Flashing a Radeon 7000 PCI

By Kalomir. Original by Lionel - 20/07/2003 11:43:02 CEST - Category: Video

Here's Rémi experience of flashing a Radeon 7000.

Having read the 2 articles on flashing a Sapphire 64 Mo card, based on ATI Radeon 7000 chip, I decided to join the adventure.
After receiving my card from Computer Universe and downloading the flashing kit on Falkmedia, I installed my card in my office's PC, saved the original ROM, replaced it by Mac ROM, reinstalled the card in my UMAX S900, then launched based install (ATI Radeon 7000 Installer 1.0), then used ATI's october 2002 2.08 update. Everything went well, no bug. Tested under Mac OS 9.2.1, proven to be qite faster than my former Rage 128 ;-) Yet the S-video output didn't work. I then tried the same install under Mac OS X and activated Quartz Extrem. Although it works well isn't quite as noticeable, perhaps a bit of fluidity with the screen saver. And still no S-video output (useful for DVDs or Divx) . As this card came from Germany, I wondered if this output signal would perhaps be different from'Y/C. So I used a peritel adaptator, coming from my digital camera, that allows one to switch between Y/C and CVBS and then the miracle happended :-() I've got a 2d screen on my TV. Let's go for DVDs and Divx on a 16/9 device !!! Video copying also works well, only sometimes the mouse pointer stays on my 21'' computer display instead of moving to the TV screen.
Here's the boost my old machine required (UMAX S900, XLR8 G4 450, 272 Mo/80 Go ATA 133 and SCSI 2, USB and firewire cards, USB bluetooh Acer key) to go on helping me while I get the money to buy a G5.