Hello, it's me again. In my continuing quest to get an appropriate X setup here, I have aquired an ACARD "AHARD 66" ATA card, exact model AEC-6260M) that has come fairly highly recommended by many many people on this and the PCI-Powermacs list. The card went in without a hitch, the drives showed up in X without a problem. It was only when I removed all of my mp3's from the playlist of iTunes 3 (and the upgrade from software update) that I ran into problems. Adding the files from the hard drive in question (A 2 year old Western Digital 30 gig 7200 rpm drive that has not had any problems yet in it's service that was previously connected to my ACARD ATA33 card (which is not supported by X) in my 7500 which I ran over Ethernet to gain access to my files with no real problem in 2 weeks or so) was much faster than by network and the songs played instaintly- at least for up to 10 seconds at a time. After this point, the counter kept going, the visual display would not change and would in fact continue to indicate that the song was indeed playing, but there would be no sound output at all, until the song was paused and resumed, at which point the cycle would repeat. I tried installing the latest drivers from acard.com on all of my ata discs and on the scsi hd that holds my active system (BTW Carbon Copy Cloner did not copy a system that allowed my mac to boot from the copied system. I am still on the stock drive and running out of room!) and restarted, and the problem remained. I deleted, added and manouvered my library to no avail. I quit several times and started back up to no avail. The problem is so severe now that although iTunes indicates that it is playing the counter does not advance, the visualizer indicates that there is no song playing and there is absolutely no sound of any kind coming from the system or any program running, including the Sound preference panel. I have tried using Quicktime player to play a song to test and it experiences the same problem!
Do I need to pull a windows (reformat & reinstall) or is there some simpler solution? I really need this setup to work! My hardware is standing at 432 meg noninterleaved ram (which is incidentally less than what I have installed), the stock 2 gig SCSI HD & CD-ROM drive, the ACARD ATA66 card with a 9.5 Seagate OEM Apple drive pulled from a G-4 and the Western Digital, a TwinTurbo 8 meg little video card to drive my pallettes monitor and some generic USB card which is recognised and is totally useable by X. There are no external devices connected on any bus with the exception of the Appledesign on the ADB and a Kensington Turbomouse on the USB. Has anyone else had these symptoms? Help! Thanks, Rik -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:UnsupportedOSX-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
