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I have just bought a Quadra 950 of ebay and its working ok only problem it has no cdrom drive and I want to install AU/X 3.0 on it I know I should look around for a apple cdrom drive but there are lots of other scsi cdroms on ebay anybody got any recommendations as to what would work in the...

I did update everything before cpu upgrade anyhow that was not the issue as everything was working fine with stock ATI Rage 128 pro. Anyways I have good news I got a ATI 9800 pro 128mb and fitted it and its working perfectly now a lot faster, a real speed boost. Thanks everyone for all your...

ok I have my eye on Radeon 9800 pro I will give that a try

to coius I also note that you are running a stock machine no upgrades mine has sonnet/encore st/G4 1.8Ghz CPU and 1GB memory and there in lies my problem, nothing seems to work because of the upgrade.

just as an example would this card work http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RADEON-GRAPHICS-128MB-CARD-9800-PRO-MAC-EDITION-AGP4X_W0QQitemZ220271815184QQihZ012QQcategoryZ3762QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

to Bunsen: yes it was a Mac version ( but could have been duff ) to Rodus and Coius: I have been told because my G4 AGP is no longer stock ie upgraded that no Geoforce cards will work because of power issues is this true ? also Macupgrades (where I got the CPU ) told me the only one that will...

I have not had much look with a card yet I have bought 2 of ebay an had to send them back because they did not work one was Nvidia GeForce 6200 DVI 256Mb AGP x2-8 Power Mac G4/G5 and was told that it was because I have upgraded my CPU with the Sonnet/Encore/ST G4 1.8Ghz. and the other was a...

Thanks for your help I will keep and eye on ebay for any of the above cards unless anyone knows where I can get any new ones

I have just recently upgraded my G4 450MHz (sawtooth) with a Sonnet Encore 1.8Ghz processor and installed Leopard. I still have the original graphics card in it (ATI Rage 128 Pro) so Leopard is still a bit sluggish. I want to put a better graphics card in it (AGP 2x/4X) to improve performance...

all fixed now I had to press the magic reset button next to the pram battery and a phone call to macupgrades where I got the Sonnet 1.8Ghz prosessor and they advised to select the "Archive and install" option when doing the Leopard install, all working ok now. Thanks for your help

I hit the reset button by the pram battery and it started to work ( well at least it's starting up now) I still got to figure out why Leopard is not booting what is that reset button for, I know that you can reset the pram by having contorsionist fingers and using the keyboard reset. does that...

I have G4 AGP (450Mhz) which I have just upgraded with a Sonnet Encore 1.8Ghz processor and I have been running it ok for about a week and a halve with tiger 10.4.11 with all the latest updates and all was fine working great. I did a upgrade with Leopard last night and all went ok no error...

I'm am using OS 9.0 and yes open transport is installed. I have patched the driver with my card id and no good I have also tried to use the driver as is and still no good.

got the card and installed the drivers but can't get it to work, no ethernet :(

Thank you for your help bought it and downloaded the drivers :)