PC Video cards on a Mac??

starwarsdad

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I have a GeForce3 in my PC and would like to use it in my G4. Can I just stick it in the AGP slot on the Mac or are Mac video cards special?


Thanks!
 

sechs

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Generally, Mac video cards have different BIOSes than PC cards. More importantly, they use different drivers. If you don't have drivers, you don't have anything.
 

osmononame

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Well from what ive read you cant just stick it into the mac. I have heard success stories with people flashing their PC Radeon 8500le's to mac 8500le's by flashing the pc bios to a mac bios (not all 8500le's will work just some specific ones). However i am not sure about the Geforce 3 series. A good bet is to visit the forums at macnn and especially this thread http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=62312cd5b15693ea88da95e264215e5f&threadid=52779. It has info on how to flash the 8500le so maybe you can find some info on the geforce 3 flashing stories.

Hope this will help,
Osmononame