should i reinstall FCS 2 on top of itself?

[Jerry Hofmann]

Your problem is your graphics card… needs to be beefier.

Jerry

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Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

[Walter Biscardi]

[mortimer heathcliff] “but Motion still chugs along, not every smooth playback at all.”

Slow graphics card. Install the ATI 1900

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[J. Tad newberry]

thanks guys, i’ll get one…

that will obviously speed up my Motion playback, but what are your thoughts about my last FCS 2 upgrade install attempt? that is, the graphics card wouldn’t have anything to do with the computer not reading 2 of the install discs, would it?

thanks again!

mh

[Walter Biscardi]

[mortimer heathcliff] “that will obviously speed up my Motion playback, but what are your thoughts about my last FCS 2 upgrade install attempt?”

No clue on the install errors. We didn’t see that here, sounds like a corruption in the OS. Have you called AppleCare about this?

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[Jerry Hofmann]

Mort… if you didn’t do a clean install of the OS before you installed the studio, you need to do that. i.e. backup everything on your startup disk, then perform an erase and install of the OS, update it, then install studio over that and update it.

Jerry

[J. Tad newberry]

Applecare?? (thanks for reminding me…i always forget about that resource).

i’ve done a little checking on the graphics cards, and at the MacPro site there is a comparison of the GeForce 7300 GT and the ATI Radeon X1900 XT. The GeForce occupies “one standard slot”, while the ATI takes a “double-wide” slot.

another dumb question (i should probably go back over to the calf), but how do i know which slot i have in my G5 dual 2 GHz?

also, the ATI appears to be around $300-400, what are your thoughts on less expensive cards?

(i’ll call Applecare as well…thanks for the tip)

thanks again!

mh

[Walter Biscardi]

[mortimer heathcliff] “another dumb question (i should probably go back over to the calf), but how do i know which slot i have in my G5 dual 2 GHz?”

A double wide means it will take up the space of 2 slots, not that it requires a special slot. The Mac Pro was built with this in mind and allows for a double wide graphics card without blocking off a slot. If you have a G5 you will lose the use of one slot if you put this card in.

If you have a G5 Dual 2.0 then you will require a PCI-X card. Not the PCIe card.

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[J. Tad newberry]

thanks Jerry, but i did do all that. used Carbon Copy to clone my system drive to an external SATA drive, then did an erase and install of the OS. the OS installation went without a hitch, but two of my FCS 2 discs weren’t being read by the computer. the Installer requester would ask for the next disc, i put it in, wait…wait………wait….nothing…so i would put in the next disc and it read fine. “finished” the install, went back to the disc that wasn’t being read, and it finally read…but the installer requester screen was still “frozen”, asking for the same disc. never got to the “finish” section of the installation…

thanks again!

mh

[J. Tad newberry]

thanks man…calling AppleCare right now, then running errands. back in awhile…

thanks again!

mh

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jerry Hofmann] “Mort… if you didn’t do a clean install of the OS before you installed the studio, you need to do that. i.e. backup everything on your startup disk, then perform an erase and install of the OS, update it, then install studio over that and update it.”

We honestly did not do this on any of our FCP / Kona systems. I am waiting for Leopard to come out and then we will do this all at once. I’ve never found an issue installing Studio on top of an old version.

Certainly going from OS to OS we do clean installs all around, but for updating the Studio package, we didn’t find that necessary.

A good idea for sure to do the clean install if you have the time, but in our case we didn’t have the time available.

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