[Chris Newman]

thanks for the info. i don’t have the extended applecare but the computer is under 3 years old. should i contact ATI or apple to see if the card itself has a warranty?

i don’t need the adc connection. i currently have two vga monitors and in the future may have two dvi monitors. i tried shopping at actual stores but found them tremendously lacking in graphics cards for macs. i didn’t want to wait for shipping cuz i need to work so i bought the only one i could find. it’s the ati 9200 pci card with a vga and dvi output. it works fine, but if i can get a free agp card via warranty i will definitely do that and return this card.

what about nvidia, is it as hard to find mac cards from them?

this has been much more difficult than i thought it would be.

thanks again for the info

chris

[Chris Newman]

i’ve had similar problems with firewire drives. i have a dual 2ghz G5. sometimes, even after ejecting the drive, having it’s icon dissappear from the desktop, when i disconnect the cable from the port, i’ll get this message on my monitor that a peripheral was removed incorrectly and the machine needs to be restarted. i don’t know how else to correctly remove a HD other than ejecting the icon, then disconnecting. the problem is intermittent.

i am curious, how do you get your external HD to power down when your computer does? i’m assuming you’re not doing it manually. does it then power up automatically when you turn the computer on? i have a maxtor one touch that gets very hot after awhile but i don’t want to risk getting that error on the screen by disconnecting it. i rarely use it on another computer. i’d be interested in knowing how you set up that automation.

thanks

[Chris Newman]

just in case i may need to know…what is the PMU?