Steve Boultbee
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Since your current card is the nVidia GeForce 6600, that means you have a PCI-Express G5, and you can use the ATi X1900, not the X800.
Make sure you get the X1900 G5 Edition (aka X1900GT) and not the X1900XT – the XT only works in a Mac Pro.
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These cards sound like they’re system pulls from the Late 2005 G5s which also had PCI-Express graphics. If that’s the case, these cards won’t work in a Mac Pro. The ROM on the card is designed for booting in a G5, and the Mac Pros use an entirely different booting method.
The Quadro was offered for the Mac Pro as well, so it’s possible to get one that will work. So if you go that route, verify that it came out of a Mac Pro and not a G5.
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New production runs of the Mac ATi X800XT were recently completed. You can find the X800XT for sale at various retailers such as OWC.
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/100435338/
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[Borjis] “ok it happened again.
man its really hard to see exactly which LED it is since the Dimm brackets are in the way and the front grill for the case is next to that.
anyway, right next to the LED it says: “LED 804″
and it appears to be just under the top dimm”
OK, I verified the location of this LED on my Quad. This LED (#2 in the Apple KB article I linked to earlier) is also labeled as the “overtemp” LED.
It’s basically telling you that one of the CPUs has gotten too hot. You can monitor the temp of the CPU cores with something like Hardware Monitor (or Hardware Monitor Lite – reports temps in your menubar, so it’s really easy to see). The iStat Pro widget is also very good for this.
When was the last time you checked the fans and CPU radiator for dust? It’s possible that too much dust has gotten on there and is blocking the air flow. It’s also conceivable that you’ve got a bad sensor or a bad CPU.
The Apple service manual for the G5 says to check to airflow and the fan and sensor connectors. Next, it says to reseat the front inlet fan, run the Thermal Calibration in Apple Service Diagnostics, and replace the processor. Obviously, most of this is to be left to AppleCare, since you’re still covered by it.
You can try running the Apple Hardware Test to see if it comes up with any errors. It’s on the install DVD that came with the computer. Boot the machine (with the disc in the drive) holding down the Option key until you get a list of bootable options. One of those is the hardware test. It can take quite a while before you’re able to start the test, so be patient. Expect the test to take a few hours if you have a few GB of RAM.
Generally, if the computer gets into an overtemp situation, it will sleep for a while to cool off. There should be entries in your system log with something similar to this: “Thermal Manager: max temperature exceeded for 30 seconds, forcing system sleep” or “Thermal Manager: Thermal Runaway Detected: System Will Sleep.”
In any event, if it’s not simply a blockage of airflow, you’ll probably need to take it in for service.
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[walter biscardi] “Actually, anything under $500 for video production is dirt cheap.”
Very true. I was thinking not so much in terms of absolute cost as I was thinking of the fact that a 9800 Pro is four year old technology. If it were a PC card, the same thing would cost between $50 and $100. The PCIe cards for the Mac Pros and the last G5s aren’t much more expensive than the 9800 for a G4!
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Unfortunately, ATi is no longer making the 256 MB version of the 9800. They did just begin a new production run of the 9800 Pro, but it’s a 128MB edition. Should still be a lot better than your current card.
It’s about $240, so it’s not cheap. https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/video/hardware/
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Which LED is on? Several of the diagnostic LEDs on the Late 2005 G5s are red.
See this KB for more information: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302527
If you list which LED it is, I can look up a somewhat more detailed description (compared to the KB) of what the problem is when I get home.
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[Borjis] “Samah can you confirm if you have pci-x or pci-e slots?”
Currently, the Intensity card won’t work in a G5 with PCIe slots, so it’s not an option anyway.
Blackmagic says that the PowerPC PCIe systems will be supported in the future for the Intensity cards, but who knows when that will be. I believe they’re saying it’s an Apple issue that needs to be resolved.
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[Jon Zanone] “Now, I still have to pay taxes on this, right? Anyone have a link to the IRS explaining this? It’s going to come out to around 9k – I’m sure Uncle Sugar will want his cut, no?”
As stated by others, you are required to pay income taxes on the amount you earn from this organization.
As an independent contractor, you’re also required to pay the employer’s and employee’s shares of the social security and medicare taxes, which you’ll pay through self employment tax when you file your 1040. Those come to 15.3%, although you do get to deduct half of the self-employment taxes as an above the line deduction on your 1040.
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[Jerry Hofmann] “2. You can’t capture to prores unless you have an intel mac… Apple suggests a quad in fact. Power PC machines aren’t up to the task.”
According to Apple’s Final Cut Studio System Requirements, “Capturing HD resolution video using the ProRes 422 format requires a Mac Pro with an Intel Xeon processor or a G5 Quad computer and a qualified third-party capture card.”
The ability for the G5 Quad to capture ProRes was added in the 6.0.1 update, I believe.