Computer PCI slot not working

[scracha]

Did you get this resolved? Try any other brand except Linksys as they are a steaming pile of $hite.

[Leyton]

any advice?

1, Clear the CMO's
2, Clear the NVRam Data
3, Try different slot
4, Try different card in slot
5, Try card in different computer

If 4 and 5 test ok, Reinstall Chipset drivers, If that fails, Nuke the bitch!


Warning!, If you have any raid adapters, you do not want to clear the NVData it will wipe the raid if the info is not held on the disks.

[Leyton]

Download any small Linux system,boot it, and do lspci && dmesg and have a good read.

Steve

That is a good idea!, And you can do the same with the same card on another computer to ensure its not your MB Playing up.

Do all the easy things first Like clearing cmo's

[Leyton]

Check that none of the PCI slots have been disabled

That is a good one, usually resetting the CMO's will help, the slots are usually enabled by default, so a reset will ensure to enable them if you can not find how in the cmo's setup. But yes you can on some boards turn slots on and off, and also force other settings upon those slots.

Have not done this in years!!! this is old school hehe

[The Pastor]

That is a good one, usually resetting the CMO's will help, the slots are usually enabled by default, so a reset will ensure to enable them if you can not find how in the cmo's setup. But yes you can on some boards turn slots on and off, and also force other settings upon those slots.

Have not done this in years!!! this is old school hehe

I dont know how to do that stuff, will give a go when i get home tho

[Leyton]

http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS
http://www.hardwarezone.com/img/data.../ResetCMOS.jpg



Ignore the part about configuring your bio's afterwards... pft.. rubbish, who does that these days :P 9/10 times. Unless your a hard core gamer

[The Pastor]

http://www.wikihow.com/reset-your-bios
http://www.hardwarezone.com/img/data.../resetcmos.jpg



ignore the part about configuring your bio's afterwards... Pft.. Rubbish, who does that these days 9/10 times. Unless your a hard core gamer

oic, i ran out of time last night so will give it a try tonight

what will resetting the bios do? I cant see how it might affect the pci slot?

[Leyton]

oic, i ran out of time last night so will give it a try tonight

what will resetting the bios do? I cant see how it might affect the pci slot?

It will reset any bio's settings relating to the PCI slot.

It is the single most easyest thing to do first besides testing the adapter card in other slots and other computers, and other cards in the suspect slot etc...

[Scouse]

card is fully in, i used the install disk before inserting card

this is were you fucked up you should always install your hardware before you install the drivers

[The Pastor]

this is were you fucked up you should always install your hardware before you install the drivers

thats not what the install guide said. Also the first card i did i read installed the hardware before the drivers.

[steve_t]

Yup. A LOT of hardware incl USB gear has a sticker on it saying to load the drivers first. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work and you do end up reloading the drivers again afterwards.
I have never heard of reactivating a dud PCI slot or resolving an IRQ with a CMOS reset so will follow this thread closely.
Good luck

[The Pastor]

Im prob just going to return the card and get a usb one if the reset of bios dosent do anything (i dont see how it would)

[mister.koz]

this is were you fucked up you should always install your hardware before you install the drivers

Yeah wont make much difference, the outcomes of installing the drivers before the card is that the card wont be identified with the drivers, it will still do the "adding hardware wizard" but simply get confused.

Also if you do install the software first it puts the driver information (card identifier etc etc) into the DID and windows will normal auto-install the driver based on the DID info.

I've done it 100s of times either way.

I would suggest that your MB might have an older bios that can't identify with the card.

Always have your IRQ's etc set to auto - tweaking pci settings is for people with LOTS of time and hair to pull out.

Leyton's got some good points.

Failing what others have said here:

1. add remove programs>remove the installed drivers, this wont actually remove them but it will simplify things.
2. power it down and take the card out
3. go to the gigabyte site and find a tutorial to install new bios firmware
4. restart the computer at least once after installing the new bios
5. shut down and put the card in
6. power it up and see if its there
7. failing that do the linux thing someone mentioned - it WILL tell you if your motherboard recognises the card and do a better job than windows - you don't need to install it or change anything, it will boot into a full operating system from the CD - http://www.knoppix.org

If you really get stuck and want to try the linux thing but don't know how, give me a PM and we can arrange a time where i can talk you through it on the phone - after downloading and burning its a 10 minute phone call.

Linux doesn't need a driver to see and identify with the card, only to use it. Unlike windows.

Its possible that the card was a dud out of the box - only way to test it is to put it into a different program.

Its also possible the your motherboard PCI controllers are burned - only way to test is to chuck another PCI card in the computer.

(ps, sorry about all the acronyms - its the nature of the beast really)

[scracha]

Ok geeks, enough about $20 wifi cards.

$hitey @cer laptop (what else could it be). Vista packs sad. UBCD4win runs OK. KSpeeddisk Ok on drive. Memtest86 packs sad after about 10 minutes (test 4). Removed faulty sodimm. Ran memtest86. Test 4 packs sad after about 10 minutes. Removed other faulty sodimm. Replaced with new one. Ran memtest86. Test 4 packs sad after about 10 minutes.........you get the picture. Knoppix runs OK.

Suspect faulty video card. Any easy way I can test the card?

Ever heard of Memtest86 giving false positives?

[Leyton]

I is a g33k, and I dress funny

It can be memory voltage issues. It can also mean and more likely doomed MB, it could also be incorrect bus speed set for the ram if your board is that tweakable.

But if the video apears ok, and memtest fails.. its like WTF... . It is likely to be the mainboard. Good luck!

P.S, I always wanted to try that with the qouting system