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So, I know there are alot of topics here regarding USB Card Upgrades on these machines. But I am pretty sure I have read them all and none of them are helping me... So here it goes. I love this machine. I have a new PowerBook. But I cant get rid of this machine (I have alot of work on it and I just like the way it runs better then OSX). And up untill now I havent ever needed USB ports on it, but I want this snazzy keyboard and I just bought a new I-Pod. And now I do... That being said. Here is my problem.
The machine is a beige G3
Mac OS 9.2.1
Machine ID 510
Rom Version $77D.40F2
PCI Slots-
A-1 Firewire Card (which works great)
B-2 ATI Rage (Works Great)
B-3 In this slot I used to have a ATI Mach 64 which worked fine. But I took it out and put the rage in. When you look under System Profiler it still shows it being active in that slot. Which is is not......... Problem???
I got a Usb card from Staples, that even has the MAC logo on it. So I popped the side case off. blah blah blah. Installed it in the bottom PCI Slot. Restarted. I realize I dont have any USB Extentions. SO I go to apple support and Download what I assume to be the correct one... "USB Card Support 1.4.1". And ran the installer. Re-booted the machine.
"Error 11" "Hold down shift key to temp disable extensions".
OK, so I tried that. and it still gives me the same message... SO I took the card out. And it boots up fine. So it would seem that the issue is not the extension its the card, Right? Which is wierd because I have a FireWire Card in the top PCI Slot and it works fine. So I tried taking it out. And putting the USB Card in its place. No Luck there either.
When I boot back up without the card in and look under my extensions these USB related extensions are there.
USB Authoring Support 1.1.2
USB Device Extension 1.4.1
Mass Storage Extension 2.0.4
USB Mass Storage Support 2.0.4
USB Print Share 1.0.1
USB Software Locater 1.4.1
USB Support 1.4.1
This is all the Information I know to give you guys in here. I really hope someone can help me. My Frustration levels are going through the roof on this one. If Anyone does have a solution please be thorough. I know enough to work my way through stuff as long as I have all the info I need.... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER!!!!
-Mike

Welcome Mike,
Just to shuffle a little bit of common confusion out the door: the "built-in, soldered to the logic board, remove it and the computer's dead" ATI 64-bit graphics chip common to all Beige G3s is identified as "ATImach64" in Apple System Profiler (ASP). The confusion comes from the fact that ASP thinks there must be a PCI slot for this darned thing and makes one up, although it usually gives it an "F" slot, which we don't have.
However, the fact that you're seeing it in the "B" slot sounds like something a CUDA reset (as suggested) will eliminate.
Newer Belkin USB cards at Staples have gone from the OPTI chipset (bad for Beige) to the NEC chipset (usually good). However, there may be problems if it has more than two ports. It could be power draw.
The total power available to the Beige's three PCI slots is 45 watts. Period. The only way to exceed this is for one or more PCI cards to have an external power tap that wires directly to the power supply wiring harness. The only card I've seen with external power capability and is Beige-compatible is an ancient Apple FireWire card. This thing is so old that it only supports cameras--no external drives.
I've been frustrated in finding out the power draw of ATI PCI video cards. So, for planning purposes, assume that any video card will pull 25 W. That means that the other two cards must draw less than 20W combined. For a long time, we have suspected some Belkin cards of drawing more power than other USB cards.
I have a Macally UH2-222 three-port card (two external and one internal) that is USB 2.0/1.1 compliant. Works great. It's now discontinued and its replacement (UH2-222) is a 4+1 port card--untested in the Beige G3. However, if you do a Google Mac search for "UH2-222," you can still find these around.
Keep plugging away. We seldom have people strike out around here.
Allan
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