" Mike, MDD Dual 1.25 FW800 connected to LG 1980Q flat panel and Mistubishi Diamond Pro 2040U CRT.
I received my ATI 9600 Pro from OWC on the first day of delivery after a three week wait. It replaces a 128mg 9000 Pro retail card.

I installed it six times before it finally fired up. How hard I pressed to seat it did not seem to make any difference. I was getting pretty tired of connecting and reconnecting all the cables (got lots of firewire and USB peripherals attached -including five printers)

Anyway around the 5th try I left the screw out. When I connected the two monitors it giggled the card somewhat to the side -fired up and voila the displays were recognized. (I asked without the AGP slot retaining tab/lock, does screwing the card down cause it to be canted up any bit at the rear of the card connector? I also asked if she could compare the card thickness to another video card. Ideally measuring with a pair a calipers would be best but I'd be curious to know what even a visual comparison side by side shows.-Mike)

I shut down, put the screw in, crossed my fingers, reconnected everything ?all is well everything is running with no problems since. However, I do not look forward to the prospect of opening up the box for any other upgrade for fear of the connection shorting out.
-Diane P "

I don't think it would short out but it could open up (lose contact) based on what you saw installing it.
If any 9600 Mac/PC edition owner can compare the board thickness to another video card that works OK (consisently) let me know if the 9600 card is thinner. Also let me know if cleaning the contacts helps and check to see if the card looks to be fully and evenly seated all along the AGP mating connector length.
(Many years ago there were problems with some CPU upgrade cards for older PCI (CPU card slot) macs, where one of the keying slots in the board edge connector was on the narrow side of the tolerance and didn't allow the card to fully seat.)

" I installed the 9600 Mac/PC into a 1.25 Ghz MDD with 1.75 GB Ram, running 10.4.2. I purchased it to be able to run a 30 inch ACD. It worked out of the box but I did notice a few things while testing things out.

"Enable GFT Modes for CRT" needs to be left checked. If not checked, digital artifacts show up as white pixels various places only on the 30 inch screen. This morning when starting up I noticed the artifacts and, sure enough, that option had unchecked itself. (don't know how that happened)

Adding even a 3 feet extension cable causes all sorts of grief, rendering the display barely visible. Even though the dual-link DVI standard calls for 15 feet cable lengths the 30 inch ACD is stuck at the standard 6 feet.

When I try to play certain videos using QuickTime and set them to full screen the movie jumps over to my secondary 20 inch screen. I have to use VLC to get these videos to play full screen on the larger monitor.

Having a 30 inch monitor and a 20 inch monitor is better than having a 20 inch monitor and a 17 inch monitor. :-) So all in all the card makes me very happy.
- Sam "

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DVD+R/RW + DVD-R/RW Drives:
• IDE Pioneer DVR-K05 in iBook G4 (OS X 10.4)
• IDE Samsung TS-H552U in B&W G3 (OS X 10.4)
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• IDE PCI card connected LG CRD-8521B (52X) in 9600 (OS 9.1)
  
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