What is this freak of a Radeon Card I have???

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Bimmer318i

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Okay, let's begin
The card is PCI...
It has DDR memory, as confirmed by the ram chips..
it is not VE, as a comparison of the core by Anand revealed..
It IS dualhead, DVI, VGA, and TV-Out
It has the ATI Radeon Graphics logo but with the "TM" but it does not have the "R" by the ATI (right's reserved or whatever)...
Has the heatsink and fan combo, not just hs..
Made In China
sticker on bios has this:
R6
PCI
77701
Sticker on back has this part #
P/N
1027770100 041017

I will email ATI about this..

second thing.
does not boot up in my systems,
recognized as secondary card in WinXP, but does not run, no drivers work, all say they are incompatible with it. it shows up as a Radeon SDR (AGP)..

I'm very confused..
i'll try and get pictures..

Is this what I think it is ??..
A Real Radeon DDR PCI Dualhead?....

anyone??..
 
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Bimmer318i

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yea, I got a few threads @ a couple forums going trying to figure this out..

getting some interesting info together..
 
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Duvie

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The radeon Le that was so famous here in the forums was marked like that though ATI did not support them...They were oem cards with the ati gpu chip and a handful of features changed or disabled...

My guess is an oem card not officially supported by ATI...Marketing may have realized that there is a need for this card as a pci device for older boards not supporting a agp card or as a second vid card...
 
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Bimmer318i

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yes, I am quite aware of the LE version of the card, what you may have going is this probably is, most likely that not is that this is an oem or partner product, not supported, that ONLY works as a secondary vid card..

 
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Bimmer318i

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the ram is too slow, from what I gather, it's 60 ns..
is the 7500's not quite a bit faster..
plus remember, it's PCI, do they make a PCI version, gonna go check..

Q12: Is there a PCI version of RADEON? 7500?


A12:
ATI has not announced plans to support a PCI version of RADEON? 7500.


then again, none of the other cards make sense..so yea..
:)..


 
CrackRabbit

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though im not sure of this, i belive you may of gotten an OEM card from a Gateway system, my roomates sister has a beast of a card simalar to yours in her computer... except hers was AGP, ummm try checking gateways site for some information....
(note: this is a wild guess, you got one heck of a funky card there!)

CrackRabbit
 
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Bimmer318i

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okay, let's see here..
looks like it may be a mac card...and the seller is fibbing about where he got it..

under powerstrip i have confirmed that it is 66mhz capable, of which there are no PC card's that have such capability..
errr...
man..
i am gettin the run around here..
 
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Bimmer318i

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Here is a link to the card...
http://members.home.net/bimmer318i/ATI Card.jpg
well the mystery has been solved, I got an email from ATI..

"Regarding the identification of your video card:

According to the number you submitted (10277770100 041017), this is a Radeon Mac Edition video card.
This card was manufactured for the Apple Mac systems and will not work in a PC, just as a PC card will not work in a Mac system.

This is why Windows XP is not booting with the card in the system.



Regards,

Brenda Robb
Customer Service Canada
ATI Technologies, Inc.

http://www.ati.com for Sales/Marketing and Product Information
http://support.ati.com for Technical Support, Driver Download, FAQ's, etc."


Thanks for all the help guys..
now a new objective..any way to flash this card over to PC???..
..:D...

 
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