PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) is an element for connecting peripherals to computers based on the IBM PC architecture.
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what is the difference in PCI “type” between these PCI cards?
The PCI cards happen to be different colours, so let's call them the black one and the green one. (i'm guessing the colour is just coincidence?!).
I have an old computer that takes the green PCI ...
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mSATA drive swap for Wireless card
I was doing some cleaning of my older Acer Aspire 3860 laptop and noticed that my wireless card looks alot like an mSATA drive. I have not been inside laptops too often (clean, add RAM) but never ...
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Computer does not start when PCI NIC is inserted
I have a old computer where I put in a PCI NIC I had lying around.
When the card is plugged in, the power button does not do anything. i.e. the computer does not start.
if I pull the card out again it ...
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LBA48 PCI Controller Card to use +137gb drives
I currently have in my possession an old tower with an Asus motherboard that only has lba28, and am wanting use larger drives than is supported by lba28 (much larger).
My question is, can I use an ...
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How does Ivy Bridge improve NorthBridge performance? [closed]
I've read that some North Bridge features will be included in CPUs, and that PCI Express 3 support has been added to Intel's Ivy Bridge.
What are the features that Intel's Ivy Bridge adds when ...
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Will Sandy Bridge's support four PCI 16x slots be double the performance of two PCI 16x slots? [closed]
The ASUS Rock X79 has 4 PCI lanes running at 16x. They report that two PEX 8747 switches are used to achieve this.
Assume I add high end video cards to each PCI lane running at 16x. Where will the ...
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In the output of lspci -vv, what do the Region lines mean?
I have the following output from running lspci -vv -s 00:00 on my single board computer running Linux.
07:05.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (Rocket) (rev 03)
Subsystem: Adaptec ...
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PROFIBUS card from a Virtual Machine
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I have CP5613/CP5614 PROFIBUS card. I created a virtual machine with virtualbox. I used PCI passthrough to give exclusive access to that guest operation system(WinXp+STEP7). However, card can be ...
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PCI address mapping mechanism
I want to understand how the PCI addresses are mapped to RAM addresses. I am using the below configuration on my board:
Intel Sandy Bridge Processor
Intel X79 Chipset
As per the specifications of ...
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How can I get the PCI port type?
Does anybody know how to get a PCI bus speed from the device manager. I have a hardware device, a frame grabber, that must be plugged into the right slots for maximal performance. I am trying to ...
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Is PCI x16 and PCI Express 2.1 same?
My Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-MA74GMT-S2. It is written that PCI slots are
1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16
1 x PCI Express x1 slot
2 x PCI slots
And I see one Graphic Card which is of ...
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How to determinate how much bandwidth is being used in a PCI express slot?
I want to know if it's possible to measure how much bandwidth is a device, connected to a PCI-E port, is using. Not necessarily in real time, it can be logged.
I would like to know if something using ...
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Should I insert my video card at PCIEX4 or PCIEX16?
I have motherboard GIGABYTE GA-H77-DS3H and video card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 660Ti.
When I place it in PCIEX16 I have no video signal and motherboard makes 1 long and 2 fast beeps (which means video ...
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Laptop with two variants, identical motherboards: Graphics card addition possible?
Ok, I know a gazillion people have asked countless times about the possibility of adding a graphics card to a laptop, but this one has a twist:
I got a Samsung NP300E5Z laptop recently, and the ...
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Detect PCI vs. PCI-E - linux shell
I have remote access to a computer, and I need to find out what kind of expansion slots is has, if they are PCI, or PCI-E, or something else. How can I do this from a shell? What commands are there ...
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New Graphic Card Not Working
I bought a new graphic card for my PC, before I had a 8400GS and now I've bought a VTX ATI 5450 card, however, after installing it, my computer stopped booting and made a clicking sound through the ...
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Is it possible to operate 2 PCIe SSDs in RAID 0
I've seen some PCI SSD cards at attractive prices and staggering performance (1GBps).
