Franklinstein
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A while back I picked up some low profile Radeon 9200-series graphics cards for Cube use, both 128MB but one a 9200 and the other a 9250, may or may not be the not-recommended (for reasons currently unknown to me) LE or SE versions. Recently I decided to try to flash them. I got the 9250 to (mostly) work but I botched the resistor move on the 9200 and I haven't tried to fix it (lifted pad).
The problems I'm having are that regardless of which flash I use (either the Tome or the "unknown" reduced 9250 flash from the MacElite downloads area): there's a permanent second display at 640x480 regardless of whether anything's plugged in or not; sometimes the main display is stuck at 256 colors until a reboot which usually fixes it; and OS 9 and OS X both misreport and disagree on the amount of VRAM on the card (OS 9 says 64MB, OS X says 256MB).
Anybody else notice similar problems with these cards? When the card works, it works pretty well (both OS 9 and X), but sometimes it takes a couple reboots to get it to cooperate.
The problems I'm having are that regardless of which flash I use (either the Tome or the "unknown" reduced 9250 flash from the MacElite downloads area): there's a permanent second display at 640x480 regardless of whether anything's plugged in or not; sometimes the main display is stuck at 256 colors until a reboot which usually fixes it; and OS 9 and OS X both misreport and disagree on the amount of VRAM on the card (OS 9 says 64MB, OS X says 256MB).
Anybody else notice similar problems with these cards? When the card works, it works pretty well (both OS 9 and X), but sometimes it takes a couple reboots to get it to cooperate.