[X4U] G5 Video Card Question

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Fri Apr 4 14:32:28 PDT 2008


> You can flash a PC's ATi 9800 Pro to a Mac firmware.
> 
> These cards are quite common - they're quite distinctive when you  
> know what to look for, and you can easily get one on eBay for £30 (or  
> probably less now). It's not too difficult to do and although it's an  
> imperfect solution, well, compared with the cost of an official card,  
> it was the only answer that seemed to make sense when my G5's  
> graphics card died.
> 
> Stroller.

How much Video RAM?

I was lucky, mine started going out about a week prior to my Applecare
expiring.  They couldn't reproduce the problem (it was intermentent), but
thankfully replaced it anyway.

Zane



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