Flash ATI 5770 for Mac3,1

I have a late 2008 MacPro with a GeForce 3300.
I picked up a XFXForce ATI 5770
I doesn't include the EFI in the ROM and in the System Profiler in 10.8, it shows as an ATI 5700.
Does anyone have a ROM that they've flashed so this adapter supports EFI mode and makes it use the 57xx series driver?

Jeeves_TX wrote:
2. My main boot is 10.6.9...
Is this a typo (you really mean 10.6.8) or do you have the oft-rumored, yet secretly-held iCloud upgrade of Snow Leopard?
Jeeves_TX wrote:
I use Eudora, which needs Rosetta, hence 10.6...
Eudora running in Snow Leopard Server installed into Parallels for use in Lion or Mt. Lion:
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More information here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

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