Ati Radeon X800 Xt Mac Edition Drivers

The new card occupies a single expansion slot and can provide double the performance of a Radeon 9800 card, according to ATI. Outfitted with an dual-link DVI port and an Apple Display Connector (ADC) port, the Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition can drive a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display and an older. As this tip is useful, it is not specific, as on my Power Mac G5 first generation 2x2GHz with a ATI Radeon 9600 (not XT, Pro or anything) this driver is shown as loaded (in Apple System Profiler) The more. By comparison, the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition delivers these impressive performance gains.

AGP Pro G5 Video Cards ATI Radeon X800 XT 256MB GDDR3 Memory Mac Edition Video Card (AGP Pro) (p/n 1002406) ATI Radeon X800 XT 256MB GDDR3 Memory Mac Edition Video Card (AGP Pro) Description With a combination of break-through software technologies and category leading advancements in shader engineering, the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition delivers a phenomenal 3D graphics solution that integrates beautifully with your Mac. Extreme High Definition & Performance: For avid Mac gamers, the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition with advanced programmable shaders provides an extremely smooth and responsive HD gaming experience, allowing players to take control of the most demanding game titles at the highest possible settings.

Combine this with ATI’s latest generation image enhancements, filtering, compression, and acceleration technologies to establish a new standard in visual realism and graphics performance. Expand your creative range with more speed and efficiency using content creation software titles such as Motion, Modo and Maya- without constraints. With the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition you will experience faster rendering of visual effects at higher resolutions. Increase your productivity with quicker switching between screens, improve web graphics and monitor performance.

The RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition is also future ready and fully compatible with the Core Image features of the upcoming Tiger release of Mac OS X. Massive 3D Rendering: With 16 parallel pixel pipelines, and six parallel vertex processing pipelines, the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition delivers well over twice the horsepower of its highly acclaimed predecessor, the RADEON 9800 PRO. By comparison, the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition delivers these impressive performance gains: Pixel fill rate gain of 150% Memory bandwidth gain of 50% Geometry performance gain of 90% Floating point operations/sec. Gain of 140% The RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition delivers unbelievable acceleration in a quiet, cool, single-slot AGP PRO 8x solution. The variable speed fan-sink cooling mechanism leaves all of your PCI slots available for other important uses. There is no need for an external power cable because of its efficient design.

Big Screen Display Support: Equipped with workstation-class dual digital display connections (one Dual Link DVI and one ADC port), the RADEON X800 XT supports a single 30-inch Apple Cinema Display (2560 x 1600 resolution) as well as any legacy Apple Digital Display. Both of these ports may also be used to connect standard VGA-type analog displays with the use of adapters (one DVI-to-VGA adapter included). This is a Refurbished Part. Q: How can I determine if this is the correct Video Card to order? A: The best way to determine this is to email us at with your machine serial number, NOT the serial number of the Video Card and sales will email you the correct part to order.

You can also check your EEE code on your Video Card. To be sure you are ordering the correct replacement part for your computer, make sure the EEE code of your existing Video Card corresponds to one of the EEE codes listed below in notes.

EEE Code Note: All Apple Video Card have a special three digit 'EEE' code embedded in the Video Card serial number which positively identifies the part. Please note that this is the serial number of the Video Card, NOT the serial number of the machine. The Video Card serial number is on a tag which has the format 'xxxxxxxEEEx'. The 'EEE' code is the three letters immediately preceding the last digit of the serial number. This item is refurbished and is tested and pulled from a working machine.

This item may take 3-5 days for shipping. Features Apple Original System Requirements Power Mac G5 (card occupies AGP PRO 8X slot) 512MB of system memory Installation software requires CD-ROM drive DVD playback requires DVD drive Visual Processor: Radeon X800 XT GPU Memory Configuration: 256MB GDDR3 MEMORY Operating Systems Support: Mac OS X 10.3.6 and later Dimensions Weight Product weight: 2lbs. Shipping weight: 3lbs. ATI Radeon X800 XT 256MB GDDR3 Memory Mac Edition Video Card (AGP Pro) Description With a combination of break-through software technologies and category leading advancements in shader engineering, the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition delivers a phenomenal 3D graphics solution that integrates beautifully with your Mac. Extreme High Definition & Performance: For avid Mac gamers, the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition with advanced programmable shaders provides an extremely smooth and responsive HD gaming experience, allowing players to take control of the most demanding game titles at the highest possible settings. Combine this with ATI’s latest generation image enhancements, filtering, compression, and acceleration technologies to establish a new standard in visual realism and graphics performance.

