15" Studio Flat ADC Display PowerMac G4 400 MHz Radeon 7500 no video

Purchased a video card - Radeon 7500
ATI Radeon 7500 32MB ADC VGA MAC Edition video card
Computer is PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics (CPU type 2.7) 1 MB Level 2 cache
VGA works fine.
ADC is not operational. 15 inch (clear case) display not getting a signal, Profiler not showing any display connected to the ATY,Bluestone_B
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (VIDEO CARD)
Power Mac™ G4 with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
DVD playback requires DVD drive
!!!!!!!!! WHATS WRONG?
PowerMac G4 400 MHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi Gary,
The G4 AGP graphics model is pre-ADC and its motherboard will not support a video card with a native ADC port. The ADC ports on such cards draw their power and USB feed via an extra leg on the card that fits into an extra slot at one end of the AGP slot on the computer motherboard. Your computer does not have this extra slot.
To run an ADC display off your computer, you can run a video card with a DVI output, then use a DVI to ADC adaptor such as this one:
http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?code=0111-DVAD
You can use VGA to ADC adaptors, but they are much more expensive (than a DVI to ADC adaptor plus another video card), and don't give as good a result.
Cheers!
Karl

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     at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:977)
     at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:952)
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
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My Powerbook has been in use since 2004. In China I put in a 1.25 memory 'chip' in the bottom and installed the 10.5.8 operating system, which I understand are the maximum workable with my Powerbook. When I inquired with Chinese friends if my 1.33 GHz processor could be taken out and a more powerful one put in, they said it wasn't feasible because in my particular computer my processor was, as I recall them saying, soldered/'permanently' connected with the 'motherboard', that it would just be easier to get a new computer.
I would be with them and they would nonchalantly open it completely up showing me all its tightly arranged 'innards' while at least giving it a good internal dust/dirt clean job for cheap lunch and a beer (& so much dirt/dust/lint there was!)...these are the same folks who build the things of course...fast moving hands with tiny screws flying everywhere, but everything 100% all back in place when finished.
My Chinese friends also said that nowadays Apples are not as well built as when my Powerbook was built, that nowadays an Apple's life expectancy was considerably lower, so I fear that when I get a new computer that, though it will be more up-to-date and powerful, etc., it most probably won't last near as long as my Powerbook has. They also said that in an older computer the fan was often the first component to go bad, and if a new one couldn't be easily found, as they said was my case, then you're just left with having to get an entirely new computer. Part of why I dislike electronic computer gadgets generally is that they are obsolete so quickly.
So, anyway, thanks very much for your information.

Matrox DualHead2Go and ADC Display?

I have an older 17" acrylic display with that big ADC-DVI adapter. I'm currently using my Macbook Pro (ATI X1600 video card, Dual-Link DVI connector) with a surprisingly good HP VGA panel, the same resolution as the Cinema Display.
Has anyone had any luck with using an ADC monitor with the Matrox DualHead2Go? I'd like to connect both of these displays to my MBP, and have heard concerns about compatibility with certain devices and the ADC adapter. Secondly, does anyone know if the DualHead2Go can support mismatched signals, at the same resolution(1x DVI, 1x VGA).
I suspect I need the Digital Version, but it seems that because the signal has to turn into VGA first, it may not work with the ADC display. So third, is the Macbook Pro capable of connecting to the newer DisplayPort version of the DualHead2Go? Assuming someone makes a DVI-Displayport connector.

The idea behind the DualHead2Go is that the two displays be matching displays, so mismatched resolution won't work AFAIK. But you can ask Matrox that question to be sure.
If your MBP has DVI for its output, then it won't be compatible with the DisplayPort version of the the DualHead2Go.

Mac Pro Adc Displays

Hi
Since Friday i have a Mac Pro.
I connect my old Adc Cinema Display, with an ADC-DVI Adapter.
Everything work fine.
I have another 17" ADC Display.
Is it possible to connect two ADC Displays, with two ADC-DVI Adaperts to the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT Graphiccard without a problem?
Thanks
Greetings from Vienna

I'm seeing a lot of this.
Pay attention closely.
If you have an ADC display and you want to connect it to the new Mac Pro, you must buy a different adapter. The ones supplied with the Mac Pro do not connect an ADC display to a DVI Mac Pro. You need to buy one that has a power supply and a USB port. DrBott and Apple make them.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2925616#2925616

DVI display port/ADC display port bottleneck!

My G5 dual came with ONE DVI display port and ONE ADC display port. I wish to add another monitor for editing purposes. My current monitor is an NEC multi-sync, which uses up the DVI port...leaving the ADC port empty and useless.
1. Am I forced to purchase an Apple Cinema Display?
2. Would it be more frugal to purchase another video card?
3. Can I make this work even though I have bought every 'adaptor' under the sun and the ADC port is still useless?
4. It there a 3d party adaptor that can use the ADC port to use an NTSC (television) device as 2nd monitor?
thanx
jodee

Hey U-dog,
I went to see Mr. Whooppee at Dr. Botts and ordered the shiny new DVI Extractor II (sounds like I'm back in the hackin biz) and again, I'll hold Sweet Polly or Breezly bruin hostage if this (last attempt at adaptors[sold for g-4s]) DOGgone thang don't work. So keep an eye out at WDOG or the local tundra if you REALLY care about those toons!
fingers crossed,
wallet still full
shoes shined,
parka on
night gogggles on, (it stays dark up there)
traps baited with prime rib bones (outside WDOG)
.40 cal locked and loaded
jodee

15" Studio Flat ADC Display PowerMac G4 400 MHz Radeon 7500 no video

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