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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 24, 2007 2:16:37 GMT
if you have a pic of the card, i would know better. By doing some light research, nvidia says it's a universal slot
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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 24, 2007 2:17:57 GMT
this might give you a better reference on what your card is the first pic is 4X and 8X second is 1X and 2X third is 1X, 2X, 4X and 8X
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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 24, 2007 2:29:14 GMT
give me a sec, just writing up the flashing instructions from Steve's website so you can print and follow up on.
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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 24, 2007 2:30:28 GMT
right, nevermind, It's going into a Sawtooth. It doesn't care about the pins. Scratch the pins... Don't worry about them Now, this is what you need to do... Instructions For Flashing video cards from PC to Mac. You need to flash this card in a PC You will need a PCI card in the PC as well with your monitor connected to this so you can see what you are doing. 1. Download the Mac rom from strangedogs, *you already have the rom file* 2. Make a windows boot floppy disk. 3. Download the latest version of nvflash from here, downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=8504. Make another floppy disk with the nvflash utility on it & also copy the mac rom onto it. 5. Go into your PC's bios & set your PC to boot from the floppy disk & PCI graphics card. 6. Insert the windows boot disk you made earlier. 7. Place the PCI card and the AGP in your PC. 8. Attach your monitor to the PCI card. 9. Boot your PC with the windows startup disk in the floppy drive & your PC should start to access the floppy & get you to the a:/ prompt. 10. Remove the startup disk & replace with the nvflash utility & mac rom disk. 11. At the a prompt type, nvflash -4 -5 -6 -j ***.rom (*** means the name of the rom file sitting on the floppy disk) Don't forget to type a space between nvflash, the numbers and the rom, it must look exactly as above to work. 12. Hit the return key and nvflash should start reprogramming the rom. 13. When finished switch off the computer and remove the card. Put in your mac, (don't forget to connect the auxiliary power connector. If you see the grey Apple logo screen you are good to go. If you are putting the card in a G4, you need to tape over the pins 3 & 11 on the reverse side of the card to make the card compatible with AGP 4x. G5 users should not need to do this. Instructions on how to do this are here, www.fishface.web.aplus.net/images/taping.jpgI accept no responsibility if you damage your card, your computer or are sucked through a black hole..
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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 24, 2007 4:15:40 GMT
Well, an update, aqua and ritalin, we have a problem, apparently flashing the card came up with an Eprom error and now the card is unreadable in the PC. Any ideas? I used the string that is on aqua's website nvflash -4 -5 -6 -j rom_name.rom
I'm stuck on what to do.
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Post by aquamac on Aug 24, 2007 5:18:36 GMT
Hmm, The card has flashed, there are 2 roms to download from the mac elite wiki, one is a unmodified rom and one has been modified by arti. Both roms are for specific BGA memory it appears. Was the original PC bios saved first? I think these cards are extra difficult, there was someone on strangedogs that had lots of experience with the GF4 but I cannot remember who. Gotoh may have some info I will mail him.
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Post by recorn on Aug 24, 2007 6:31:02 GMT
this might give you a better reference on what your card is my one is the third one 1X, 2X, 4X and 8X[/size]
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Post by ritalin on Aug 24, 2007 8:49:45 GMT
Well, an update, aqua and ritalin, we have a problem, apparently flashing the card came up with an Eprom error and now the card is unreadable in the PC. Any ideas? I used the string that is on aqua's website nvflash -4 -5 -6 -j rom_name.rom I'm stuck on what to do. What version of Nvflash did you use? It's an old card and you need to use an older version of Nvflash (4.46) to flash the card. Always read the file nvflash.info.txt that is provided with Nvflash before attempting anything. The command structure changes from version to version. Example Nvflash 4.46 The command to for a standard flash using new firmware: a:\>nvflash -5 -6 -f file.rom [Enter] Nvflash 4.15 The command to for a standard flash using new firmware: a:\>nvflash -p -u -f file.rom [Enter] The Mac Elite Wiki has some excellent info on flashing and using nvflash.
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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 24, 2007 8:52:54 GMT
i gave him the latest, version 5.50 i think it was
as for the rom, he used this one... nv_hack_macswitch_ti4400_1105_agp_64k.rom.zip
as for saving the original, .... how do you save roms in nvflash? i never figured that one out.
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Post by ritalin on Aug 24, 2007 11:55:00 GMT
i gave him the latest, version 5.50 i think it was as for the rom, he used this one... nv_hack_macswitch_ti4400_1105_agp_64k.rom.zip as for saving the original, .... how do you save roms in nvflash? i never figured that one out. The PC guys recommend using the older 4.xx series of Nvflash for this type of card. That ROM looks like the one Arti modified, so its probably the best one to use. Backing up the rom with Nvflash 4.46: a:\>nvflash -b backup.rom [Enter] Thats if you boot using floppy in the a:\ dirve, the ROM wil be saved as "backup.rom" on the floppy.
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Post by ritalin on Aug 24, 2007 12:16:20 GMT
I don't flash graphic cards any more and haven't done one in quite a long time. I have mostly forgotten all the fine detail but I think it goes like this:
The Device ID (DID) of the card must match the DID specified in the ROM or the card will not work. I think if this gets messed up the card can become unrecognisable to even Nvflash (card= paperweight). Aquamac will correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the way I remember it. In such cases you need to break out the soldiering iron to fix the card and lift one leg on the ROM chip.
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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 24, 2007 16:46:54 GMT
Ok, so of what you know, is there anyway to bring his card back to life? Or are we stuck on options here? I feel responsible for helping recorn with the flashing. I followed the steps i read and that i knew. Now he has a bunk card.
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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 24, 2007 16:59:30 GMT
question recorn, was this close to your board?
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Post by ritalin on Aug 24, 2007 17:57:51 GMT
Worst case scenario - remove and replace the ROM chip, then flash with original working PC firmware. If you don't have the original firmware it can probably by downloaded from www.mvktech.net/This may not be necessary, depends what you mean by "unreadable in the PC". Are you using a PCI graphic for the display or the GF4? Far easier if you have access to a non-Nvidia PCI card so you can see what's happening.
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Post by reddrag0n on Aug 24, 2007 18:36:19 GMT
of what recorn told me, he was using the gf4 as the main video. i asked if he had a cheap pci card floating around to put into the pc but he didn't have one. so we were going straight off of the gf4. he said the eeprom didn't flash, then he rebooted. then nothing on the screen. it was just blank.
so, if we can get a pci card to him, we can fix this, or should he just send the card to one of us?
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