Expand your creative range with more speed and efficiency using content creation software titles such as Motion, Modo and Maya- without constraints. With the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition you will experience faster rendering of visual effects at higher resolutions. Increase your productivity with quicker switching between screens, improve web graphics and monitor performance.

The RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition is also future ready and fully compatible with the Core Image features of the upcoming Tiger release of Mac OS X. Parallels Desktop 7 Serial Number Download. Massive 3D Rendering: With 16 parallel pixel pipelines, and six parallel vertex processing pipelines, the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition delivers well over twice the horsepower of its highly acclaimed predecessor, the RADEON 9800 PRO.

By comparison, the RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition delivers these impressive performance gains: Pixel fill rate gain of 150% Memory bandwidth gain of 50% Geometry performance gain of 90% Floating point operations/sec. Gain of 140% The RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition delivers unbelievable acceleration in a quiet, cool, single-slot AGP PRO 8x solution. The variable speed fan-sink cooling mechanism leaves all of your PCI slots available for other important uses. There is no need for an external power cable because of its efficient design. Big Screen Display Support: Equipped with workstation-class dual digital display connections (one Dual Link DVI and one ADC port), the RADEON X800 XT supports a single 30-inch Apple Cinema Display (2560 x 1600 resolution) as well as any legacy Apple Digital Display. Both of these ports may also be used to connect standard VGA-type analog displays with the use of adapters (one DVI-to-VGA adapter included).

This is a Refurbished Part. Q: How can I determine if this is the correct Video Card to order? A: The best way to determine this is to email us at with your machine serial number, NOT the serial number of the Video Card and sales will email you the correct part to order. You can also check your EEE code on your Video Card. To be sure you are ordering the correct replacement part for your computer, make sure the EEE code of your existing Video Card corresponds to one of the EEE codes listed below in notes. EEE Code Note: All Apple Video Card have a special three digit 'EEE' code embedded in the Video Card serial number which positively identifies the part.

Please note that this is the serial number of the Video Card, NOT the serial number of the machine. The Video Card serial number is on a tag which has the format 'xxxxxxxEEEx'. The 'EEE' code is the three letters immediately preceding the last digit of the serial number.

This item is refurbished and is tested and pulled from a working machine. This item may take 3-5 days for shipping. Features Apple Original System Requirements Power Mac G5 (card occupies AGP PRO 8X slot) 512MB of system memory Installation software requires CD-ROM drive DVD playback requires DVD drive Visual Processor: Radeon X800 XT GPU Memory Configuration: 256MB GDDR3 MEMORY Operating Systems Support: Mac OS X 10.3.6 and later Dimensions Weight Product weight: 2lbs. Shipping weight: 3lbs.

April 2005 ATI RADEON X800 XT MAC EDITION ROM Update I just installed my new X800 XT Mac Edition today, and on my immediate check to the ATI web site: April 2005 ATI RADEON X800 XT MAC EDITION ROM Update Requirements: • Bootable Mac OS X 10.3.5 or newer system (Mac OS X 10.4 requires you to perform a Safe Boot (holding SHIFT key during boot) • Retail RADEON X800 XT MAC EDITION • Firmware Update application file (included in download) • The computer MUST NOT be interrupted (shut down or power failure) during firmware update. Download • Filename: • File Size: 2.6 MB ( Download time approximately 20 minutes at 28.8K.) • Originally Posted: April 18, 2005 • Added built-in Firmware Fan control Fan control has been implemented within the card's firmware to maintain full fan control with or without the presence of the ATI ROM Xtender file. This update is recommended for all RADEON X800 XT MAC EDITION cards. Previous reports documented the loss of fan control after accidentally losing the ATI ROM Xtender in the System's Extension folder. With this update, fan control is enabled early in the boot process and maintained with or without this extension file present.

This update causes my G5 to KP immediately at startup, directions were followed explicitly. G5 2.5 GHZ dualie, 30' cinema display. After 6 attempts at booting, computer did a KP and then proceeded to boot into the login window after registering a startup KP.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS UPDATE! I don't know if its my machine or what (rock solid for over a month before this update). Is there any way I can get the old ROM back, this new one is poison for me? Edit: I can now boot into my G5 only after 3 unsuccessful boots. 1st boot is a straight KP after the apple logo comes up.

