Installing a PCI FireWire card in a G5

Apr 02, '04 10:08:00AM

Contributed by: babertocci

I recently bought a Belkin PCI FireWire card for my G5. It is the Dual 2 GHz G5, so I have two PCI-X slots that run at 100 MHz and one that runs at 133 MHz. Initially I installed the card in the 133 MHz slot (slot 4), but when I powered my computer back up, OS X would not recognize the card. It carried power to any connected FireWire devices, but System Profiler did not show any card connected to the PCI slot. I went back and changed it to a 100 MHz slot (slot 3), and now it works flawlessly.

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