I've got my data on a 4 disk RAID 5 and enjoying the ~360MBps read speed.
I'm considering speeding up the system ...
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Bandwidth of PCI SATA card VS built-in SATA
I have an older HP DL 380 G4 server that I want to utilize as a NAS. Currently it has 6 Hot Swap drives coming in at a measly 36.4 GB each – not exactly a ton of space.
It does have a PCI slot ...
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buying a preassembled system with many PCI slots [closed]
I want to buy a preassembled system with as many PCI slots (the original PCI, or something backwards compatible like PCI-X, not PCIe) as possible. Without going to manufacturers' websites and checking ...
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Are all PCI cards the same size or less than a particular size?
If many different cards fit into many different laptops, is that because they are all of approximately the same size? Or of exactly same standard size? Or how does it work?
Or am I mistaken in ...
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Will mPCI cards work in a PCI slot?
I have a really old computer that I'm turning into a pfsense router. I'd like to add wireless support. The pfsense docs suggested I get a card like this one.
Will this mPCI card work in my old ...
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Graphics card compatible with my motherboard's PCIe capabilities [closed]
I'm working on segmentation of 3D volume images on CUDA, and I want an Nvidia graphics card with Computer Capability over 2.0 and 2 GB of memory. I currently own a 9400 GT with Compute Capability 1.1 ...
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Where do SATA drives get their power when using a PCI SATA controller on oler PCs?
I've been looking into PCI SATA controller cards online for an older PC and noticed that the ports only have the SATA cable connector and the Power supply does not have the SATA power connectors.
I ...
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How are PCI/PCIe BARs configured to access memory on the device?
In my previous question, I established that the memory address used by PCI/PCIe devices does not have to mapped to system RAM, but could also refer to "on device" memory, e.g. RAM or registers.
But ...
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Clarification of the difference between PCI memory addressing and I/O addressing?
Could someone please clarify the difference between memory and I/O addresses on the PCI/PCIe bus?
I understand that I/O addresses are 32-bit, limited to the range 0 to 4GB, and do not map onto system ...
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Do PCI / PCIe buses and devices always enumerate in the same order?
I am looking into a situation where there are multiple, identical (National Instruments) PCIe DAQ modules in a PCI/PCIe chassis, connected via either a single or dual chassis controller. In the worst ...
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Multiple sound cards of the same brand? [closed]
I wish to build a home media server, which i am already half way through creating an application to stream media to different outputs. For the setup of the PC, i need 5 outputs in total (possibly one ...
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PCI Tv Tuner not receiving signal
I inherited an Angel II PCI Dual TV Tuner card, popped it into my computer's PCI slot, plugged in my coax cable, but am having trouble getting any type of signal to it. The computer I am using is ...
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Virtual Machine with support for hardware access: USB 3 (and PCI)
I am in the process of selecting a VM-software.
I have a requirement of accessing a custom USB3 device in a VM (Windows 8 64bit guest, host is Windows 7 64 bit). From what I read, VMware would be the ...
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Does adding an adapter to “convert” ports slow down the transfer rate?
I want to add an eSATA port and am looking at Internal SATA to eSATA II External and PCI controller to eSATA. Are these solutions slower than if the motherboard has eSATA (or any other port for that ...
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Getting a PCI-E card and onboard video to work for a triple monitor display
my computer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220026
I upgraded a few years back to a nvidia 9500 GT (isn't much, but it gets the job done)
I recently received a third monitor ...
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How can I find a driver for a DVR capture card with 4 ports?
I have a capture card, and the only things I can read from it are: 10104 on the board and Techwell TW6802 on the main chip.
I can't find a working driver anywhere.
I can accept any solution. I've ...
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What are PCI and PCI Express slots used for?
I'm comparing different Micro-ATX motherboards for a home server build and I was wondering what I would use PCI and PCI Express slots for?
