people who've
> done mods like this?
>
> Thanx
>
> Richard
>
>
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