Hello, I have send the unit since more than one week, do you receive it ?
Regards, Nicolas Boulay 2007/2/15, Soren Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Nicolas Boulay wrote: > > It's common that a 3.3V pci card plug in the good way, burn out the soekris > > ? > > No, it can not happen by itself, unless the card is incorrect designed > or defect. > > Which unfortunate seems to happens as some board designers apparently > can't read or understand the PCI specs, and since most PC's have 5V > signaling slots it don't really get tested.... > > What we have seen before is that the VIO (which in a 3.3V slot should be > 3.3V and 5V slot 5V) and 5V VCC power planes are connected together on > incorrectly designed PCI expansion boards, resulting in shorting the > 3.3V and 5V power supply together and creating havoc on the net4801.... > > You're welcome to ship the unit with the PCI board to us and I will > investigate. > > > Best Regards, > > > Soren Kristensen > > > > 2007/2/15, Jeff Quast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 2/11/07, Nicolas Boulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I check the NEC chip it's a PCI 2.2 compliant one. I can't see any > >>> rs232 boot message. > >>> > >>> Beside that, the SC1100 chip heat a lot. Is it dead ? > >>> > >>> 2007/2/11, Nicolas Boulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I had plug a usb controler inside the pci port, like this : > >>>> http://f-cpu.seul.org/~nico/soekris_usb.jpg (is it in the good way ?) > >>>> > >>>> It's a belkin card, using a NEC controller PCI 2.1 compliant. A very > >>>> new card. The soekris is from 2004. > >>>> > >>>> I plug the power supply but nothing boot. I am affraid to burn it. > >>>> > >>>> The soekris seems not to boot any more after unpluging the usb card. > >>>> Nothing on the rs232 line, the red and the green led stay on. > >>>> > >>>> Any ideas ? > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Nicolas Boulay > >>>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Soekris-tech mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > >>> > >> I'm sorry for your loss. > >> > >> I'm afraid to buy a soekris with a PCI slot for this very reason. It > >> seems the very few PCI cards that do not burn out the board when used, > >> do not work well anyway. > >> > >> It would be nice if we could compile a list of confirmed PCI cards > >> (vendor's model, dmesg output/chipsets) that work in a soekris... > >> > >> jq > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Soekris-tech mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > > > . > > > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
