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help with flashing 9800 gt
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I'm running a 1st gen mac pro quad 3ghz with a nvidia 7300 card that came with my computer. I'm quite fed up with it's inadequacy, and have decided that I would like to get the 9800 GT. I realize that there is the 8800gt out now for 1st gens as well, which is the same thing, but its another 130 dollars.
I have been searching for a guide on how to flash a 9800 GT for my computer, but have not been able to find one (keep in mind I have never done anything like this before, nor do I know much about ROMs or any apps to use to do this with). If anyone could help point me in the right direction or simply tell me how to do it, that would be great. thanks =p
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I think you just need an 8800GT rom. Your board has to have a 1024K rom chip. PM me if you need the rom.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac 
I'm pretty sure that's not going to work, because the card doesn't have an EFI ROM, so it can't initialize and actually communicate with the OS.
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Seems like they're getting them to work in OS X in the Hacintoshes, but I'm just going by what I'm reading.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Seems like they're getting them to work in OS X in the Hacintoshes, but I'm just going by what I'm reading.
Right, because the Hackintoshes run BIOS, which lets the cards initialize. The Hackintoshes don't have EFI, just an EFI emulator that runs under the scope of BIOS.
In a real Mac, it's the reverse. A real Mac runs BIOS systems under a BIOS emulator which runs beneath EFI.
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Ah, I guess that makes sense. I didn't realize that either BIOS or EFI made any difference once the host OS is loaded.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Ah, I guess that makes sense. I didn't realize that either BIOS or EFI made any difference once the host OS is loaded.
They don't, but the hardware all has to initialize before the host OS loads. You can load on the special drivers on a Mac, but it won't make a different if the card can't actually talk to your firmware because the OS likely won't see it properly anyway.
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I know it's theoretically possible to add a BIOS personality to EFI. I wonder if anyone is working on that to enable BIOS-based GPUs.
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