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Hi,

 

Is flashing cards reversible? IS it done to make PC cards work on OSX natively?

 

Cheers

 

I haven't looked at the topic of flashing video cards in years. Back in the old days, I flashed a couple of PCI Voodoo 3 series cards to work with Powermacs running Mac OS 8 and 9. Flashed an AGP Geforce once to work with a G4 cube. Haven't thought about flashing anything more recent...not even sure if it means anything in the modern world of PCI-x.

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Is flashing cards (...) done to make PC cards work on OSX natively?

Yes, if you're going to use the card with a real Mac.

You can't do it with most cards, usually the EFI ROM is too large to fit on the flash ROM on a PC video card.

Visit aquamac's forum and Netkas' blog for more information.

 

But it doesn't make any sense to flash a PC video card with a Mac EFI ROM if you're installing OS X on a PC. Your PC doesn't speak EFI.

I'm not sure but I don't think a PC would even boot with a Mac video card in it, unless it's the secondary card.

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