Are these used for hard-drives, GPUs, RAID controllers, RAM ...
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Firewire via PCI, PCI-X or PCI-E
I have read up on this and sadly, have gotten some contradicting information.
My issue is, my firewire units 'complained' when plugged into a PCI interface and requested they go direct into the board ...
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How to force display through PCI video card when onboard graphics is not working?
I have an old motherboard. The problem is that its on board graphics is not working. The motherboard does not detect PCI video card automatically. I have to change primary video adapter to PCI from ...
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PCI Expansion card resource allocation by a Plug-and-Play BIOS
Plug-and-Play BIOS spec says that if you have a PnP BIOS, it can configure the hardware.
This means that your BIOS reads the resource requirements of all devices and configures them (allocates ...
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Get video from DVR PCI Card
I am trying to get the video from a cctv camera using this card. I thought each input would simply appear as a direct show device but it doesn't.
I'm using windows 7. Anyone know how I can get this ...
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Settings up multiple monitors from dual VGA card?
I really need help with this. I recently installed a dual VGA graphics card to my 'Packard Bell iMedia B2218 UK'. My computer installed all the drivers automatically and after restarting I checked my ...
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Unexpected shutdown due to PCI card
I've got a home theatre PC which I built myself and have been using for about 4.5 years now without issue - the only components that have ever needed replacing have been the case fans. Recently, I've ...
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PCI vs. PCIe wireless network card
I currently have a PCI 802.11n wireless network card (TP-LINK TL-WN951N 300M). Would a PCIe network card improve 1. download speed and/or 2. range (i.e. the bars that windows shows when talking about ...
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feasibility of PCIe16 and PCI digital display cards together?
I want to run two digital display cards. I have an Radeon 5450 which I believe is PCIe16. I have only one PCIe16 slot. If I buy a second digital display card, it would have to go into a PCI slot, of ...
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Optiplex 760 + Legacy Rage XL PCI card + Windows 7 x64 = startup issues…?
When this card is in the system, I get no beeps, no display, no "POST" things occurring...
It's obviously a legacy / old card from year 2000 so not sure if it's bad or what.
I know I've used it in ...
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Can I expand my storage options with a PCI-E card in a PCI slot?
I have an Intel D945GCLF2 running headless Ubuntu which I use as a fileserver. I currently have a 4 port PCI SATA card plugged into it which has 4 disks attached. They're running software RAID 5 which ...
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What kind of PCI slot is this and what video card can I use?
I tried an AGP card, but it was a little too small. So what PCI slot is this?
Can I get a graphics card that fits there that does not need a power supply?
Would one of these work?
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PCI-X card controlled by VM
I have a PCI-X card which I would like to assign to one of my VM guests.
I am using Ubuntu 10.10, with libvirt and kvm.
Is there any way, of completely bypassing the host system, and routing all ...
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connection can-bus to pc with pci
Hi all I need answer if this is the same PCI as this
On the second product it says PCI/104 and I am not sure if this metal layewr that needs to be outside will fit on this board?
If not can you see ...
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What is the difference between 64-bit PCI slot and PCI-X slot?
I need to identify what kind of slots are available from my computer based on the shape of the slot. So far, I can easily tell the difference between 32-bit PCI and PCIe slots but I am having problem ...
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PCI Graphics Card prevents post
I bought a Quadro4 400 NVS (4 screen) PCI Graphics card many years ago and still works in every computer i try but not my new one.
My new pc is a Intel Atom D525MW with 4GB of ram.
As soon as i ...
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PCI Cards and Adapters on a laptop [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Adaptor that allows me to use a PCI card via a USB connection
I recently purchased a Tascam PCI-822 from eBay. This is a PCI card with a TDIF interface that interfaces ...
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Is there a PCI card with a MIDI port?
Does anyone know of a PCI card that I could install in my desktop that would give me a MIDI port?
Would it need to be a full sound card, or could it just be a dumb object? The distinction I'm making ...
