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So does this really work?
I was just thinking of buying a new Radeon to play Warcraft 3 with (and to better OS X.2 when it comes out) but I'm afraid this... sounds... fishy...
Driver Update Link is wrong.
The link above for the nVidia update is wrong. It goes to the 3.0 update which does not have the Flasher in it. You need the 2.1.1 update.
....YES it does.
The whole reason this works is that you are taking an card manufactured to Nvidia's specs and replacing the ROM on it with one that goes on an Apple manufactured Nvidia card. As far as the OS and Mac are concerned at that point, its an Apple Nvidia card. This is a pretty old, tested thing to do. People on XLR8yourmac have been doing it for a year and a half, pretty much since Apple first switched from ATI to Nvidia for their video cards. In fact, Visiontek is the company that makes the cards for Apple. The only way they would stop working is if Apple decided to switch video card chipsets (back to ATI or to Matrox or someone as yet unknown) and no longer support their own older cards. Considering they still support ATI Rage Pros and will continue to do so (even though Quartz Extreme will not work, you can still use your card), I seriously doubt any situation as described above would happen. The PC and Mac ATI/Nvidia cards are using exactly the same chipset and are manufactured pretty much the same way with only minor differences (fan/heatsink, SDRAM/DDR, DVI or no) so the only thing that makes them different is the software used to run it and the firmware on the ROM chip.
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I bought a Pine Excalibur GeForce2 MX400 64MB, and after flashing it per the instructions, the card did not fully work; I could boot into 9.2, but there were a lot of screen artifacts, which made it fairly unusuable. Interestingly, in the Apple System Profiler, the card's ROM version was 1028F - not 1045 like in the article.
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Did the screen turn black for 5-10 seconds?
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When I ran the Applescript, the screen did not turn black - so I guess it never was completely flashed. I tried the 2.1.1 updater, but it returned the error "this program cannot run on your computer." I don't understand why the Applescript refused to completely flash my card because I even checked the syntax. Perhaps the chipset is somehow different the one Apple uses?
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I had exactly the same outcome. My screen also did not go black, but Profiler shows it to have Mac Rom but with a different rom number 1027F I think. Same garbage screen etc. Any tips would be appreciated.
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I've tried the solutions published at http://www.gargleblaster.org/lichaam.php?category=2&id=13
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No I've not been able to get it to work either. But I checked the AppleScript dictionary for 'AENV MacFlash [1045-MRS]' and the command 'FlashRom' and one of the results (which I get) is '4200: generic error.' Any AppleScript gurus out there who know what that means and how to fix it? |
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