Well I bought a 32mb Radeon 7000 to flash for my Power Macintosh 8500. I kept trying many different ROMs using many different methods. I got an error each time. Feeling quite flustered, I researched the error. It turned out there were variations of the Radeon 7000 with a 64kb ROM rather than a 128kb ROM. All mac cards had the 128kb. However there were 64kb mac hack roms, I discovered. Eager to try them, I tried to flash one to the card. No adapter present. Uh oh. No ATi cards installed. I had overwritten the ROM one too many times. It turned out that the 64kb hack might not have worked in old world macs anyway, such as my 8500 making the Radeon 7000 I bought ultimately a waste, whether I had bricked it or not. In the aftermath however, I have learned much about flashing so that if the time is right someday I would have more experience at it. In the meanwhile, I am steering clear of paying for cards that I plan on flashing; I will only flash a free card from this day on. Had I paid $20 more, I could have gotten a mac edition. Instead, I lost $20. Worse things could happen to me. This is just one of those little potholes on the road called life. [
] ]'>
] ]'>