2nd boot I make it to the blue screen before the puter dies (mouse pointer on screen but no movement). The 3rd boot I make it to the login window and the computer functions normally. I am now able to boot my computer, but only after 2-3 KP's at startup that get me closer and closer to the login window. When the computer does get to the login window, its only after registering and displaying a KP. I now have a totally hosed system right, a totally hosed card? Should I talk to ATI?

I might add that I did not apply the firmware with any apps open, I followed the directions to the letter, and I have performed many ROM updates before without incident, so I am not sure how it could be my fault. Originally posted by MrNoVA: If you have updated to 10.3.9, DO NOT INSTALL ANY of the driver bundles from ATI's site. They are for previous versions, and the mismatch between the kexts can cause you problems.

Nova, um, too late, what should I do now? I am furious that this happened, there is clearly no indication on ATI's site that I shouldn't install this if I have X.3.9. I now have a $3500 paperweight on my desk and I have a feeling that ATI is going to give me the runaround with regard to this update. My computer is now unuseable and I don't have a backup card (sold the one that came with my machine on eBay).

I guess I should have waited a few weeks, this is a total nightmare. BTW, NOVA, where did you find out the ATI update is not for X.3.9? I assume you know something I don't. Now that my card is destroyed, perhaps you could share, nothing from nothing, but your initial post is why I installed the update in the first place, and you made no mention of not installing it on X.3.9. Originally posted by NW: Reinstall the OS, or at least reinstall the latest OS updates with a ROM patch?

I CAN'T REINSTALL THE OS!!! I GET KP'S AS SOON AS I BOOT FROM THE PANTHER INSTALL DISK, THE CARD IS COMPLETELY HOSED.

X800 is causing previous unmolested installs on the same machine to KP. Not only that, attempting to boot from an OSX panther x.3.5 boot CD KP's on startup. I did everything according to the ATI website.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL THIS ROM UPDATE AT ANY COST, IT WILL HOSE YOUR X800 PERMANENTLY IF YOU HAVE X.3.9 INSTALLED. I am open to suggestions please, as to how I can recover functionality to my card. Am I out $500? I am having a really bad week, could someone please offer me some words of encouragement here, I have this terrible sinking feeling and its getting me depressed. Should I be talking to ATI?

Their seems to be only two solutions to this problem, a new rom (the old one, which I don't know how to get on the card) that I can install from another card or a new card altogether. Ugh, there I go reading ARS for the latest updates. The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1 Hindi Dubbed 720p there.

Bit me in the ASS big time. Originally posted by NW: Reinstall the OS, or at least reinstall the latest OS updates with a ROM patch? I CAN'T REINSTALL THE OS!!! I GET KP'S AS SOON AS I BOOT FROM THE PANTHER INSTALL DISK, THE CARD IS COMPLETELY HOSED.

X800 is causing previous unmolested installs on the same machine to KP. Not only that, attempting to boot from an OSX panther x.3.5 boot CD KP's on startup.

I did everything according to the ATI website. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL THIS ROM UPDATE AT ANY COST, IT WILL HOSE YOUR X800 PERMANENTLY IF YOU HAVE X.3.9 INSTALLED.

I am open to suggestions please, as to how I can recover functionality to my card. Am I out $500? I am having a really bad week, could someone please offer me some words of encouragement here, I have this terrible sinking feeling and its getting me depressed. Should I be talking to ATI? Their seems to be only two solutions to this problem, a new rom (the old one, which I don't know how to get on the card) that I can install from another card or a new card altogether.

Ugh, there I go reading ARS for the latest updates. Bit me in the ASS big time. There might be something else involved w/ your problem, as i installed the ROM Xtender last night on my single 1.6GHz G5 and X800 retail gfx card, and did have 10.3.9 installed beforehand. I haven't had any problems at all since the ROM update, everything seems fine and the fan issue is totally gone.

Sounds like a true example of 'YMMV'.! Originally posted by The Professor: Wow, yun, I feel for ya.

Can you boot the machine in FireWire disc mode and install Panther from another Mac? Do you have another Mac GPU lying around you can install for purposes of the OS reinstall? I'd call ATi first thing in the morning and chew them out. They owe you a new card at the least. Not documenting the 10.3.9 incompatibility is completely unacceptable. Booting the G5 from anything causes a KP. I won't be doing it anymore because it's obvious its the card (hardware).

