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looking for ATI XPERT 128 GL PCI bios/rom for PC


supernova777

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hey there i have a few mac pci video cards laying on a shelf that id love to get workign with some old vintage windows/dos PC i have

the rage 128 GL card that came originally with the POWERMAC G3 B+W computer

i have two of them on a shelf pmg4-pci-rage-128-1.jpg?fit=800,520

i need a PC VGA BIOS/ROM to flash them with to have them recognized on my pentium 75 computer; it  has a radeon 7000 in it right now 

but i need better driver support in windows 95; and getting a VXD error on boot up; and slow graphics speeds (refreshing IE5 pages lol)

if anyone knows where i can find a bios/rom for the card please help

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=31592&p=770251#p770251

see this page for more info 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/rage-128-gl-pci.c1718

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  • 8 months later...

If the card shows boot screen on the IBM compatible and nearly works, I do not think it would have special flash for MAC. Have you tried them on a newer/different machine. If your Pentium 75 machine does the same thing with both cards it still could be the machine. Some drivers drivers do not work properly and I think from memory it is the one that came with WinME that only works but this might have been for a different earlier card. If using 6-2_wme_dd_cp_30314, latest ATI driver, then ATI2CQAG.DL_ has to be replaced with an earlier driver file for all cards. Replacement ATI2CQAG.DL_ is from driver 4.15.1.9163 17/08/2005. ( Day/Month/Year ) If this file is not back dated then the performance will be as you experience. I tried my Rage 128 same as your picture in current machine and the machine pipped through the system board speaker but had no video output. It has been a good card and probably still is in the right machine.
 

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i have a motherboard with an award bios. although released much later than a pentium 75 board, I had a pci SIS 6326 GPU card on it with an obselete bios. I couldn't upgrade it because it required a technique that could damage the gpu. But what i did was physically removed the GPU bios chip and loaded the updated GPU bios code into a section of the pc bios so it wouldn't need to load the updated bios as a system TSR at boot time. OEM options are endless with pc bios and an avenue to look into but not for motherboards with built in gpu option as it may overwrite it, interfere or just won't load more than one at a time (damn you again foxconn).

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