Perhaps the seating of the card. Yes, that or a dirty- corroded contact you scraped when you reinserted it. Common in old machines.
Yes there is something terribly wrong with the 8500 case. It was invented in HELL ! That knuckle scraping , time wasting hard to work inside of piece of !!##%$^ . Well you get the idea. The solution ? A very nice 7X00 series case ( or a 9500 ? case ) -----Original Message----- >From: Freya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 7, 2006 7:04 PM >To: PCI PowerMacs <pci-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com> >Subject: Re: [PCI] USB Card > >My belkin usb card arrived today. I plugged it in and >the system profiler not only detected the usb card >properly but this time it also put up 4 little boxes >for each usb port. (It only detected the card and knew >it was a usb card with the other card but I suspect >the other card is usb 2.0. > >However it didn't work and there was no power going >out the usb bus. My little usb key did not light up. I >reinstalled the usb software with the card in place >that didn't seem to help. > >I put the card in my pc, and my usb key lit up right >away. > >I put the card back in the mac and this time it seems >to work although when I go in the system profiler, my >usb key is listed as being in all the usb ports (is >this normal) but my new drive was there complete with >files. > >So good usb news for me and that update I installed >does seem to work on os 9.1 > >I suspect the problems I have had with the usb card >relate to how well the card is seated in the pci bus. >This is something terrible about the 8500 case! Has >anyone here come up with solutions to this? I'm >thinkimg maybe I could stick a metal bar across the >top where the screws should be to hold all the cards >in? > >> I -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
