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[crazydrve`]

Is that an actual PCI card? I think I have seen that error when I had a catweasle PCI card in my T7500, its an old card that lets you write floppys for other non PC systems

Yea its a pci card, Its a startech card

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AWP9LMG?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

 

[elfoam]

Yea its a pci card, Its a startech card

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AWP9LMG?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

I just happened to notice there's an option in the bios of my T5810 to allocate upper memory for the PCI slot. But I don't remember ever seeing that option in the bios of the T5500 and T7500.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Yea its a pci card, Its a startech card

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AWP9LMG?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

WOW! I understand why they made it, but it's kinda pointless as USB3.0 @6Gbps = 750MBps far exceeds the 133MBps limit of the PCI bus. It's better than USB2.0, but still. I guess every little bit helps right?

 

[KLiKzg]

WOW! I understand why they made it, but it's kinda pointless as USB3.0 @6Gbps = 750MBps far exceeds the 133MBps limit of the PCI bus. It's better than USB2.0, but still. I guess every little bit helps right?

Talk about "bottle-necking a product".

 

[lexluthermiester]

Talk about "bottle-necking a product".

Well, one look at it this way; Any improvement is an improvement. On the PCI bus, USB3.0 would effectively more than double the performance found on USB2.0(133MBps VS 60MBps), but that would be the limit.

 

[elfoam]

Old Mechnical drive hooked up to sata 3 vs old mechanical drive hooked up to a Perc H700 sas controller. Vs 2 x old mechnical drives in raid 0 on the H700. This is why I like to put a H700 in every machine. They are so inexpensive and so good.

 

[crazydrve`]

WOW! I understand why they made it, but it's kinda pointless as USB3.0 @6Gbps = 750MBps far exceeds the 133MBps limit of the PCI bus. It's better than USB2.0, but still. I guess every little bit helps right?

I was wondering about that too. Going to some speed tests, all my other slots are filled up with quad nics, I'm wanting usb3 but it will depends on speed. Right now its mostly for testing usb3 devices or light use.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I was wondering about that too. Going to some speed tests, all my other slots are filled up with quad nics, I'm wanting usb3 but it will depends on speed. Right now its mostly for testing usb3 devices or light use.

If all you have is a PCI slot, you will get a performance boost VS USB2.0, effectively double the bandwidth. It's just not optimal USB3.0. Those benchmarks should be interesting.

 

[crazydrve`]

If all you have is a PCI slot, you will get a performance boost VS USB2.0, effectively double the bandwidth. It's just not optimal USB3.0. Those benchmarks should be interesting.

I may not be able to make it work, Im getting the following error, even with the pci card out.

07/00/0: error allocating upper memory block for pci device

 

[lexluthermiester]

I may not be able to make it work, Im getting the following error, even with the pci card out.

07/00/0: error allocating upper memory block for pci device

Interesting error. Have you researched what it means? Screenshot?

 

[crazydrve`]

Interesting error. Have you researched what it means? Screenshot?

I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

Never seen that before. Weird as hell.

 

[crazydrve`]

Never seen that before. Weird as hell.

Yea no kidding

 

[KLiKzg]

Anyone had problem with T5500 about the sound with PCI card?
Have put in SB 0770, Windows 10 showed it...but no sound present in any of the mini-jacks...tried out with headphones, also nothing.
Got any ideas?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Have put in SB 0770, Windows 10 showed it...but no sound present in any of the mini-jacks...tried out with headphones, also nothing.
Got any ideas?

That's a Windows 10 problem. Microsoft changed the way sound cards are handled and many older cards are no longer seen/used properly by Windows. You will need to use DanielK's wonderful custom drivers that have a solution to that problem.

SB X-Fi Series Support Pack 5.0

This software/driver pack is unofficial, not supported by Creative Labs. Use it at your own risk. Supports the following Sound Blaster...

danielkawakami.blogspot.com

Try those and let us know if the problem persists. It shouldn't, but let us know anyway.

