RE: OT Are there any special settings in a Dell Optiplex Gx150 tower that enable pci slot 3 or

Some motherboards double-connected some PCI slots to special built-in
components, such as a UDMA 66 or AGP/VGA controller. Dell’s are notorious
for many PCI and/or BIOS-related problems. Check your manual to see if
those slots are reserved for something else.

Greg

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Hi all,
Are there any special settings in a Dell Optiplex Gx150 tower that enable
pci slot 3 or 4

I know the cards we are trying to use in the PC all work correctly, but fail
to work if inserted into pci slot 3 or 4

Hence my question

thanks

Robert Fernando
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Amazing.

I suspect Asus is a more trustworthy platform producer then Dell :slight_smile:
Asus mobos often put PCI slots on one PCI bus, and onboard PCI stuff - IDE and USB - on another.
So, no such problems.

Max

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Subject: [ntdev] RE: OT Are there any special settings in a Dell Optiplex Gx150 tower that enable pci slot 3 or 4?

> Some motherboards double-connected some PCI slots to special built-in
> components, such as a UDMA 66 or AGP/VGA controller. Dell’s are notorious
> for many PCI and/or BIOS-related problems. Check your manual to see if
> those slots are reserved for something else.
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Fernando, Robert
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:02 AM
> To: NT Developers Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] OT Are there any special settings in a Dell Optiplex
> Gx150 tower that enable pci slot 3 or 4?
>
>
> Hi all,
> Are there any special settings in a Dell Optiplex Gx150 tower that enable
> pci slot 3 or 4
>
> I know the cards we are trying to use in the PC all work correctly, but fail
> to work if inserted into pci slot 3 or 4
>
> Hence my question
>
>
> thanks
>
> Robert Fernando
> Anite Telecoms Ltd
> 110 Fleet Road
> Fleet
> Hampshire GU51 4BL
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0) 1252 775200
> Fax: +44 (0) 1252 775 321
> Email: xxxxx@anitetelecoms.com
>
> Anite Telecoms Ltd, Registered in England No. 1721900 Registered Office:
> 100 Longwater Avenue, GreenPark, Reading, Berkshire RG2 6GP, United Kingdom
>
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It all depends on what exactly you mean by “fail to work”.

  • boards are not detected by windows?
  • detected but driver fails to load?
  • driver loads but the device returns errors?
  • driver loads but hangs the machine?
  • something else?

> Are there any special settings in a Dell Optiplex Gx150 tower that enable
> pci slot 3 or 4
>
> I know the cards we are trying to use in the PC all work correctly, but
fail
> to work if inserted into pci slot 3 or 4
>
> Hence my question
>
>
> thanks
>
> Robert Fernando
> Anite Telecoms Ltd
> 110 Fleet Road
> Fleet
> Hampshire GU51 4BL
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0) 1252 775200
> Fax: +44 (0) 1252 775 321
> Email: xxxxx@anitetelecoms.com
>
> Anite Telecoms Ltd, Registered in England No. 1721900 Registered Office:
> 100 Longwater Avenue, GreenPark, Reading, Berkshire RG2 6GP, United Kingdom
>
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“Ntdev Reader” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> It all depends on what exactly you mean by “fail to work”.
> - boards are not detected by windows?
> - detected but driver fails to load?
> - driver loads but the device returns errors?
> - driver loads but hangs the machine?
> - something else?

In my case, windows didn’t detect the board. There was no opportunity for
the driver to load.

Phil