Radeon 7000 Flashing problems

[pizzigri]

So as the going says “no one woe will befall you as it will always have friends silently following ” I have problems in also flashing a 7000 card I replaced the FW chip - and these I am absolutely sure are sourced thru Mouser.
checked the solder and it looks good even under microscope. Tested for shorts and continuity with DMM.
so I try to use the Ati 208 flasher that works in os9.1 and it recognized the card, does everything it’s supposed to do but then fails at the end as depicted in the images. I am also confused whether I may jave had to use the pads on the rear of the card although I looked at the spec sheets and everything looked OK. I‘ve got maybe 10 of the spi chips from Mouser.

 

[pizzigri]

Success! Had to use a ch341a programmer for a completely different spi flash - a pmc pm25lv10, found on a flat panel driver board - that I’ve erased and flashed with the 208 fw!
then, smd soldered on the 7000 !
and this is the result…. Wow

 

[_AP]

Hi. I flashed a Sun XVR-100 64MB with the latest Radeon 7000 Mac rom. (226, I also have 109 and 208 available). I'm getting some errors. On MacOS 8.6 with drivers installed, finder quits on boot (errors about crashing but never seems to actually crash). Adjusting resolutions crashes "Monitors and Sound", but still adjusts resolution. Can't open Diablo with Rave or OpenGL. (Crashes error 3). At various points, weirdness with display. (Shown below, moving window over screen with reveal) ATI displays sees it as a Radeon 7000 Mac.

Should I flash with older rom? Is this just to be expected?

PowerCenter Pro 210
Sonnet G3 450/1M

 

[_AP]

Also, in MacOS 7.6 with the Dan Palma drivers, I don't seem to have any issues. (Not a lot of testing). BeOS single resolution without color or refresh adjustments (expected ish)

 

[zefrenchtoon]

Hi. I flashed a Sun XVR-100 64MB with the latest Radeon 7000 Mac rom. (226, I also have 109 and 208 available). I'm getting some errors. On MacOS 8.6 with drivers installed, finder quits on boot (errors about crashing but never seems to actually crash). Adjusting resolutions crashes "Monitors and Sound", but still adjusts resolution. Can't open Diablo with Rave or OpenGL. (Crashes error 3). At various points, weirdness with display. (Shown below, moving window over screen with reveal) ATI displays sees it as a Radeon 7000 Mac.

Should I flash with older rom? Is this just to be expected?

PowerCenter Pro 210
Sonnet G3 450/1MView attachment 77533View attachment 77534

About the Radeon 7000, here you can see that @Dandu used the official Apple flasher with its 208 ROM.
Maybe you should give it a try ...?

 

[_AP]

I did use that the second attempt. Same
Issues.

 

[Big Ben]

I had the some problem with a 7000 in a 9500 with a sonnet crescendo card, I gave up.

ATI drivers made the computer crash or having odd behavior.

To make things harder, french ATI extensions and english ATI have different names, you should mess with extensions to avoid mix-matchs.

 

[_AP]

I am using a sonnet card. I'll try the original or a NewerTech to see if it makes a difference. If not, I'll try redoing extensions from scratch.

 

[Big Ben]

I wasn’t able to try without the sonnet because I got the computer without the original card.
I’m curious to see how it works with the original card.

 

[_AP]

I'll try soon and let you know.

Do you have the sun or a different 7000?

 

[Big Ben]

No if I remember it’s just a basic spahire PC card.

 

[_AP]

It seems to have the same issue with a non-sonnet card.

 

[_AP]

I think I found the issue. I had to disable Graphics Acceleration under the ATI displays menu bar panel.

Weird.