• Blackmagic Design

  PCIe Allocating Lanes

  Posted by P. B. on April 11, 2008 at 2:56 am

  I have been trying to allocate more of the lane space to the blackmagic card. I have a 3.2 quadcore Mac Pro. In the manual, indicated when I first insert the Blackmagic card, a dialog box will pop up and allow me to allocate. That didn’t happen. When I went to Apple site, suggested that I go to System/Libary/CoreServices/Expansion Slot Utility. When I opened it it said that application doesn’t run on my system.

  First, does it matter? My card is currently in slot 2. Second, how do I change it? Is this an Apple only issue?

  Prashant Bahrgava

  P. B. replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kristian Lam

  April 22, 2008 at 1:12 am

  Hi,

  The latest Mac Pros do not have assignable PCIe lanes. If you look at the motherboard, the number of PCIe lanes are already pre-assigned. This is why the Expansion Slot Utility will not run. Nothing to worry about.

  regards

  Kristian Lam
  Blackmagic Design
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  P. B.

  April 22, 2008 at 4:18 am

  Is there any particular slot I should have the blackmagic card or my sata card in?

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