Cant use ati radeon 2600

I have a first edition mac pro, I was told that the ati radeon 2600 would work in it but I can't get it to work. The screen is fuzzy and none of my games will detect it. Do I need to upgrade to leopard to use it.

If you can find someone with Leopard and copy the Radeon 2xxx drivers from the Extensions folder, it might work okay under Tiger. But the card (and drivers) was designed to work under Leopard.

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    I just received my new Mac Pro on Friday - it shipped with 10.5.4 installed. After looking at some of the new features of Leopard (had only used Tiger previously), I installed all the available updates -- these were:
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    iTunes 8.0
    Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.2
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    Remote Desktop Client Update 3.2.2
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    CPU B Temperature Diode 35.0C
    CPU C Temperature Diode 35.0C
    CPU D Temperature Diode 35.0C
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    CPU B Heatsink 32.0C
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    Hard Drive Bay 2 26.0C
    Hard Drive Bay 3 27.0C
    Hard Drive Bay 4 27.0C
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    Memory Bank A Point 2 33.0C
    Memory Bank A Point 3 34.0C
    Memory Bank B Point 1 35.0C
    Memory Bank B Point 2 37.0C
    Memory Bank B Point 3 35.0C
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    Memory Module B1 48.0C
    Northbridge Heat Sink 38.0C
    Expansion Slots 35.0C
    Power Supply Location 1 46.0C
    Power Supply Location 2 40.0C

    I don't know what is happening with ATI, at first I thought it was the consolidation and merger that affects products and Q&A, but the X1900, then the 2600XT, and even the 3870's fans and noise (which after 3 months seems to be better now on the 3870 with the latest models rolling out).
    Normally I would expect a new or even ref'd unit would have the latest fixes and if there still are problems... then there aren't any solutions? One person dropped into Vista and reduced fans to 20% setting and it works even under heavy loads w/o getting above 80C.
    Seems like the Nvidia 8800GT costs more, doesn't have the drivers optimized for OpenGL just yet, but runs quieter.
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    "The Accelero S1 Rev. 2 dramatically extends the compatibility to many of the latest graphic cards. It supports high-end to main stream graphic cards including the latest hot selling Radeon HD 3870, 3850 , GeForce 8800GTS (G92) and 8800GT. http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=147
    http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/8800GTAcceleroS1/8800GTAcceleroS1R2.html

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    I have an early 2008 Mac Pro, 8 gb ram with a Dell 27” display and a 42” LG TV. I am thinking about upgrading the stock ATI Radeon 2600 graphics card for better resolution, preferring 2 dvi outputs or 1 dvi and 1 vga vs 1 dvi and a mini. I don't do a lot of Final Cut Pro, gaming, etc. I am interested in best value for the graphics card.
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    Kevin

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    RE: Mac Pro Replacement Graphics cards
    1) Apple brand cards,
    2) "sold in the Apple store" cards, and
    3) "Mac Edition" cards ...
    ... show all the screens, including Boot up screens, Safe Mode, Installer, Recovery, debug screens, and Alt/Option boot screens. At this writing, these choices include:
    1) Apple brand cards:
    • Apple-firmware 5770, about US$250** works near full speed in every model Mac Pro, Drivers in 10.6.5
    • Apple-firmware 5870, about US$450
    2) "sold in the Apple store" cards
    • NVIDIA Quadro 4000, about US$1200
    • NVIDIA Quadro 5000, about US$2500
    3) "Mac Edition" cards -- REQUIRE 10.8.3 or later:
    • SAPPHIRE HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 MAC Edition, about US$480** Vendor recommends Mac Pro 4,1
    • EVGA GTX 680 Mac Edition, about US$600
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    If you are Meet ALL of these:
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    • don't care about "no boot screens" etc AND
    • can re-wire or otherwise "work out" the power cabling, THEN:
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  • ATI Radeon 2600 XT on Mac Pro 2008 has died

    Hi All,
    I have recently been having issues with one of my ATI Radeon 2600 XT Graphics cards - choppy graphics, artefacts appearing on the display and endless crashes of the OS.
    I have read online about a recall program Apple did run which recalled these exact graphics cards, and after checking the serial number of the card in question, it does indeed match one of the 'bad' batch.
    The only problem is - the program ended in July 2011
    What are the chances Apple would be kind enough to still swap my card for a new unaffected one?
    Thanks
    Mac Pro (early 2008)
    6GB Memory
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    2 x 23" Cinema HD Monitors

