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About PCI-Express compatibility issues

Postby warumnix » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:00 pm

Edited: it applies to some other TBS PCIe products

Hello TBS users :D

Thank you for using TBS products, especially the classic one - TBS 6981 DVB-S2 dual tuner card!
Unfortunately, there are rumors spreading in some forums and maybe also some B2C platforms, we’d like to provide some information based on our tests & investigation, so that you won’t be misled by the wrong information or rumors.

“TBS 6981 has critical PCI-Express compatibility issues with many motherboards, but similar products from other brands don’t have such problems.”

This is not true, according to our current tests, there are only a few motherboards that have PCI-Express compatibility problem with the TBS 6981, of course if the problem is caused by our hardware or software, we try to fix it, please check the list below:

* Dell PowerEdge R720 server
tested, not working, Dell support refuse to help

* SuperMicro
tested, just 2 of their motherboard models not working
we have provided samples to them, and according to SuperMicro, they continue to look at it, the issue is due to "PCIe reverse lane and polarity inversion", i.e.
SuperMicro is very supportive and can offer any solution at the moment, so it is kindly recommended you contact SuperMicro and us once you have problems using SuperMicro motherboards with TBS products.

* other motherboard makers
ASRock latest motherboards are confirmed, there are 6 latest models motherboards from ASRock that were tested, they all have PCIe slots v2.0 or v3.0 and all of them works perfectly fine with all TBS cards.
- the only issue is with CX23885-13Z on motherboards with latest AMD chipsets, but CX23885-15Z is fine on those same motherboard, as well SAA716x is fine. ASRock are part of Asus and if their motherboards are fine, all Asus motherboard should be fine too.
Gigabyte was the first company when the old BIOS bug appeared, we sent samples and they are all fine since then. More or less that are all major manufacturers, as well all motherboard manufacturers use the same BIOS cores.
In fact, all PCIe interfaces we use are PCI-SIG certified, which is a fact that can be checked here:
http://www.pcisig.com/developers/compliance_program/integrators_list/pcie/

Before reporting any compatibility issue, it is very important to check if the BIOS of the motherboard you are using are up-to-date, since we have a bunch of cases where the problem was easily solved just by updating the BIOS.
PCIe specification requires mandatory backward compatibility, which means any PCIe slot v2.x or v3.x needs to support PCIe v1.x, which actually makes TBS cards the most compatible since they work in any PCIe slot.
If you are experience such issues, please do let us know, we will be glad to help and it’ll be much appreciated that you share the experience with other users here when the problem is sorted out ;)

Thank you for your attention!
warumnix
 

Re: About PCI-Express compatibility issues

Postby olivierfr » Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:35 pm

Hi,

TBS6221 with X3 OPTIFLEX 7010, BIOS updated (and older tried) : not recognized
and on a laptop with expresscard -> PCI-e : not recognized.

TBS6220 ok in thos computers but TBS6221 PCI-E not recognized.....

What can i do ?
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Re: About PCI-Express compatibility issues

Postby crazycat » Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:27 am

RMA
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Re: About PCI-Express compatibility issues

Postby steven » Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:50 pm

olivierfr Wrote:Hi,

TBS6221 with X3 OPTIFLEX 7010, BIOS updated (and older tried) : not recognized
and on a laptop with expresscard -> PCI-e : not recognized.

TBS6220 ok in thos computers but TBS6221 PCI-E not recognized.....

What can i do ?

If TBS6220 is ok,It is like your TBS6221 is broken,please contact our support to
replace a new one.

Thanks

Kind Regards

steven
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Re: About PCI-Express compatibility issues

Postby olivierfr » Sat Jul 26, 2014 2:48 am

replaced with a new one :
S/N : T6221S140300121

Same problem. OPTIFLEX 7010 with A18 latest BIOS

TBS6220 work but TBS6221 doesn't : PCI ident not recognized (not a driver problem)

LSPCI (Ubuntu) : nothing listed
WIndows : nothing listed

I don't know what to do....

Lost of time - It's a second card - what can i do ? please help....
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Re: About PCI-Express compatibility issues

Postby thunderm » Sat Oct 04, 2014 6:18 pm

Intel S5520HC board not working even with latest BIOS v64...
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TBS6285 not detected with Supermicro Avoton-Rangeley board

Postby Nowik » Wed Nov 26, 2014 11:25 pm

May be I posted at the wrong place :
viewtopic.php?f=152&t=9241

But my Tbs6285 card can't be detected by the Supermicro A1sri-2758f board with latest bios 1.0c

Any ideas ?
Thanks by advance for your help.
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Re: About PCI-Express compatibility issues

Postby crazycat » Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:26 am

so ask Supermicro about pci-e 1.0a support
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Re: About PCI-Express compatibility issues

Postby Nowik » Fri Nov 28, 2014 2:22 am

thanks crazycat

I will ask Supermicro
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Re: About PCI-Express compatibility issues

Postby Nowik » Mon May 25, 2015 11:52 pm

Hello,

I asked Supermicro for pcie 1.0a support but they didn't have a pcie 1.0a card to reproduce the compatibility issue. Also tried with latest motherboard bios v1.1. Same issue.

So the card is now sleeping in his box.
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