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Apple Cinema Display on a PC
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Glad to hear from you again.
Here is the how-to:
Step One
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Insert a blank, formatted Floppy into your floppy drive. Open My Computer and right click your A:\ drive. Select Format. In the control window, under the parameters section, select "Create an MS-DOS Boot Disk." Click start, or begin, or whatever it is.
Step Two
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Get ATiFlash from http://www.3dchipset.com/files/bios/ati/flash/atiflash.zip.
Step Three
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Put the aforementioned flashing utility onto your prepared floppy. Copy atiflash.exe AND DOS4GW.exe to the floppy.
Step Four
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Keep the floppy in your A:\ drive, and restart. Windows will not boot; the system will boot from the disk. When the A:\> prompt comes up, type
Atiflash -s 0 ORIGINAL.bin
This command creates a copy of your current BIOS puts it onto the floppy disk. Dont worry, this cannot screw up anything, it's neither 'taking' nor 'cut and pasting' your video card's BIOS and putting it onto the floppy, just copying . When the process is finished, take out the floppy and reboot into Windows.
Step Five
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Send me the file ORIGINAL.bin at grimmy27 @ chez.com (without spaces)
Thank you very much !
If you do not have a floppy disk, you can do the operation with Ati WinFlash (http://release.narod.ru/ati/winflash1_17.zip).
Extract the zip, then launch winflash.exe.
Click Save button and save the file under the name ORIGINAL.bin and send it to me.
Hi everybody,
Langwij send to me his radeon 9700pro bios and IT IS NOW WORKING 100% !!
I was a little bit afraid with this bios because radedit was telling me "checksum error" when loading this bios. Nevertheless, radedit seems to load some informations from that file so...
I finally decided to try to flash my radeon 9700pro bios with Langwij bios (normally, atiflash does make a check of the bios validity) and everything is working perfectly now (post, bios, windows loading, cmd in fullscreen)!!
For the moment, the only difference I was able to see in that bios, with radedit, is that the TV standard is set to NTSC instead of PAL (I'm leaving in France where PAL is the standard).
I will check out others differences ant let you all know.
If someone wants Langwij bios, I can send it to him, if Langwij agree of course.
Thanks to everybody but very specially to Langwij for being so kind and helpfull !!!
Langwij send to me his radeon 9700pro bios and IT IS NOW WORKING 100% !!
I was a little bit afraid with this bios because radedit was telling me "checksum error" when loading this bios. Nevertheless, radedit seems to load some informations from that file so...
I finally decided to try to flash my radeon 9700pro bios with Langwij bios (normally, atiflash does make a check of the bios validity) and everything is working perfectly now (post, bios, windows loading, cmd in fullscreen)!!
For the moment, the only difference I was able to see in that bios, with radedit, is that the TV standard is set to NTSC instead of PAL (I'm leaving in France where PAL is the standard).
I will check out others differences ant let you all know.
If someone wants Langwij bios, I can send it to him, if Langwij agree of course.
Thanks to everybody but very specially to Langwij for being so kind and helpfull !!!
TRUST ME ON THIS ONE:
get Poisoned . it connects to all the filesharing networks at once. i too am a part time pc user, and ive totally forgotten about kazaa with Poisoned. It even connects to the FastTrack network that kazaa/morpheus runs on, plus gnutella and all that other stuff at the same time.
what else could you ask for but an aqua/brushed metal kazaa + integration with iTunes!
www.poisonedproject.com
(their site isnt up at the moment, but it was up as of last night...)
Same here, I did much research on the Net for the best PC graphic card to run 23" ACD. And I yet to find one that give a max DVI resolution of 1920 X 1200.
Have you came across anyone using the Radeon 9700pro (All-In-Wonder) without problem for the 23"ACD?
Thanks for sharing!
So, has anyone plugged the ACD into a USB sniffer and broken down the protocols for how the device describes itself, and how things like brightness/contrast are controlled from the Mac? or how the sleep button is reported?
If the ACD declares itself as a USB HID device, it shouldn't be too big a trick to whip up a VB or .NET helper app to handle the details...
FG.
If the ACD declares itself as a USB HID device, it shouldn't be too big a trick to whip up a VB or .NET helper app to handle the details...
FG.
Originally posted by Grimmy27
Hi everybody,
Langwij send to me his radeon 9700pro bios and IT IS NOW WORKING 100% !!
Just to confirm, I asked for the Bios from Langwij. I thought about it for a few minutes then thought s*d it and went for it.
I shut all running applications down then went for it with the windows ATI Flash utility. It then prompted for a reset, i did so and Hurrah! I can seen Boot, Bios and XP loading screen!
Thanks to Langwij for all his help.
Terry
Renderz
NavyIntel007 said:
the apple is displays are really LG monitors with an apple case. so who is the poser?
I jsut orderd my 20' apple display and the adapter i really hope it works
and everything is jsut as good as a regular monitor can some one please re a sure me casue im ****in ****ting bricks here
and everything is jsut as good as a regular monitor can some one please re a sure me casue im ****in ****ting bricks here
iJon said:
Its not windows, its the video card drivers. ATI's from 9800 and up all support the native resolution of the 20" display. I even believe ATI released a new set of drivers that allow the older 9700 to support it also.
I used it all the time, never have a problem. Although if your playing games, most games don't support the native resolution.