300 watt power supply for G4?
I'm sure I'm the thousandth person to buy Motion to run on my G4 "Saw tooth" AGP that discovered it won't load becuse of the video card. Eventhough I upgraded the video card (and the processor, and drives, and memory)to run FCE HD 3.0 it apprently doesn't do the trick for Motion.
After looking at the recommended video card list harder this time, I decided the ATI Radeon 9600 Mac & PC 256 mb card would fit my budget.
Of course, the specs on the card say it requires a 300 watt power supply or more, and of course, my internet search so far has turned up NO direct power supply replacements for the 208 watt PS that came standard in my model.
It seems a bit strange posting a hardware question on the Motion board but I thought perhaps some one out there had fought this question to the gorund before and hopefully won.
Can anyone tell me if they have either successfully upgraded the power supply (in a G4 AGP power mac - tower case) ORIf they have installed and run the 9600 mac & pc card with no problem on the 208 watt Power Supply.
I called ATI to no avail. I got to talk to a "parrot" who had absolutley no concept or technical understanding and couldn't understand to go ask his boss about it.
I do have an electronics background.
Ken
Power Mac G4 AGP Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.2GHZ, 1.28 gig ram, 300 gig in drives
After looking at the recommended video card list harder this time, I decided the ATI Radeon 9600 Mac & PC 256 mb card would fit my budget.
Of course, the specs on the card say it requires a 300 watt power supply or more, and of course, my internet search so far has turned up NO direct power supply replacements for the 208 watt PS that came standard in my model.
It seems a bit strange posting a hardware question on the Motion board but I thought perhaps some one out there had fought this question to the gorund before and hopefully won.
Can anyone tell me if they have either successfully upgraded the power supply (in a G4 AGP power mac - tower case) ORIf they have installed and run the 9600 mac & pc card with no problem on the 208 watt Power Supply.
I called ATI to no avail. I got to talk to a "parrot" who had absolutley no concept or technical understanding and couldn't understand to go ask his boss about it.
I do have an electronics background.
Ken
Power Mac G4 AGP Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.2GHZ, 1.28 gig ram, 300 gig in drives
