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More info?)
Thanks Paul,
I have narrowed it down to an incompatability with the AGP card. The reason
why it works on the P2B is because I through in an old PCI video card for
testing and when I place that card in this P4C the combo card works fine.
Also, when I uninstall the 82875P AGP Controller and before re-booting, the
combo card is seen and working with the AGP card in place. Thank you also
for the rundown on the Southbridge problems. This makes the need for a
combo card unnessary and thus should make life much easier for my PCI
Bridge.
"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
news:nospam-1206051731420001@192.168.1.178...
> In article <NTOqe.3109$jX6.2900@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
> "peterf" <peterf@nospam.mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > I am having compatability problems with this MB and a SIIG
> > USB/Firewire/Network Combo Card. The Device funtions perfectly when
tried
> > on my old P2B-F but on this MB it cannot be seen by the Device Manager
but
> > does cause a "PCI Bridge to PCI" (I think) error. Can someone reccomend
a
> > compatable card and also, it it just the onboard USB controller that
causes
> > the Southbridge meltdown or the Firewire too? What about the onboard
NIC,
> > is that okay to use? Thanks
>
> Based on the reports to date, only the USB causes the problem. The
> burn marks on the Southbridge, are near where the USB pad drivers
> are located, so the location of the burn marks is showing the source
> of the failure. For any interfaces that actually terminate on other
> chips, then they aren't even near the Southbridge, electrically
> speaking. You only need to protect USB.
>
> The Siig card does have a PCI bridge chip on it. Hint corp was
> bought by Plxtech (a company that also makes bridges), so don't
> expect to find any support or other info. The archived copy of
> this site looks pretty crude:
>
>
http://web.archive.org/web/20011029194752/hintcorp.com/product.htm
>
> The PCI database reports these as the chips that Hint made.
> I don't know the first thing about bridges and how BIOS are
> supposed to handle them (in terms of assigning resources for
> PNP) so cannot guess at why the card won't work on your
> new motherboard.
>
>
http://www.pcidatabase.com/reports.php?type=tab-delimeted
>
> 3388 Hint Corp.
> 0020 HB2/HB6 Universal PCI-PCI Bridge (transparent mode)
> 0021 HB1/1-SE/HB6 Universal PCI-to-PCI Bridge (non-transparent mode)
> 0022 HB4 PCI-to-PCI Bridge
> 0028 HB8 Dual Mode PCI-X-to-PCI-X Bridge (transparent mode)
> 0029 HB8 Dual Mode PCI-X-to-PCI-X Bridge (non-transparent mode)
> 0030 HB7 Transparent PCI-X-to-PCI-X Bridge
> 0031 PCI 6156 Synch 32-Bit, 33 MHz PCI-to-PCI Bridge for Video Capture
> Applications
> 8011 CPU to PCI Bridge
> 8012 PCI to ISA Bridge
> 8013 EIDE Controller
>
> Paul
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