 

[crazydrve`]

Does anyone know if you fill all the slots on the motherboard would cause the following error?

07/00/0: error allocating upper memory block for pci device

 

[lexluthermiester]

Does anyone know if you fill all the slots on the motherboard would cause the following error?

07/00/0: error allocating upper memory block for pci device

That could be a thing. Have you tried taking one of the other cards out to see if the error continues?

 

[AwesomeMarioFan]

Hi again, I have 2 Dell T5500s and I was wondering if I should look into replacing the power supplies in them. They were manufactured 8 and 10 years ago, and the power supplies are currently working fine but I wasn't sure if I should proactively replace them or wait until they fail?

 

[crazydrve`]

That could be a thing. Have you tried taking one of the other cards out to see if the error continues?

I took the pci card out and it still shows error. Says bus #7? Any idea how to figure that out?

 

[lexluthermiester]

I took the pci card out and it still shows error. Says bus #7? Any idea how to figure that out?

Have you tried standard troubleshooting methods, IE taking all the cards out, one by one, until the error goes away? I'm afraid I have no idea what that error is. Never seen it before.

 

[crazydrve`]

That could be a thing. Have you tried taking one of the other cards out to see if the error continues?

I took the pci card out and it still shows error. Says bus #7? Any idea how to figure that out?

Have you tried standard troubleshooting methods, IE taking all the cards out, one by one, until the error goes away? I'm afraid I have no idea what that error is. Never seen it before.

I took the pci card out but not the others, will do that this weekend

Only thing I can think of is mine can't take all the slots filled.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Only thing I can think of is mine can't take all the slots filled.

Possible.

 

[unoproph]

Just wanted to drop by and say thanks for the help and guidance from the group here to get the best out of this machine. Last thing I did was to go ahead and sell my RX570 because I did find a never opened evga GTX 1060 6gb that will work for my needs for $120. So after the swap it was only a difference of $20 for the ability to have better OpenGL support... and a new card too rather than one I dont know the whole history of.

One thing I ran across and wanted the opinion of the group here was the Spectre and Meltdown Anti-Hacking built into Windows and if anyone here turns them off from the InSpectre tool from GRC? I only ran across this from a Tech Yes City Video on Youtube from last week talking about X58 chipsets and how he turns this off to boost performance. He claimed up to 10%. Just wondering if anyone has used this and seen this boost?

Thanks.
Uno

 

[elfoam]

One thing I ran across and wanted the opinion of the group here was the Spectre and Meltdown Anti-Hacking built into Windows and if anyone here turns them off from the InSpectre tool from GRC? I only ran across this from a Tech Yes City Video on Youtube from last week talking about X58 chipsets and how he turns this off to boost performance. He claimed up to 10%. Just wondering if anyone has used this and seen this boost?

Thanks.
Uno

I switch it off on the T7500 I use to play some games on or if I want to go for a big benchmark, it makes a bit of a difference.

 

[lexluthermiester]

One thing I ran across and wanted the opinion of the group here was the Spectre and Meltdown Anti-Hacking built into Windows and if anyone here turns them off from the InSpectre tool from GRC? I only ran across this from a Tech Yes City Video on Youtube from last week talking about X58 chipsets and how he turns this off to boost performance. He claimed up to 10%. Just wondering if anyone has used this and seen this boost?

I switch it off on the T7500 I use to play some games on or if I want to go for a big benchmark, it makes a bit of a difference.

I do the same as well.

On my T3500, the difference depended on the type of task being performed, but the average was about 10% to 12%. The Spectre & Meltdown exploits are incredibly difficult to pull off in the real world and effectively require physical access to your machine to deploy.

Unless you have anything worth such an effort, you have effectively nothing to worry about. Shut it off, reboot and delete the files " mcupdate_AuthenticAMD.dll " & " mcupdate_GenuineIntel.dll " found in the System32 folder inside the Windows folder.