[KLUG Members] RE: PCI riser card causes machine not to power on

[Robert V. Kanaley]

>I'm trying to use a gigabit card in one of my Linux servers (it's a
>clone).  It had a 3 slot 32 bit PCI riser card in it and I replaced it
>with a 1 slot 64 bit card.  After doing so, the server won't power on.
>If I remove it, it powers up with no problem. Anyone run into
>something
>like this before?
>

I would look into the BIOS settings with the 64 bit card out.

I vaguely remember something about having to play with BIOS settings in a
situation somewhat like this. I was swapping a 33MHz riser for a 66MHz riser
cards in a PCI-X slot, though.

Regards,

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk at agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com