[geeks] Appletalk anyone?

[Geoff Reed]

I've never had a problem flashing them. :(  i'll look around and see if I 
have any of the mil's or mil II's that I've flashed laying about.

  you can also put it in a PC as a secondary card and reflash it with the 
PC bios too :)



At 11:56 PM 7/8/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:22:35PM -0700, geoffr wrote:
> > I'v "upgraded" matrox millenium and Milennium II's to be mac compatible by
> > popping them into a mac and running the firmware update from matrox :)
> > works great :) I dunno if that will help y'all any though...
>
>I just realized that I had a 4meg Mill II lying around.  Got it, blew the
>dust off, downloaded the bios and updater, shut down, installed it, booted
>up, ran the BIOS flasher.  It ran, but then said "BIOS not updating properly -
>do it again".  I tried 2-3 times, then gave up and rebooted.
>
>Now, with the card in, the Mac just hangs at the opening "grey screen" -
>with no output on the Mill2.  System wont even go to happy-mac with the
>card in, so I cant re-flash it.
>
>I guess I just fried a Mill2, unless I can re-flash it on a PC...
>
>*sigh* this woulda been so cool, too - video upgrade for free. 8-)
>
>Bill
>
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>Bill Bradford
>mrbill at mrbill.net
>Austin, TX
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