News for Saturday, 15 March 2008

The second card of the series9xxx of NVidia has started to be released.

It is almost identical to the 8800 GTS 512 MB since its GPU is only 25 MHz faster and that the memory has gained 100 MHz.
It has a ROM of 128 kB, it is just like the GTS usable in the Mac Pro Rev 2.
Its price on the other hand is likely to accelerate the output of the 8800 GT and GTS.

Airport 5.3.1 utility has a bug. It has a hard time to see the old base stations g. Usually it just ignores them, making access and configuration of the base station impossible. If you make an initilisation of the base station, it just makes things more complicated since it resets it to the factory default and then it can not be regulated.
Since we lack confidence in the Apple updates, we have duplicated version 5.3 before the 5.3.1 update. We have put it on our servers after the reports of our readers, and await for Apple to find a solution.
Utilitaire AirPort 5.3.zip
Attention, it works with Leopard. We do not know if it works with Tiger.

Many users have told us that they have met problems with their Mac Pro rev 2 and the memory. Up to now there have not been this type of problem. It is simply that the order of installation of the memory cards has changed for the Mac Pro rev 2, and if you do not respect these rules you will have problems concerning the recognition of memory. Thus here, pulled from the documentation of these machines is the order to follow:

If you have only two memory cards, you must put one in the top riser and one in the bottom. as with the ancient Mac Pro. Beyond this, things change. It is necessary to put your pairs of cards side by side, and not distribute them on the two connectors.
Thus, another more visible example, if you have 3 pairs of cards, you will put two of them 2 in the top and only one in bottom.