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The "shared PCI/ISA" slot designation typically applies only to the ISA and PCI
slots which are immediately next to one another. The slot is shared because it is either-or. Either an ISA card can be instaled or a PCI card, but not both. Two cards cannot occupy the same physical slot space, where the "slot" refers to the opening on the back panel of the computer.. Before the computer industry declared the ISA slot obsolete (after over 20 years of life), the large majority of motherboards and riser cards has a shared slot. Rather than considering the potential issues with a shared slot, I would believe that somethng is quite wrong with the riser card hardware, from the symptoms described... Ben Myers On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:21:08 -0600, "Kevin Childers" wrote: "HH" wrote in message ... Kevin, I seem to remember that being the case on those older 2000s, 4000s and 6000s. HH "Kevin Childers" wrote in message ... "Eugene" wrote in message ... wrote: Eugene wrote: Yep, DP 2000's and 4000's, people would call me all the time after opening them up and putting them back together and I would tell them to smack the case right where the riser card is, they would laugh and I would tell them I was serious so they would set the phone down, a few seconds later I would hear a bang then a few seconds later the beep beep from a successful post and they would come back on the phone laughing even harder. Sadly neither reseating the card nor a thump has had any effect. I'm beginning to think the riser card must have problems as the machine works fine with cards in both ISA slots and a PCI card in the PCI/ISA slot. If the PCI card is then moved to one of the PCI slots on the other side it refuses to start. Move the PCI card back and it starts straight away. Regards, Alec move it and clear cmos, maybe some PnP settings are getting confused. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but on the older machines, weren't some slots shared? You could use most of them, but not all, at the same time? Try removing all of them and then adding them back in one at a time to see what might be shared with what. A bit time consuming, but as a last resort... KC So my memory isn't that bad, thanks for confirming that. Now if I could just recall which ones were shared. That would probably Alec a bit of time finding out through trial and error. Would you know or as always could you post the link to the exact answer at the Compaq Web site? BTW, this is not a Compaq unique issue. A lot of older machines had sharing of ISA/PCI/??? slots. The only ones I don't recall any sharing with was MicroChannel, but that design/technology didn't really make it commercially. Still just when you think they are all dead and gone some one hauls one in and ask you to work on it. KC |
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ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
... The "shared PCI/ISA" slot designation typically applies only to the ISA and PCI slots which are immediately next to one another. The slot is shared because it is either-or. Either an ISA card can be instaled or a PCI card, but not both. Two cards cannot occupy the same physical slot space, where the "slot" refers to the opening on the back panel of the computer.. Before the computer industry declared the ISA slot obsolete (after over 20 years of life), the large majority of motherboards and riser cards has a shared slot. Rather than considering the potential issues with a shared slot, I would believe that somethng is quite wrong with the riser card hardware, from the symptoms described... Ben Myers On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:21:08 -0600, "Kevin Childers" wrote: "HH" wrote in message ... Kevin, I seem to remember that being the case on those older 2000s, 4000s and 6000s. HH "Kevin Childers" wrote in message ... "Eugene" wrote in message ... wrote: Eugene wrote: Yep, DP 2000's and 4000's, people would call me all the time after opening them up and putting them back together and I would tell them to smack the case right where the riser card is, they would laugh and I would tell them I was serious so they would set the phone down, a few seconds later I would hear a bang then a few seconds later the beep beep from a successful post and they would come back on the phone laughing even harder. Sadly neither reseating the card nor a thump has had any effect. I'm beginning to think the riser card must have problems as the machine works fine with cards in both ISA slots and a PCI card in the PCI/ISA slot. If the PCI card is then moved to one of the PCI slots on the other side it refuses to start. Move the PCI card back and it starts straight away. Regards, Alec move it and clear cmos, maybe some PnP settings are getting confused. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but on the older machines, weren't some slots shared? You could use most of them, but not all, at the same time? Try removing all of them and then adding them back in one at a time to see what might be shared with what. A bit time consuming, but as a last resort... KC So my memory isn't that bad, thanks for confirming that. Now if I could just recall which ones were shared. That would probably Alec a bit of time finding out through trial and error. Would you know or as always could you post the link to the exact answer at the Compaq Web site? BTW, this is not a Compaq unique issue. A lot of older machines had sharing of ISA/PCI/??? slots. The only ones I don't recall any sharing with was MicroChannel, but that design/technology didn't really make it commercially. Still just when you think they are all dead and gone some one hauls one in and ask you to work on it. KC Ben probably is right on this, from the sound of it. Since it was from a skip(?) I assume that means it was being scraped, do what you can with it and just accept that you have a system that has few hardware capabilities that it's peers. What cards do you need to add to it? Perhaps you can use a combo card? KC |
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Kevin Childers wrote:
Ben probably is right on this, from the sound of it. Since it was from a skip(?) I assume that means it was being scraped, do what you can with it and just accept that you have a system that has few hardware capabilities that it's peers. What cards do you need to add to it? Perhaps you can use a combo card? The cards I wanted to use were modem, network, sound and video. The latter as it only has the standard 1Mb of VRAM and I have a 4Mb Millennium laying around. I'll use an external modem which will solve the problem. and forget about the two PCI slots. A skip is a large tank like steel container used to remove large quantities of rubbish, delivered and removed by lorry. Thanks to all who responded, much appreciated. Regards, Alec |
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Kevin Childers wrote: Ben probably is right on this, from the sound of it. Since it was from a skip(?) I assume that means it was being scraped, do what you can with it and just accept that you have a system that has few hardware capabilities that it's peers. What cards do you need to add to it? Perhaps you can use a combo card? The cards I wanted to use were modem, network, sound and video. The latter as it only has the standard 1Mb of VRAM and I have a 4Mb Millennium laying around. I'll use an external modem which will solve the problem. and forget about the two PCI slots. A skip is a large tank like steel container used to remove large quantities of rubbish, delivered and removed by lorry. Thanks to all who responded, much appreciated. Regards, Alec There are Modem-LAN Card Combos, I don't know of any for sound and video other than PBs and those were a proprietary oddity at best. There is the option of going with USB as well for the modem and LAN. Gee and I know of a skip as radio propagation, a small unit/group leader, ships captain, and my brothers nick name. Who say's you can't learn anything new about language. Thanks. KC |
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Kevin Childers wrote: Gee and I know of a skip as radio propagation, a small unit/group leader, ships captain, and my brothers nick name. Who say's you can't learn anything new about language. Thanks. You're welcome. Isn't there a saying about two nations separated by a common language? Regards, Alec |
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