Looks like the PCI Express wave starts to break on the shores of the PC industry around the end of June. I'm looking to upgrade my 1999 Abit BH6 system (Celeron 1.2Ghz, GeForce 3) this summer... been so long since I climbed aboard the bleeding edge that I can't resist :-D I love the small form...

This is about PCI Express x16 slot compatibility... Does anyone know if there are any limitations of the PCI Express x16 ports that are shipping on desktop motherboards? For example, I get a Motherboard that has an Intel 915 chipset that has: 1 - x16 PCIe slot 1 - x1 PCIe slot 2 - legacy 32-bit...

Hello, We have developed a hardware driver for a pci device. Does anyone know how to access the JTAG port of a pci device via hardware driver and software? Thank you for answers, Matthias

Hi, I'm a PCI newbie. I'm reading through the PCI spec and am a little confused about the capacitance requirements. It says that the max loading for any signal on an add-in card is 1 load, and the max load for any signal on the system bus is 10 loads. So, I'm confused he if we plug the add-in...

How can I force PCI slots to have separate interrupts? On an older Intel 915 based motherboard there used to be BIOS options (i.e. PCI Slot1 IRQ Priority) for this. On Intel 945 and Intel 965 motherboards this option is not present. Does anybody know if I can use the PCI BIOS Function (0xb1),...

How can I force PCI slots to have separate interrupts? On an older Intel 915 based motherboard there used to be BIOS options (i.e. PCI Slot1 IRQ Priority) for this. On Intel 945 and Intel 965 motherboards this option is not present. Does anybody know if I can use the PCI BIOS Function (0xb1),...

Hi there, Abit AN8, AMD3200+, 2Gb, Bios AN820, My PCI slots used to work ( 1 year ago) but I haven't used them for a while. Now when installed my soundcard, XP doesn't find it. I have tried the soundcard at a different computer, and it worked. I have also tried with 3 different PCI-network...

Are the PCI subdevice and subvendor IDs for various chipset components programmed into the chipset, or are they programmed into an external EEPROM? For example, I have an ECS motherboard with an SiS 746/963 chipset. The USB 1.1 (SiS 7001) and 2.0 (SiS 7002) controllers in the southbridge are...

Just found this PCI-E USB3.0 Card is good price, it supports all USB compliant data transfer types. 'Link' (http://tinyurl.com/38usm5k) -- zakumi

I'm having trouble setting up my Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe; no a priori reason to believe it may be defective. I'm connecting an AMD64 X2 4200+, with 2GB of DDR400 RAM (two pairs), and a PCI-E x16 video card with chipset nVidia (GeForce 6600 LE). The thing won't boot, with beep code: long - short -...

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1585024,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532 Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)

Hey all, I'm trying to get back up to speed with current technoologies. One thing I am a bit muddle on yet is the new PCI-X or PCI express bus, that newer motherboards are coming out with. I know some general info about it, but I would love to find some good articles somewhere on the net to give...

Hi Gurus, I have an IBM ThinkPad T21 Laptop (Pentium III-750Mhz) running Windows 2000. Using serial port COM1 at 115kbaud, it experiences CE_OVERRUN errors from ClearCommError in the Win32 API. This indicates that the serial port is losing bytes due to a FIFO overrun in the 16550-compatible UART....

hi.. my pci card works fine in pci and pcix mode in almost all the sysytems except one or two sysytems where i've a problem during boot up in a pcix system when i put my card which is pcix capable... when my card operates in pci mode then it comes up nicely...but when i try to bring it up in pcix...

I have an old motherboard equipped with an Intel 430HX chipset. According to the User's Manual, it accepts Pentium processors up tp 200 MHz. I want to find a used 200 MHzprocessor with the lowest power consumption. What Pentium should I look for? What are the markings that allow to recognize...

It is Thanksgiving and I see a lot of desktop computers at Best Buy and the like with pretty much Pentium 3.0ghz only on the shelves. I am excluding AMD at this time. Do you think that the stores and Intel are trying to get rid of 3.0ghz units for the next wave of perhaps 3.2 on the shelves since...

Hi, I have currently a system on a ASUS P4S8x-x motherboard maximum FSB 533Mz. I have 1GB RAM and a P4 2.4Gz (Northwood) processor (overclocked to 2.7Gz) with WinXP Professional. I want to upgrade my processor to a Pentium 4 (Prescott) 2.8Gz with FSB 800Mz. What are the implications of using a...

Looks like Intel's dual-core P4 processors will be codenamed Paxville and Dempsey. Yousuf Khan ----- http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Aug/bch20040817026514.htm quote Again, AMD is setting the bar for future processor technology, but this time

I have a pentium4 3.06 mobile cpu 533 bus 512k cache with a ASROCK P4i45GV mainboard. I am only able to get the cpu to run at 1.6ghz. It does not have speedstep tecgnology is there someway of getting it to run at 3.0 ghz. Thanks.

Hi, I just got an intel pentium 4 processor 2.4 Ghz 533 MHz FSB, but my motherboard supports up to 400 MHz FSB. does anyone of you know if I can plug it considering a downgrading of FSB to 400 MHz in the processor, or just the system crashed? Thank you