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Don Murad


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Power Mac G3 (Blue and White): Can I upgrade to USB 2.0?
Posted: Jul 29, 2007 6:03 AM 		 

I have a B&W G3 (300 Mhz) and a slot loading iMac ((600Mhz) both running 10.3.9. My daughter is looking into buying an iPod Nano which requires USB 2.0 How do I know whether either machine is USB 2.0 compatible ? If not can a USB 2.0 card be installed ?

thanks

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Texas Mac Man


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Re: USB 2.0
Posted: Jul 29, 2007 6:47 AM   in response to: Don Murad 		 

Currently you only have USB 1.1. To get USB 2.0, you need to install a USB 2.0 PCI card. However, not all USB PCI cards work in a Mac. Best bet is any card with a NEC PD72101 chipset (xlr8yourmac results recommend the same).Read this for more feedback:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/firewire/fw_usb_card_deep_sleep.html

All of these Cards are NEC chipset based
Adaptec 3100LP
BAFO BF-460
Belkin F5U220
GWC UC-160
IOGear GIC250U
Keyspan U2PCI-5
O'toLink U2-C2B
O'toLink U2-C2A
O'toLink U2-P20N
O'toLink U2-P50
Ratoc PCIU5
USBWholesale UII-PCIP

 Cheers, Tom

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Grant Bennet-Al...


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Re: USB 2.0
Posted: Jul 29, 2007 10:30 AM   in response to: Don Murad 		 

Tom (Texas Mac Man) has given you good advice above.

USB 1.1 (what you already have) should function correctly, if you are willing to live with the connection being a little slow. USB 2.0 is supposed to be completely backward-compatible, but is not nearly as fast.

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Don Murad


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Re: USB 2.0
Posted: Jul 29, 2007 1:59 PM   in response to: Grant Bennet-Al... 		 

Thanks for the information. Question answered !

B&W G3 rev1 300Mhz      
Bill W


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From: Kingwood, Texas
Registered: Aug 3, 2000
Re: USB 2.0
Posted: Jul 30, 2007 10:44 AM   in response to: Don Murad 		 

A minor point of clarification. The USB 2 PCI card can be installed in your B&W only; you are stuck with USB 1.1 on your iMac.

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