Ok, I really do apologize if it's right in front of me, but where is the download link for the file on that page?

Not seeing it anywhere

well, i found the link, i dont think there was one posted on the site, but if you do at.com/drivers/R7000-ROM-208.hqx i think thats what i did.

anyway, a 1.7 meg file downloaded, ran it, and as i hit CONTINUE it said "This installer will not work on this OS. Please contact ATI for updated installer"

Are you flashing it in OS 9? OS X does not have a native flash utility in it. This has nothing to do with ATI, its how apple designed OS X. Try flashing it in 9, or perhaps try a third party flash utility.

Grr.

Ok, I booted up and installed OS9.2.2.
Booted INTO OS9.
Ran the Flash utility, got further than on OSX.
Started doing the:

Your Device ID: <nothing was shown here>
New Device ID: 113-######-#### <some sort of BIOS new number thing, i dunno>

Then, as it was about 60%-70%, it came up with an error of something like:
Error J11: ABsomethingsomething

J11 turned out to be the PCI port that the 7000 card was on, saw this through Sys Prof.
And OS9 sys prof doesn't read a ROM number on the card, says something about -1

HUH?!

I am not sure what to tell you at this point. It has worked for me and many others as well. Perhaps you have some other problem with your system that is causing this? OS corruption? I do not know. Do you still have the original m208 file? Try the original file first then try the updated one, thats just a shot in the dark. It will be hard for anyone to help you through this with out actually seeing the unit.

Best of luck

One last question,

On the 7000 video card, i see a jumper for NTSC or PAT

does it matter what this is on? should it be one or the other?

PAL perhaps?

PAL = European and australian standard of video signals

NTSC = what the USA uses.

I would only assume you want it on the NTSC setting.


Also, who made your video card? If its some kind of funy chipset revision or some really esoteric vendor the flash may not work. FWIW, I used cards made and manufactured by ATI everytime I tried it, with the exception of one time I used one made by a company called extasy.