PCI Slot in Snow leopard

[iPsen]

hi there !

first thanks to improve experience for mac user

I have a ECHO MIA MIDI sound card plug by PCI in my computer / running on SL10.6 but she doesn't work...

I tryed to installe driver on ECHO's website for mac OSX but impossible to active sound in SL ! ( sound of my motherboard works well but i need professional card to work in accordance with my softare )

Also on Echo website, it's strangely notified Driver aren't supported by SL 64 Bit but I try to boot in 32bit ( with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] ) but nothing has been changed !

It's seems lot of hackintosh user met lot of issue with PCI port card therefore PCI is well implemented in MAC PRO no ?

I need help of community it's really important I need to solve it, it's the only point who doesn't work in SL

Thanks in advance

iPsen

[Gringo Vermelho]

The drivers you have downloaded are for old PowerPC Macs (G4/G5 etc) and will not work on your Hackintosh.

 

There are no Intel Macs with PCI slots, therefore nobody *officially* releases Intel architecture drivers for PCI expansion cards.

 

Intel Mac Pro's have PCI-Express slots, which is not the same thing.

 

This dude wrote a set of very nice sound card drivers specifically for Hackintosh use: http://www.audio-evolution.com/drivers/

I had the opportunity to test them with an M-Audio Delta 2496 PCI card in Snow Leopard, the drivers work well.

 

But there is no driver available for the Echo MIA MIDI, your best bet is a Firewire or USB sound card.

[iPsen]

The drivers you have downloaded are for old PowerPC Macs (G4/G5 etc) and will not work on your Hackintosh.

 

There are no Intel Macs with PCI slots, therefore nobody *officially* releases Intel architecture drivers for PCI expansion cards.

 

Intel Mac Pro's have PCI-Express slots, which is not the same thing.

 

This dude wrote a set of very nice sound card drivers specifically for Hackintosh use: http://www.audio-evolution.com/drivers/

I had the opportunity to test them with an M-Audio Delta 2496 PCI card in Snow Leopard, the drivers work well.

 

But there is no driver available for the Echo MIA MIDI, your best bet is a Firewire or USB sound card.

 

Thanks for reply man... I don't want to believe my echo will never work on my hackintoch ! I tried you driver envy but they doesn't work with echo mia midi

 

I'm going to buy a new card but for being honest, i'm poor and it's really expensive for somebody like me !!!

 

Cheers anyway

[edised]

Thanks for reply man... I don't want to believe my echo will never work on my hackintoch ! I tried you driver envy but they doesn't work with echo mia midi

 

I'm going to buy a new card but for being honest, i'm poor and it's really expensive for somebody like me !!!

 

Cheers anyway

 

I use a Gigabyte P55 UD3L board with PCI slot, and I run Snow Leopard on it, and I have a Motu PCI424 and UAD 1 legacy PCI cards working great !

I think as long as you get Universal Binary drivers you should be good to go.

But apparently there is no sign of your drivers being intel compatible.

 

One of my point about going the hackintosh route, was that I had 2 PCI cards that I couldn't use on current Mac pros, which meant upgrading to an Intel Mac meant upgrading my cards as well.

I made sure that my cards would work before building my machine, but luckily UAD and MOTU offer regular updates for their cards.

 

Maybe you could try to get a second hand Motu 2408 with 424PCI card for a good price, it works rock solid (how long will it be supported?). But I must say that if I had to invest in new converters I would go firewire, or even usb3(as it might more largely supported).