Thanks and you were right. I bought a $12 pci usb2 card off amazon. Worked fine! Doug crum On Apr 26, 5:11 pm, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:21 PM, crumvoc wrote: > > > Hi again. Does anyone know if any ol' off the shelf windows PC USB2 > > PCI card will work in my g3 powermac? I'd like to upgrade it to USB 2 > > if possible. > > Yes, USB2 in Windows also required OHCI so they're pretty much all > compatible. Note that USB2 requires OS X; in older OS'es you'll only get > USB1.1 speeds out of it. G4's have sleep issues with some USB2 chipsets; I > don't know if that applies to G3's as well. The NEC chipset works. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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