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AGP 9200 256MB is working in a sawtooth. But how?!

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wrigmatt:
I bought a bulk lot recently and included in it was a surprising find, a sawtooth running this card. It was in a custom case, with a processor upgrade, so I tried it in a couple other older 2x AGP G4s and it worked in them too. I'm fairly sure it's a PC card, but I can't find any info on how it's working/how it was flashed/etc. I'm doubly amazed because I noticed after I switched it around a couple times that the metal on the pins has a couple places that are flaking a little. I'm afraid to remove it from the machine it's in now again if it's falling apart, because it works flawlessly. it's PN8915-981, for reference. I picked up another one for cheap and want to do the same thing to it (if I can find info on what the heck that is).

Any insight appreciated!

V.Yakob:
Use Graphiccelerator to download the firmware from the ROM of this board.
It will be interesting to compare whether it's firmware from here or some other.
If you can save the firmware, add it here in the archive or somewhere else. And could you post large photos of this board, I'm interested to look at the design of the resistors.

wrigmatt:
Thanks! Will do. I got the PC version of the card today and it looks identical to the one that's working in the sawtooth. I tried it just to try it and it didn't work, so the one in there must've been flashed. FWIW it reports ROM version 113-A27502-121 in System Profiler. I'll take photos tomorrow and post them of both cards.

wrigmatt:
I don't want to pull the working card out of the sawtooth, but I took reasonably good pictures with it in there. Also have photos of the unflashed card. To my untrained eye they look the same.

wrigmatt:
Can't seem to get the multidumper to work, even in safe mode. it just launches and closes itself. I'll keep at it and report back if I find anything. The documentation is a bit thin.

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