PCI Ver 2.2 quetions.

[ssrgp0]

I got this Airlink wireless 802.11g PCI adaptor from Fry's with the spec of PCI Rev 2.2. I tried it on a Pentium II mobo Abit(BH6, I think it is PCI ver 2.0) and my systems got no video siginal and wouldn't boot. As soon as I took it off everything went back to normal. My question is this just a bad card? or the mobo's PCI revision is too out dated and not compitiable with the V.2.2?

TIA!

 

[AndyHui]

The BX chipset features revision 2.1 of the PCI specification.

I think you have a bad card, and your problems should not be related to PCI specification issues.

 

[Peter]

PCI 2.2 didn't really bring anything new over 2.1 on the mainboard side.

The problem often is that these wireless "PCI" cards actually consist of a PCI-CardBus adapter and a cardbus card behind it. Some desktop mainboards crash miserably when encountering that.

 

[pspada]

But the first thing I would do is to try the card in a different slot or slots - perferably with no other cards in the system at the time except for the video card, of course.