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Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:56 am**

I know there have been threads about this, and Ive read them all. However there dont seem to be a solution to this problem. At least I couldnt find it.
Ive got the problem after removing a scsi controller with 2 HD attached, and putting in 1 sata disk on raid controller. Striped the drive and it works allthough theres only 1 drive. I have 2 other sata drives on my other 2 onboard sata controllers. This seems to have caused my problem with PCI capacity limit reached. It seems strange that removing a scsi controller and adding a sata disk could cause this.
I use Asus P4C800 Deluxe, 1 Gb dual channel ram and no other pci cards. Is there anyone who can help..?
Ive never had the problem before my reconfiguration...
I have tried the bios settings that the manual suggests, with no luck.

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Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:53 am**

Make sure you're not using PCI slot 3 for your CW card - it shares IRQ with the SATA controller. For this mboard, slot 1 and 5 for CW cards is good. Slot 2 shares with onboard LAN, 3 with SATA, 4 with firewire.

/dave

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:35 am**

Thanx for the reply.
I am using slot 5 for my Creamware card, maybe I should try slot 1 then.
Will do and report back.

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:03 am**

I just found out that in my device manager
->Creamware Pulsar2->General it states:
PCI bus 2, device 13, function 0 and for my WinXP promise fastTrak i states:
PCI bus 2, device 4, function 0
This must meen that there is a conflict right? Would it be the solution to move my card to slot 1 or can i do something with some proggie og util to solve this?

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:54 am**

Hoi,

That does not mean there is a conflict. It just means that both cards are on the PCI bus, each have assigned a location number and the device mentioned is the first on that location or so. PCI overload is not a consequence of direct conflict. Conflicting IRQ's can cause other problems, but not PCI overload if I remember well.

Maybe the other card hogs the PCI bus, that's well possible. There's a small PCI tool mentioned here on z, search for 'set PCI latency' for example. This should help you further.

at0m.

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:55 am**

Use slot 1 or 2 in that board (I've only used the P4C800-E Deluxe, but it should be the same).

Posted: **Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:50 am**

Thanx

Ill try out Powerstrip, as it seems to be a the one tool to use.

Im having doubts about moving my card to slot 1 because of the possible interference with the graphics card. However, if powerstrip isnt the solution Ill try that.

thank you all