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supernova777

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radeon 8500LE
« on: April 18, 2014, 02:32:41 PM »
does anyone remember if this pc card can be flashed to mac?
i see some people selling them for 10$ on my local area classified!
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Re: radeon 8500LE
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2014, 01:48:34 AM »
I know about Radeon 8500, but 8500 LE may be different...
The 8500 is the easiest to flash you ever found:
Just  put the Official ATI updater on the Startup Items folder, install the PC card on the Mac and restart...
The oficcial ATI ROM updater flash the PC card version to Mac! LOL

With the 8500LE you probably have to downclok the ROM or reduce the amout of VRAM, I don't know for sure...
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Radeon 8500 "All-in-Wonder" AGP 4x
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2018, 05:51:03 AM »

had some question re: 8500 aiw
was going to post this here but on second thought might be alot clearer in the long run to make it its own thread:
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=4256
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Re: radeon 8500LE
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2019, 01:23:14 PM »
To avoid flashing the card each time you reboot, you have to press the shift key to disable the startup items at boot, and then remove the updater from that folder.
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