---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: PCI Extreme! still worth the trouble for a PCI-only Mac? Date: Freitag 12 Februar 2010N From: Kris Tilford <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
> On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > > Now I see that this hack will no longer work with Tiger 10.4.3 and > > newer. > > Well, I'm using 10.4.11 -- so it won't work? > > No, it works fine with 10.4.11. It didn't work ONLY with 10.4.3. Pardon? It does NOT work with 10.4.3 and newer, at least that's what the developer says at http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8979/pci-extreme! and http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/16006 - it will fully work with Mac OS X 10.4.0 to 10.4.2 though. > After > you use PCI Extreme you can check it using Quartz Extreme Check. It > should also show up in System Profiler as "supported". Guess what? I did the patching i.e. I installed PCI Extreme! 3.1 on my Mac OS X 10.4.11 with a little aching in the stomage. (I'm not sure, if "ache in the stomage" means the same thing in English as it does in German, where it simply says that a person isn't really comfortable with something like a situation, an event or an action.) But 10.4.11 starts up normally, no errors. I still don't have Quartz Extreme, because my graphics card is the original G3 B&W version of the ATI Rage 128, running at 68.66 MHz (both processor and memory). > The things to remember: > > 1) you can't mix non-QE video cards with QE cards. For example, no > Rage & Radeon in the same Mac at the same time. The thing you said > earlier, about BOTH an AGP & PCI together is also wrong, they work > fine together as long as BOTH have QE enabled. If you DON'T use PCI > Extreme to enable the PCI card, you lose the QE on the supported AGP > card also. > > 2) remember on the B&W & Yikes to keep the video card in the special > video PCI slot which has twice the bandwidth of the other PCI slots. > On a normal PCI slot the best speed you can obtain is the equivalent > of 1/2 AGP, but with the special 66MHz slot you can get 1xAGP speed > which is fine for QE. > > 3) check that firmware on your video card first, and update before if > necessary. > Thanks for your advices. Even though I did the patch now (=installing PCI Extreme) I don't have an acceleration anyway due to the unsupported video card. I also wasn't able to find any newer version of the firmware for the ATI Rage 128, in fact I wasn't able to find any at all. Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
