You probably need to adjust the bios, possibly starting with the fail safe or optimized defaults and then changing what you need to after everything is basically working.
May 20, 2024, 14:26 by : > For card specs I always do a web search with the model number, though you may > have to put it in a slot to read that info. Most of the cards I buy come > from ebay, used, so I'm always looking up the specs. > > If it's from a server looking up the part number from one of the labels > should work. > > For the ones I decide to buy I always get the manuals and latest firmware, > also via a search on the manufacturers site or on the web in general. Most > companies are good about keeping even the information on obsolete cards > available but some are terrible about that. > > May 20, 2024, 13:28 by k...@aspodata.se: > >> Dale: >> ... >> >>> First, I thought cards were backward compatible? You could stick a 3.0 >>> into a 2.0 slot and it would just run as a 2.0 and vice versa. I know >>> the mobo is 2.0. It does recognize the drive but seems to nuke the >>> ethernet somehow. I looked, there is no switches on the card. I don't >>> see a way to adjust how it works or anything. >>> >> ... >> >> From first section of >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_3.0 >> >> PCI Express 3.0 Base specification revision 3.0 was made available in >> November 2010, after multiple delays. In August 2007, PCI-SIG announced >> that PCI Express 3.0 would carry a bit rate of 8 gigatransfers per second >> (GT/s), and that it would be backward compatible with existing PCI >> Express implementations. >> >> Though in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Comparison_table >> they are said to have different encodings. >> >> Unfortunately the specs (https://pcisig.com/specifications) are only >> available for members. >> >> Regards, >> /Karl Hammar >>
