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ATI Radeon ROM Updater Oct2004

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October 2004 ATI RADEON Universal ROM Update for ATI Retail Mac Cards

Cards Supported:

RADEON MAC EDITION (PCI)
RADEON MAC EDITION (AGP)
RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION
RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION
RADEON 9000 MAC EDITION

What's New

Release notes available here.

Requirements
PPC,

Bootable Mac OS X 10.1.5 or newer system

Retail RADEON Mac Edition graphics card (installed in AGP and/or PCI slot)

Firmware Update application file (included in download)

The computer MUST NOT be interrupted (shut down or power failure) during firmware update.

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Anonymous reviewed on 22 Oct 2004

this not work with the ati 9600 (64mb) card that came with the first Power Mac G5's last year ??

TIA

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Anonymous commented on 22 Oct 2004

If a card CAME with the Mac (meaning that you did not go out an BUY it and then install it) then this update is NOT for your Mac.

It is for RETAIL cards, that means cards that you bought at a store and installed in your Mac yourself.

Anonymous reviewed on 21 Sep 2004

Hmph, Displays prefpane lost track of my LG Flatron 915FT with this "update", now it offers only VGA Display.

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Anonymous reviewed on 21 Sep 2004

Great for ATI 7000 64MB(PC card with 208 ROM):
Now sleep mode without scramled screen(no artefacts anymore after wakeup)

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Anonymous reviewed on 21 Sep 2004

Can this update be applied on iBook G4 800MHz?
The iBook got a Radeon 9200, I think...

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Anonymous commented on 21 Sep 2004

NO.

This update is for RETAIL cards only. That means one that you bought and installed yourself (or had someone install it for you)

Anonymous commented on 21 Sep 2004

It's also a MOBILITY RADEON, not a radeon card. More importantly, it's not retail. they don't sell mobility cards in stores.

Anonymous reviewed on 20 Sep 2004

I applied this to my Radeon 8500. I everything went fine, but my card still only has 32 MB ram.

I thought this was going to update it?

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Anonymous commented on 20 Sep 2004

Are you serious?

Do you know the difference between ROM and RAM? Look it up. You happen to have a repository of information at your fingertips. Use Google or something and educate yourself to basic somputer terms.

Anonymous commented on 21 Sep 2004

wow. genius. perhaps maybe you shouldn't be using a computer if you don't know the difference between rom and ram.

Anonymous commented on 21 Sep 2004

Maybe he said it in jest and the joke is on you?

Anonymous commented on 24 Sep 2004

Maybe he meant his Mac is saying his 8500 card only has 32Mb Ram (ie an error that he hoped new firmware would fix) The 8500 has 64MB.

I suspect one of 2 things:

It either isn't an 8500

or (more likely)

It is splitting the available VRAM between 2 monitors or 'thinks' there is another monitor or TV attached even if their isn't or it is switched off and hence 32MB is only available to the main display. If you go into ATI Utilities there should be some option to turn that off.

Anonymous reviewed on 20 Sep 2004

My DP 2Ghz G5 has a stock OEM ATI Radeon 9600 pro plus a retail Radeon 7000 PCI Mac Edition card. This firmware updater will update the 7000 only.

Now It was foolish of me to use this firmware updater since nothing is broken, but I felt like trying this firmware updater anyway. Besides there is one new feature:

Added Advanced display controls - requires ATI Displays 4.4.x

It froze my system while appying the firmware update, but to no ill effect since the old ATI Displays tells me the Radeon 7000 firmware is at 113-85501-226, which is current according to the installer.

The installer README warns not to allow the computer to shut down during the firware update process, but I did not expect the updater to freeze my computer itself.

So I dodged a bullet. The Lucky angel protection policy worked!

If you are not having any of the issues addressed in the README, then why apply this update?

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Anonymous commented on 20 Sep 2004

Says CLEARLY that it is for RETAIL cards only, not stock/OEM cards.

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Date:21 Oct 2004

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October 2004 ATI RADEON Universal ROM Update for ATI Retail Mac Cards

Cards Supported:

RADEON MAC EDITION (PCI)
RADEON MAC EDITION (AGP)
RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION
RADEON 8500 MAC EDITION
RADEON 9000 MAC EDITION
RADEON 9200 MAC EDITION
RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION
RADEON 9800 PRO MAC SPECIAL EDITION

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