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I don't know why my 2060 is only using x1 1.1 pci, checked on gpu-z and hwinfo64 Running horribly in games Already uninstalled drivers with DDU and tried old and new drivers I have one m.2, and 3 sata drives, never had a problem with PCI lines Is there a way i can check what lines are they using? how can i give "priority" to the gpu? It is connected on x16 pci of course Thank you all for reading and for your help!!

My motherboard Intel DQ77MK is an mATX board with the listed specs below: • 16x slot, 1x slot (Covered by 2-slot GPU), PCI slot & an x4 slot with a x16 cutout slot. • CPU: Xeon E3-1230 V2 • RAM: 32GB 1600MHz (4x8GB) • GPU: Zotac GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6 I've currently made a light-medium gaming/server/media PC which I can then re-purpose its uses down the line into a decent server/media PC once I build a main gaming PC. I've bought a brand new sealed PCI Medion MD 5044 TV Tuner intended for Windows XP and below from eBay thinking that I could make use of the PCI slot on my motherboard but when I installed & hooked it all up, I turned on my PC and inserted the installation disc, the setup menu wouldn't load, which prevented me from installing some codecs or drivers or whatever it wanted to install. I checked the Windows update and luckily enough, Windows had found some drivers which I installed so it could be detected in Device Manager. Obviously I couldn't get the software from the CD's setup menu so I resorted to MediaPortal 1 & 2 to test and check if it would detect the TV Tuner & antenna but sadly it didn't and no 'scan for channels' button was seen. However, I tried downloading the software it came with manually by going into the folders as opposed to relying on the incompatible setup menu which i successfully installed 75% of the included software as well as the drivers (I think) but it still wouldn't load either in MediaPortal or with this Power VCR II software it came with. I lastly tried a Virtual machine on Windows XP but with no avail, however the setup menu worked and I installed everything, however it wouldn't get detected in Power VCR II or MediaPortal and I don't want to connect XP to the internet so my last resort has been to download sketchy third-party drivers hoping it might replace the 'old' ones but I haven't attempted that after I've scanned the third-party drivers and found some aggressive PUPs on there. I've been told Microsoft stopped support for PCI after Windows 8.1? Would anyone know what to do or how to even get this dying technology of a TV Tuner up and running? I'm thinking selling it whilst it was brand-new would've been worth more than spending time troubleshooting this.

Hello all, I am trying to find a PCIe x1 or PCI card with WiFi & Bluetooth without USB. I got the TP-Link AX3000 unaware it needed USB connection. If I give it an actual USB connection, then I lose USB ports (OEM mobo and can't change). Not ideal. Can anyone recommend a card that would fit my needs? (Or if there's such thing as an internal USB hub and it would work, then that might be okay... )

Hey! so im trying to set up my windows hotspot to play my oculus quest via air link. My only error is a weak signal from my hotspot. Even on my phone my windows hotspot has 1 bar of signal, the antenna is about 60cm away from me. I cant find anything online as google it only brings up weak signal issues between a router and a pc. Anyone got any ideas? Ive reinstalled drivers, reinstalled the antenna into the pci card... got no idea. Its an ax200 wifi card from Aorus, GC-WBAX200

So im currently buying parts for my new pc and i already ordered my asus strix 3090 OC and was going to buy the intel i9 10900k cpu which only supports pci 3.0 but i just noticed that the i9 11900k that does 4.0 will be released the 30th this month So my question is the following Would it even be worth it going for the 11900k for the pci 4.0 when using a 3090 or is 3.0 fine? People says the 11900k is worse in gaming compared to the 10900k but i was wondering if using a 3090 which supports pci 4.0 would make a difference in gaming when actually utilizing the pci 4.0 instead of 3.0 and might get better frames than the 10900k because of using 4.0 instead of 3.0? any thoughts?

Restarted my PC then my audio driver got disconnected. didn't do anything with it. tried to connect it, nothing happens. tried uninstalling the driver then restarting the PC with new drive, still nothing. This might help I'm also mining with my GPU but i'm getting error saying "no response from GPU' and thats why i restarted my PC and audio stopped working. (sound card is also on PCI) But i can still play games with my GPU so it's connected. i can see it in the game settings. my brain is lagging. any help? Thanks (windows 11)

So I found this cool board and it looks like a custom part. There is no manufacturer information or part number anywhere. My question is: what is this connector? Is it PCI? I can't seem to find a very good comparison of PCI to PCIe but the pins are so much bigger than PCIe and the number of them doesn't match anything I've found online so far either. It's definitely the coolest add-in card I've ever found so I'd like to at least know what it is.

