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Use a PC GeForce card in your Mac: OS X 10.3?
Authored by: RolandMuts on Mar 03, '04 02:23:14PM

Hi guys,

Got an G3 iMac with OS 10.3, installed it on a LaCie FireWire disk. Happy Roland :-)

Couple of weeks ago bought an old G4 400mHz, with a flashed PC (so now Mac) GeForce2 card. OS X 10.2.8 was installed, works fine with the card. However, after connecting my FireWire disk and booting 10.3, the screen goes black after finished booting.

Haven't found a solution to the problem yet, but chances are that the flashed cards won't work with 10.3 :-(

Cheers,

Roland



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Use a PC GeForce card in your Mac: OS X 10.3?
Authored by: bagwell on Mar 13, '04 09:16:51PM

I have a PC MSI Geforce2 MX 400 32 mb, from www.msi.com.tw ( Model MX400D ), working great in Panther. No bios / firmare / hacks necessary. I just put the new AGP card, power on the G4 ( Gigabit Ethernet ) and then the computer recognized the card without problems. GREAT!!

The card works perfectly under Panther. I have a 1600 x 1200 at 60 hz resolution! No errors.

Regards



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Use a PC GeForce card in your Mac: OS X 10.3?
Authored by: RolandMuts on Mar 19, '04 03:55:04AM

OK, got the old ATI card back, replaced the flashed GeForce card with it, booted the system, and installed OS 10.3 from the install CD.

After the installation was finished, and the computer was rebooted, I still had weird graphics errors (safari screen not repainting properly after scrolling up/down, same with 'standard' OS X list windows).

Checked with the System Profiler, and the information about the graphics card still said the GeForce card was inside the computer?!

Switched off the G4, booted up again while holding that recessed button on the front of the computer casing, the computer started beeping, typed in the 'mac-boot' command, the system restarted, and the graphics errors were gone...

But the System Profiling information still said that there was a GeForce card installed!

Then rebooted again, installed the latest 10.3 update (10.3.3), and now the system seems to run without any problems... Still the System Profiler tells me that there's a GeForce card installed...

Cheers,

Roland



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