PCIe Card Doesn't Work? Try This!

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Timestamps:
0:00 I fixed this PCIe card with tape
0:35 What this fix is and why it works
2:35 The process
3:30 Why this is beneficial for you

[pendefig]

SMBUS devices have a hard coded address, it sounds like the card responds to an address that conflicts with something on the mother board that is critical to the POST.

[alexanderthegray]

Tape is apparently a great fix. I have an 8TB backup hard drive in my main PC running 24/7 and it has pins taped to make it work. I pulled the internal HDD out of the WD usb enclosure, and they have proprietary info that goes out one of the unused 3.3v pins, and you have to tape it to get the drive to show up outside of its expected WD enclosure.

[TheQuickSilver]

This is quite interesting. A friend of mine did something similar with a HDD enclosure. He took the drive out of the enclosure, covered some pins and he now has an expensive drive that he paid a fraction of the original price for because he bought it in an enclosure. Thank you!

[zoomzabba]

Kapton tape would be my reccomendation for electrical isolation

[doq]

I ran into this with a RAID card one time. I guess ex-server hardware just needs this literal patch sometimes.

[hegolikit]

I love that a commenter helped you, that's so cool! Good job, guys. This is very interesting, thanks for sharing! In simple terms, this means that taping these pins will interrupt communication between the bus and the network card.

[Nobe_Oddy]

I find it amazing that people figure this stuff out! - Such an AMAZING fix!!!

[amplifire]

I'm so happy you made a video on this, i spent so much time trying to figure it out, i hope your video helps people having this issue

[incandescentwithrage]

If you're careful, you can just cut the tracks on the board.
Did it on a Dell RAID controller to make it work on consumer boards.

It still worked in the original server too.

Edit: oh well you covered it anyway

[bobbyLovesTech]

Love those videos - soooo interesting and insightful. Has inspired me to tinker around at home! Thank you

[cheeseisgreat]

I love nifty little fixes like this, it’s the kind of thing that once you have the tool in your toolbelt, you will never want to forget it.

[arpent]

Perfect timing for a video. This literally reencountered this issue 2 hours before you posted this. I have a OptiPlex 5060 and a Precision 3430 with the same CPU. The Mellanox connect3 cards I have work in the OptiPlex but not in the precision unless I take the ram stick out of dimm slot 1. I'm going to have to do the tape fix on it.

[DavidVincentSSM]

oh.. nice transition when inserting the ram.. very nice!

[dasago]

Ruth's footage does make up for the short video 🥰

[krazykidmusic]

It’s crazy how people figure this out but hey! Great PSA video and I love how you try to figure out what is going on. I will definitely keep this in my back pocket if I run into problematic server hardware myself!

[Mihai-Marian-Cenusa]

Hi, my pleasure!! You really did the video....well done!!Looking forward for next videos!!

[white_mage]

neat. i'll be saving this for future troubleshooting.

[yren]

If there's an option in bios, you can disable smbus in bios too.

[pkf]

Oh the irony I just got one of these at work and was unaware that it would only work in my server. Had planned for it to go in a workstation I use for editing. Well now it can. Thanks to you .

[FlashPan]

This is a good shout....Have done similar with various dell perc cards for years to add them to none dell systems.