Hi, recently I updated some of my PC components (motherboard, cpu, ram, cooler), and did a fresh windows install, the issue is that windows does not show any of my PCI devices, currently I have a 1060 gpu and a tp-link wifi adaptor. What's even more weird is that I can see and connect to wireless networks, and that strange since as I mention the card itself doesn't show in the device manager. Also, I tried installing both the gpu and wifi drivers, but none can be installed because the setups indicate that "it couldn't find the device". I already tried windows, chipset and even bios updates, neither of those worked to solve the problem. Motherboard: Asus Prime B560M-A CPU: Intel I5-11400 RAM: Kingston Fury Beast 8gb DDR4 3200MHz (x2) SSD Sata: ADATA SU650 250gb SSD Sata: WD Blue 1tb HDD 3.5: Toshiba 7200rpm 2tb PSU: Gigabyte P650B 80 Plus Bronze 650w GPU: Gygabyte Windforce OC GTX 1060 3gb GDDR5 Wifi: Tp-Link TL-WN781ND Hope you can help me, Thanks.

Heya, I've originally posted this question on a different forum but did not get a solution. I hope I'm not breaking any rules by just copy pasting my own question but a quick search did not suggest anything in that direction. As written in the original post below the problem just solved itself at some point and since I don't particularly care about this VM I just accepted it. It worked again for fourish weeks before I noticed today that the VM would not boot. Again. Same symptoms as last time. I did look up the two device ids but nothing of interest turned up. Anyway, here is my original question I posted four weeks ago: I've been using a Western Digital SN750 1TB SSD for about half a year and it used to work just fine (and does again now). Earlier today the Windows VM I had installed on it would no longer start. I investigated the issue and found the following: The drive did not show up in the host machine's UEFI (it did before this happened) Running lspci on the host did still list the drive The pci device id changed (how is that even possible???) It used to be 15b7:5006 and changed to 15b7:5002 I am passing the SSD through to the VM using its bus and slot number, which did not change, but the VM could not access the drive I did not find anything in journalctl, SMART doesn't report anything either I tried to troubleshoot the problem and it apparently fixed itself after some reboots. The drive does not hold any valuable data, everything stored on it can be replaced quite easily, but I'd still like to know what's up with the drive. Should I replace it or was it just my server doing messing up? And I'd really like an answer to 3) aren't vendor and device id supposed to be static? How can they change? Looking forward to your ideas, thanks

im looking for a cheap pci gpu with great perfomance for my old hp hp pavilion a220n witch also has agp so i could get a agp gpu but i have had no luck with agp gpus either im using a NVIDIA nForce2 IGP my budget is 20 bucks

Hey Guys. So i have some Problems with my Custom Build PC. For info its my First one i ever done and the Windows 10 Pro Install on this Machine is fresh from an USB-Stick, so no old Clutter. So before you begin reading, i done goofed. I figured the PCI shit out ^^ Missing CHipset driver, that i thought i had installed. But i leave this Thred open, because of the BSOD problem. I don't know if the Chipset stuff fixed this aswell. So basically i have two accuring Problems. One of them is the BSOD that pops up at a new Boot, say at the Moring when istart my PC and the second one is that in my Device Manager there are Four unkown PCI-Devices and they all don't have any Informations on them. and I won't let the feeling go, that these two Problems are attached to eachother. ??? So i started Googeling the Heck out of it and followed the Steps in several Tutorials. I let Malwarebytes search my whole Pc for over 3 Hours, nothing. I prompted the 'scannow' or whats it called Command in the Administrator Shell, that said it repaired some stuff, but the BSOD still comes up from now and then. I Checked the RAM, both Sticks are there and are recognized from the System. I checked all Drivers, nothing. Then I used DDU in Safemode and Killed my Nvidia Drivers and reinstalled them fresh. I don't know if this fixed the BSOD but the fur unknown PCI-Devices are still listed as 'unknown'. Also when i press the 'Upgrade Driver' Button in the Properties for the JonDoe Drivers, it wont find anything. Is here someone whou an help me with these two Problems ? Thanks in advance! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My System: Windows 10 Pro Mobo: Tuf Gaming x570-Pro Gaming wifi Ryzen 9 3900X 2x16 Sticks of 3200 DDR4 Kingston Ram msi Ventus x3 OC RTX 3090 1x Kingston A2000 NVME 1TB 1x Samsung 860 QVO 1TB SATA 1x Samsung 850 PRO 512GB SATA 1x WD 1TB Harddrive SATA ARCTIC 280 AIO for the CPU

hey guys im working on a bit of a weird project. i've been messing with a dell d610 latitude. upgraded the ram looking into a HDD caddy to install a SSD. ive also been looking into linux to see what i could do with it. linux mint seems to be the best option. anyways im now looking into getting a D/Dock Expansion Station (M8538). https://www.ebay.com/p/130822119 my question is; what gpu should i install into it. if any Dell Latitude veterans could help me out, that would be awesome. i know it needs to be half height and of course a PCI gpu not PCIE gpu. but trying to find anything useful is driving me nuts. thanks as always

