On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Dana Collins wrote:

>
> On 9/28/08 10:05 PM, Eric Volker of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent
>
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this card? It worked great in my
>> old Quicksilver, but I'm having a lot of trouble with it on my
>> Powermac G5. At first I loaded Leopard on that machine, but I got
>> squeals and clicks out of it, and sometimes the audio would get
>> completely garbled. Apparently the driver is only certified for Tiger
>> (whatever that means), so I installed Tiger on a secondary hard  
>> drive,
>> and ended up with the same problem. When it works, the audio sounds
>> fantastic, but those glitches I mention make it almost unusable. I do
>> recall some problems with multiprocessor machines, which could still
>> be true I suppose.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric
>
> Hi Eric,
> Out of curiosity, which G5 do you have? If you have a June 2004 model
> (2.0GHz CPU) or later, you would be dealing with PCI-X slots  
> instead of the
> older PCI slots in the G4. I am not sure I that matters, but would  
> not be
> surprised if it did.
> Best regards,
> Dana
>
Dana-

The model I have is the June/Late 2004 model, with dual 1.8GHz  
processors. I'm fairly sure that means that I've got PCI slots,  
though they're the long 64-bit slots.

Thanks,

Eric

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