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Asus V7100 Pro SE does NOT fit in Cube
Authored by: rfn on Jul 21, '02 08:53:28AM

I just tried to buy an Asus V7100 Pro SE, which is a 64 MB card with TV-out. The card I received was to tall to fit in a Cube, so instead I found an Asus V7100 Pro, which is a 32 MB card without TV-out. This card is much smaller and fits without problems.

After bootup I could only access three resolutions in both OS 9 and OS X, but that was fixed after flashing the card and it now works beautifully. The fan on the card does make the machine quite a bit more noisy but it's still a pretty silent machine compared to most other computers. I can't wait for 10.2!

The biggest problem with this solution is that the original frontplate from the ATI card didn't fit the new Asus card. This means that the card is only connected to the AGP interface and that makes it quite loose. I don't move around my Cube so it's not a big problem, but for others it might be and it also reveals a big hole in the bottom of the Cube.



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Asus V7100 Pro SE does NOT fit in Cube
Authored by: NoiseFactory on Jul 22, '02 10:23:48PM

Purchased an Asus V7100 Pro with 64megs & S/RCA Video out...works great after following Gwyrrdin's instructions. DVD Player works but....S-VIDEO DOES NOT WORK. Maybe a little modification to the driver is all that is needed. Anyway....Looking forward to Quartz Extreme...and now my G4 450 Cube is ready.



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Asus V7100 Pro SE no luck on a G4 350
Authored by: Chainsaw on Jul 26, '02 03:50:02AM

I tried an ASUS V7100 Pro SE in my G4350 and flashed the rom as per instructions in the original post. The Flashing worked perfectly however I was not 100% happy with the result, I did get a good clear screen with lots of extra resolutions but I had video artefacts appearing that would cluster around the edges of text etc. and make the text almost unreadable, I could make them disappear for a while by windowshading the window and and reopening it (OS9) but the artefacts would always come back. OSX (10.1.5) had similar problems.(Imagine a TFT screen with LOTS of dead pixels, that's what it looked like)
I flashed in 1045 should I be trying a different rom? Can you flash multiple times???



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Asus V7100 Pro SE no luck on a G4 350
Authored by: ejensen on Jul 26, '02 04:51:55PM

I think this is likely a heating issue. The graphics chip may not have sufficient cooling to run at the speed that the Mac ROM sets it to. I see this to some extent with the VisionTek GeForce2 MX400 5564 AGP card I am using- when I run for a long time with many apps, I begin seeing the artifacts and I think have also caused a computer crash. There is a small heatsink on the graphics chip on my card. I am going to try a fan next to the card to see if that stops the problem.

Another possibility is that the video memory chips are being run faster than their rated speed. This is a real issue with OEM cards and some retail cards. I believe the Apple card uses 5ns (ie. 200MHz) chips and many nVidia cards use 6ns chips, some even use 7.5ns chips.



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Asus V7100 Pro SE no luck on a G4 350
Authored by: mhh334 on Jul 27, '02 06:26:42AM

I too tried an Asus V7100 Pro in my G4 466 and experienced the screen artifacts which renders the card unusable. Now I am stuck with a card I can't use in an Apple or PC (now that it has been flashed for an Apple).



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Asus V7100 Pro SE no luck on a G4 350
Authored by: Johnny_B on Aug 10, '02 08:23:59PM

Will the SE version work on any mac at all ? I've found some really cheap ones...



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