>>This is because they are selling an OLD design and they refuse to >>update that design. (And it needs to be updated, IMHO) > >>Since the G5's with PCI-X have been out for years, UA should have >>designed a newer card to work with the new G5s or offered a Firewire >>UAD-1 bridge..... or something. > >Hi Jonathan > >You obviously sound really pissed off with this situation. And I >can appreciate that, but the truthful answer here is that the AMD >chip is at fault. It is the faulty component. The UAD card will >happily run in a PCI or PCI-X slot assuming that the slots and >computer they are in comply with the intended specification. PCI-X >Mac's used the AMD chip. It is a faulty component. Even AMD admit >this. As others on this list have mentioned. AMD offered an updated "fixed" chip to Apple, which for some reason, Apple declined to use. HW