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Radeon 2600 PRO Graphics Firmware Update (VOTE)
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9600 Pro, I guess Leopard's Time Machine does work.
Yeah. I was working on my Uncles 2600 Pro problem the other day.. got numbers on the brain.
Hi,
Very early days but after the firmware update my machine seems to be running fine and there are no white streaks any more on a black background while performing GPU operations.
I was about to go nuts tonight after my usually well behaved system (except for an occasional freeze) started to freeze continuously! I had about 12 freezes in a few hours and simply couldn't use the machine! I had decided enough was enough and I was taking it to the Apple store this weekend when lo and behold the firmware update appears! Talk about cutting it fine on the timing!!!
Anyway, machine appears stable for now - I'll give bootcamp a try tomorrow night and see if my 3D games are more stable now. Previously they had a 50:50 chance of causing a freeze.
Fingers crossed this is the one...
Craig.
Very early days but after the firmware update my machine seems to be running fine and there are no white streaks any more on a black background while performing GPU operations.
I was about to go nuts tonight after my usually well behaved system (except for an occasional freeze) started to freeze continuously! I had about 12 freezes in a few hours and simply couldn't use the machine! I had decided enough was enough and I was taking it to the Apple store this weekend when lo and behold the firmware update appears! Talk about cutting it fine on the timing!!!
Anyway, machine appears stable for now - I'll give bootcamp a try tomorrow night and see if my 3D games are more stable now. Previously they had a 50:50 chance of causing a freeze.
Fingers crossed this is the one...
Craig.
Didn't have issues before, updated things continues on exactly the same.
Now if only Apple would release decent drivers for the 2600...
Now if only Apple would release decent drivers for the 2600...
Didn't have issues before, updated things continues on exactly the same.
Now if only Apple would release decent drivers for the 2600...
According to my MemVendorID thread having a VendorID of 0600 means 'nothing', remember? Yet the only VendorID getting patched is those folks.
According to my MemVendorID thread having a VendorID of 0600 means 'nothing', remember? Yet the only VendorID getting patched is those folks.
Wow you're still trolling on about that, even though people are telling you their machines have been patched but weren't freezing before. You really need to learn to let things go, especially when you put out a poll and a heap of other threads that don't prove your point. I guess all the people who didn't have their machines patched but they still freeze are just full of it! I guess all of the people whose machines got patched but never froze before are full of it too. At least we know you rock though, and that's the most important thing. You won, everyone else is full of it! You 1 Rest of the world 0.
Continue on though, it's your time to waste...
No. If you check the install script the patches are SPECIFIC to the 0600 Vendor! Just as I said before the 0600 vendor has more issues than the 0100 vendor (such as my iMac that has never frozen).
You just fail to admit that one vendor seems to have a commonplace amongst iMac users as a potential problem.
I am not denying that the script is targeted at a specific vendor ID, but the data from your own poll suggests that people have problems with both vendor types. Your own poll also shows the percentage of problems to be about even across these vendor IDs.
You are making assumptions based on your own experience with your iMac "Just as I said before the 0600 vendor has more issues than the 0100 vendor (such as my iMac that has never frozen).". You seem to refuse to believe your own poll, either that or your don't know how to read the data from the poll you created.
Here is the data from your poll...
Vendor 0100 No Freezes - 64%
Vendor 0100 Some Freezing - 27%
Vendor 0100 Constant Freezing - 9%
Vendor 0600 No Freezes - 60%
Vendor 0600 Some Freezing - 28%
Vendor 0600 Constant Freezing - 12%
Sure the numbers of respondents are small but why should that take away from the people with Vendor 0100 IDs whose machines still freeze, and they weren't given a patch?
I'm sure you are going to try and come up with some response to make yourself look like the big man, hell you attacked me because of comments I made in another 1 of your threads in this 1 after all I said here was "Didn't have issues before, updated things continues on exactly the same.". You obviously have a point to prove, I'm not sure what it is but continue on.
Here's hoping Apple release a fix soon for the guys having issues with their Vendor ID 0100 machines.
You are making assumptions based on your own experience with your iMac "Just as I said before the 0600 vendor has more issues than the 0100 vendor (such as my iMac that has never frozen).". You seem to refuse to believe your own poll, either that or your don't know how to read the data from the poll you created.
Here is the data from your poll...
Vendor 0100 No Freezes - 64%
Vendor 0100 Some Freezing - 27%
Vendor 0100 Constant Freezing - 9%
Vendor 0600 No Freezes - 60%
Vendor 0600 Some Freezing - 28%
Vendor 0600 Constant Freezing - 12%
Sure the numbers of respondents are small but why should that take away from the people with Vendor 0100 IDs whose machines still freeze, and they weren't given a patch?
I'm sure you are going to try and come up with some response to make yourself look like the big man, hell you attacked me because of comments I made in another 1 of your threads in this 1 after all I said here was "Didn't have issues before, updated things continues on exactly the same.". You obviously have a point to prove, I'm not sure what it is but continue on.
Here's hoping Apple release a fix soon for the guys having issues with their Vendor ID 0100 machines.
From what I understood Apple targeted a specific memory Vendor for problems. What problems? I don't know? Bigger CAS latency or something they didn't notice? Maybe the 0100 vendors are a different problem not related to memory? Maybe it's related to memory but it's completely different? Maybe Apple doesn't know folks with 0100 have issues? My poll, last I checked showed a significant amount of our voters to have the 0600 vendor versus the 0100 vendor. So it could be an issue of 'not enough reported problems'?
It's 100% because those with the Vendor 0100 "freezers" cannot install the update and thus can't vote on this poll, although I suspect those Vendor 0100 freezers are caused by something else other than the graphics card (crashes due to low/bad RAMs, corrupt Leopard installation, etc.).
There may be people with Vendor 0600 that did not fix the problem. That's why this poll is made the way it was. To prevent the 0100 (myself included) from Voting.
Should be around 3 or so if the other thread on the update is any indication of not being able to get it fixed after the update.
I think some people are not being "allowed" to apply the update and that is why they are marking "no."