PCIE troubleshooting

[Ares Leo]

Hello everyone,

So I have a server

- EX58-UD4P motherboard

- TX850W PSU

- Xeon x5675

- 16 GB (8x2) Kingston hx316c10fk2/16

- NVIDIA 8600 GT

 

I can go to POST screen and currently running Unraid on the machine but then I want to upgrade the network port.

So I plug in a I225 pcie card to the mobo x1 slot and it refuse to go to POST, it turn on and off several time and stay constantly on. I removed it and I having POST screen again and can go to the OS

I tried on the x4 slot and x8 slot having same result. I try on the x16_2 slot and after remove it, it makes my pc keep turning on and off, I removed CMOS battery then put it back on and the PC works again.

The card is working on my main PC.

Does someone know what is the problem and how to make the card work on the server? Thank you

[emosun]

the card more than likely just doesn't agree with the chipset on that old of a board and you might need to find something more era appropriate for it to be compatible.

essentially is any card causes a machine to hardlock with no post theres not a tons you can do if the bios is already the latest

[Ares Leo]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

the card more than likely just doesn't agree with the chipset on that old of a board and you might need to find something more era appropriate for it to be compatible.

essentially is any card causes a machine to hardlock with no post theres not a tons you can do if the bios is already the latest

Ah yes the BIOS is the latest, in that case I might have to find another card. Thank you.

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, Ares Leo said:

Ah yes the BIOS is the latest, in that case I might have to find another card. Thank you.

the board already has a gigabit ethernet port which will exceed the drive interface speeds on the board already so you could just use the onboard ethernet

[Ares Leo]

16 minutes ago, emosun said:

the board already has a gigabit ethernet port which will exceed the drive interface speeds on the board already so you could just use the onboard ethernet

But I thought writing from an ssd to another ssd the speed will improve if we got faster than gigabit, or it's not?. Also is the 3Gb/s is of one SATA port or all of the SATA ports combined?

[emosun]

33 minutes ago, Ares Leo said:

But I thought writing from an ssd to another ssd the speed will improve if we got faster than gigabit, or it's not?. Also is the 3Gb/s is of one SATA port or all of the SATA ports combined?

Well one gigabit ethernet connection is around 125 megabytes per second which is more representative of what a sata 2 drive will actually transfer a large file at. You might be able to get burst speeds of a drive higher if the file was very small but honestly the platform you're working with more than likely will be slower than sata 2 speeds being the main bottleneck.

Unless you wanted to run a ton of ssd's in raid 0 on that board you really won't be saturating that ethernet port for a while.

[Ares Leo]

6 minutes ago, emosun said:

Well one gigabit ethernet connection is around 125 megabytes per second which is more representative of what a sata 2 drive will actually transfer a large file at. You might be able to get burst speeds of a drive higher if the file was very small but honestly the platform you're working with more than likely will be slower than sata 2 speeds being the main bottleneck.

Unless you wanted to run a ton of ssd's in raid 0 on that board you really won't be saturating that ethernet port for a while.

Ahh I see, thank you very much