PCI slot utility on Macpro

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PCI slot utility on Macpro

Hi everyone,
I'm looking for this small utility there was with Tiger where you can set the rapidity of your graphic cards. I have 3 cards with same power on each (I configured it with Tiger), now that I have problems with real time preview under DVDSP on my screens, I think it could be something like coming from my cards but I can't find this soft anywhere to change thoses ettings… is it working differently on Leopard?

Macpro 2.66 + MacBookPro 2,16+ G4 dual oldschool, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 5, 2007 5:02 AM

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Answer 1

Fortuny

Level 7

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Nov 5, 2007 5:09 AM in response to Samuel Bester

Hi Samuel,

I admit I haven't looked at it in Leopard, but the Configuration Expansion Slot Utility should be located on your Mac Pro at: /System/Library/CoreServices/.

Regards

Stefan

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Answer 2

Nov 5, 2007 5:41 AM in response to Fortuny

HI!
thanks for your quick answer! It's there also on Leopard! I was looking in the wrong Library. What strange is that spotlight is not finding anything, I typed all different kind of word "expansion" "slot" "utility", nothing, prefernces in spotlight are all checked… strange (Address book is kind of blind too…) doesn't matter my problem is solved, thanks!

best from Marseilles!

sam

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Answer 3

Fortuny

Level 7

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Nov 5, 2007 5:56 AM in response to Samuel Bester

Hi Sam,

strange enough indeed...

Glad that I could be of help.

Have Fun and thanks for the star.

Stefan

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Answer 4

The hatter

Level 9

61,031 points

Nov 14, 2007 4:09 AM in response to Fortuny

Something is wrong with ESU, though. I changed cards and it degraded one card seriously so I fully expected it to launch. Did not!

Booted Tiger, launches automatically just fine. Which was actually odd, as I had set the changes (in Leopard) and it acted like it had the same old configuration.

Do both systems store information differently? I'd think it went into NVRAM.
So I thought I'd test this further.

I made changes in Leopard, but when I booted into Tiger it asks again.
I manually had to launch the utility in Leopard both times.

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Answer 5

Nov 16, 2007 2:52 AM in response to The hatter

Hi!
I didn't had this experience but I do had problem witj ESU not recording the settings I made. That was because I made a copy of the utility in my application folder that wasn't a good idea: it's not working elsewere when you copy it and you can't make an alias from it.

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