MacPros and PCIe

[Jeremy Garchow]

Do you have a capture card installed?

[Monica Reina]

No, we couldn’t get that far. Just wanted to install the Quadro and a Fibre card to connect to the Xserve RAID.

M

[Jeremy Garchow]

What kind of fibre card do you have and how much RAM installed? have you tried going to NVidia’s website to get an updated driver?

Jeremy

[Gary Adcock]

[JeremyG] “What kind of fibre card do you have and how much RAM installed? have you tried going to NVidia’s website to get an updated driver?”

hey monica

Try 2 things-
FIRST go to System > Library > Core Services > Expansion slot utility

set it 2 selection #2 (this is the default for the Kona and atto cards) ( this changes the PCIe Buss settings)

and then re boot.

Second
take out all but 2 gigs of ram until you get it configured then add the ram back 1G at a time.

gary
(from IBC / amsterdam)

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Monica Reina]

Hi there,

We are using the only Apple PCIe Fibre Card available now.
We tried in a MAc Pro 3.0 and a 2.66.
There is nothing regarding this on the NVDIA website, that’s why I am posting this.
🙁

M

[Monica Reina]

Hi Gary!

Long time no see.
🙂

We will try that.

M

[Rune Hansen]

[Gary Adcock]
Try 2 things-
FIRST go to System > Library > Core Services > Expansion slot utility

set it 2 selection #2 (this is the default for the Kona and atto cards) ( this changes the PCIe Buss settings)

and then re boot.

Second
take out all but 2 gigs of ram until you get it configured then add the ram back 1G at a time.

Hi, Gary. That makes sense for having more 4x and 8-x lanes, but if you only have a single board installed, such as the Nvidia QuadroFX4500 in the 16x slot, the machine doesn’t boot at all.

I’ll try using Expansion Slot Utility for enabling the FC card, however. Will also try this to enable the K3 board, although that works if you have it in slot 4 with the default slot settings.

What bugs me is the QuadroFX board…

Thanks again! 🙂

–rune

[Gary Adcock]

[Rune Hansen] “Hi, Gary. That makes sense for having more 4x and 8-x lanes, but if you only have a single board installed, such as the Nvidia QuadroFX4500 in the 16x slot, the machine doesn’t boot at all.”

Rune

we are seeing a lot of issues here at IBC with the Nvidia cards in the intel macs. especially with the ATTO cards.
currently only the apple fibre cards are allowing more than 2 gigs of ram, and some systems can on run a SINGLE GIG without crashing or locking up on renders.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Olivier Jean]

Hi Gary,

Sorry to hear that, and welcome to the club as i’ve
experienced a lot of these on a client’s machine,
lots of crashes in Shake as well..
Can’t wait for a fix from Atto although i wouldn’t be
surprised if the issue is a little more intricate than that.

Have fun in Amsterdam

[Host Bus adapter]

I’m getting tons of crashes with this new system. I have yet to isolate it to RAM, the cards, workflow, or anything else. I crash in FCP, in AE, in Final Touch… you name it… it is always random and it is never a typical “mac” crash, it is the freeze type of crash, no way to pull out, just shut the system down. Luckily we are a testing facility and not under the gun of mission critical work, good luck to you guys!