[Karl Hirsch]

Hi there Wayne —

THANK YOU SO MUCH for your thoughts on this, I really appreciate you putting in the time. Well, the very first thing I did was revert to 10.5.5, and things are much better. Still a little laggy sometimes, but not a big deal, and certainly nothing like it was before.

ECC and non-ECC is, sadly, pretty greek to me… I asked for 16gb and that’s what they gave me. Is there a way to find this out in the System Profiler, or do I need to physically look at the RAM inside to figure this out? How does one tell the difference? Or, based on what I’ve said about me, should I just take it to another shop and ask them to check it out for me?

thanks again!
k

[Karl Hirsch]

Wayne… Guys…

OK… so I just got a Mac Pro 2×3.2 Quad-core w/16GB RAM, I am running 10.5.6, and have a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT and Kona LHe. A post-production mac vendor even put it together for me, because I wanted to avoid precisely what’s happening now… Everything is running SLOW, considerably slower than my G5 Dual-2. And when I say everything, I mean everything, not just FCS2. Just opening FCP with a brand new project (i.e. nothing in it) takes a few minutes… which it shouldn’t… the finder, google, finding this forum… ALL SLOW. I can work, but it’s rather annoying and I want to try to fix it.

I am wondering if there’s something I’m supposed to change in the System Preferences, or any general settings that maybe the vendor missed.

Wayne, you said something about pulling RAM. Do you think that might apply here?

Thanks for your help…!

k