I have a old Adaptec 2410SA (PCI-X 3.3v card) that I installed in a VIA KT333 (PCI 32bit slots) based system that I am using for a test server as I study for the MCSE. Needless to say neither the BIOS or Windows 2003 detected the card which I haven't tested but as far as I know is good. From what I know most PCIX cards work in PCI slots. Did I break anything? The server works fine, I am worried about the SATA raid card. When I removed it from the system, the processor was warm so it was getting electricity.

Is there a way to make it work? I hope I didn't fry the card.

Thanks,

David

1-5 here
http://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/u [...] Sa_iug.pdf

Lists this card as being backward compatible with 32bit 33mhz PCI so no issue there

http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/produ [...] AR-2410SA/
Lists the operating temp at 0-55c and by my experience its generally very close to the hotter end of the scale.

I would try reseating it, possibly in a different PCI slot if your able to, there may have been an IRQ conflict also, which another slot should fix

Thanks, that worked. On the downside shortly thereafter the old board refused to boot . I now have to hit Newegg for a replacement CPU/Heatsink/MB/Ram. If I pull everything out and it still flashes error messages not properly listed on the MSI website, its time to replace.

you can get pci-e raid cards.

also there are desktop boards with pci-x slots.

but they cost $200+

open box $110 - $120

I suggest the PCIe (1x-16x) cards. I never heard anything good about the PCI-X. (even though I never used PCI-X)
Ok, not a helpful post. But I still beleve the PCIe is 100x more common and should be fast enough.
I will personally get a PCIe SATA RAID card as soon as I need more SATA devices because all ports are full using RAID-5 and adding RAID-0 and those Blu-Ray drives that use SATA rather than parallel.

PCI-X works in servers well enough. But most machines today use PCI-E. When I get the machine up and running, I will probably hold off until summer to get a PCIE raid card.

Thanks for the advice.

my servers that run pci-x cards versus the others without them perform marginally better.
not by much