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PCI USB expansion card causes CMOS error
The USB expansion card is a Via Vectro vt6202 that I scavenged from an old build whose motherboard fried when the cooling fan suddenly stopped working (it was an OLD build, CPU couldn't shut off automatically when the temp got too high, and I know most boards have been able to do that for about 10 years).
It was tested working in another PC ( emachines T3124, its older than my little sister but it still works so I use it to test stuff, I upgraded it from 512mb to 768mb of RAM, which can comfortably run Windows 7 with aero turned off, although I do dual boot with Android x86 4.4 because why not), so I know the card isn't broken. The PC I'm trying to install it in is a Lenovo Thinkserver TS140 , which I upgraded to 8gb RAM (ECC of course, I know I don't need enterprise grade stuff but I hate blue screens and corrupted files) and put a 1TB Seagate Barracuda in.
When I put the USB expansion card into the PCI slot, and press the power button, it gives me a CMOS error (2 beeps), which means the card is incompatible with the BIOS. This doesn't make sense to me because PCI-e (the Lenovo) is supposed to be software backwards compatible with PCI (the expansion card). How do I get it to work?
EDIT: Its a full-size pcie, so its not like I'm trying to stick a big card into a tiny hole.
Last edited by seankurth; 08 Jan 2015 at 23:41.