I have a dual boot Windows + macOS (Hackintosh) system, as well as two GPUs: a GTX 660 Ti over 16x PCIe 3.0, and a GT 730 over 4x PCIe 2.0. macOS doesn't play nicely with the 660 Ti, and I'd rather not switch around display cables whenever I want to switch OSes. If I keep my displays connected to the 730, and configure games to use the 660 Ti, will I be bottlenecked?

I tried fitting a second GPU and after I removed it I had the platic conector in my hand.... It seams like asus didnt built it well because I used no force to take the GPU out. All the wires are still there but they seem a little streched. For more infos just look at the pic or text me. I dont think it helps, but If you need them, here are some of my specs: Mainboard: TUF Gaming Z490-Plus CPU: i5-10600K GPU: TUF Gaming 3070 (Bought for 700€, I am a lucky guy hahaha) Case: PhanteksEclipse P600S RAM: 32GB G.Skill 3200 .... Thanks for the help Sebastian PS: Thats how my pc looks after 2 weeks of not cleaning which I wanted do to befor the mistake happend....

I need a Thunderbolt Expansion Card for my desktop. I haver the: ASUS ROG Strix Z490-G GAMING (WI-FI) Any suggestions

Hi, Does anyone know of a way that I can use a singel cabel to transfer: - 2x Screens - 4x USB - 1x Ethernet It must be compatible with ASUS ROG Strix Z490-G GAMING (WI-FI) And it would be nice if it is Thunderbolt 3 Compatible with a Lenovo x1 Carbon.

I recently got an M.2 the other day and I've noticed most games not performing right. After some testing and research, I've found that my PCI slot for my GPU is running in x8 instead of x16. I've done benchmarks with the m.2 in and out and notice a big frame rate loss in some games and stutters when I go from x8 and x16. Losing 900 points in Time Spy GPU and in Forza 4 losing around10% FPS and stutters, while some other games don't care like Tarkov. Most people online seem to think this won't make a difference but it really is for me and I don't know how to fix it. Even GN did a video and showed only a tiny performance hit but this is not the case for me. I tried putting the M.2 in the top slot on the mobo but it disabled 2 of the SATA ports. Also, note the games aren't even running off the m.2. How can I get my GPU to run in x16 with this m.2? OR maybe there is something the bios making the GPU run like shit at x8? PC Specs: Ryzen 5 3600, AMD 5700XT 8GB, 6GB Coursair Vengence 3000mhz, Asus Rog Strix B450-F, Corsair TX 650M

I recently acquired a RTX 3080 card from Gigabyte, one of their Vision OC cards and for the past 2 and a half hours I have been trying to put the card into my PC but I have not been having any luck. Can you guys tell me if I’m not applying enough force or is it my Motherboard or GPU? (My motherboard is a MSI Tomahawk B550 in a Corsair 4000D airflow case.)

Hello all! pretty straightforward question, hopefully easy~~ So way way back in the day I built a full-size e-atx WC beast on my moms dime (I was like 16). Say the least 2x Intel xeons (MP models of course). Now I do remember specifically with that case, there were 3 outlets for WC’ing lines complete with the, uhm, rubber things. You know, like your routing wires thru ur case… oh grommets? Yeah like 1/2 inch holes in the back of the case with rubber grommets. recently I built my daughter a pc, now she has a thermaltake View 71. In that, I also noticed it has the same thing in back. now I have my own build, in a (don’t laugh) Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL / white. Only reason I got it is bc, well it’s white, and I saw some pics of people that had uh… seperate loops? Forgive me I forget the term. Basically they had 2 loops feeding a distro plate for said case and it looked really sweet. The top loop was one color and the bottom another. In the distro plate you could see “both worlds” utilizing the plate. ANYWAYS back to it. I was surprised to see my case does not have WC outlets. Sure ok it is a “full” tower / ATX, live and learn I guess. is there anyplace I can order a pci bracket for g1/4 fittings? Or perhaps one that would work with these huge quick disconnects I have? These QD’s are NOT g 1/4 - in fact I have no idea, deff way larger than my tubing is. Oh here it is Alphacool 17370 Eiszapfen HF... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HQ8JUVI?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share being old school like me, there are many reasons I’d like to run lines outside my case. Other than shoving them through a vacant pci, a clean look would be nice lol. also, I should mention - and no I’m not advertising. Can anybody or has anybody found something like this on Amazon? why Amazon? Why don’t I order one off idk, performancepcs.com or awesomecustomstuff.com? simple answer, our Amazon warehouse is no further than the nearest Walmart (not advertising again, walnut just happens to be the only supermarket in town). And of course, returns are easy. I could have a bracket tomorrow versus 3 weeks from now with some other site. again, not advertising! It’s a convenience factor, there isn’t exactly a micro center or other hardcore PC warehouse around - otherwise I’d be there daily… and probably super broke! TLDR; where can I find a pci bracket with g1/4 outlets? What would I even search for cause I can find em on google just not Amazon. NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT Any help would be awesome. Thanks guys n girls n however you identify (weird times we live in)