I don't have another GPU no, but I am not concerned about a reinstall since my previous clone is unmolested by any ATI updates, I can just switch startup disks and I should be back in biz provided I have a working GPU. I just hope the damage is limited to the card and hasn't affected my PM G5 in any way, do you think there is any permanent damage? I am less concerned about a damaged GPU than a damaged GPU f-ing up my whole rig. This is the definition of pain. $10000 worth of kit and a whole business down because of a lousy 3rd party ROM patch.

Originally posted by daiSho: there might be something else involved w/ your problem, as i installed the ROM Xtender last night on my single 1.6GHz G5 and X800 retail gfx card, and did have 10.3.9 installed beforehand. I haven't had any problems at all since the ROM update, everything seems fine and the fan issue is totally gone. Sounds like a true example of 'YMMV'.! This isn't the ROM extender, this is the new ROM update (see link at first post), completely different things I think, perhaps you could check.

Originally posted by FreakTornado: yunfat, have you tried booting the machine without any video card installed? Then shut down, put the card back in a boot again.

In the past when I've had video card troubles this has helped. Just a thought. I'm curious if you could tell if the machine finished the boot process? I know recently I had to do this with a faulty 9600, and I could hear the HD complete the boot process, so I knew the card was the problem. I suppose that would be little solace, but it would implicate the card with more certainty. Originally posted by FreakTornado: yunfat, have you tried booting the machine without any video card installed? Then shut down, put the card back in a boot again.

In the past when I've had video card troubles this has helped. Just a thought. I'm curious if you could tell if the machine finished the boot process?

I know recently I had to do this with a faulty 9600, and I could hear the HD complete the boot process, so I knew the card was the problem. I suppose that would be little solace, but it would implicate the card with more certainty. Sounded like the HD booted. But its impossible to say. I'm pretty sure it's the card, like I said, I had nary a KP in 3 months using the machine before I applied this cursed update.

Frustrated I took out the Kingston RAM. Next I swapped out the X800 with the OEM 9600XT. Tried several times. So I reinstalled ATI Displays 4.5 again, repaired permissions and rebooted. Next I swapped the X800 card back. With crossed fingers it boots!

Shut down the G5 to reinstall the Kingston RAM. Kernel panic on startup!! Restart, it boots okay. I haven't tried to reboot again being afraid I might get more kernel panics. I let you know tomorrow how things turn out. Too tired now to keep experimenting.: ) EDIT: Now that I think of it, this isn't your report, is it? Frustrated I took out the Kingston RAM.

Next I swapped out the X800 with the OEM 9600XT. Tried several times. So I reinstalled ATI Displays 4.5 again, repaired permissions and rebooted. Next I swapped the X800 card back. With crossed fingers it boots! Shut down the G5 to reinstall the Kingston RAM.

Kernel panic on startup!! Restart, it boots okay. I haven't tried to reboot again being afraid I might get more kernel panics. I let you know tomorrow how things turn out. Too tired now to keep experimenting.: ) EDIT: Now that I think of it, this isn't your report, is it? NO ITS NOT MY REPORT! But this is EXACTLY what is happening to my machine.

I am not alone. ONCE AGAIN I REPEAT TO OTHERS, DO NOT INSTALL THIS UPDATE, IT WILL HOSE YOUR X800 and YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE YOUR MACHINE! This was the proof I needed, thanks Freak, now I can approach ATI with some ammo.

At least I ain't alone. BTW my PM G5 recently got all its memory and internals checked at the Apple Store, its 100% healthy before this Rom update, no KP's in 3 months. EDIT: I tried that guys solution (reset NVRAM) it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. The KP's at startup still occur during all startups, including the aforementioned KP followed by normal boot up (never heard of a KP fixing itself before, the KP screen just dissappears and then my machine boots up, so weird). Originally posted by RJVB: While I don't have this card myself, I have read the readme.

It says somewhere that if for whatever reason the rom flash goes awry, you may need to boot with a different video card, in order to re-apply the upgrade. That makes sense to me. A wrong or unexpected signal from an extension board can cause KPs, as I've once learned with an HPUX workstation -- even if the board isn't used (= crucial) at all. I have been able to reboot the system (it takes many attempts but 1 in 10 times it boots) and reapply the update and ATI displays updater. Still a no go.

ATI Displays update and apple system profiler both report the ROM is upgraded (new version #) so I know the card has the correct ROM installed (installer ran and installed perfectly as far as I can tell), but that ROM is incompatible with X.3.9 on my Dual 2.5 system. Call to ATI this morning proved fruitless. 'they are looking into the problem'. Here comes that sinking feeling again. Edit: Another 10.3.8 install (not X.3.9) and the Panther startup disk X.3.5 also generate the kernel panic. So X.3.9 is not the issue, seems to be the card ROM.

