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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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