Does Radeon 9800PRO Mac Edition work in PC?

[BulldogPO]

Cos I might get such a card at low price...
So does it need different bios or something?
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9800/radeon9800prome/

 

[Soldur]

No, it does not.



***Another NEWB problem solved by the Soldurnator***

 

[BulldogPO]

What is difference that makes it not to work?

 

[Stugots]

itd think itd just be a matter of a firmware flash.

 

[BulldogPO]

Does anybody know for sure?

 

[pxc]

http://www.techseekers.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=72&page=1

Probably not. That link is for a PC Radeon 9800 Pro -> Mac Radeon 9800 Pro, but it shows 2 problems: a resistor configuration difference (probably to set data endian order) and the EEPROMs are different sizes between the 2 versions (Mac = 128KB, PC = 64KB). The second thing might not be a problem since you'd flash a smaller BIOS, but the author had trouble flashing the card even after replacing the EEPROM.

I wouldn't do it.