Installing Targa T3200 on a PPC G5

priviett · priviett #1 (**permalink**)

06-16-2011, 04:27 PM

Hello.
does anyone know how to install this Video card, i have one and i need to get this working on a PPC G5, do i need drivers? which slot do i have to use?
I cant find any drivers for this.

This is the Card

Pinnacle Systems - TARGA 3200

Thank you for reading

Slydude · Slydude #2 (**permalink**)

06-16-2011, 10:02 PM

I hope i am wrong on this because I love the G5 series. It looks like that card was only available for Intel Pentium machines. If I am right it won't work in the G5. No need looking for drivers.

I think there were similar cards that would work but the name of one escapes me at the moment.

priviett · priviett #3 (**permalink**)

06-17-2011, 10:19 AM

thanks for your reply, but im pretty sure that, the targa card was working on a g5, yesterday someone called me and told me that i needed the drivers of targa mac version 3.11 but in i lost any hope i spend the whole day finding those drivers with no success.

Thanks.

bobtomay · bobtomay #4 (**permalink**)

06-17-2011, 11:21 AM

Best I could tell, that whole Targa series was sold to OEMs and was primarily used in Pinnacle's own Deko commercial broadcast boxes and a few other Win 2000 work stations back when RAMBUS memory was in vogue.

All of Pinnacle's own white sheets that I found about that series lists Windows 2K with SP2 as the requirement.
Those things were $6k plus in price and were only compatible with specific motherboards.
It's possible, but I can't see that someone would have spent the time re-writing drivers for OS X back during '01-'03.

Slydude · Slydude #5 (**permalink**)

06-17-2011, 12:03 PM

Nice job. You found a bit more than I did. I know there were some cards that would work with the G5 but haven't had time to check much.

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Member Since: Jun 16, 2011 Posts: 2	06-16-2011, 04:27 PM Hello. does anyone know how to install this Video card, i have one and i need to get this working on a PPC G5, do i need drivers? which slot do i have to use? I cant find any drivers for this. This is the Card Pinnacle Systems - TARGA 3200 Thank you for reading
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