pci slot problem

[Ashleyyyy]

i have a problem with my motherboard.

if i put a pci card in the pci slot, the card will do nothing. i'm talking about the old white one's. pcie x16 works fine.

 

maybe it's because of the age of the board (it's from 2008), or maybe because in device manager, there is a device (pci simple communications controller) that doesn't have a driver.

 

i coudn't get any drivers or pci for this board so...

 

the model is:

Intel DG43NB
 

so far i tried a usb 2.0 card, and a firewire card, and neither works.

 

HWINFO reports the slot's as empty...

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

(pci simple communications controller) that doesn't have a driver.

thats it.

 

You don't need pci drivers.

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

thats it.

 

You don't need pci drivers.

how do i get a driver for that?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

how do i get a driver for that?

boot it up in linux, does it work?

[Ashleyyyy]

or how do i get it working?

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

boot it up in linux, does it work?

i haven't tried, and don't want to, as i have harddrives in a RAID array on my pc, and i don't want them to mess up if i click something wrong

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

i haven't tried, and don't want to, as i have harddrives in a RAID array on my pc, and i don't want them to mess up if i click something wrong

just boot it from a usb stick, it wont touch your disks.

[Ashleyyyy]

ok, and if they don't work in linux, is there no way of getting it working on windows then?