when in doubt, check your leads...

[coius]

I had been having a heck of a time getting several cards to work in my PowerMac 9500. No amount of arrangement could get them to work, until today and just now.

I had a Radeon 7000 PCI 32MB that I had been trying to get to work, a USB 1.1 card that was old and I threw in it, and an ethernet card that didn't work, but was supposed to.

No matter what i did, i couldn't get it to recognize it. The only thing I could get to recognize was the original video card (XCLAIM 2MB) that came with the machine. I sat down and pondered and looked over the cards until something came to me as I was inspecting the slot edges and components.

They all had a little bit of worn dirt in it (like over time it builds up). So I quickly grabbed an erasure and cleaned off as much as I could. All I had left was the gold contacts shiny and bright. I popped them into the machine and low-and-behold, THEY WORK!

So this is a little bit of a tip. If you have a PCI Card that refuses to work, the first thing to do, it take an eraser and get the dirt off the slot. That should fix any dirt problems you have

Good Luck!

 

[benjgvps]

Thanks for the tip! I also am an owner of a Radeon 7000... I was overcharged for it though paid for it... I was on my etower at the time and I needed something to work with my shiny new 19 inch wide screen LCD. Great card though!

 

[Christopher]

I have had issues with the video cards that have the ADC power slot that plugs in, make that is pushed in on your G4's if video doesn't work because I have had instances where that whole back panel the cards screw onto bend slightly and loosen the cards.