Re: USB PCI Card for 8500?

[Dr. M. Burek]

I also bought a GIC22U IOgear card. To get their support, I told them I 
had a B&W G3, but I have a 7300/G3 400. There is a major problem with 
these cards in PCI Macs. You will never get it to work in Classic. At 
all. It did work in OS X, though. Very strange.

We did a lot of troubleshooting, and found that under a Classic MacOS, 
as soon as the startup chime sounds, the power is lost to the USB card. 
Why? Who knows... it's probably the crappy ALi chipset in the card, but 
do not know that for sure.

My solution? I sold the card to someone with a B&W or better Mac, and 
got a used USB 1.1 card off of the swap list that I knew to work with 
PCI Macs. I'd stay away from IOGear cards - they are expensive, and 
nothing but trouble. Their tech support is a joke, too. I had to fight 
to get a supervisor, then the supe escalated my problem to a level 2 
tech, who actually knew something about Macs.

Good luck.

Michael

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