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| Radeon 7000 Flashing problems | |
| Posted by: pizzigri on 2024-05-20 07:57:33 So as the going says “no one woe will befall you as it will always have friends silently following ” I have problems in also flashing a 7000 card I replaced the FW chip - and these I am absolutely sure are sourced thru Mouser. checked the solder and it looks good even under microscope. Tested for shorts and continuity with DMM. so I try to use the Ati 208 flasher that works in os9.1 and it recognized the card, does everything it’s supposed to do but then fails at the end as depicted in the images. I am also confused whether I may jave had to use the pads on the rear of the card although I looked at the spec sheets and everything looked OK. I‘ve got maybe 10 of the spi chips from Mouser. | |
| Posted by: pizzigri on 2024-05-21 10:32:34 Success! Had to use a ch341a programmer for a completely different spi flash - a pmc pm25lv10, found on a flat panel driver board - that I’ve erased and flashed with the 208 fw! then, smd soldered on the 7000 ! and this is the result…. Wow | |
| Posted by: _AP on 2024-08-26 20:04:15 Hi. I flashed a Sun XVR-100 64MB with the latest Radeon 7000 Mac rom. (226, I also have 109 and 208 available). I'm getting some errors. On MacOS 8.6 with drivers installed, finder quits on boot (errors about crashing but never seems to actually crash). Adjusting resolutions crashes "Monitors and Sound", but still adjusts resolution. Can't open Diablo with Rave or OpenGL. (Crashes error 3). At various points, weirdness with display. (Shown below, moving window over screen with reveal) ATI displays sees it as a Radeon 7000 Mac. Should I flash with older rom? Is this just to be expected? PowerCenter Pro 210 Sonnet G3 450/1M   | |
| Posted by: _AP on 2024-08-26 20:06:27 Also, in MacOS 7.6 with the Dan Palma drivers, I don't seem to have any issues. (Not a lot of testing). BeOS single resolution without color or refresh adjustments (expected ish) | |
Posted by: zefrenchtoon on 2024-09-06 06:21:23Hi. I flashed a Sun XVR-100 64MB with the latest Radeon 7000 Mac rom. (226, I also have 109 and 208 available). I'm getting some errors. On MacOS 8.6 with drivers installed, finder quits on boot (errors about crashing but never seems to actually crash). Adjusting resolutions crashes "Monitors and Sound", but still adjusts resolution. Can't open Diablo with Rave or OpenGL. (Crashes error 3). At various points, weirdness with display. (Shown below, moving window over screen with reveal) ATI displays sees it as a Radeon 7000 Mac.About the Radeon 7000, here you can see that @Dandu used the official Apple flasher with its 208 ROM. Maybe you should give it a try ...? | |
| Posted by: _AP on 2024-09-06 07:37:38 I did use that the second attempt. Same Issues. | |
| Posted by: Big Ben on 2024-09-06 09:42:49 I had the some problem with a 7000 in a 9500 with a sonnet crescendo card, I gave up. ATI drivers made the computer crash or having odd behavior. To make things harder, french ATI extensions and english ATI have different names, you should mess with extensions to avoid mix-matchs. | |
| Posted by: _AP on 2024-09-06 09:45:38 I am using a sonnet card. I'll try the original or a NewerTech to see if it makes a difference. If not, I'll try redoing extensions from scratch. | |
| Posted by: Big Ben on 2024-09-06 09:54:53 I wasn’t able to try without the sonnet because I got the computer without the original card. I’m curious to see how it works with the original card. | |
| Posted by: _AP on 2024-09-06 10:07:46 I'll try soon and let you know. Do you have the sun or a different 7000? | |
| Posted by: Big Ben on 2024-09-07 12:43:06 No if I remember it’s just a basic spahire PC card. | |
| Posted by: _AP on 2024-09-20 17:31:26 It seems to have the same issue with a non-sonnet card. | |
| Posted by: _AP on 2024-09-20 17:52:01 I think I found the issue. I had to disable Graphics Acceleration under the ATI displays menu bar panel. Weird. | |
| Posted by: trag on 2024-11-02 19:13:49 There's an incompatibility between the version of the ATI drivers that 9.2.2 loads and some version of QuickTime. I ran into it when trying to get classic OS loaded onto my MDD. There's an old thread about it around here somewhere. | |
| Posted by: _AP on 2024-11-07 12:26:55 This is MacOS 8. I do think you're right, it's probably some driver issue. | |
| Posted by: _AP on 2024-11-18 17:40:41 Attempting again to get it working. I disabled the QuickTime extensions and it still has the same symptoms. Finder quits unexpectedly on boot. Launching Diablo II or Quake II results in type 3 error and won't load. Monitors control panel crashes when I change resolutions. When I turn off Graphics Acceleration on the Menu Bar icon for ATI, the symptoms seems to stop. I can still choose OpenGL and RAVE in games, and it seems to even work, but I can't tell. Seems fairly playable. Finder still quits because on reboots, it restarts the graphics acceleration. Any other ideas? | |
| Posted by: zefrenchtoon on 2024-11-19 02:08:47 Which version of ATI drivers do you use ? I think that there is one which cause some problems (June 2005 one maybe ?) | |
Posted by: _AP on 2024-11-19 13:49:44Ati drivers for Mac OS Classic | |
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