ATI Card power problem

Hi all, I just bought my Mac Pro, got the stock 2.66 then added more RAM and an ATI card at the Apple Store and an extra hard drive. Now I was told by the Apple guys that they would install the ATI card in the top slot and pu the 7300 card in the bottom slot.
So I get home and plug in my machine and I get an error message that my video cards power supply is not properly plugged in and I need to replug it in.
I checked my system info and it turns out the top slot is still the nvidia card and when I plug my monitors into the bottom one (the ATI card) it only supports one of them.
So when I get back into the country (I am in mexico on business) I plan to call Apple but I was hoping someone on here could tell me if this is something I can easily do myself? I really want to use the ATI card I payed for as my primary video card.
Thanks in advance!!!
-Stephen
2.66 Mac Pro; Powerbook G4 17in Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Well, got home and checked and sure enough the cord is not only not plugged in but it isn't even there! Called Apple and after getting them to understand my MONITORS where plugged in (They seemed to think that was the problem) they connected me to a Mac Pro "expert". He didn't have any ideas and said I probably needed to just take it back to the apple store I bought it from and ge them to plug it in.
So tomorrow its off the genuis bar to try and convince them to just plug the ATI card into the power source!
I am wondering now if anyone has experienced this or if anyone has the ATI card in their Mac Pro do you have it plugged in or not? THe apple care people told me it shouldn't need to be plugged in so I am curious now if its my machine or the ATI card...
2.66 Mac Pro; Powerbook G4 17in Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Originally posted by rooster098
ive been reading through these pages and it cant really make head nor tail of the info regarding ati cards.
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ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon 9500 Pro"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Last edited by The Orange Peanut (2008-04-08 21:51:43)

I had this on my desktop - I had switched from ATI to NVIDIA and as a result, all my 3d/videos kept freezing or crashing - turns out it was a conflict with the libGL libraries. I had some wrongly-linked files left over.
You could try removing mesa (which shouldn't be on your system), and reinstalling the nvidia driver, and checking the system for any stray libGL.so.* libraries.

Bootcamp, XP, ATI card & Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl

I recently purchased S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl to play on XP on my Mac Pro
While I've read LOTS of posts on other sites about how buggy this game is, my concern (and my reason for posting here) is that the game seems to push my ATI card to the limit. The fan is on full blast, and the temp soars into the high 90s (I have ATItool monitoring the GPU temp in XP).
Now, I've played hours of Doom 3 and never had this problem. My question isn't about the game itself so much (it seems to have enough issues of its own) - but really - are there others who are having cooling issues with this ATI card? Is the Mac Pro case design not right for it? Is there some other option to help keep the temp down on this card? What should I do? I want to play this fantastic game, but I don't want to melt my ATI card!!
Thanks in advance for any thoughts...

Hey there,
I too just recently got S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and I run it on my Mac Pro via Boot Camp and an ATI X1900.
Honestly, I haven't got into it very far (busy playing Bioshock....), and I don't have ATITool or similar way of checking GPU temps (but I think I will just to make sure), but I don't ever recall my ATI card going full blast with the fan cooler during gameplay. But it dose rev up real loud when I first boot my Mac Pro. I definitely hear it then; like a shop vac or something.
I believe I push my card pretty hard. It's overclocked (from Apple's spec's anyway...) via firmware and I run Bioshock at 1900x1200 with all settings at max for hours at a time and I never hear my card sound like it does when it first boots.
However, once I saw my Northbridge temps rise up to 170F in OSX. Scared the bejesus out of me. Since then, I use software to jack up the speed of the front fans and now my NB temps don't ever get much over 120F. I'm sure this helps the ATI card also.
That, and I regularly use canned air to keep dust from building up on the card. The X1900 seems like a sticky magnet for dust....
Hope that helps.

URGENT: Can (no) Fan tray in a 6509 cause power problems?

All,
I'm about to install a 6509-E with two 10/100/1000 Blades and two SUP2's (running cat6000-sup2k9.8-1-3.bin)
They're all brand new. With the Enhanced chassis they ordered the wrong fan tray and as I write a courier is bringing over the correct Fan Tray within 2 hours. The config must be up and running by tomorrow morning and as my schedule is very tight I wonder if I still can make it. Besides that I want to check if all blades are responding well.
Problem is that the line cards are not booting in any case, the supervisors does! Do not worry about the heat; a powerful airco is blowing enough cooling through the chassis and the system is powered off after a few minutes.
The errors spitted out after boot and when entered when powered on:
**** elbid_get_common_idprom_size error
**** elbid_get_common_idprom_size error
**** elbid_get_common_idprom_size error
**** elbid_get_common_idprom_size error
failed to read serial eeprom of linecard in slot X.
%SYS-1-MOD_PWRSPROMFAIL:Power mgmt sprom failure for module X
Console> (enable) sh mod
Mod Slot Ports Module-Type Model Sub Status
1 1 2 1000BaseX Supervisor WS-X6K-SUP2-2GE yes ok
3 3 Unknown Card power-bad
4 4 Unknown Card power-bad
Is that typical when booting with no fan tray? Or are the two line cards DOA?
On the CCO you find:
SYS-1-MOD_PWRSPROMFAIL: Power mgmt sprom failure for module [dec]
Explanation: This message indicates that a serial EPROM read on a module has failed; [dec] is the module number. The module is powered off.
Recommended Action: Contact your technical support representative
That really helped me a lot!! Doh!
So my only hope is the Cisco Forum, meaning YOU guys!
I hope someone provide me an answer within 2 hours because if they will be DOA I can blow off the migration.
Thanks in advance!
L.

Hi :
It appears that the card is not supported in the code you are running. Could you quickly tell me the part # of the card. I am suspecting you have the new WS-X6148A-GE-TX ( notice the A ) , that card is supported in 8.4(1).
Check the release notes.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/relnotes/ol_4498.htm
The message says that the system is unable to read the idprom on the line cards and the reason for that would most likley be the lack of support in that code for that line card. Fan tray being hot swappable suggests that the cards should atleast be detected even when the fan tray is not there.
Hope this helps .
Salman Z.

Anyone have an ATI card that can confirm if QuickTime H2.64 works?

Can anyone that has an ATI card (not nVidia) running on Windows XP and DirectX 9 confirm that QuickTime movies encoded in H.264 play inside a browser without crashing the browser?
For me and many others, QuickTime movies that are encoded in H.264 and embedded into web pages are crashing the browser when trying to view. I am trying to determine if my nVidia card (nVidia drivers) are the source of the problem or if it is DirectX 9 or just simply the latest QuickTime version.
Also, is there anyone with an nVidia card on Windows Vista (DirectX 10) that can confirm if QuickTime H.264 movies work inside browsers?

I should know by Saturday when I install Nvidia 8600 GTS under x64 version how it works - though I must say that everything I've been reading doesn't convince me it is a wise idea to install QuickTime under Vista x64 just yet. :-<

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