    What are the chances Apple would be kind enough to still swap my card for a new unaffected one?
    I'm in the same boat.  :\  Mine just died too, would I need to take my tower to an Apple Store?  Or how would I go about asking Apple to replace my graphics card?
    Also, if I were to put in a different graphics card (say the ATI Radeon HD 5770), how difficult is it to replace?  Would my Mac Pro (Early 2008) be able to handle it?  I have 2x2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core) processor, the ATI Radeon HD 5770 says it requires Mac Pro (Mid 2010) with PCI Express 2.0 slot and OS X 10.6.4, whereas I'm still on just 10.5 Leopard and have an Early 2008 model...
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    I have never opened up my tower before (I don't know how!) and I have been wanting to upgrade my RAM as well.  I have 4x1GB cards and I wanted to move up to like 8 or 16GB.  I was thinking about buying RAM from NewEgg or Amazon, whichever is cheaper, any suggestions?
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  • ATI Radeon 2600 graphics artifacts

    I have a new MacPro with the ATI Radeon 2600 in it. Occasionally, (perhaps 3 times in 5 months)the screen will go completely wacky, with the whole screen turning like a tie die, except not as cool. A restart seems to fix the problem. Right now I am running EFI firmware version 01.00.236. There is an update (to .252) that I have been avoiding because of the increased fan noise and other complaints I have read about, I was hoping for a newer firmware to be released.
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    What are the chances Apple would be kind enough to still swap my card for a new unaffected one?
    I'm in the same boat.  :\  Mine just died too, would I need to take my tower to an Apple Store?  Or how would I go about asking Apple to replace my graphics card?
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  • ATI Radeon 2600 PROBLEM: First display wide and second not in mirror mode?

    Hi all, I bought a new mac pro with ATI Radeon HD 2600, my problem is this: I have one LCD monitor widescreen 1680x1050 that i use like primary display and one normal CRT television 800x600 that i use like second monior... If i set the "mirror mode" on display the clone reduce automactly my LCD to not wide monitor and i see two black row... Is it possible use the mirror mode in two different monitor? it works only at 1024x768 not 1680x1050 is the video card not enough power? Should be fixed that thing ? Regards
    Message was edited by: egariM

    You did not understand the true intent of mirror displaying, which adjusts to the lower specifications of the two screens. You would not like to see your CRT display have to accept high bandwith 1680x1050 signal and fry would you ?
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    So your mac pro adjusted the display to the 800x600 your crt can accept, as my macbook would when connecting to a video projector for presentation, when in mirror mode.
    This is obviously the best choice it could have done, you see...
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  • Ati radeon 2600 pro

    Hi,
    After installing Lion, the UI was fluid ... but after a while (playing with full screen or hibernation) the grahics just lag and it's not fluid at all ... it is a graphic card problem? Does someone have the same problem ?
    My iMac 24" is a 2008 model (Core2Duo 2,8Ghz) and it's unusuable with Lion because of slow UI

    What are the chances Apple would be kind enough to still swap my card for a new unaffected one?
    I'm in the same boat.  :\  Mine just died too, would I need to take my tower to an Apple Store?  Or how would I go about asking Apple to replace my graphics card?
    Also, if I were to put in a different graphics card (say the ATI Radeon HD 5770), how difficult is it to replace?  Would my Mac Pro (Early 2008) be able to handle it?  I have 2x2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core) processor, the ATI Radeon HD 5770 says it requires Mac Pro (Mid 2010) with PCI Express 2.0 slot and OS X 10.6.4, whereas I'm still on just 10.5 Leopard and have an Early 2008 model...
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  • Unable to use ATI radeon on linux 3.13

    Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop
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    Subsystem: Dell Device 0447
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    Mar 10 14:21:21 sdh-archlinux kernel: [drm:uvd_v1_0_start] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!
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    Mar 10 14:21:29 sdh-archlinux kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 2.36.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
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    Is there a easy fix for this so that I can use the open source drivers for my old ATI card or is it a kernel bug and needs to be reported upstream?

    Hi,
    Although I'm a Ubuntu user, not Arch Linux's, but I had the same issue.
    Passing radeon.dpm=0 solved the issue (as workaround).
    Thank you so much for great information.
    # radeon.runpm=0 doesn't solve the issue. Yeah, I firstly thought that this issue was related with acpi; I really had to use acpi=off.
    [Edit]
    My machine is AMD A8-6500 + MSI A78M-E35.
    Without radeon.dpm=0, my machine reboots suddenly rather than blackout.
    I have big difficulty of debugging.
    Last edited by cielavenir (2014-04-24 03:09:01)

  • ATI Radeon 2600 screen/graphics artifacts - anybody else seeing this?

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