What is this little thing?

[pengwin]

what is that PCI add on card which tells u the errors where could i grab one of those?


thanks

 

[gOJDO]

I don't think it can work with any mainboard and chipset.

 

[sithscout80]

I think I found what you are looking for, it is a PCI POST Diagnostic Reader Card.
I think this is the card from your picture here.

That one looks to be around $250, but if you search for PCI POST Card, you'll find cheaper solutions.

 

[4745454b]

Its a PCI diagnostic card. You've never used one???
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-TECHAID
Only $23 at geeks, says it "Supports Phoenix, AMI and Award BIOS", so you should be able to use it on most motherboards. They aren't bad, but I find if your head is on straight, you could figure out whats wrong without such a beast easily enough.

 

[dokk]

what is that PCI add on card which tells u the errors where could i grab one of those?


thanks

YO Pengwin.
It's called a Post Card,,brings back a lot of memories....
Anyways my ISA Post Card has the following info on it...
By Unicore Software Inc
1538 Turnpike Street
N.Andover Mo.01845
508-868-6468....508-683-1630
BTW. Unicore does have a web address and the PCI version of the above card is 99.95 U.S....This card will work with any MOBO that has a PCI slot.
Usually such cards are/were used in pc repair shops and are very helpfull in debugging new proggies ,which interact with hardware and cause system startup failures,but they are specifically used to detect boot failures by stopping at the error code that indicates the reason for failure........
Some MOBO manufactures install them on their MOBO's ..ECS comes to mind ????.
Hope this satisfies your curiosity,,,,,)

 

[tool_462]

Not sure if other companies are doing this now, but my Abit NI8 SLI motherboard has a error report LCD built in.

 

[azrealhk]

Those were the days.

I think I still have one somewhere. Don't know if it works with new Bioses now.

 

[4745454b]

"Some MOBO manufactures install them on their MOBO's ..ECS comes to mind" Some do, ECS isn't the first however that jumps to my mind. You are probably thinking of Epox, who puts this feature in almost all of their motherboards.