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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Video Cards, Monitors & Displays => Topic started by: macStuff on February 20, 2018, 05:03:13 AM

Title: flashing PC Radeon 7500 (RV200) AGP to mac
Post by: macStuff on February 20, 2018, 05:03:13 AM
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/news/item/78-ati-radeon-7500
(http://www.vgamuseum.info/media/k2/items/cache/13f34e2b533e12c6166f88368dcd8c07_XL.jpg)

anyone had any success flashing this card?
theres the original OEM mac radeon 7500 rom here:
http://themacelite.wikidot.com/wikidownloads2

OEM   Radeon 7500   222   AGP 2x/4x   270/200 MHz   32MB TQFP DDR   128KB
but that card is DVI/ADC i think?
just wondering how things work out on the DVI/VGA pc version of the radeon 7500 AGP!
Title: Re: flashing PC Radeon 7500 AGP to mac
Post by: macStuff on February 20, 2018, 09:40:51 PM
is this card flashable??  i havent tried to do it as of yet

(http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4248.0;attach=4926;image)

P/N 109-83200-01 2001 ATI Tecnologies Inc
matches to a Radeon-7500-64MDDR
P/N 1028320601 052559
Title: Re: flashing PC Radeon 7500 (RV200) AGP to mac
Post by: darthnVader on February 22, 2018, 03:24:03 AM
The was a OEM Mac 7500, so the card is flashable.
Title: Re: flashing PC Radeon 7500 (RV200) AGP to mac
Post by: macStuff on February 22, 2018, 03:35:18 AM
right i know it SHOULD be flashable.. but i mean does anyone have any real world experience to confirm ?

re: OEM 7500; u mean the ADC/VGA version right? not this DVI/VGA version i posted above..

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/1028342302/
these are being blown out for $14 each at owc
according to this: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/1028342302B/
it was being bundled with a ADC-DVI adapter - but i guess they ran out of stock

according to the info at gpuzoo.com
the 7500 radeon was released around the same time as the 8500
which was in August 2001


Title: Re: flashing PC Radeon 7500 (RV200) AGP to mac
Post by: darthnVader on February 22, 2018, 03:42:56 AM
I remember people were able to flash them, but I never flashed one myself.

By the time we figured out how to flash the full 128k Mac Rom to a PC card, ATI was shipping the 8500, and that was a far better card, so no one really cared about the 7500.