I have a Power Computing PowerCenter 120 which I have upgraded slightly. I added 128mb of ram, replaced the cmos battery, and added a PCI USB card.
First, the USB card is not that important as I just don't use USB devices. I'm only adding it just to test and learn more about the Mac and this machine. Here's the issue. The USB card is a USB card that works in any standard PC. If I were to take this card and put it into a PC it would load the drivers, almost automatically, and I'd be able to use a device connected to it. After putting it into the PowerCenter 120 I checked with system profiler to see if it saw the card. It did. When I went to exit the system profile I got the bomb that required me to restart the machine. No biggy because if this is a problem I can just remove the card. Remember, I'm doing this just to learn. The question that comes to mind is: Do these Power Computing clones with the PCI slots actually support *all* PC based PCI cards. Note: I know that not all PCI card manufacturers provide drivers for the Mac community. That isn't my question though. The question is, do the macintosh computers support all PCI cards. What keeps coming to mind is that the PCI cards for the PC world are interrupt driven. I don't believe the macintoshes are interrupt driven. Any input would be appreciated. -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
