Moved My Soundcard And System Went Crazy? Options

[thegrapeguy]

I moved my ESI Julia PCI card to slot 4 in the Mac G5 which is the 133 MHZ slot. Previously it was in slot 3 which is the 100 MHZ slot. When I went to a Logic file and hit the play button (on a Mackie Control Universal) the display went crazy. New tracks created by themselves, the metronome started clicking erratically. I then called up a new Logic file and when I enabled a track to record I hit a note on my Korg Triton which is midied through a Motu Midi interface the track screens in Logic went CRAZY. The various windows in Logic started flashing rapidly and I couldn't even close the file. I went to "File Close" and that pull down menu was flashing in and out. The only thing I could do was hit "Control W" until all the windows went away and then quit the file.

Any ideas? Does the audio/midi cinfiguration have to be adjusted since I moved the PCI card to a different slot? And if so how do I do that? This is weird. Thanks in advance.

[lepetitmartien]

After moving a PCI card, reset the NVRAM (see my thread upon my G5 troubles) and depending of your G5 reset the PMU/SMU (or motherboard reset).

If your G5 is like mine of the models before the ones listed, unplug everything save the mains, touch the metal part around the PCI card apertures spaces to the outside. Unplug the mains and open the G5, remove covers alu and plastic, you may have to remove the "RAM" fan(s), search on the motherboard a tiny button, near the middle and at the bottom. press it ONCE (not twice!!!) and keep it pressed about 20 seconds. Once done, move back everything back, close the computer. Start up.

It forces the mac to check all its ports as a new thing.

Resetting the PRAM can be a good idea too.

If you have a multimeter, test in place (important) the lithium battery (on the motherboard) if it read less than 3.2V, change it, normal is 3.6V