The KP from the Panther cd is most troubling, this certainly points to hardware failure/ROM corruption. I had this problem on my 2.5 also, but I was running a Tiger seed. I even thought it was my install DVD for while, until I checked it on my PB. I can't remember the exact steps, but what has worked for me is installing the release version of Tiger. I did get KP's trying to boot from the Tiger DVD, until I unplugged the power cord for about 30 minutes, then Tiger installed just fine. That is how you reset the PMU on PowerMac G5's, except Apple says only 5 minutes. Actually, now that I think about it, I'll bet it was unplugging the power cord that fixed it.

Anyway, I've done several reboots and used the machine for at least three days leaving it on 24/7, which is my normal use and the KP's have disappeared since I did a Erase & Install of Tiger. I'll try booting from my Panther install disk and see what happens. Update: I did get Panther installed normally, but can't get Panther or Tiger to restart normally more than twice before a KP, but when it does boot normally it's working fine. I have run fine for at least two days before reading this thread and losing confidence.

Sorry yunfat, I thought I had a fix for ya. Update: I did get Panther installed normally, but can't get Panther or Tiger to restart normally more than twice before a KP, but when it does boot normally it's working fine. I have run fine for at least two days before reading this thread and losing confidence. Sorry yunfat, I thought I had a fix for ya. No problem, I appreciate the effort and it merely confirms the symptoms I have been experiencing on yet another system. I think this only affects 2.5 GHZ machines, that is the consensus opinion after a talk with XLR8 mike and what I can ascertain here. Update: After 5-6 KP on startup I can usually get into a working finder (like macinlew), however its very painful to keep resetting this $4k computer 5 times to get it working.

Seconds turn into days at the startup chime as I feel my stomach tighten anticipating that awful gray screen, but it would seem I have no other way to get my system up and running, I really need my machine for biz. After getting back up, I tried a couple of things, including reinstalling the newest ATI utilities. Still the same problems, exactly. My call to ATI on thursday has still not produced a response, I was merely told it was 'elevated'. I will update as soon as I hear back from ATI. If an answer is not forthcoming from them early next week, I will be elevating my anger level to orange from yellow. Edit: Mac Fixit now has a report of a user receiving an RMA for his card for experiencing these issues.

ATI estimated a TWO WEEK RMA process that requires you to send in your card. If this is the solution they give me I might ask all the people who had similar experiences to compile their reports for the Better Business Bureau.

I really don't want to be without my machine for two weeks, I would have to buy a card just to keep my business running. This is not the solution I was hoping for, and I think ATI is responsible. Shouldn't they offer a replacement card for the downtime, or do they really expect me to lay down and give up my computer for weeks? I vaguely remember, years and years ago, when I used to be really paranoid when it came to flashing hardware, that I'd extract a videocard's current firmware before flashing to a new one.

I'd then make a bootdisk that would flash back to the old firmware unattended (since you'd potentially have no video). Anyway, what would be kind of cool for situations like this would be a LinuxPPC flashing utility. Then you could grab the current firmware off the card (before flashing) and maybe set up some sort of bootable, flashing, Linux emergency CD-RW. I just recently installed the new ATI recommended ROM update for my 4-day-old X800 XT. As with all of your other reader reports, I get kernel panics at every restart and startup, with it actually logging in successfully about 1 out of 4 times.

Can't even boot up from a cd! I tried all of the fixes listed here, but none worked, so I decided to just re-install my 9800 XT until ATI came up with a fix. Well, funny enough, my 9800 XT didn't work anymore either. I was totally confused and pretty pissed off at that point. Thank god, someone advised me on how to reset the nvram and that got it working again.

I'm afraid to put the X800 back into my G5. It also seems as if the startup session takes longer than normal, with it hanging on the black screen for about 15 seconds before going to the gray apple logo screen. I also notice audible 'double clicks', maybe from the internal speaker, during startup.always right before it chimes, and then always right after the spinning wheel stops moving on the gray apple logo screen. I never heard that before, so I don't know what is causing it.

I hope all of our reports push ATI to come up with a fix very soon! Thanks everyone! My system consists of a dual 2.5GHz G5/6.5GB OWC ram/1-73GB Raptor Drive,1-250GB Maxtor Drive/20' Apple Cinema Display w/ADC connector Jesse.