I have a PowerCenter 120 running OS 8.6, with a 132meg processor, 168meg of ram and a PCI riser housing 3 PCI slots. A Matrox Millenium II 8meg video card occupies one slot. It was in the PowerCentre when I took possesion of it. I seem to remember when I first acquired this machine that I may have had output from the card, although not knowing these beasts at the time, I couldn't be sure. I have otherwise used the on-board video, outputting to a 17" VGA monitor without any hassles.
Recently, I decided to investigate the Matrox's potential over the on-board video and plugged the video cable into it's VGA port. No show. There were no funny error sounds at all, just the standard start sound and a black screen. I took myself off and downloaded and installed the Mac drivers for the card, but all my efforts to induce an output from it have failed so far. The on-board video still works fine, but I feel I'm missing out. I then acquired a 4 port USB PCI card. I plugged it in, downloaded and installed the drivers off the apple site, installed the Mac drivers for my Logitech optical mouse, plugged the mouse in to the port closet to the edge connectors and presto! We have lift off. Then I tried the other three ports with the mouse and Zilcho! No lights, no movement. System Profiler told me that when the mouse was plugged into the port closeset to the edge connector, that all 4 ports were occupied with the mouse. When the mouse was plugged into any of the other ports, System Profiler showed no ports occupied. SP also doesn't recognise what video card I have . it knows that there's a graphics card there, but that's it. To further confuse things, I dropped both cards in my Windows machine and Windows XP recognised both cards and both were fully functional. What gives? Do I need PCI drivers for the PowerCenter or do I have a faulty PCI riser. I've met my match Martin -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
