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will all PCI express cards work in a mac pro tower when running XP?


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we have a project coming up for which we need to use a PCI Express frame grabber card, the IDS Eagle Quattro Express, eg here...

 

http://www.ids-imaging.de/frontend/catalog...=22&nav2=69

 

This card has no mac drivers, but we are considering trying to install it in a Mac Pro Tower running Windows XP. Is there any reason that this wouldn't work? Will the EFI BIOS of the Mac be a potential issue? As far as I know, bootcamp installs a legacy BIOS emulator, so it "should work". Just curious if anyone here has had direct experience installing any unusual cards in a mac pro tower which dont have any mac drivers.

 

The reason we want a mac pro tower for this project instead of just buying a PC is that the project is for a short term installation and after that, a mac pro tower is more useful to us as a Final Cut Studio render machine than a PC tower is.

 

Any help appreciated.

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