PCI cards, iMac and Final Cut Express HD

I recently bought Final Cut Express HD for my iMac and I was pretty sure that i met all the requirements. It will not install and keeps crashing on my computer. I need some help. I look under my mac hardware and I have listed under graphics ATY,RadeonX1600 and quartz extreme is supported. There is also under Bus: PCIe. Final Cut Express HD requires an AGP or PCI Express graphics card compatible with Quartz Extreme. I do not know this technical stuff. I need help please. 1. Does my computer match this already? 2. if not what do i need to get to make this work?
My iMac is an early 2006 one of the first intel core computers with a 1.83ghz if that helps at all.
Thanks,
Bridget

How much RAM you got in that puppy? I'm not sure if the first Intel Macs came w/ 512 RAM but if they did you might need to upgrade in order for it to run properly. I would make sure you had at least a gig and try the re-installation techniques as suggested. Tiger by itself needs at least 512 and Final Cut requires the same so RAM might very well be the issue. I personally re-install from the OS up when I get a new version of software and this is especially true when upgrading from a PPC to Universal app. and I do this all after zeroing out and refomatting the drive if it hasn't been done yet (when I first received the computer).

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