<HTML><BODY>Ouch, too many typos.<br>I now see them all, but too late. I'm not even sure if I shall consider today as part of yesterday or tomorrow.<br><br><br>Nevertheless, bundled with this general self-correction here a gift for SPARC users ;)<br><br>It also answers the question, why normal Radeon 7000's cannot get the fcodes flashed in, although all other parts except for the smaller ROM chip are 100.00% identical (but you can solder on the larger capacity chip) :<br><h1>ATI RADEON 7000 PCI</h1><h3>Flashing and Modifying for use in a</h3><br><br><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20051224220219/http://www.darkness.uklinux.net/">http://web.archive.org/web/20051224220219/http://www.darkness.uklinux.net/</a><br><br><br>All tools are in the sit archive, still there (having been archived, too).<br>I verified these steps long ago.<br>Now is time to let you know all those tricks.<br><br>Next time, maybe on X-mas: How you can convert a stock Sun Fire 480R into an US IV 1.5GHz based apparently genuine SunFire V490 in less than 2 minutes.<br><br><br><br><br>rgds.<br>%m<br><br></BODY></HTML>