MMatlock Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Ok, I've been trying to get my ATI mobility radeon x600 graphics card to work under both 10.4.3 and 10.4.4 for a bit of time. Since I couldn't get the card itself to be recognized by any of the ATI kexts i tried flashing the bios on my video card to an X600 pro, which is listed in the HCL as working. However, what happened was now my OS continues to use the orignal card's vendor and device ID and lists it as working, but also another display adaptor appears in the system info. What's weird is my windows partition also does this. Does anyone know if this is a workable method? And also does anyone know why my system is recognizing two display adaptors? (I have checked with ATI tools that the bios on the card itself is identical to the one I flashed onto it, so I know I didnt accidentally flash a completely random PC card) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10334-making-ati-cards-work-by-bios-flashing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 what do you mean by ATI tools? Perhaps this is just me being over-simplified, but if you are using a software utility to check the IDs in the firmware of your card, it will report whatever ID that was in the firmware you flashed it with! Kind of useless... Maybe you can look up the exact Device ID online somewhere to check it against. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10334-making-ati-cards-work-by-bios-flashing/#findComment-64563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I can tell you back when I was using it, I had a Radeon 9550 AGP that I flashed to a 9600 Pro, and I had none of the similar effects you are describing. In both Windows and OS X, after the flash the card was simply detected as a 9600 Pro, the 9550 was nowhere to be found. I don't know, I might suggest reflashing the chip and see if that helps at all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10334-making-ati-cards-work-by-bios-flashing/#findComment-64709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
majoho Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I wouldn't suggest to mess with the BIOS on a mobile computer graphics card, I don't see how it would help you in any way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10334-making-ati-cards-work-by-bios-flashing/#findComment-64806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMatlock Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 jbjonas: By ATI tools I meant "ATI Tool", its a special software for ATI cards that lets you edit things on your card like clock speed. But also it has an option to dump the card bios to a binary. I did that after flashing, then opened the bios with bios edit and compared it to the one I flashed it with and found them to be identical. (same byte size, same Ven and Dev, same subsys ids, same mem and clock speed, blah blah blah) Anyway, despite this fact, DXdiag in windows and system profile in OSX still list 0x3150 1002 for my graphics chipset and windows goes on to say its using ATI mobility radeon x600. Further, both of them list some other "unknown display adapter" as 0x3170 1002, which is not even the same device ID as the one on the bios (which is 0x5B62 1002). This is super weird. I'm going to try reflashing the bios and I'll get back to you guys. In the meantime any thoughts would be great. Thanks! Edit: I get the feeling that cards between ATI's AGP series and the X1000 PCIe series are unsupported. Like my PCIe x600. Simply because perhaps the driver files for the 9700 could be AGP only, and the X1000 drivers obviously wont work for anything less than X1000 series chips. Any thoughts on this? Not sure if it's true. PS. majoho: Could you offer any justification for that statement? It would be helpful. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10334-making-ati-cards-work-by-bios-flashing/#findComment-64856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
majoho Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Usually when you flash your BIOS to something else on a standalone it's because you want more performance, on a laptop that could mean frying the whole thing. Anyway it's just my opinion. Btw. 0x5B62 is the Radeon X600 NOT the Radeon Mobility X600, as far as I know they are nothing alike. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10334-making-ati-cards-work-by-bios-flashing/#findComment-65342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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