I can't find a definitive answer online, so I'll ask here. I know that gpus for the past few years have been designed for PCI 4.0, but is there all that much of a difference if a gpu is ran on PCI 3.0? Will a gpu be weaker, slower at communicating with the rest of the computer, or is there no real difference? I'm wondering because I heard something about gpus not really using all of the potential bandwidth of 4.0 in the first place and now there's PCI 5.0.

Hello everyone! My house just got a two in one Wi-Fi router / modem that has 5g and Wi-Fi 6. I want to get a corresponding wifi/Bluetooth upgrade for my pc in the form of a pci/pci-e slot card as it’s rather old and only supports 2.4 ghz. Is there anything I should know before buying? Are there any potential compatibility issues with my PC? Do you all have recommendations for which one I should buy? Thanks in advance!

In the years that I have been helping customers and the people here on this and other forums out with computers, I noticed that there has been always quite a bit of confusion around Solid State Drives, the different connectors, formfactors, interfaces and protocols. To help others to understand and to help me to distribute the information necessary to understand the basics of such devices, I am creating this thread. I want to go over the most common misconceptions, the different connectors, interfaces, formfactors and protocols that are commonly used by Solid State Drives and Modules so that you get a good idea what to look out for when shopping for a new drive or to simply understand the concept behind, let's say M.2 2280, if someone mentions it. Solid State Drive (SSD), Solid State Module (SSM), (SSC) You might have noticed that I said Solid State Module a lot, which is where we start. It is common to divide any solid state storage medium into two categories: Solid State Drives Solid State Modules Solid State Modules are not encased in a housing and can therfor be mounted without the housing. Solid State Drives need a housing to be mounted correctly. Sometimes you will also come across SSCs (Solid State Cards), which is a term that is rarely used for solid state PCI storage devices. Just like a graphics card, it plugs into a PCI or PCI-e slot. This simple differentation already tells us whether the storage medium can be for example hot-swapped or mounted externally or only internally of a system. Overall I find it not important to differentiate between SSDs, SSMs and SSCs, because the formfactor alone already tells us everything we need to know. I will mention SSDs and SSMs for continuity throughout the thread. A good example for this would be a typical 2.5" SSD and a M.2 2280 SSM, as shown in the picture below: Formfactor SSDs and SSMs are now further devided into their formfactors. The differentation between SSDs and SSMs does not tell us where the mounting points are located and the actual size of the device. That is where the formfactor comes into place. Here are the most commonly used formfactors today: SSM M.2 2230 2242 2260 2280 22110 MO-300 full-size half-size SSD 2.5" 3.5" PCI add-in card (SSC) As you can see there are quite a few different formfactors and these aren't even all of them, but also only a few of the ones I mentioned are usually used in PCs and servers nowadays. These are mostly 2.5", M.2 2280, PCI-e and MO-300 devices. A brief explenation of a few formfactors: Connector SSDs and SSMs connect in many different ways to a device and we will find in this section, that some formfactors reappear in the name of connectors. This is very common and is why this can be so confusing. On top of that I will go into interfaces later, which are not the same as connectors, but also use the same or similar names. Connectors describe the very physical layout of two interlocking pieces - the dimenstions, the amount of pins and which signal they carry. They are often also called "hardware interfaces", which I find to be a bit misleading and confusing. Here are a few examples of the most common connectors: SSM M.2 B-Key M-Key A-Key E-Key ... mSATA SSD SATA U.2 (SFF 8639) PCI-e x1 x4 x8 x16 I don't want to explain what each connector looks like and what they're used for. I think everyone can find that out very quickly by simply googling the name of the connectors. But I want you to provide with a few handy pictures about the different key-layouts of the M.2 formfactor, which you will find below. To differenciate what the specific M.2 module is used for, the manufacturers seperate the pins by a so called "key", which is nothing more than a gap between the pins at a certain position. It's very similar to the gap you will find in RAM DIMMs (memory sticks) that indicates whether you're dealing with a DDR3 or DDR4 module for example. Interface There