Some help on graphics card please

Hi,
I have a Mac Pro, the ATI HD2600 XT stopped working around six months ago got it replaced by apple under warranty, now it's stopped working again I'm outside of warranty and didn't get apple care as I wasn't too impressed with the service I got last time.
Looked on the apple website and looked at compatible cards,
Found my model number "ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT" and went looking for it.
Couldn't find this anywhere but found losts of vendors selling their own brand of what seemed to be the same chip.
After a brief look trying to work out what the difference in brand was, seemed to point to build quality.
Looked around found a sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT.
Just tried it and nothing, but it does work with my windows partition. So guessing it's not OS X compatible?
Is there anything I can do Cheers.

There is 1 other thing you can try.
An unknown secret about 2600XT cards is that if there is 1 with EFI for Mac, any number of them can run in OSX off just the one EFI ROM.
So try putting the "dead" Mac 2600 in an unused slot and the Sapphire 2600 in slot 1. If the "dead" mac card runs long enough at boot to load the EFI, you will be able to use the Sapphire in OSX.

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Hello I own a HP Pavilion p7-1410 and only upgraded the power supply to a 550wat and was wondering what type of graphics card I can get that will work in my pc, I have tried a used nvidia gtx 560 ti -> it only lasted a few weeks till the screen changed a bunch of colors then stayed black and didnt work in my other pc. Could it be the card its self or can my pc not handle this card and or where would be a good place to start looking for cards for this computer?
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