Additional graphic card causes ,,PCI Capacity Limit Overflow

Peter Cherry · Post by **Peter Cherry** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:01 am

Hi,
I added old S3Trio graphic card (PCI) to my computer with ASUS TUSL2 MB and ATI RAGE 128 (AGP) to have 2 monitors.

But now, when I load STS sampler, everytime ,,PCI capacity limit is reached´´.

Can you help me ?

Thanx
Peter

Post by **garyb** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:05 am

use a 2 head agp card.

Peter Cherry · Post by **Peter Cherry** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:03 am

Thanx Garyb, but it´s not the right solution of existing problem. You can advice on each problem, sell this and buy that ...

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:24 am

I think garyb's right.

Having a graphics card on the PCI bus is going to flood it with interupts and data. Bite the bullet, sell the PCI graphics card and get a dual-head AGP card.

As long as you keep the PCI graphics card, you're likely to see this error message.

Royston

valis · Post by **valis** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:44 pm

agreed

Peter Cherry · Post by **Peter Cherry** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:17 am

I must admit, that you are right, of course that new dual head graphic card is optimal solution.

Because I had another monitor and one old card, I wanted to try working with double desktop syste.

So exist any partial solution, how to partialy solve PCI overflow problem ?

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:18 pm

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:32 pm

The problem is you are running video traffic over the pci bus now, which is the cause of the problem. You need to keep the pci bus as free as possible for the creamware card so your only option is to get a dual head agp card. They are pretty cheap these days.
Video cards, ide controller cards etc are best kept off the pci bus.