Blackmagicdesign DeckLink Series - Installing a Decklink Pcie Card in a Power Mac G5

Previous DeckLink Cards– Installation & Setup
67
Count the number of memory slots
Verify the Model Name is “Power Mac G5”
Count the number of ethernet ports
Installing a DeckLink PCIe card in a Power Mac G5 with PCIe slots
Power Mac G5 computers with PCI Express (PCIe) slots
The Late 2005 generation of Power Mac G5 computers introduced a PCI Express (PCIe) bus. PCIe slots are
physically different to earlier slots and do not provide backward compatibility. PCI and PCI-X cards cannot
be used with PCI Express slots. DeckLink PCIe cards are fully compatible with PCI Express slots.
Which PCI slots are in my Power Mac G5?
Go to the Apple menu and choose “About This Mac”. Click on the “More Info” button and the System
Profiler will open. Click on the Hardware category in the Contents pane and the Hardware Overview will
appear in the right pane. Verify the Model Name is “Power Mac G5”.
Under the hardware category, click on Memory. The right pane should show the number of memory slots
in the Power Mac G5. If only four memory slots are displayed, the Power Mac G5 contains PCI slots and
cannot be used with DeckLink cards. If eight memory slots are displayed, the Power Mac G5 contains either
PCI-X or PCIe slots. Eight memory slots are pictured here.
If the Power Mac G5 contains eight memory slots, check whether it has one or two Ethernet networking
ports. If your G5 is in a location where you cannot physically see the Ethernet ports, click on Network in the
Contents pane of System Profiler and the networking ports will appear in the right pane. If one Ethernet
port is displayed, the G5 contains PCI-X slots. If two Ethernet ports are displayed, the G5 contains PCI
Express slots. Two Ethernet ports are pictured here.
You can confirm your model of Power Mac G5 online by copying & pasting your G5 serial number,
from the Hardware Overview information in System Profiler, in to the “Find by Serial Number” field at
http://support.apple.com/specs. Then review the resulting information in the section “PCI expansion”.