Reuse Nvidia FX5200 from Mac G5 etc

[alex22]

As above, is that possible?

Cos my old SFF cannot fit dual slot card, this FX5200 is single slot and can enable me for multimonitor.

Do I have to flash vgabios in order to work outside of MacOS?

 

[86technie]

Get a new graphic card like Geforce 710 etc. for multi monitor.
FX5200 is not only old but for MAC it won't work as the Video BIOS/ROM for both MAC and PC are
different.

 

[wwenze]

 

[watzup_ken]

As above, is that possible?

Cos my old SFF cannot fit dual slot card, this FX5200 is single slot and can enable me for multimonitor.

Do I have to flash vgabios in order to work outside of MacOS?

Well, if you have the card and SFF on hand, plug it in and you have your answer. I do recommend getting a new GPU instead as techidiot suggested because I don't know if you can still get driver for this FX5200 now. I believe Nvidia is dropping driver support for the GT 710 soon.

 

[alex22]

I was thinking of just reusing it cos all I need is spreadsheet and word from the sff.
It's really just a admin machine after all.

Its a 6600LE 256 PCIEx16 single slot card and not a 5200 as initially thought.

Yeah, plugged to the sff pciex16 and no display.

Ill poke around and see if there's vgabios first lol.
Read that mac users are flashing bios onto normal cards to allow use on mac.
If that works then the reverse should be.