Morden Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 There was ATI Radeon 9600 Pro PC&Mac edition, it worked fine in Mac OS X x86(no tearing, QE/CI Enabled, there is DeviceId of such video in ATI kexts). As I heard, there is the way to change DeviceId of ATI cards by video BIOS flashing(overclockers are using this way to enable pipelines in Radeon 9800/X800 series). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20006-is-it-possible-to-change-device-id-of-video-card/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 You used a Mac version of the 9600 successfully? How? Mac Radeons dont support Vesa. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20006-is-it-possible-to-change-device-id-of-video-card/#findComment-131607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morden Posted June 18, 2006 Author Share Posted June 18, 2006 Well, that was guy from forum.osx86.ru and he used special version for both Mac and PC(google for Radeon 9600 Pro Mac&Pc Edition). As much as I know, there was no such version of other videocard(too expensive for PC users and no profit for Mac users). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20006-is-it-possible-to-change-device-id-of-video-card/#findComment-131678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Gotcha. Might be worth a try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20006-is-it-possible-to-change-device-id-of-video-card/#findComment-131685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morden Posted June 18, 2006 Author Share Posted June 18, 2006 Here is instructions from this guy(at forum.osx86.ru his name is Niarlototep): 1) Download this. 2) We'll need bootable floppy(only 3 files: io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com). Unpack atiflash169.zip to there. And copy X800GT.bin to this floppy. 3) Boot from floppy and enter this to save your former BIOS: atiflash -s <number_of_adapter> <filename> (If you have only 1 adapter, then <number_of_adapter> - 0) Usual command looks like atiflash -s 0 r480.bin Then, to reflash BIOS, enter this: atiflash -p <number_of_adapter> x800gt.bin -f -newbios and reboot. 4) Unpack other folders of this archive to appropriate places. 5) Repair permissions: chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/* chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/* chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Frameworks/* chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Frameworks/* rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache rm -R /System/Library/Extensions.mkext 6) Reboot 7) To remove mouse tearing, install MouseLocator.dmg. With this method, guy made work his Sapphire Radeon X800GTO(but lost 4 pipelines). Unfortunately, he hasn't told his DeviceId. Can anybody with unsupported by Koverg's patch X800GTO card try this method? I don't have X800 card right now. And you doing this on your own. Reflashing is always risk. Edit: This was for PCI-E Radeon X800GTO 256Mb. For X800GTO 512Mb PCI-E and for X800GTO 256Mb AGP here His deviceid was 5d4f, and now it is 554d. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20006-is-it-possible-to-change-device-id-of-video-card/#findComment-131702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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