PCI Problems

[Ayman Altounji]

Does anyone have any ideas on this one... I have a PCI Video Capture device that when I plug into any of the 32bit slots I get no video. I moved the onboard video/network/scsi card around to a diff slot and tried the card in its slot still no video. No other cards in the system other than the all in one card. This capture card works fine in any other system I put it in, just not this one. The specs for the power on the capture card call for +5v,2.5A is what its needs to run will the ML350's pci bus supply this???

Hope someone has some insight on this.

[Ayman Altounji]

First off - don't move the feature board. It MUST remain in the original slot.

I have to contact someone in engineering about this one. I suspect the answer's going to be that it won't work but, I'll check.

(This is a server - not a high-graphics workstation - after all.)

[Ayman Altounji]

Engineering says this should not be an issue as far as power is concerned so...

Does this video capture board want to be the primary video adapter? Does it use a large memory window (64K instead of 32)?

[Ayman Altounji]

The card has no way of being the primary video card it could show you the output of vcr or the input from one in its software but it doesn't snoop on the PCI bus for a video signal, in a PCI only setup (i.e. PCI video card and this card) everything works fine. About the memory window I'll dig around in the book for it, but I wouldn't think so. The only thing I can figure is it and a the SCSI on the all in one card are having issues with IRQ's and or memory range of the card. I wish there was a way to force IRQ's on the other slots, you can do it for the ISA slot so why not the PCI slots?? Even thought about flashing the BIOS on this with a "normal" ServerWorks BIOS!But alas I'm not quite that brave or upset yet. :)