Has to be a regular pci slot, not pci-e. But yes, you should be able to, easiest via booting to freedos or the like.
PowerMac 6500 PCI graphics card options? (Feeling overwhelmed)
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That makes sense. Thanks! I just got an older windows 98/XP machine that has 3 pci slots…guess I’ll need to fix that up sooner than anticipated.
After you've replaced the ROM chip on the card, aflash should work to flash the rom file to it. If not you'll need an EEPROM programmer.
I found another 6500 with a l2 G3 sonnet card in it for an amazing deal. I’m now pondering if I should use this as a takky CC upgrade….
edit : thinking about it some more. If I can somehow override the rage II and use the vga of the Radeon with the l2 g3. A color classic of that caliber woiled be something special. I think I might retire this thread and create a new thread in the projects category.
edit : thinking about it some more. If I can somehow override the rage II and use the vga of the Radeon with the l2 g3. A color classic of that caliber woiled be something special. I think I might retire this thread and create a new thread in the projects category.
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Beware of the ATI bug on 6500/300 if you have that specific model. Slower models do not have the bug afaik. Read more about it here https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?thr...0-if-a-dedicated-graphics-card-is-used.44411/
I have a /275 and a TAM, though the 275 has a Twin Turbo card for video and the TAM doesn't have any cards installed (just CSII Ethernet), so I guess it will be worth observing them to see.
The test is try Quake RAVE or GLQuake for longer than 2 minutes. I expect the 275 to succeed with an ATI card, the TAM will freeze within 2 minutes.