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<blockquote data-quote="datasmog" data-source="post: 3782"><p>I'm new to Macs. I have a beige G3 desktop, rev 3, was 266 now has a Sonnet Encore Zif G4 500 upgrade card installed along with 768meg of ram and a 40 gig maxtor drive.</p><p>I have a Formac Proformance 80 pci graphics card installed, which came out of a powermac 8600/250, in which it worked perfectly. It worked ok on the G3 using OS9.2. with the original 266 processor and the Encore G4.</p><p>I have installed OSX 10.2 and the graphics card will not not work. The OS knows it's there, but if I plug a monitor in nothing shows. (VGA monitor).</p><p>Using the built in graphics chip I am limited to 800 x 600 screen resolution.</p><p>2 questions.</p><p>How can I get the Formac card to work. I can't find any drivers for it and those that came with it don't work in OSX. All I can find is drivers for proFormance 3 cards. The 80 seems to have been deleted from history.</p><p>Or how can I increase the screen resolution with the built in graphics chip. There are no alternative resolutions listed in the display properties.</p><p>Thanks for any help.</p><p></p><p>More information.</p><p>I should add that the card was not in the machine when I installed OSX. Coming from Windows I expected the OS to recognize and install any new hardware on re boot. Is this right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="datasmog, post: 3782"] I'm new to Macs. I have a beige G3 desktop, rev 3, was 266 now has a Sonnet Encore Zif G4 500 upgrade card installed along with 768meg of ram and a 40 gig maxtor drive. I have a Formac Proformance 80 pci graphics card installed, which came out of a powermac 8600/250, in which it worked perfectly. It worked ok on the G3 using OS9.2. with the original 266 processor and the Encore G4. I have installed OSX 10.2 and the graphics card will not not work. The OS knows it's there, but if I plug a monitor in nothing shows. (VGA monitor). Using the built in graphics chip I am limited to 800 x 600 screen resolution. 2 questions. How can I get the Formac card to work. I can't find any drivers for it and those that came with it don't work in OSX. All I can find is drivers for proFormance 3 cards. The 80 seems to have been deleted from history. Or how can I increase the screen resolution with the built in graphics chip. There are no alternative resolutions listed in the display properties. Thanks for any help. More information. I should add that the card was not in the machine when I installed OSX. Coming from Windows I expected the OS to recognize and install any new hardware on re boot. Is this right? [/QUOTE]
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