But used a soldering Iron ...
We had a bunch of nasty storms much like everyone else in North America and just about all of my pc's pretty much took a dump. Luck would have it a co-worker gave me a powermac 9600/300 Avid system for the price of its zip drive (and I dont care cause I never used zip disks)
The machine has 256 megs of ram, was stacked full of avid cards and a atto scsi card that linux wont see (deal with that later) and I added some higher speed scsi drives bringing the system up to 24 gigs... my intention is to use this as a linux box on my electronics workbench but with the bonus of classic OS and apple 800K floppy access for my SE and anything down the road.
Unfortunately the stock video and the targa card that the machine came with both are dreadfully old and do not handle modern desktop use as well as I would like as a daily user, so a video upgrade was in order.
Before my last decent pc exploded some caps I had ordered a generic 64 meg pci ATI Radeon 7000 for PC for about 15 bucks. I darn well knew it would have a 64KB rom where Mac's need 128KB roms, but I waited to make sure and that would ensure I would get the correct part for a swap.
The rom on the card was a Atmel 908 series 25F512 512bit SPI serial flash prom. This is a pretty standardised part so I punched in 25F1024 into digikey and quickly sourced a 1Mbit (128KByte) model from microchip at a cost of about 4 bucks.
Today the 128k rom arrived, so I removed the stock PC rom off of the video card, soldered the new, never before powered on, never flashed with anything 128k rom to the board and jammed it in the Mac.
Still using the Targa card (cause it has a vga connector, and I don't have a Mac adapter) reboot the machine to os and run the ati 208 update, the update should update the "drivers" (rom data for that blank chip) and ask you to reboot... you really need to shut down.
Once the machine is off remove the video card you were using and plug your monitor into your new ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition, fire it up!
In os 9 you will need to install ATI_OS9_RADEON_Update_9-2-2-jan2005 to take advantage of acceleration.
We had a bunch of nasty storms much like everyone else in North America and just about all of my pc's pretty much took a dump. Luck would have it a co-worker gave me a powermac 9600/300 Avid system for the price of its zip drive (and I dont care cause I never used zip disks)
The machine has 256 megs of ram, was stacked full of avid cards and a atto scsi card that linux wont see (deal with that later) and I added some higher speed scsi drives bringing the system up to 24 gigs... my intention is to use this as a linux box on my electronics workbench but with the bonus of classic OS and apple 800K floppy access for my SE and anything down the road.
Unfortunately the stock video and the targa card that the machine came with both are dreadfully old and do not handle modern desktop use as well as I would like as a daily user, so a video upgrade was in order.
Before my last decent pc exploded some caps I had ordered a generic 64 meg pci ATI Radeon 7000 for PC for about 15 bucks. I darn well knew it would have a 64KB rom where Mac's need 128KB roms, but I waited to make sure and that would ensure I would get the correct part for a swap.
The rom on the card was a Atmel 908 series 25F512 512bit SPI serial flash prom. This is a pretty standardised part so I punched in 25F1024 into digikey and quickly sourced a 1Mbit (128KByte) model from microchip at a cost of about 4 bucks.
Today the 128k rom arrived, so I removed the stock PC rom off of the video card, soldered the new, never before powered on, never flashed with anything 128k rom to the board and jammed it in the Mac.
Still using the Targa card (cause it has a vga connector, and I don't have a Mac adapter) reboot the machine to os and run the ati 208 update, the update should update the "drivers" (rom data for that blank chip) and ask you to reboot... you really need to shut down.
Once the machine is off remove the video card you were using and plug your monitor into your new ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition, fire it up!
In os 9 you will need to install ATI_OS9_RADEON_Update_9-2-2-jan2005 to take advantage of acceleration.