[Soekris] soekris 4801 seems to not working after pluging an usb controler

[Nicolas Boulay]

It's common that a 3.3V pci card plug in the good way, burn out the soekris ?

2007/2/15, Jeff Quast <af.dingo at gmail.com>:
> On 2/11/07, Nicolas Boulay <nicolas.boulay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I check the NEC chip it's a PCI 2.2 compliant one. I can't see any
> > rs232 boot message.
> >
> > Beside that, the SC1100 chip heat a lot. Is it dead ?
> >
> > 2007/2/11, Nicolas Boulay <nicolas.boulay at gmail.com>:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I had plug a usb controler inside the pci port, like this :
> > > http://f-cpu.seul.org/~nico/soekris_usb.jpg (is it in the good way ?)
> > >
> > > It's a belkin card, using a NEC controller PCI 2.1 compliant. A very
> > > new card. The soekris is from 2004.
> > >
> > > I plug the power supply but nothing boot. I am affraid to burn it.
> > >
> > > The soekris seems not to boot any more after unpluging the usb card.
> > > Nothing on the rs232 line, the red and the green led stay on.
> > >
> > > Any ideas ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Nicolas Boulay
> > >
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>
> I'm sorry for your loss.
>
> I'm afraid to buy a soekris with a PCI slot for this very reason. It
> seems the very few PCI cards that do not burn out the board when used,
> do not work well anyway.
>
> It would be nice if we could compile a list of confirmed PCI cards
> (vendor's model, dmesg output/chipsets) that work in a soekris...
>
> jq
>