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Messages - mccomber
1 Hardware / Solved
January 16, 2012, 03:04
Ok, its been over a year but I had another crack at this today and solved it.  Googling I came across this site:

http://cubeowner.com/kbase_2/index.php?article=62

and it gave me the idea, what if the two 7000's buddy sent me were NOT Mac ones despite what he thought.  So I used the file 62-R7000-ROM-208.sit from the aforementioned site and tried to flash the card (in my 8500).  While the flashing software ran without complaint in 7.6.1 it did not flash the card.  So I wiped the drive and installed 9.1.  Downloaded the flashing software and tried again.  This time the card was flashed.

I powered down, connected my monitor to the card and turned on the Mac.  Voila!  It works!  So now I am re-installing 7.6.1 and we'll see how that goes.
2 Operating System / AppleShare IP borked my Apple Menu
January 15, 2012, 23:39
Hi,

I installed AppleShare IP 5.0.2 on my 8500 (Mac OS 7.6.1) which went without a hitch.  But after I rebooted I noticed that none of the items in the Apple Menu that should have flyouts (control panel, recent apps, recent docs, etc) don't anymore.

So I fired up extension manager and was warned about a missing item, Apple Menu Options.  I poked around the hard drive and can't find it.

Anyone else run into this issue?  What is the best way to restore that missing item?

Thanks,
Doug
3 Hardware / Help with Radeon 7000
December 19, 2010, 13:44
Looks like hardware issues.  I figured I'd install Mac OS 9.1 in order to try some later ATI drivers (and I have a second monitor as you suggested).  This time when I click ATI Displays rather than just a beep I get the message that no ATI cards were detected.

While it is possible that the card is bad, I actually have two of them and they are identical.  Neither of them work in my 8500.  I have tried the upper and middle PCI slots.  Haven't tried the bottom one yet, don't know if that makes a difference.  And of course I've pressed the CUDO button each time (and held it down for a count).

I got these 7000's off ebay and they were advertised as the Mac version.  I punched the product number by itself into Google and came up with hits like this:

http://www.welovemacs.com/10249c0200sa.html

so I can only assume it is indeed the Mac version.

Unfortunately I don't have another Mac to try these cards in and I am at a loss of things to try.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Doug
4 Hardware / Help with Radeon 7000
December 18, 2010, 17:09
Hi,

I've got a PowerMac 8500 that I'm trying to get to work with a Radeon 7000.  I've got the ATI drivers from this site installed and I removed the nut by the vga port so the card will seat fully.  But when I boot the machine the monitor stays black and eventually goes to sleep.

If I boot with the 7000 in but the monitor connected to the built-in graphics port I see that the ATI icon is there but the Graphics Acceleration is grayed out and ATI Displays just beeps.

Is there something I'm missing?  Do I need to press the CUDA switch, remove the video ram, put the card in a specific PCI slot?

Thanks,
Doug
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