ATI Radeon 9800 Driver

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ATI Radeon 9800 Driver

I bought a used Radeon 9800 pro (Mac) video card on ebay installed it and it seems to be running well.

However, I have read that I need to install drivers for it. I thought normally OSX took care of that for me... am I correct?

I have tried downloading from ATI and I am blocked from downloading at their site. I have looked at other download sites and they always point me back to ATI. So as of right now, I can not even find this driver to download if needed.

Can anyone give me some guidance.

Thanks

Dual 867 Mhz Power PC G4, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Feb 4, 2008 8:25 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 4, 2008 8:41 PM in response to Randy Traylor

I installed the same card in my Sawtooth (from Ebay also) and needed no drivers. Runs great, especially under Leo. I did replace the PSU though for more power. I'm about to buy another for my MDD.

Tony

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Randy Traylor Author

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Feb 5, 2008 3:03 AM in response to Tony Giordano

Thats the way this is seems to run fine on my MDD.

So, excuses my ignorance though.... PSU? Are you talking Power Supply Unit? I was wondering if I should change mine also. I am trying to max mine out (without a CPU upgrade) I ran out of internal power supply cables last night, so had to buy me an external drive to get the Video the power it needed.

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Answer 3

japamac

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Feb 5, 2008 4:36 AM in response to Randy Traylor

Hi-

OS X has the drivers that are needed for the ATI cards.
The only thing that you might want is the ATI Displays panel. Click on the download link, and be patient. A page or two may flash, but the download should start automatically.
The only driver update, The ATI RADEON Installer, contains the following items:

ATI RADEON9700.kext
ATI RADEON9700DVDDriver.bundle
ATI RADEON9700GA.plugin
ATI RADEON9700GLDriver.bundle
ATI RADEON9700VADriver.bundle
ATI RADEON8500.kext
ATI RADEON8500DVDDriver.bundle
ATI RADEON8500GA.plugin
ATI RADEON8500GLDriver.bundle
ATI RADEON.kext
ATI RADEONDVDDriver.bundle
ATI RADEONGA.plugin
ATI RADEONGLDriver.bundle
ATI ROM Xtender

In Mac OS X/System/Library/Extensions, you should already have the above listed drivers.

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Answer 4

Randy Traylor Author

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Feb 5, 2008 5:42 AM in response to japamac

OK, got it. When I was trying to download with my Mac, it kept going in an endless loop of webpages always bringing me back there, instead of downloading.

I came to work today and it downloaded right away.

I thank you for your help though!

Randy

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Answer 5

Feb 5, 2008 6:22 AM in response to Randy Traylor

Randy,
You should be fine as far as power. Your machine should house either a 400w or a 338w PSU (yes Power Supply Unit) and that depends on if you were able to take advantage of Apples swap out program a few years ago. Either way the ATI card calls for 300w which my old Sawtooth didn't have, it shipped with a 200w as I recall. I also filled the machine up with HDD's and what-not, so I was afraid it would be underpowered. As I said you should be fine. You're going to love that card.

Tony

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