Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [SOLVED] Re: sata_mv 0000:03:06.0: PCI ERROR; PCI IRQ cause=0x30000040 | From | Bernie Innocenti <> | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:24:25 -0400 |
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El Thu, 08-10-2009 a las 18:09 +0100, Tony Vroon escribió: > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 12:42 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > El Tue, 06-10-2009 a las 23:13 -0400, Mark Lord escribió: > > I want to try reducing the frequency of the PCI-X bus, but the BIOS does > > not seem to provide a setting for it. Is there another way? > > Generally this is done with a physical jumper on the board instead. > You'll find it near to the bridge chip, which is almost always by NEC. > Another technique to slow the bridge down is to insert a regular PCI > card in the other slot (these bridges tend to offer 2 or 3 slots). As > the weakest link, it'll drag everything down to 33MHz. > An old PCI-X 66MHz-only card may prove helpful here as well. You don't > have to drive it in any way; getting power to it is sufficient.
Hurray! It seems we've fixed our stability issue at last.
We forced the bus speed down to PCI-X 66MHz for both buses by shorting pins 1-2 of the on-board jumpers.
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