NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 (sp) on Swatooth or Gigabit

I recently was able to add a Radeon 9800 Mac Edition to my 1.6 GHz G5 and would like to add the stock video card (nVidia GeForce FX5200) to my friend's Sawtooth machine... is this card compatible?

Hi-
It should be fine in the Sawtooth.
http://lowendmac.com/video/agp/geforce-5200.html
A Gigabit Ethernet will need the #3 and #11 pins on the card to be taped.
http://themacelite.wikidot.com/pins-3-and-11

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I bought a MSI GeForce FX5200 TD-128 last year. It's working well, but I can't update its driver, that's why I'm using the driver that comes in the CD with the video card.
I bought Half-Life 2 yeasterday, and the game recommends me to update the video driver in order to have the best graphic quality, but when I install the most up to date driver, the image becomes the worst of all...
I've tried to update the DirectX aswell, but it didn't work...
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Originally posted by Kafkacell
What version of the drivers are you using?
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Sorry for my English, it's not my native language.
1. I can't even start my OS. It's the graphic card problem for sure, because when I'm changing it for any other card it works fine. Ok, so when my OS (XP) is loading, my monitor just turns off and the led is blinking. All what can I do is reset or turn of the computer. There was no fan on the vga when I bought it (2 years ago). It was working excellent. And now I can't even run my OS.
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you can try, use fail safe mode, pressing F8 when booting, then set to start in failsafe mode with vga, then if you can get in to windows then go to video properties and change the refresh frecuency to 60hz in any resolution and restart, if do not work do it again in fail safe mode (no vga mode) if the last thing you see is the windows logo with the loading bar then the problem is monitor out of refresh values, that turn of the monitor, another thing may be if you conect a tv like a monitor without your pc monitor, sometimes the main monitor is set to tv so when start windows the pc monitor turn off, if you can see something in your tv then you must change to "clone view" the multidisplay setting
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HT203254 Can you find a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processors

Where Can you find a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processors. I need one for my MacBook Pro 15" A1260.

the GPU is soldered on the logic board. you would need to buy a new logic board.

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