PCI card order

Does it matter what order PCI cards are installed in? If your video card is in slot 1, does another card have to be in slot 2, or can it be put directly in slot 3 leaving slot 2 blank?

Hi-
It isn't a problem at all to skip a PCI slot.

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I've got a K9N Platinum SLI board. This board has a power supply input point called PWR2, which according to the documentation is used to provide power to stable the operation of graphics cards. My graphic card is BFG nVidia 9750 GT. This card has the PCI-Express external power plug in the back, and my power supply has a dedicated (red) connector for this purpose, which I have attached properly.
The PWR2 is currently connected also, into one of the black 12V connectors. Otherwise, everything is running fine and smooth, but I am sometimes (once a day or so) experiencing random shutdowns during intense gaming (playing LotRO). Stress testing does not cause a shutdown: I've ran 3D Mark 2007 straight for 8-9 hours, while having a CPU Burner application toast the CPU at the same time. But no problems whatsoever. No other games exhibit this problem either.
Since I am providing dedicated power through the extra connector at the back of the card, should I leave the PWR2 connector unplugged ? Is there a chance that using these two connectors at the same time causes the 12V rail to overload, and the PSU shuts down to protect itself ? When this shut down occurs, the power LED is left blinking and I need to plug out the wall socket and wait for several minutes before the blinking stops and it starts up again.
My computer has an Enermax Liberty 620W power supply, and AMD Athlon X2 4600+ CPU. So there should be enough juice, at least. I've tried the tips and tricks suggested here. Using USB-connected Keyboard and Mouse does not correct the issue. I've also verified that this is not an overheating issue. My CPU is cooled by a Scythe Ninja tower heatsink and two 12 cm fans. It is possible that the northbride is heating up (it burns the finger on touch when under load), but from the Web, I've understood that the stock passive heatsink should be enough, and that the NB chip can take rather extreme temperatures.
* UPDATE *
Plugged the PWR2 connector out from the MB, and update the BIOS to 1.10. It's working as usual, but haven't ran any games yet. Heavy gaming usually reproduces the issue, so I'll write more when I know more.

Updated information on the case.
I've been running 2 days now with the PWR2 unplugged. I have had zero problems with shutdowns since. The only problem I now have is that the USB keyboard and mouse refuse to work in Windows XP after an initial bootup from powered down state. I have to unplug and replug them at the login screen in order to get them work again.
So, I decided to do a final sanity check, and replugged the PWR2, then went gaming. After 2 hours of playing, my computer shutted down for the first time. Plugging in the cable did not solve the USB problem either.
As of this day, I'm leaving it unplugged. It seems like an irrelevant connector, which just causes problems.
** Update **
After following Bosskiller's instructions on another thread about using the "Clear CMOS" button and then reconfiguring BIOS from scratch, the cold boot USB issues were solved. The USB devices now work straight after a cold boot, with no need to replug them.
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I've just installed a PCI card in my G5 in order to add more USB ports. When I started searching for one, i was surprised to see most had an internal port, I couldn't really see the use of that. A friend told me it can be used on PCs to plug an extension towards a free port in front of the main unit.
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iVince

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Network Installer
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2009-05-01 14:11:37 +0100
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see http://sourceforge.net/projects/menucracker
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Fri May 1 14:11:49 BST 2009 LCC ready.
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Acquisition with different pci-cards

hello,
I would like to learn the objectives to take care of in acquisition with two
different pci - cards. Is there something special about configuring the two
cards in the same VI and how can I be sure that the subVIs acquire data
simultaneously?
Please send me some information about bibliography or notes.
thank you

wrote in message news:90o7uf$e5c$[email protected]..
> That is true; however, if you want the acquisitions of both boards
> started at the EXACT same time then you need to order a cable that
> connects to both RTSI connectors on the PCI boards from National
> Instruments. Once you have that cable, then you can call the Route
> Signal VI to route a start signal to both boards and simultaneously
> start them.
A better way is to route scanclock via RTSI from the 'master' to the 'slave'
board.
in this way there is a constant delay (within one channel clock period)
between channels on these boards.
You have to specify on the slave board that the scan clock comes from RTSI.
Don't forget to make the channel clocks identical.
Read the help of AI Clock Config (see inside AI start.vi)
You need 2 calls to AI Clock Config on the slave. One to set the Scanclock
and one to set the Channel clock)
If you need more accuracy you also have to route the board clock (20Mc) via
RTSI.
Start the slave first, so that it is ready to receive clocks from the
master. Then start the master.
>
> In article <90ham7$j4p$[email protected]>,
> "Fan Zhang" wrote:
> > to your question, no. Nothing special to configure two pci cards at
> the same
> > time in one program. You can distribute two IDs to them then call the
> one
> > you would like to call in your application.
> >
> > "gkonstan" wrote in message
> > news:90ggtt$i28$[email protected]..
> > > hello,
> > > I would like to learn the objectives to take care of in acquisition
> with
> > two
> > > different pci - cards. Is there something special about configuring
> the
> > two
> > > cards in the same VI and how can I be sure that the subVIs acquire
> data
> > > simultaneously?
> > > Please send me some information about bibliography or notes.
> > > thank you
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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> Before you buy.

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Anyone have a clue?

you can put the card in & use it in windows...
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I am using a MSI 865PE board for some time with the following PCI cards:
Promise SATA150TX4 Raid Controller
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I thought that maybe it was the card so I swapped them over to see if this could be the issue, but it installed on the KT4 but still an issue on the KT6!?? :(
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Would love to get the sound working with the wireless..........
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ATI Rage Pro 128 (works)
USB card (works)
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USB card (dead)
Firewire card (dead)
I've tried reseating the cards; run DiskWarrior; rebooted into 8.6 and 9.1; cleaned the dust out; checked (but not replaced) the battery. No effect.
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Any ideas or suggestions, please?

Thanks, guys. Good ideas. I got it sort of working again, but I am not certain what I did. I did remove the ixmicro video card from Slot 4 and moved the Slot 5 USB card into Slot 4, leaving Slot 5 vacant. I reseated the firewire Slot 6 card. I had to push the USB card so hard to get it to seat, I now wonder if I fully pushed it in before. Query: If that USB card was NOT fully seated before, would that prevent the WHOLE lower bus from operating?
The chip set on both my no-name USB cards is Vendow 1095, whoever that is. I forgot to look at the card when I was reseating it.
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It looks as if the problems might have been 1) I didn't seat the one card properly and it killed the lower pci set; or 2) the video, usb, and firewire cards exceeded the power requirements of the lower bus. What do you think?
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Hello
i was installing my all new motherboard P67A-C45 rev B3 with a core i5 2500K, 4gb of DDR3. No problem for installing all my SATA hard drives as well as Plextor BR writer. Windows seven recognizes everything and everything rules. I have setup the boot priority with plextor and then the SSD drive that have windows 7...Except that as a nostalgic person, i used to keep old IDE hard drives for storing files. For that i use a ITE8212 PCI card in order to have IDE slots. But when pci card is connected (on either of the 3 PCI slots), boot is "freezing". I just have an underscore on the screen and nothing else.
This pci card used to be ok on motherboard without UEFI... is there something that i do wrong ? a specific setup ? an incompatibility ?
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