Hi,

I am looking for some help, I have brought a ATI Radeon 8500 64MB AGP DVI VGA Video Card from ebay to fit into my apple 7,3 dual 2.0ghz powermac g5 for morphos.

I have connected the card that was brought from ebay and pull from a working pc. I get no picture on the monitor from vga cable and dvi. The machine powers up but after a few mins the fans go mental.

I have tried booting from an old build of morphos cd 3.2 i think and still no picture.

Card was only a tenner so wondering have I got the wrong card or do I need to flash it or something?

PC cards don't work on Macs and vice versa unless falshed with a suitable ROM (actually there are a few Radeons with Dual-ROMs but thats not the point).

While flashing your 8500 might be possible you might still run into troubles:
- MorphOS did have some probs working with reflashed cards in Mac
- a 8500 is pretty low end

Best option is IMO to check ebay for genuine Mac Radeon pulled from G5s, those come as 9600 and bigger an with up to 256MB. Basic 64MB 9600 should be found for 20Euro or even less.

i think i will get a 9600. quite a few on ebay for a decent price.

Thanks for the help

Rats, I have a few spares. PM me if you want one and we can work out a price. I'll undercut anything on eBay since they're just collecting dust here anyway (not really, in antistatic wrap!) :P

Pm sent

9600 is a really good card money wise. I recommend it for that reason.