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Use a Mac videocard in a PC?
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UltraNEO*
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Why not try it? Worst thing could happen is the screen doesn't come on! Though if it's taken from a MacPro, it should work fine!!!
After doing a couple searches, it looks like it's a no-go. (The PC arrives tomorrow, UltraNEO. I will still try it, though)
Looks like I will have to put my 3870 Mac and PC Edition in the PC and put the 2600 XT in the Mac Pro until the 5870 comes out. Can I just pop in the 2600 back in to the Mac Pro without doing any driver installation? The drivers are already in Mac OSX right?
Looks like I will have to put my 3870 Mac and PC Edition in the PC and put the 2600 XT in the Mac Pro until the 5870 comes out. Can I just pop in the 2600 back in to the Mac Pro without doing any driver installation? The drivers are already in Mac OSX right?
UltraNEO*
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Why you think it's a "no go" ? The 2600HD works with bootcamp, therefore it'll work fine in a PC. And, yup, just uses the standard ATI drivers which are in Leopard.
Thanks for the info. This was the thread I was referring to:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/59385/
Though, I see that it's dated 2004 so it's pre-Mac Pro. But I assumed the essentials are the same; that Macs need an EFI rom on the videocard to boot, before the OS even loads. But who knows, I'll try it tomorrow and find out for sure.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/59385/
Though, I see that it's dated 2004 so it's pre-Mac Pro. But I assumed the essentials are the same; that Macs need an EFI rom on the videocard to boot, before the OS even loads. But who knows, I'll try it tomorrow and find out for sure.
Some versions of Windows (Vista & Win7) are capable of operating on EFI firmware based machines, and if you're running as a hack, EFI is still what OS X sees (i.e. EFI Emulator).
Perhaps Guiyon could post which version of Windows is installed. 😉
I was using Windows XP but I recently upgraded to Vista; both of the systems worked fine with the standard Catalyst driver package from ATI. This was on an ECS G33T-M2 motherboard and the card was a pull from my Early 2008 Mac Pro.