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Flashing Radeon 9000

Submitted by robov on August 2, 2004 - 1:23am

I'm looking for some expert advice here. Am a newbie and hope the question isn't out of place or out of line. Picked up an Ati radeon 9000 PC ATI RV 250 chipset. Got a hold of couple of Mac 9000 roms. A 113-99703-112 Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition and a newer version 113-99703-127. Installed card into PC Agp slot and started on PCI card with appropriate Ati flashrom and such. Ran Flashrom -i and showed atmel M2510ST/c for chip. I think this is the 128K larger chip. Backed up original bin and flashed with older rom successfully. But when installed to mac shows up as 16 MB VRam and will only show video in 256 colors and not very good at that. In 9.22, 10.28 and 10.34. Have all the latest drivers installed. Anyone have any success with this card. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

O.k update on testing. Weird stuff happens depending on whether your reading the card with Flashrom -i or ATI Flash -i. On the my other HIS Excalibur Radeon 7000 VE, ATI flash read the rom chip as 0x2000 when in fact ATI Flash read it at 0x1000 which is what it should have been. On this card ATI ATI RV250-LE_900 R 1.00 Radeon 9000 Flashrom reads rom chip as M2510ST/c 0x2000 and ATI Flash reads it as ST M25P05 0x1000 which is what it should be. I've now flashed with smaller rom courtesy of these forums and am about to reboot to the Radeon. System profile still shows Vram as 16 MB. Can't figure that out. Wondering if i can somehow tweak the rom file with hexedit to change that. Any ideas? The other choice of course is to try to change the rom chip to a M25P10 and possibly screw the card for good or flash it back the PC rom and flip it and try to find a 8500 or 7000 card.

Try the second round G3 freeze

Submitted by mobilepet on July 29, 2004 - 3:02pm

I drilled the holes needed to clamp the second freezer together. Try again tonight...

Made the second water chiller

Submitted by mobilepet on July 29, 2004 - 2:14am

Soldered some copper tube between two more cold plates. I have two heatsinks with _heat_pipe_technology_ that will interface to this new waterblock, including two more peltiers. I may need to have a

Got the g3 to go to 26.2F with the peltier

Submitted by mobilepet on July 28, 2004 - 1:52am

I used the peltier again with the new temp sensor. http://mickreed.freeshell.org It got down to 26.2 degrees F. I used the 12v supply in the computer - need to use the big hammond transformer instead.

why am i doing this

Submitted by forevermac on July 24, 2004 - 12:06am

I live an ordinary life. There are no major highs or lows in the normal course of events. I have a job. I'm not thrilled by it, but it pays (most of) the bills. I love my Probe. It's a 1989 LE, white (with rust, etc.) and it's sitting in the driveway with a broken window that will cost about $1400 (yes, one thousand four hundred dollars) to replace.

Ok start using blog

Submitted by mobilepet on July 17, 2004 - 1:41am

Just wait, soon I will have a cool mac page with my G3 Freeze - "It's Ice" hack.

Hello all!

Submitted by LimeiBook86 on July 11, 2004 - 5:32am

I have a regular blog at my homepage,

http://www.homepage.mac.com/ibook238/iblog

Go there and you can view my real blog.

Cya!
-Steve

BeaSD

Submitted by piltdownman on July 8, 2004 - 7:45pm

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I tend to have quite a bit of unused computer equipment laying around my house, this is one of my attempts to consolidate it and make something usefully.  Basically this is a Quadra 610 motherboard and power supply with a 1.2 gig SCSI hard drive in the box that my DSL modem came in.

Bleurgh

Submitted by Ean on July 6, 2004 - 7:26am

Hi, I've been looking around the site for a few weeks or so and finally decided to join after my Powerbook 1400 prompted me to. I'm attempting to drag it into the wireless world by connecting it to the home network with a Orinnoco Silver WaveLAN PC card (is there any need for that many names?.) Currently it is on 0S 8 so i decided to upgrade it to OS 8.6 instead of faffing around changing settings etc.

Apple 11 On Internet w/ smartmodem2400 and 128 mb etc. Possible?

Submitted by henrysmal on June 24, 2004 - 8:18pm

I'm New Here and Hope that It is done right on this Net. Is there someone that has done the Apple 11 w/ hacking it Up to put it on the Internet w/ text emails & Light graphics as done IN 1977-78-79? as It was done On the AOL for the first time then? I'd like to get My apple 11 On the Internet w/ the proper cards and whatever It takes to do it.

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