PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) is an element for connecting peripherals to computers based on the IBM PC architecture.
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Can two Identical devices be present on the same bus in any PCI Topology
As per the PCI standard, devices are identified on the basis of Vendor Id, Device Id and the bus no. All devices of same type have identical vendor id and device id. If I put two such devices on the ...
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Does PCI bus really occupy 1.8GB
I am using a Dell Vostro 1700 laptop which currently has 2GB of RAM. I was considering buying some more memory to upgrade it to 4GB. I am running 32 bit Windows Vista and I know that there can be ...
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Drivers not installing and drives not being recognized
Dell optiplex 755 running win7-32
Two problems, not sure if they're related
1: Two drivers are missing when viewing device manager, PCI serial port and PCI Simple Communications Controller, I've ...
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Recommendation for PCI SATA addon card?
I have a couple of dead PCs from my wife's office that have working SATA HDDs. Sorry, I don't know if they're SATA I or II, just that they're SATA. Unfortunately, all my spare hardware at home is ...
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5.1 Sound Card with digital input for Ubuntu
I have a Intel Atom PC that I'm shoe-horning into a role as a media server. I have a 5.1 surround sound speaker set that works pretty well. I want to be able to take the optical out from my cable ...
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USB 3 adapter for a dell 2850 with PCI (or PCIX) ports?
Does anyone know if there is a plain PCI (or PCIX) USB 3 adapter? I understand the bandwidth of PCI < USB3, but it still beats the heck out of USB 2. I have some older dell 2850s that do not have ...
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Can I use PCI SATA Addon card and Boot from a HDD attached to the card
Can I boot from a HDD which is running from a PCI SATA expansion card.
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What type are the screw needed to fix PCI boards?
I miss screws to fix a PCI board in my PC, however I can't find out what type of screw it is. Any hints?
Charles
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How do I get a Wireless N PCi card to connect to a wireless G router?
I'm having some problems setting up a new wireless PCI card on a WinXP SP3 PC.
I know that the router is configured correctly. It is a Linksys WRT54GL, using 802.11b/g. Security mode is WPA2 Personal ...
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Realtek/Intel NIC transfer speed
I have just purchased a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard, and it has dual Realtek RTL8111D gigabit LAN ports. I also have an Intel PRO/1000 MT PCI gigabit network card lying around from an old ...
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5 x 3GB drives and 4 x 1500GB drive best raid setup?
I am building a file server my plan is the have the Operating system on one raid partition and the data storage on another partition.
I currently have 5 x 3GB IDE drives that i would like to put the ...
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Are there any PCI graphics cards with Windows 7 drivers?
I have a Dell D830 laptop and am trying to add a second graphics card (to the laptop dock) to drive more monitors.
It needs to be PCI (not PCI-e), and would ideally itself have dual DVI outputs ...
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USB 2.0 Options for board with USB 1.1
I have a QDI Superb 4 board which by default supports USB 1.1. However, I want it to support USB 2.0. How can I go about doing this?
I know there are PCI expansion cards with USB 2.0 and there are ...
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Packaging old pci cards [closed]
What is the most secure way to package (to ship) some old PCI cards to prevent damage (without original packaging)?
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SD to PCI adapter
We are looking for a way to plug a SD card into a PCI slot without going through a USB interface. We want to read the SD card's serial number directly and issue SD commands.
The Chumby and the ...
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How to map host PCI device to virtualbox?
In a virtual box it is possible to map host's USB device.
But is it not possible to map host's PCI device to guest system?
How is it possible to connect (map) a PCI device to guest OS?
Our host ...
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Linux: Reading a specific device register
In order to control my backlight, I need to do the following:
sudo setpci -s 00:02.1 F4.B=x
This could be read as:
For the PCI device with the ID 00:02.1, set the register F4 (byte only) to x.
To ...
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Dual mode 802.11n PCI adapters
I have recently bought a DLink DIR-825 router. It is a dual mode (2.4GZ & 5GHZ) 802.11n wireless access point/router.
