Solve : USB 2.0 PCI Card?

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Answer» I am wanting to know I bought a USB 2.0 PCI card for my computer when I went to put it in and I turned the computer on it will now even boot up it won't even show the screen at all it just stays black but the computer comes on. When I take it back out the computer boots up fine. This computer already has USB ports on it but they are not USB 2.0 ports. It has Windows XP in it with 112 MB of memory with a 10GB hard drive. Please if somebody could tell me what the problem is or what I can do to fix it?Return the card for a replacement...Plan on adding some memory too! That's a pretty low amount of RAM for XP.Quote from: rthompson80819 on May 23, 2010, 10:25:31 AM Plan on adding some memory too! That's a pretty low amount of RAM for XP. Good Catch Rob...112? that's an odd amount. I guess it's 128- with 16MB reserved for INTEGRATED graphics.Quote from: bud22923 on May 23, 2010, 09:52:16 AM I am wanting to know I bought a USB 2.0 PCI card for my computer when I went to put it in and I turned the computer on it will now even boot up it won't even show the screen at all it just stays black but the computer comes on. When I take it back out the computer boots up fine. This computer already has USB ports on it but they are not USB 2.0 ports. It has Windows XP in it with 112 MB of memory with a 10GB hard drive. Please if somebody could tell me what the problem is or what I can do to fix it? That's a fairly common problem with un-branded add-on cards. They will work in one computer and not another. Especially with a computer like your's which is likely at least 10 years old. Sorry I was wrong on the memory the CPU is a AMD K6 3D processor 501 MHZ And the memory is 192 MB Ram And I put in a Nvidia Ge Force FX 5200 Video card that works good on it. But I can't get the USB 2.0 PCI card going.Quote from: patio on May 23, 2010, 10:17:15 AM Return the card for a replacement... I tried the the USB card in my newer computer and it works fine so I bought a newer computer on Ebay that already has the USB 2.0 on it. I think the computer that I tried it on was just to old or the PCI slots are not working right. Thanks for all the help out there. I installed a USB 2.0 card in a 350Mhz K6-2 PC and it worked fine. Here's something interesting also- when I first installed it, I used one of my 2 free PCI slots (out of 5 total- I had a video card, SOUND card, network card and the USB 2.0 card). However- it didn't work. This was not uncommon- I switched the card to the other free slot and it worked fine. However- the slot was not dead- after I replaced the power supply, the mysterious moving failed PCI slot suddenly stopped- all DEVICES worked perfectly fine and no longer suffered curious failures. This even includes the ATI 3d Rage Pro that came with the computer and would, about half the time I boot, display various curious artifacts or the PC would beep the "no video card" POST code. Basically, what I'm saying is, it's possible, for NEARLY any symptom like this, the power supply is at fault. I would have never guessed in my case that the power supply was to blame- but the proof is in the pudding, since when I replaced it everything worked perfectly fine where it didn't before. The change was rather surprising. Also, given the situation (card works fine in a newer PC) it seems very well the case that the problem is with something else in the older PC- and since you are adding a card, and another PCI card means more power draw, it could simply be that the power supply simply cannot deal with the extra draw.Good info BC...hadn't considered that possibility...

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I am wanting to know I bought a USB 2.0 PCI card for my computer when I went to put it in and I turned the computer on it will now even boot up it won't even show the screen at all it just stays black but the computer comes on.
When I take it back out the computer boots up fine.
This computer already has USB ports on it but they are not USB 2.0 ports.
It has Windows XP in it with 112 MB of memory with a 10GB hard drive.
Please if somebody could tell me what the problem is or what I can do to fix it?Return the card for a replacement...Plan on adding some memory too! That's a pretty low amount of RAM for XP.Quote from: rthompson80819 on May 23, 2010, 10:25:31 AM

Plan on adding some memory too! That's a pretty low amount of RAM for XP.

Good Catch Rob...112? that's an odd amount. I guess it's 128- with 16MB reserved for INTEGRATED graphics.Quote from: bud22923 on May 23, 2010, 09:52:16 AM

I am wanting to know I bought a USB 2.0 PCI card for my computer when I went to put it in and I turned the computer on it will now even boot up it won't even show the screen at all it just stays black but the computer comes on.
When I take it back out the computer boots up fine.
This computer already has USB ports on it but they are not USB 2.0 ports.
It has Windows XP in it with 112 MB of memory with a 10GB hard drive.
Please if somebody could tell me what the problem is or what I can do to fix it?

That's a fairly common problem with un-branded add-on cards. They will work in one computer and not another. Especially with a computer like your's which is likely at least 10 years old. Sorry I was wrong on the memory the CPU is a AMD K6 3D processor 501 MHZ
And the memory is 192 MB Ram
And I put in a Nvidia Ge Force FX 5200 Video card that works good on it.
But I can't get the USB 2.0 PCI card going.Quote from: patio on May 23, 2010, 10:17:15 AM

Return the card for a replacement...

I tried the the USB card in my newer computer and it works fine so I bought a newer computer on Ebay that already has the USB 2.0 on it.
I think the computer that I tried it on was just to old or the PCI slots are not working right.
Thanks for all the help out there. I installed a USB 2.0 card in a 350Mhz K6-2 PC and it worked fine.

Here's something interesting also- when I first installed it, I used one of my 2 free PCI slots (out of 5 total- I had a video card, SOUND card, network card and the USB 2.0 card). However- it didn't work. This was not uncommon- I switched the card to the other free slot and it worked fine.

However- the slot was not dead- after I replaced the power supply, the mysterious moving failed PCI slot suddenly stopped- all DEVICES worked perfectly fine and no longer suffered curious failures. This even includes the ATI 3d Rage Pro that came with the computer and would, about half the time I boot, display various curious artifacts or the PC would beep the "no video card" POST code.

Basically, what I'm saying is, it's possible, for NEARLY any symptom like this, the power supply is at fault. I would have never guessed in my case that the power supply was to blame- but the proof is in the pudding, since when I replaced it everything worked perfectly fine where it didn't before. The change was rather surprising. Also, given the situation (card works fine in a newer PC) it seems very well the case that the problem is with something else in the older PC- and since you are adding a card, and another PCI card means more power draw, it could simply be that the power supply simply cannot deal with the extra draw.Good info BC...hadn't considered that possibility...

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