--- On Wed, 1/6/10, Mac User #330250 <[email protected]> wrote: > Try putting the video card in a different slot. The slot for the video card is somehow different than the other PCI slots. I don't really understand it, but I'm confident further internet research will help to clarify this mystory.
The "video" slot is just a 66MHZ, 32bit PCI slot instead of a 33MHz, 64 bit (hence longer) PCI slot which all the others are. The video card will work in one of the 64bit slots because they are 32bit compatible (I have done this), though they will run at half the speed.
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