SoulThought
New Member
All:
I have been having problems loading 3 uad-1's, 2 Powercore MK2's and 1 Powercore Element in my Magma (PCI 7RX - 7 slot version) with my G5. I SPECIFICALLY purchased the dual 2ghz G5 that does NOT have the AMD 8131 chip - the one with 3 pci slots only, no PCI-X.
All, 6 cards in = crash upon start-up, grey screen of death, That configuration looked like this:
uad-1
uad-1
uad-1
empty slot
pc MK2
pc MK2
pc Element
That configuration being unsuccessful, I decided to load one by one. Cards are listed in order of closeness to the PSU/PCI interface card for G5.
pc mk2 (all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1 (all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2 (all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2
uad-1 (all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2
uad-1
pc element (dvd drives opens by itself at startup - but, all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2
uad-1
pc element
uad-1 (only 1 uad-1 is recognized, two appear non existent)
So i decided to swap the element card with one of the MK2's, keeping in all 3 uad-1's: crash upon startup - grey screen of death.
So then I removed the last uad-1 card:
pc element
uad-1
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2 (all cards recognized)
so I swap around the uad-1 cards in the 5 card configuration (always leaving one uad-1 out), all cards recognized. I add in the 3rd uad-1 card again in the above configuration: crash upon startup - grey screen of death.
I'm curious to learn if anyone else has had this problem. I'm thinking it's a PSU issue? That being said, shouldn't the magma PSU be able to handle the above card configuration with no problems? Or could it possibly be a PCI band-width issue?
ANY thoughts at all would be appreciated?
I have been having problems loading 3 uad-1's, 2 Powercore MK2's and 1 Powercore Element in my Magma (PCI 7RX - 7 slot version) with my G5. I SPECIFICALLY purchased the dual 2ghz G5 that does NOT have the AMD 8131 chip - the one with 3 pci slots only, no PCI-X.
All, 6 cards in = crash upon start-up, grey screen of death, That configuration looked like this:
uad-1
uad-1
uad-1
empty slot
pc MK2
pc MK2
pc Element
That configuration being unsuccessful, I decided to load one by one. Cards are listed in order of closeness to the PSU/PCI interface card for G5.
pc mk2 (all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1 (all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2 (all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2
uad-1 (all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2
uad-1
pc element (dvd drives opens by itself at startup - but, all cards recognized)
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2
uad-1
pc element
uad-1 (only 1 uad-1 is recognized, two appear non existent)
So i decided to swap the element card with one of the MK2's, keeping in all 3 uad-1's: crash upon startup - grey screen of death.
So then I removed the last uad-1 card:
pc element
uad-1
pc mk2
uad-1
pc mk2 (all cards recognized)
so I swap around the uad-1 cards in the 5 card configuration (always leaving one uad-1 out), all cards recognized. I add in the 3rd uad-1 card again in the above configuration: crash upon startup - grey screen of death.
I'm curious to learn if anyone else has had this problem. I'm thinking it's a PSU issue? That being said, shouldn't the magma PSU be able to handle the above card configuration with no problems? Or could it possibly be a PCI band-width issue?
ANY thoughts at all would be appreciated?