AGP Graphics Card For A G4

I removed an ATI Radeon 9650 from a G5 and tried it in my G4 silver. The machine wouldn't boot up.
If the 9600 series are supposed to work for the silver G4 why did this card fail to even allow the machine to boot? Does anyone have a list of chip sets or cards from radeon that will work? I'm trying to create a video server connected to a 37" LCD and the 9200 PCI card I bought won't do the trick. I need an AGP card to replace the OEM GeForce 4 MX to get the image quality and frame rate up to viewable standards.

Thanks for the advise. Once I learned how to properly count to 3 and 11 the machine booted up and recognized the card. I finally got out the soldering stand with a magnifying glass attached to it to make the cuts around the edges of the scotch tape. Yes slow and deliberate is the way to do this. A fine point Exacto blade is essential. The blade I started out with was more like using a blunt object. The magnifying glass also let me see when the tape didn't pull away correctly leaving a partially exposed pin, Started over a few times. The blue 9650 card had about 30 odd pins and they were very close together.
This card, 9650, will not support mirror imaging for monitors. Also, the color started out funky. A reddish hue making everything purple. I played around with booting without the 42" Samsung powered on and that resolved the problem until the next time I tried to boot with the 20 "Mitsubishi monitor as well as the TV attached to the card. I finally got the color back to normal by playing with boot sequence and turning the TV on. The frame rate seems to be ok and the color/image quality is acceptable. The 9650 seems like it will do the trick. Unfortunately it is from my work machine and I can't explain away a missing graphics card. I was due for obsolescence replacement this year but Macs became a naughty word in our division. Too high end, Too pricey. I'm going to have to keep the G5 or be issued a Dell.
Now I just have to find a card. I'll hit up some of the C techs Monday and start begging nicely. The aim is to not spend any money or very little money to create this video server.

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Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2
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Hi Kool,
I have to agree with the upgrade to a 9800XT. I too have a G5 dual 1.8, with the GeForce 5200FX/64 as stock. I upgraded to the 9800XT/256 last year, as I wanted to improve performance in Aperture. However, running benchmarks and the real world did not seem to compare well. For sure, running various benchmark tests showed that the 9800XT should indeed have been much faster.
However, in real use, it didn't. Certainly some things are - a few games run better - Redline is one I use a fair bit, and that can be driven harder, but not enough to make it better to play. But, almost everything else is pretty much the same, Finder feels pretty much identical either way. Perhaps one exception to this is the overall look of the display, it just feels much better with the 5200FX in, in Finder the text in the menus is much smoother, where with the 9800XT it is jagged.
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