What is a good PCI adapter to pair with it? DLink appear to only make one ...
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Diagnosing PCI issues
I'm upgrading a PC for a friend, and have run into a problem with upgrading the motherboard. I've been assembling custom PCs for the best part of a decade now, so I'm happy enough with the basics at ...
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Is there a tool to list the memory allocation of all PCI drivers (WinXP)?
Windows XP is just using 2.5GB of the 3.5GB installed. Is there a simple way to see which PCI driver allocates how much of memory? I'm looking for something that shows me this data on a single screen ...
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PCI max throughput
Hypothetical here, but I want to understand.
Say I have a hand me down machine, 4 PCI slots, 64-bit 33 MHz PCI.
How much data can that PCI bus handle? System bus is 133 MHz.
I want to use one ...
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What decent audio recording interfaces are well supported in Windows 7 64bit?
I currently have an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum. It permits me to insert a 1/4" jack line from bass guitar and play along with pre-recorded piano music. This worked fine under Windows XP.
I am moving to ...
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Does a PCI card IO address and IRQ change if I remove other PCI cards?
So I plugged in a PCI card and know from the OS that the IO range is e400-e4f1 and the IRQ is 5. Will this change if I unplug other PCI cards from the same computer?
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Dual Video Cards, older (PCI bus) and higher end (GPU bus), does that impair the newer one?
I want to have 3 monitors setup but the third doesn't need to be hi performance. It's mostly for older video games (that don't display well on a hi res LCD, like Start Craft).
If I mix a newer Video ...
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Can i turn a PCI-e x1 slot into an old PCI slot?
Is it possible to convert a PCI-e x1 slot into an old PCI slot? If so, how?
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Can I use an onboard and pci vga simultaneously?
I have an old machine I'd like to get running with dual monitors. The pci vga only has only 1 output port. However, I have another output via the onboard video card. Can I leverage both video cards to ...
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Is there a noticable difference between OB SATA bandwidth vs PCI-e SATA Controller
Main Question : Would I see any benefit (I/O bandwidth-wise) to purchasing a separate (non-raid) PCI-e controller card to plug SATAII drives into vs on-board SATAII slots?
I'd be plugging at least ...
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in Ubuntu, upgrading from onboard vga card to PCI video card hung the system on start up
I installed a PCI video card (Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB PCI from EVGA) into my Ubuntu 8 system (on a Dell e510 machine) which was previously running on board video. When i booted the system, ...
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Recommend a wireless PCI card for Windows 7
I have a crummy RT2500-based 11g card which does work in Windows 7 with the Vista driver (3.2.0.0) but it dies about every two hours or so. Googling around has led me to conclude that Ralink drivers ...
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PCI cards fail when using 4 gig ram
I recently installed 4 gig or ram into my 32bit vista box. I realize that I wont be able to use the entire 4 gig until I go to 64bit vista, but 2 gig wasn't enough and I figured I could use as much ...
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Power surge damaged a PCI slot, will it spread?
One of my PCI slots – the one that hosted my network card – went down in a bang during a power surge. The network card itself, however, still remains intact.
I can still get my computer on the ...
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Best Wireless Card for x64 version of Windows 7/Vista?
I'm currently using the Belkin F5D7000 PCI Wireless G Card, which I used with Windows XP just fine. I was even able to get it to work with Vista as described by the below link.
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Sound card choppy while read/write DVD drive
Sound card choppy while read/write DVD drive.
Whenever I play DVDs via VLC, the sound is choppy.
Playing with PowerDVD does not have this problem.
I figured it's some kind of buffering problem, so I ...
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Error allocating Mem BAR for PCI Device 0X/00/0
I am getting the following error when I boot my Dell Precision 390. Everything appears to be working fine, but I would like to understand what the error means and how to fix it. I believe it ...
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Booting From VIA VT6421A Based PCI SATA Card
I bought a VIA VT6421A based SATA card for an 845 chipset based motherboard. The card is working – I can access the SATA HDD from Windows/Linux.
The problem is I can't directly boot from the SATA ...
