" I read on another help page that a fix for this problem is the following:

The solution requires that you download Apple's CHUD tools, which are available from
ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Tool_Chest/Testing_-_Debugging/Performance_tools/CHUD_3.0.0.dmg.bin
After installing CHUD, go to System Preferences, open the "Hardware" pane and turn off "Nap".

Apparently this option turns off the G5's ability to use processor idling, eliminating the beeping noise.
Hope this helps those with the problem. I don't have any such problem with my dual processor 2.0GB G5.
Wayne S. "

I've had several G5 owners reply to this post saying disabling Nap mode does stop the beeping noises they heard before.

" Just got the 2x2 set Processor Performance to "highest" in Energy Saver. Now I am hearing a steady sound, a little faster than once per second, coming from the very bottom of the computer. It is underneath the cavity for the RAM and Processors, so I can only assume this is the power supply area. Its kind of like a fast electric pulse. The scary part is that this sound goes away if I change Processory Performance to "automatic" or "reduced" (actually its still there you just have to put your ear against the very bottom of the cheese grater to hear it.)"

Again I do not hear this (so far at least) with a Dual G5 and ES settings set to highest performance.
There's also some comments on noise that some say affects audio/speakers such as this thread titled "Hi-pitched buzzing noise".
I'm not sure how common this is but if any G5 owners want to comment on this let me know your G5 details and configuration. Thanks.

(Note there's no USB 2.0 (speed) support in OS 9.x and the past tip now in the FAQ on USB card problems with 9.2.x with legacy macs may be worth checking.)

" SIIG Firewire + USB 2.0 + Ethernet Adapter PCI Card: Report 2

I got this same care for my 9600 with OS X 10.2.8...
Swapped my Belkin firewire card out...
Got ethernet with the Realtek drivers...
Plugged my isight into the firewire connector and the system froze...

Rebooted with the iSight plugged in... System froze with kernal panic...

Rebooted without the camera plugged in,... System was fine until I plugged iSight into the firewire connector...

Rebooted into OS 9.2.2 with the Realtek drivers already installed... NO ethernet.
-- Ed S."

A Beige G3 owner wrote:

" After reading your reader report on the SIIG FW/USB/NIC PCI card (JU-2NE012) , I figured it was finally time to upgrade my beige 300MHz G3 Tower (running Mac OS X 10.2.6). I went to CompUSA and purchased the card for $40 as the report indicated.

I installed the card and USB keyboard and mouse worked great. Didn't try firewire (yet). I was mostly interested in getting 100Mb ethernet working.
I downloaded and installed version 1.1.3 of the RealTek driver, but after clicking "Fix and Use" (after installing the kext), the USB (on the card) mouse and keyboard froze before I could configure the ethernet.

I had to unplug the USB kbd and mouse and use ADB keyboard and mouse for the driver to not freeze and show up in the network prefs panel. I configured it, and plugged the USB mouse and keyboard back in, and they all worked.

The G3 showed up in rendezvous. Then I tried copying a large 640 MB file to this Mac and it consistently froze after writing 10 or so MB of data.

This driver does not seem very reliable and I had to revert to the onboard 10Mb ethernet card. I am still using it with my USB keyboard and mouse. I will try firewire soon.
(Just occurred to me, I could use IP over firewire to connect to my other mac while the 10Mb goes to the cable modem, but I would still prefer a 100Mb ethernet LAN connection; thats why I bought this card)
- Doug"

An 8500 owner wrote:

" Hi Mike, I noticed you mentioned a reader's report on SIIG's FW/USB2/100BaseT 3-in-1 card, and I wanted to share with you my experience using the card in my Power Mac 8500 (upgraded with an XLR8 G3/400 at the time) half a year ago. My 8500 already had 2 PCI slots occupied by a Sonnet ATA/100 controller and an ATI Radeon (original) so having a 3-in-1 card seemed like an excellent solution.

Basically, I was able to get everything to work, albeit with several caveats. The caveats were significant enough that I decided to pull the card out of my 8500 and replace it with a regular SIIG FW/USB2 2-in-1 card.

Essentially, Firewire, USB 2.0 and ethernet all worked fine under OS X. Under OS 9, USB worked as I had expected (I knew USB2 drivers for OS9 were nonexistent and expected USB1.1 speeds), ethernet worked OK (you have to do some basic hacking with the Realtek OS 9 drivers (instructions are in the Realtek download), but the Firewire had issues which would corrupt my external Firewire hard drives as soon as I connected them to the card.
I was able to workaround the Firewire hard drive corruption issue by chaining a Sony DVMC-DA1 DV converter to the end of my Firewire chain, but I was not very fond of the prospect of having my hard drives being corrupted so easily (especially if I happened to forget to power up the DVMC). I also found out that the performance of the 100BaseT ports using the Realtek drivers was actually slower than my 8500's built-in 10BaseT port when doing local network file transfers in both OS 9 and OS X.

Given the age and limitations of my computer, I never bothered testing the sleeping features of the card - I was just happy to get the card working. Thanks for your site, BTW.
Michael "

" The German Magazin CT which for my money is Europes best computermagazin, because you can't buy great reviews with ads has compared the different 64bit chips on the desktop market. On of the test was a test with a not yet released version of cinebench (CT does have there connections) that passed the 500 mark with 504.
Considering that Maxon had hoped to reach the 500 mark with the final version, 504 is very good. Especially because Maxon thinks they might be able to squeeze more out of the machine then they have finished the optimization. The website is www.heise.de/ct but the benchmarks can only be found in the magazine it self.
-Jan B. "

Dual G5s typically score about 403 as noted on my previous Dual G5 tests page, benchmarks section.
I wrote Maxon to ask if about the status of a G5 optimized version of Cinebench and they replied:

" I'm not sure where that was printed, but C4D (Cinema4D) has not yet been fully optimized for the G5. I believe there are "some" improvements, but there is still more development to be done.
Regards,
Paul Babb
MAXON Computer, Inc. "

• Giga Designs G4 1GHz (at 1.2GHz) in (sawtooth) G4/AGP (rated 10)
• Other World Computing G4 1.4GHz in (Digital Audio) G4/AGP (rated 8)
• Powerlogix G4 Dual 1GHz in (Quicksilver) G4/AGP (rated 1)
• Powerlogix G4 Dual 1.2GHz in G4/AGP (rated 5)
• Powerlogix G4 Dual 1.2GHz (set to 1.3GHz) in Dual G4 (rated 1)
  (My full reviews of G4 and G3 upgrades w/apps/game tests, install info, etc. are linked here.)

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DVD+R/RW + DVD-R/RW Drives:
• Firewire (IDE drive in FW case) TDK Indi440N used w/G4 Cube (OS X)
  (said that 10.2.8 added native burn support?)
  
  DVD-R + DVD RAM:
• Firewire (IDE drive in FW case) Panasonic LF D521 used w/Powerbook G3 2000 (OS X) (no itunes/db burn support)
  
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• IDE Western Digital WD2500JB 250GB in 95/9600 using IDE PCI card (OS X)

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