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How to flash PC PCI graphic flash to mac OSX (yikes g4)
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larsah
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Sep 14, 2005, 02:59 PM
 
I am new to this, but I need to know if there are any PC PCI-card which are EASY to flash to an old Yikes G4.
I dont want to solder or anything advanced, just simply flash a cheap Pc card.
Is this possible?

Any card better than the original 16 mb Radeon card will do.

If somebody has done this, I really would like to know how, which card to flash+++

A tutorial would be great

Take care, you rock folks
     
Partisan01
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Sep 16, 2005, 12:48 PM
 
I flashed a Radeon 9600 (i think) PCI for my B&W. Here is what I remember doing it was two years ago so it's a bit rusty:

put the graphics card in the PC (PC will now contain two graphics cards)
boot into DOS with a boot disk
run some EXE that does the flash process on the target card
put the graphics card in the Mac, works great...

I posted my experience on this forum, but that was when they were still locking forums about flashing cards, if you so a search it'll probably pop up with instructions. I remember searching the internet and found a site with a list of all flashable cards.
Apple iBook, B&W, Quadra 660, PowerMac 6100
Sun Netra T1, Ultra 1, Javastation
http://natetobik.mine.nu:81
     
danman
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Sep 16, 2005, 07:01 PM
 
Ask these guys, it's what their forum is for:

http://strangedogs.proboards40.com/i...rd=experiments
     
   
 
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