Mac OS 9 Lives
Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Video Cards, Monitors & Displays => Topic started by: MacOS Plus on October 27, 2016, 09:05:24 PM
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I've been digging through a bunch of my older hardware that's been in storage, and I decided to play around with some Matrox video cards. I have two Milleniums and one Millenium II that were both successfully flashed to Mac ROMs and previously used in a 9500 system. I wanted to see if any of these would work for a second monitor in G3/G4s, and started testing out the Millenium II.
I downloaded the installer from Matrox and put the card in a Sawtooth booting OS 9.1. System profiler sees it but it never gets initiallized as a video output. Should it work in this system, or is there a ceiling on motherboard compatibility?
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i think it may have to do with pci spec compatibility
or the AGP graphics chipset
i have a card by Echo Audio the Gina 20 Bit card from 1997
it works in the PCI graphics G4 yikes! but not any AGP like the sawtooth..
i think the compatibility for this card is similar in that it works with the older beige powermac g3 + 600 series cpus
but not with the AGP g4's???
(http://www.512bit.net/matrox/hi/matrox_millenium2pci_3.jpg)
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I've been digging through a bunch of my older hardware that's been in storage, and I decided to play around with some Matrox video cards. I have two Milleniums and one Millenium II that were both successfully flashed to Mac ROMs and previously used in a 9500 system.
Did it work in Powermac 9500 with Mac OS 9?
I have Matrox Millenium Mac version and it didn't give any output from VGA connector, but it have that old mac-monitor-connector too. Funny thing is that it start output from VGA connector if I boot to BeOS PPC.