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February 22nd, 2012 04:00
optiplex 390 running XP Pro and PCI express cards
Hi
Recently acquired an Optiplex 390, it has Windows XP Pro installed
Didn't realise until I openned it up that it didn't have any PCI slots? Its got 1 graphics card slot and 3 PCI express slots
So anyway needed to added a 2nd ethernet card, so got a PCI express enet card
The Optiplex 390 did not reconise the card when plugged in, even with the driver installed
plugged the card into the 2nd slot position and the PC would not boot into XP, just stuck on the XP loading page
So anyway any ideas why this should be, will these slots not work with XP?
HAven't upgraded any drivers, there was a chipset driver available, would that make a difference.
Cheers
Rod
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speedstep
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February 22nd, 2012 10:00
The same reason you cannot install multiple video or sound cards of the same type as they overlap in I/O port and memory resources. You will have to use a NIC with PCI to PCI Bridge or a USB NIC instead. You cannot randomly install any old card you want without consequences. The Intel® PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter is one such device.
gdb500
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February 23rd, 2012 01:00
The card is an off the shelf enet PCI express card, it has its own driver software, I would not expect it to overlap any memory addresses, it was not randomly installed.
The card installed into a Vospro's single PCI express slot is reconised, is installed correctly and is working
So why does the Optiplex 390 not detect it etc
Something seems not to be correct this this PC
PS I checked the bios in case the PCI e slots needed to be enabled, but the cupboard was bare
speedstep
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February 28th, 2012 07:00
NIC cards are often not detected when placed in the X16 video slot.
32 bit 33mhz PCI cards must be PCI 2.3
gdb500
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March 1st, 2012 02:00
Just realised I should have said these PCs are Optiplex 391 not 390
So are 391s compatable with XP Pro, I was sold them as XP compatable
Both they don't detect PCIe cards??
This card is not plugged into the graphic x16 slot, I can see that the slot is totally incompatable with a PCIe card
The PCIe card was plugged into the 1st PCIe slot next to the x16 slot, but was not reconised
It was plugged into the 2nd PCIe slot and the PC would not boot into windows
If there is any DELL people actually monitoring this, maybe they could comment on the compatability of the 391 with XP
Cheers
Rod
Jeff Schroeder
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October 10th, 2012 17:00
I am having a similar issue with a PCIe Parallel card that we are trying to install in an Optiplex 390 running XP Pro. It recognises the card and the drivers load normally. After anywhere from an hour to a day the card will no longer work. We can go to control panel and change settings of the card in the device manager and the card works again (temporarily). We have used the same card and same drivers on other Dell computers (Vostro 430, Vostro 460, etc.) running XP Pro and have no issues until we were forced to "upgrade" to the 390.