Yep, I dunno about you but troubleshooting a 4600 isn’t my idea of a good time.
Now slaying a bunch of pub weinies in Q3A at full on everything, now THATs what I’d want to do with a ti 4600.
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Yep, I dunno about you but troubleshooting a 4600 isn’t my idea of a good time.
Now slaying a bunch of pub weinies in Q3A at full on everything, now THATs what I’d want to do with a ti 4600.
Edit: The trader is issuing a refund and has informed me that I can keep the card. I'll still need to find a working 4600 though...
Has anyone purchased items from the Mac e-shops in my previous post?
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Yanno, totally off topic but I was watching a Hrutkay mods vid where he was snoring through all 100+ macs he has and towards the end I couldn’t help but notice but see what looked suspiciously like a big stack of 4600 & aftermarket copper heatsinks just randomly sitting on top of a computer tower. Of course I could be wrong but they sure looked like 4600 surfboards to me.
I had the same 1080i issue in my MDD with a 7800GS, I think it's a software issue, a bug specific to Tiger. https://rtfm-nub.blogspot.com/2007/08/1080p-out-of-macbook.htmlI've had the GeForce 4 titanium 4600 for less than a month and problems appear to have arisen. The pessimist in me fears that the card is faulty. Hopefully I'm wrong but 2nd opinions on this will be a big help.
All of a sudden, 1080i no longer appears to display correctly - no matter how many times I reboot, re-select the resolution or change the refresh rate from 50hz to 60hz, or vice-versa. Here's a shot and what you see is exactly how it looks to me.
Even at 720p, there are still problems, including the corruption of text - or the failure to display the text in its entirety even when refreshed or re-arranged.
Videos that previously played without issue now suffer from moments where a black horizontal line appears (sometimes several lines) and the image appears to scramble for a few seconds and the output flashes to black. This only occurs in full-screen and switching media player makes no difference, neither has booting from a different OS X partition.
Here's a short clip of the problem that I filmed using my phone. Please excuse the clumsy camerawork but I did manage to capture the flashing.
In attempt to troubleshoot, I reinstalled the stock MX card let a 2hr film play in full-screen mode with a different monitor and none of these issues occurred so that gives the Quicksilver's logic board the all clear and points towards the 4600 as the culprit. I doubt that the Panasonic TV is at fault because I've tested it with other Macs and PCs via DVI to HDMI and the same tasks and resolution/refresh rate and they're fine. I've also swapped the DVI to HDMI cables with no change regarding the 4600.
I suspect that its DVI signal is failing because when I reinstalled the 4600 and connected it to the other monitor via VGA, using a DVI to VGA adapter, the problems didn't occur. What say you, my fellow MR members?
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Not in this case: up till a week ago, the card happily output 1080i in Tiger and now is unable to - and that's in addition to the other problems that were documented in the post, using the 4600 at 720p. It's a hardware failure unfortunately.
The quest for a good graphics card continues...
I've seen on eBay that the PC version of the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro can be found in large numbers. Apparently Graphiccelerator can flash them with a Mac ROM within OS X - removing the need to use a PC for this process. Is it really that straightforward? It seems too easy!
I've seen on eBay that the PC version of the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro can be found in large numbers. Apparently Graphiccelerator can flash them with a Mac ROM within OS X - removing the need to use a PC for this process. Is it really that straightforward? It seems too easy!
That was indeed the case when I flashed mine. Once I actually got the dang utility running, the process was painless.
Only trouble was that I had a screwy Java install, which Graphiccelerator relies on to start up. Make sure your Java is stock.
Only trouble was that I had a screwy Java install, which Graphiccelerator relies on to start up. Make sure your Java is stock.
why is a TI4600 that expensive? I don't understand.... I sold by ABit Siluro more than a decade&half ago for far far less.. Not even sure if I was payed entirely as much as I had negotiated.... was sold under 50 euros.... now I think I regret it... (had no use for it) , after I sold my 9800xt at a large loss at 150euros (they were still in top but X850 was going out I think).....
It's the best Mac card for OS9, which pushes up the price. The PC version is also expensive too because of its equivalent practicality for Win98x. When retro tech develops a status because of a particular technical feature or - niche appeal, the vultures cash in.
Here's a 4600 for grabs on eBay. Unfortunately the seller will not ship the card internationally so it's off limits to me but maybe this will be of interest and benefit to Stateside members who want one? Happy bidding!
there are a few flee markets around(RO) that you can get them dirt cheap here .( If you find them) the risk is that they are a nonrunner or have some issues(like dry capacitors).
I have a few Quadro versions(same GPU) in my graphics card collection. (however I don't remember the status working or not- UNTESTED recently-in last 12years more exactly).
I am a fan of Win98. It was my IT-Hay Day. And GPUs had them all 7900GTX , 6800Ultra(pcie in SLI) 9800Pro or XT all started with TI4600....on the optiplex 270 swiched to 8800GTX then to SLI , 2900XT 1GB GDDR4 than Crossfire with 2900PRO than given up on staying/keeping up with the trend. (fist gpu sadly was on a 486 and after switched to Deskpro pentium onboard graphics before ending up with a built amd sk.a with fx5200 - crapy days)
changed to Laptops and after got my G5(2008) and than sold all pc parts and got the Dell Precision 490(back in 2010).
I'm digressing sorry. so WIN98 works great on most older single CPUs. I love it. So much so that I built a Optiplex 270 system dual 80gb salvaged ATA133 just for win98sec. Also the max system and probably one of the most performance, is the single mounted CPU 3.4ghz irwindale Xeon in a Precision 670 (*I acquired 3 of them at 50e/wstation) - you just cant find that kind of quality and system anymore. Has PCIexpress and I know some-how is someway you can run G80 8800GTX- on it.\this is Abit Nuts I had.. one of those... so sad...:-(
I have a few Quadro versions(same GPU) in my graphics card collection. (however I don't remember the status working or not- UNTESTED recently-in last 12years more exactly).
I am a fan of Win98. It was my IT-Hay Day. And GPUs had them all 7900GTX , 6800Ultra(pcie in SLI) 9800Pro or XT all started with TI4600....on the optiplex 270 swiched to 8800GTX then to SLI , 2900XT 1GB GDDR4 than Crossfire with 2900PRO than given up on staying/keeping up with the trend. (fist gpu sadly was on a 486 and after switched to Deskpro pentium onboard graphics before ending up with a built amd sk.a with fx5200 - crapy days)
changed to Laptops and after got my G5(2008) and than sold all pc parts and got the Dell Precision 490(back in 2010).
I'm digressing sorry. so WIN98 works great on most older single CPUs. I love it. So much so that I built a Optiplex 270 system dual 80gb salvaged ATA133 just for win98sec. Also the max system and probably one of the most performance, is the single mounted CPU 3.4ghz irwindale Xeon in a Precision 670 (*I acquired 3 of them at 50e/wstation) - you just cant find that kind of quality and system anymore. Has PCIexpress and I know some-how is someway you can run G80 8800GTX- on it.\this is Abit Nuts I had.. one of those... so sad...:-(
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