Questions tagged [pci]
PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) is an element for connecting peripherals to computers based on the IBM PC architecture.
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How to find out PCI device by Location Path
I want to find out the PCI device in Windows Device Manager.
I got this location path from:
Device Manager - Bluetooth - Intel(R) Wireless Bluetooth(R)
- Properties - Details - Location paths
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What is this strange slightly-longer PCI slot?
This is a picture of the board out of a Dell Optiplex 980, the board's part number being D441T: link to image
The board clearly has two PCIe x16 slots (though one is wired with just four lanes, ...
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Achieving 1Gb/s using PCI (not express) NIC
I am using an old PC (Phenom II x940, 3GB of ram) as a NAS. The motherboard's build-in NIC was only 100 mib/s so I bought a used Intel Pro/1000 GT (connected via PCI (!) - not PCIe) to achieve better ...
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Difference between modprobe and pci files to remove add devices
I am trying to see how these two set of commands differ if I just have one nvme device.
Block device
ls -l /sys/block/nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 28 11:59 /sys/block/nvme0n1 -> ../devices/...
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How to disable the guest service peripheral device in Virtualbox?
Virtualbox emulates a device called "guest service" for a Linux virtual machine that I need to minimize vulnerability to VM escape. The device allows mouse integration to work which is ...
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How to convert PCIe3 to PCIe2 using a PCI adapter
I have a new HP Z2 G9 workstation featuring the following expansion slots:
1 PCIe 3 x4 (x16 connector); 1 PCIe 3 x4 (x4 connector); 1 M.2 2230 PCIe 3 x1; 1 M.2 2280 PCIe 4 x4; 1 M.2 2280 PCIe 3 x4; 1 ...
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How to tell if a PCI bus is running in 32 or 64 bit mode?
Here you can read that PCI (not PCIe) cards can have 32bit or 64bit.
My motherboard MS-6340 has 3 64bit PCI slots. I've put a 32bit PCI card into the 64bit slot. AFAIK the bus is now running at 32bit ...
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Motherboard doesn't POST with pci network card plugged in, but both motherboard and network card work fine if network card is hot-plugged
I recently got my hands on some old computer parts. An Asrock H61m-DPS motherboard, an intel i3-2120, and a D-link DGE-530T rev-B2 PCI gigabit ethernet card.
After I finished building this PC, I ...
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Files deleted and disk checking
So my files have been permanently deleted because my laptop kept telling me to sign out and when I do my files keep getting deleted. I switched off my laptop and it started to have a disk check. There ...
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WIndows 11 - always waking up - wake source is "Device -PCI-to-PCI Bridge"
My Windows 11 desktop PC keeps waking up from sleep. Looking at the Event Viewer this is the event that happens over and over:
The system has returned from a low power state.
Sleep Time: 2022-08-...
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How to know PCIe switch type/model on the motherboard?
I have a X570 UD motherboard. When running lspci -ttvv it seems like that there is a switch that connect the PCIe slots on the motherboard. How can I know the type/number of this PCIe switch ?
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Force ICH7-M AHCI mode works in Linux with grub2 and setpci, not in Windows
This is my first post, forgive me if I am in the wrong place or if my post is considered inappropriate.
I have borrowed the idea from numerous Mac user forums, after I added a SSD disk to my Sony VAIO ...
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D4 error motherboard code "PCI resource allocation error. Out of Resources" with Nvidia M40 24 GB
I try to put an Nvidia M40 with 24 GB of ram into my PC and it get that error:
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PCI resource allocation error. Out of Resources
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On the moderboard I can see D4.
My components:
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What PCI Bus ID is 0x1?
I need to find what is connected at Bus id 0x1. On Linux doing lspci I got the bus ids in a different format such as 00:01.0. I guess these are same, just x is used instead of ':' in the first ...
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Assigning a missing device by udev
Given that I have a PCI parallel port that isn't recognized in some way, I was considering if writing a udev rule for it could make my day.
I found some old note discouraging from doing it:
Writing ...
