[G4] upgrade or buy new mac?

[John Niven]

I have some (developing) interest in ProTools.

I have an Audiomedia3 pci soundcard.

Digidesign are VERY specific about what
hardware/software is compatible.

Somehow I don't think they have tested your old
hardware with a CPU upgrade!

If you look on their website you will find lots of
info about what s/w, os, hardware combinations are
approved.

I am using a G4 dual 450MHz tower, with ATTO UL3S and
SCSI drives, for this reason. I'm running 10.3.9 but
had to experiment with versions of quicktime and
iTunes to make it still work with the Audiomedia 3 and
ProTools LE 6.2.3.

I cannot now upgrade anything without breaking my
working combination! A good example of LEM, cos it's
still a very usable tool, which would cost a lot to
replace!

John

--- arlen tackett <arelsongs at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Can I turn a single processor machine into a dual
> processor machine?
> my machine: Sawtooth AGP 400 256 ram. that's what it
> was when I got it, now it's  1.6Gig Processor, 1664
> Ram, SATA 80 Gig (on a pci card), and the OS is on a
> 60 Gig ribbon drive. I run Pro Tools recording
> software on it and it drops out (sometimes) I've
> tweaked it and it still drops (sometimes) the error
> message is 6106 (too much for the CPU basically). it
> is proven that the old 100 bus can handle the
> software if there are two processors. 
> Thanks ! 
> Great Forum!
> Arlen



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