willpower101 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I have this x1900 i just got. It's from a g5 tower. It won't book in my hack. Blank screen. I hear the roms are different. There are INFINITE guides to flashing a pc card to a mac. Would i need to do the opposite to get this x1900 gt working in my pc / hack? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228742-can-i-use-a-stock-mac-video-card-x1900-in-my-hack-do-i-need-to-flash-it/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
willpower101 Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 i've tried almost every bios on this page so far. All of them seem to flash, however there's garbage on the screen for all of them also. http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/index.p...=&memSize=0 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228742-can-i-use-a-stock-mac-video-card-x1900-in-my-hack-do-i-need-to-flash-it/#findComment-1532204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayz Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I'm far from an expert on this, but I think that the cards from the PPC macs are different from the Intel ones. I know that you can use video cards from the MacPro in any PC (I have one running my Linux Media PC right now, previously ran OSX and WIN on it too), but I'm pretty sure that the G5 video cards are incompatible with x86 PCs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228742-can-i-use-a-stock-mac-video-card-x1900-in-my-hack-do-i-need-to-flash-it/#findComment-1533542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlee Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 i'm pretty sure if it's PCI-E on both platforms you should not have a problem, same videocard companies and manufacturers make the same cards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/228742-can-i-use-a-stock-mac-video-card-x1900-in-my-hack-do-i-need-to-flash-it/#findComment-1533554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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