Artifacts and firewire

[Jim Steele]

Build is Gigabyte GA-z77x-up5 th with Nvidi 560 ti graphics card.

None of the firewire ports work.  Does anyone have a recommendation for a firewire card that works with this MB?

Also, every several days I get a screen filled with little squares, mostly red.  I restart, the artifacts go away and don't come back for several days.  Occasionally, I'll see a random square on the monitor.  I move a window over it and it goes away.  Any suggestions welcomed.

thanks,

JIm

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[Kris Tilford]

> On Sep 19, 2012, at 6:56 AM, Jim Steele wrote:
>
> Build is Gigabyte GA-z77x-up5 th with Nvidi 560 ti graphics card.
>
> None of the firewire ports work. Does anyone have a recommendation
> for a firewire card that works with this MB?

I think you should be troubleshooting the built-in Firewire rather
than looking for a Firewire card. There have been some problematic
Firewire chipsets in the past, but that past has been gone a long time
now, and any modern Firewire chipset should be fully supported in all
versions of OS X AFAIK. I believe it's likely you've got a software
issue here, not a hardware issue. If it's a hardware issue, you've
probably got a bad motherboard problem, not an unsupported chipset.
Others with this same board are not reporting any Firewire issues in
OS X.

[mosslack]

On Sep 19, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Jim Steele wrote:

Also, every several days I get a screen filled with little squares, mostly red.  I restart, the artifacts go away and don't come back for several days.  Occasionally, I'll see a random square on the monitor.  I move a window over it and it goes away.  Any suggestions welcomed.

thanks,

JIm

Have you tried the latest NVidia drivers which Tonymacx86 posted about yesterday on his site? Worth a shot. 

http://www.tonymacx86.com/221-new-nvidia-drivers-fix-glitchy-fermi-cards-mountain-lion.html

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[pete...@cruzio.com]

> I think you should be troubleshooting the built-in Firewire rather
> than looking for a Firewire card. There have been some problematic
> Firewire chipsets in the past, but that past has been gone a long time
> now, and any modern Firewire chipset should be fully supported in all
> versions of OS X AFAIK. I believe it's likely you've got a software
> issue here, not a hardware issue. If it's a hardware issue, you've
> probably got a bad motherboard problem, not an unsupported chipset.
> Others with this same board are not reporting any Firewire issues in
> OS X.

Indeed.

I haven't seen ANY OS X/Firewire chip set incompatibilities in years and
years and years.

The early VIAs were bad news, but they got their act together.