Good morning,
This is my first time posting to the forums, so I apologize if I miss any necessary information, but here it goes:
We have a ProLiant DL380 G5 server that is being used to host all of our backups. The need recently came about, to install a second drive array to the system, which menat making use of another PCIe slot on our riser card, however, upon installing any cards into the PCIe x8 slots, the devices aren't recognized by the computer.
When the computer reaches POST, we see the previously installed cards, which I will list below:
-PCIe x4 Slot 1 : HP P400 Controller
-PCIe x4 Slot 2 : Silicon Image SiI 3132 eSATA card
-PCIe x4 (Riser Card) Slot 3 : Silicon Image SiI 3132 eSATA card
The card that we're trying to install is another Silicon Image SiI 3132 eSATA card, and the two remaining PCIe x8 slots on the riser card seem unresponsive. We've tested putting different cards into the slots, but with no luck. We've even placed the card that we've been trying to install into one of the x4 slots, and it works there, just not in the x8 slot. Is there something that anyone can think of that we're missing?
If any additional info is needed, please let me know, and thanks for your time!