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Points: 3760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/27/2008 at 8:50am
The Bad Adapter RAM error message means the computer isn't configuring the card properly (since we know the card actually doesn't have Bad RAM since you can use it in the G4). 

This has to be a problem with the expansion chassis since that is the unknown variable at this point.  Do you have a way of running the expansion chassis on a Windows machine (just to double check)?
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Points: 29 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/27/2008 at 7:36pm
David,

Thanks for your reply. I can run the chassis from Parallels on the Mac. I am not sure if that's the same, but it is worth giving it a try. Do I have to flash the card with any Windows firmware? Or can I leave it as is? Is there any software to install on the Windows side?

Thanks!
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Points: 3760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/27/2008 at 8:12pm
The card should already have Windows firmware on it (that is the 'W' in the firmware number).
Parallels isn't going to work since that isn't a real copy of Windows.  You would have to do Bootcamp or try it in a PC.
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Points: 1 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April/19/2009 at 6:03pm
hi there - wondering if there was ever any progress with this? i seem to be experiencing an identical issue and i fear i might be at a dead end as well

any assistance would be greatly appreciated

thanks in advance!
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Hi supporting team,
 
I have just bought the latest Mac Pro using Mac OS X 10.6. I came across the same situation after installing my Build 49 driver. The OS can recognize my LynxTwo-C card with no audio driver installed. The OS also show that my PCIe to PCI bridge expansion card hardware works well. However, I can't load the LynxTwo Utilities as the OS tells me that it finds no driver. I am greatly eager to acquire the support here. Please help!
 
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I forgot to tell that I installed the driver and tried to load the LynxTwo Utilities in 32bit Kernal MacOS X already but not 64bit. It still fails.
 
On the other hand, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate in my Mac Pro. Similarly I tried to install the latest Windows driver for my audio card downloaded in Lynx webpage. Before installing any driver, the Devise Management showed an unknown Multimedia Audio Controller. After installing driver, it showed an exclamation mark on the LynxTwo-C devise within Sound, video and game controllers. I could not load the lynxtwo mixer as it showed no installed driver.
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Hello,
Do ou know if your Magma chassis has the Pericom clock chip, or Cypress? Pericom still does not work, and the behavior you describe would be normal in this case. Is there a tower computer that you can try installing directly into just to make sure that the LynxTWO is OK?
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Points: 27 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/03/2010 at 5:41pm
Hi! Thanks to your reply and following up.
I have used my LynxTwo in a PC with PCI slots and installed with WinXP for over 8 years. It works normally so far.
Hope you can click it and find out what I am using for my LynxTwo-C.
 
The following are the features of this adaptor card in English :
1. 5Gbps @ direction2; support PCI 32bit 33MHz
2. PCI Express 1.0
3. PCI 2.3 standard
4. support PCI slot (3.3V/1A、3.3Vaux/100mA、5V/5A和12V/500m)
5. Powered by 4-pin electric connector (12V or 5V)
 
The Mac OS X and Windows7 in my Mac Pro can regconize this PCI-E to PCI bridge and show in Device Management. Moreover my Mac OS X can show my sound card, however, with no audio driver installed even if I have installed it.
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On the other hand, I can't directly plug my LynxTwo onto this adaptor card. Otherwise, the two ports of my sound card can't show out thoroughly at the back of my MacPro case. As a result, I use the following PCI 32bit extension card to conect my sound card with my adaptor card previously shown to you.
 
 
Here are some of its features in English :
1. 32bit 5V 66Hz
2. Designed in high speed, high frequency and high impedance
3. Transfer rate : 66 MB/s
2.
 
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Points: 27 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/03/2010 at 8:05pm
My adaptor expansion card supports both PCI Express 2.0 and 1.0.
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The item 'PCI Cards' of the System Profiler in the MacOS X shows the following:

Card                        Type                            Driver Installed      Bus       Slot
pci-bridge             PCI-to-PCI Bridge      Yes                          PCI        Slot 4
pci1621,22            Audio                            No                           PCI        Slot 4@5,0,0

As I click pci-bridge, the following is shown underneath :
Vendor ID : 0x10b5
Device ID : 0x8112
Revision ID : 0x00aa
Link Width : x1
Link Speed : 2.5 GT/s

As I click pci1621,22, the following is shown underneath:
Vendor ID: 0x1621
Device ID : 0x0022
Subsystem Vendor ID : 0x1621
Subsystem ID : 0x0022
Revision ID : 0x0000
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Points: 3760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/04/2010 at 6:57am
You would need to look at the kernel.log to see what the driver won't load.  Look for messages starting with ">>> LynxTWO.kExt". 

Remember that Build 49 of the driver only supports the 32-bit kernel, so you must be running the 32-bit kernel to even try to load it.
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Points: 27 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/04/2010 at 7:33am
So far I tried to install and use the driver in the 32-bit kernel but it still fails.
 
Should I look for messages at the kernel.log after I installed the driver again?  I tried twice and failed and hence I uninstalled the driver already. Where is the file kernel.log? Need I search it? Thanks
 
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Points: 3760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/04/2010 at 7:38am
Yes, the driver must be installed and running a 32-bit kernel to see the messages in Console.

Applications > Utilities > Console.
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Points: 27 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/04/2010 at 7:39am
According to the information in the System Profiler shown, shall you reject the possibility of any bad contact within the connections between cards and slots such that I need to unplug and reconnect again?
 
IMO, this possibility should be very low.
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Points: 3760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/04/2010 at 8:16am
I would more likely suspect that the adapter in question simply doesn't work properly at speed (for DMA transfers).
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Points: 27 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/04/2010 at 8:34am

According to this link : http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2005/june/index5.html

do we need to set the PCI Latency in a Mac Pro? If we need to set after the driver is successfully installed, how to set it in a Mac Pro?
 
(This question may not be related with my current problems.)
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Points: 3760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December/04/2010 at 8:53am
There is no way to change the PCI latency on a Mac Pro.  It wouldn't matter for this anyway.
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