aren't a lot of interfaces used anymore for storage. This is due to the fact, that we don't need a lot to simply read and write data from and to devices. The most common interfaces are: PCI-e SATA USB Before I go deeper into interfaces, I want to mention that this is the third time that I list PCI or PCI-e in this thread. This is also where I want to remind you, that I will go into a specific examples later on, to make very clear how exactly formfactors, connectors and interfaces play together. Now onto interfaces... The interface is in the simplest words a guideline to define which signals are needed to get a device to work correctly. So in theory a PCI-e x4 SSD can not physically connect to a M.2 2280 slot, but they both use the PCI-e interface! This means that the necessary pins and signals are available to the M.2 2280 SSM for it to communicate the same way as a PCI-e x4 SSD would. The system does NOT know the difference between the two drives, even tho the connector and formfactor are entirely different. This is also why USB to SATA adapters for external SSDs are so cheap and work so easily. USB already carries all the necessary information to interact with a SATA device over the AHC-interface, by supporting both interfaces (USB and AHCI) It is important to note, that the communication itself is not handled by the interface, but instead by the protocoll, which is the last puzzle-piece to complete the confusion. Protocol The protocol is the necessary software layer inbetween devices to communicate between each other. It interprets the signal that it is given to by the interface and translates it for other devices to understand. The most common protocols for SSDs are: NVM-e AHCI For most users it is simply important to know, that the protocol is specified by its interfaces. The interface decides which protocols are carried. This means that a SSM in the M.2 2280 formfactor, with a M.2 connector can either use a SATA or NVM-e protocol, depending on wheter it interfaces over PCI-e or AHCI. The M.2 connector type changes accordingly to either a B- or M-key! Examples Here are a few examples of a real-world SSDs and SSMs: Samsung 970 Evo (SSM): formfactor M.2 2280 connector M.2 M-Key interface PCI-e 3.0 (sometimes the version number of the interface is added) protocol NVM-e Crucial MX500 (SSD) formfactor 2.5" connector SATA interface SATA protocol AHCI Crucial MX500 (SSM) formfactor M.2 2280 connector M.2 B-M-Key (It has two gaps, to fit into M and B-keyed slots) interface SATA protocol AHCI Intel 750 (SSD) formfactor 2.5" (15mm in hight, notice that the hight doesn't change the formfactor) connector U.2 (SFF-8639) interface PCI-e 3.0 protocol NVM-e The End (for now) I really hope that this thread takes a lot of the confusion out of SSDs and SSMs and can be referenced for future questions about the topic. I'm open to criticism and willing to learn! I don't want to spread misinformation and I took all the information right out of my memory. It is a collection of information of what I've learned over the years. While I did a lot of fact-checking, I'm sure that there are still little mistakes here and there. Please let me know if you find any, so I can correct them! This does also include linguistic mistakes, since english isn't my first language. I plan on adding additional information in the future about the different kinds of NAND, controllers and how to properly measure the performance of solid state storage. But I'm not sure whether I will be keeping up with this promise.

Hey, I have built a good for the time bang for buck pc about October of 2018 Specs: MSI X470 Gaming+ Ryzen 5 2500 16 Gigs of 3200 Ripaw V GTX Second Hand 1060 CX550 Gold Power Supply 128 Gb SSD My mobo does not have built in wifi and bluetooth and I am looking for a pci express card that has both but I don't know what to search for, any advice. Thanks (Sorry for spelling)

So I'm planning to buy a 3900X along with UNRAID but I'm not sure if I'll have enough PCI Lanes. (If so please give me recommendations for another CPU if so) GTX 1080 for one Gaming VM RTX 2060/70 for the other VM NVIDIA P2000 (or higher) for Plex Transcoding 5 x 8TB SATA Storage (maybe 4 drives instead idk yet) 1TB NVME M.2 2 USB Controllers or if the Motherboard has enough USB IOMMU Groups I think that's about it The 3900x has 24 lanes, 4 for the chipset though, so 20 usable (This is Gen 4 PCI btw, so i might be able to get away with things in 8x instead, and idk how much the P2000 needs for Plex Transcoding) I can make compromises too

Does some graphics cards have onboard wifi? Im building a pc for the first time and is having trouble getting wifi cards where I live in South Africa. The specific gpu Im looking into and wondering about is the radeon rtx 550 Aero 4gb vram gpu