System always reboots by itself

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Andrew

Hi,

I have recently installed Win 2K with the latest sp (3 and
4) on a P4 industrial computer system.

I need to run a additional PCI card on this system.
It is a Framegrabbercard from ELTEC (germany) - PC_EYE1+.
However, after I put that card in, Win 2k keeps rebooting
by itself after the loging screen. (I haven't got chance
to install the drivers yet!)

I have written an e-mail to the card's h/w manufacturer,
and they mention as follows:

"The PC-Eye1 or PC-Eye1+ Framegrabber you are using is
rather old. It uses a NCR875 or even a NCR825 SCSI-
controller for PCI-transfers, which has difficulties with
newer mainboards.

Nearly all of the newer mainboards use versatile PCI-
bridges which can manage more than one PCI bus. In many
cases, the on-board devices (like ethernet, sound ...)
share the PCI bus 0 and additional cards plugged into the
free PCI slots are assigned to PCI bus 1 or higher. In
other cases, there is one PCI slot assigned to PCI bus 0
and the others are assigned to bus 1 or higher.

However, our grabber isn't able to run on PCI busses
higher than bus 0, and that's why there is a rather high
probability that you won't be able to run the grabber at
all with your system."

I have tried updating the motherboard BIOS but still gets
the same results.

Is there an patch to overcome this for Win2K?


Pls help. Thank you!!

Can also reply me @ (e-mail address removed)
your help is very much appreciated!! ^_^ /

Regards
Andrew
 
It looks like the manu. is telling you you cannot. If there was a patch I'm
sure they'd know about it
 
Hi,

I have recently installed Win 2K with the latest sp (3 and
4) on a P4 industrial computer system.

I need to run a additional PCI card on this system.
It is a Framegrabbercard from ELTEC (germany) - PC_EYE1+.
However, after I put that card in, Win 2k keeps rebooting
by itself after the loging screen. (I haven't got chance
to install the drivers yet!)

I have written an e-mail to the card's h/w manufacturer,
and they mention as follows:

"The PC-Eye1 or PC-Eye1+ Framegrabber you are using is
rather old. It uses a NCR875 or even a NCR825 SCSI-
controller for PCI-transfers, which has difficulties with
newer mainboards.

Nearly all of the newer mainboards use versatile PCI-
bridges which can manage more than one PCI bus. In many
cases, the on-board devices (like ethernet, sound ...)
share the PCI bus 0 and additional cards plugged into the
free PCI slots are assigned to PCI bus 1 or higher. In
other cases, there is one PCI slot assigned to PCI bus 0
and the others are assigned to bus 1 or higher.

However, our grabber isn't able to run on PCI busses
higher than bus 0, and that's why there is a rather high
probability that you won't be able to run the grabber at
all with your system."

I have tried updating the motherboard BIOS but still gets
the same results.

Is there an patch to overcome this for Win2K?


Pls help. Thank you!!

Can also reply me @ (e-mail address removed)
your help is very much appreciated!! ^_^ /

Regards
Andrew
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This is a hardware problem not a software problem. The only thing you
could do is install this card in an older computer that is compatible
with the card, as the manufacturer mentioned.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
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