My OS and updating FCP

[Flame Schon]

Hi Jerry, sorry if I made it sound like I thought the dimm slots were for anything but Ram. What I’d read was simply that the way to tell if ones computer could take PCI-X rather than simply PCI was by the number of dimm slots. (that is, that the earlier G5s had only 4 and the later 8 and this number was also an indicator of the PCI vs PCI-X status of that particular computer.) I didnt imagine that the dimm slots were for PCI cards. I can see all the empty PCI slots on the back of my computer and was just hoping that my computer would accommodate the faster PCI-X.
So, sorry if I managed to sound more befuddled than I am.
And thanks again
Flame

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Flame Schon] “So, sorry if I managed to sound more befuddled than I am. “

No worries at all. I was just making sure we are in sync.

A PCI card should be just fine, (I think it runs @ 33mHz).

Jeremy

[Flame Schon]

Jeremy, this is what I read on Apple site which was the source of my befuddlement:

“To determine whether your computer has PCI or PCI-X slots, read the ID label, which is located on the side of the computer at the bottom under the air deflector. Your computer’s ID label tells you what hardware configuration you have. If your computer has PCI-X slots it will be listed here. If you don’t see “PCI-X” your computer has PCI slots.

You can also identify your model by the number of DIMM slots. Computers with 4 DIMM slots have 33 MHz PCI slots; computers with 8 DIMM slots have 100 and 133 MHz PCI-X slots.”