ATI Radeon 7000 not working

well for one you have to set that video card as the one to use to display the apple menu and to show as startup screen in the monitor's prefrence in OS X or OS 9, all you have to do in OS 9 is open the monitor control pannel and select arange you will see 2 monitor look alikes in the window all you have to do is drag and drop the apple menu from one to the other and select to identify the startup screen then you should have no problems. that is where i got my 7000 from and i have a AIO and i have no problems with mine.

what you are seeing is the 7000 being used as the extended desktop. all you need to do is make the 7000 the main screen and the other screen the extended. see what i think its doing is seeing a ghost monitor on the onboard video. wich you might need to hook a monitor up to the onboard video and still have the monitor hooked to the 7000 to set the above right.

i can view the OF on the 7000 and all i can input video with the wings in OS 9 and have it display threw the 7000 and play dvd's just fine

subaru,

Is your card a true Radeon Mac Edition, or a PC card that's been "flashed" to have a Mac ROM. Most flashed cards work, but always leave the door open for strange behavior.

I found that a standard install of either OS 10. 2 or 10.3 had the proper drivers present to run the Radeons.

If you have a spare VGA-to-Mac video adaptor (fits on the logic board video port to accept a VGA monitor), Install on the logic board port without a monitor attached to it and see if that helps.

You do need specific software to run the 7000 in OS 9, when and if you actually boot into an OS 9 volume. That software is available at the ATI website.

It sounds like you may have a VGA to Mac adaptor still attached to your motherboard video port. Take it off and see what happens.

Hello Sabaru,

From the looks of your link, you should have the Mac edition Radeon 7000 32MB, but it ought to work even if it's the flashed one. If you don't have the ATI software, you'll have to visit the ATI site. I think you have the problem Frank described - which I had, too - and, yes, you will have to hook up two video cards and two monitors to straighten it out, or at least I did. I think mine was set to have the views side-by-side, and I had to set them to be both the same view.

Good luck! ..... Jon

P.S. Didn't post fast enough, but it looks as if I was superseded by better advice anyhow ... J.

You are very welcome. Glad that I could be of help.

The ATI Radeon 7000 single output card is not supported on the Beige G3 desktop machines according to the manufacturer. Yet, I pulled that card from a 7300/200 which worked in that machine and installed it in my Dual 2.5 Ghz G5 tower with good results. Allowing me to run three monitors (two 17" Viewsonic PF790 VGA and one 20" Apple Cinema Display DVI. I am using Panther 10.3.9. Also, no additonal drivers were required. The system immediately saw the PCI card and once my display preferences were set to my liking everything worked perfectly.

The question is what is it about the beige G3 model that makes the combination unworkable? I am most confused

Dsanders,

You wrote, " The ATI Radeon 7000 single output card is not supported on the Beige G3 desktop machines according to the manufacturer."

Is there a link to this on the ATI website? I looked but couldn't find it. I've not handled a Radeon 7000 but my Original Radeon ME and Radeon 9200 have three ports, and I thought the 7K did also. Have you seen a Mac retail Radeon with only one port?

I know that PC Radeons flashed to work on the Mac have one port, a VGA. Some work, some don't, according to accumulated reports here. The "ones that work" seem to be in the majority.

I appreciate any additional info you can provide.

Allan