Setting up an RT target - no PCI Bios

[RobDekker]

I am trying to set up a desktop PC as a RT target computer.  I ran PC eval and it can't find the network card pluged into a PCI slot.  In the scan it shows the following error -> Error:  No PCI BIOS present.  I know the network card is good because I have used it in another target computer.

The Intel D915GEV motherboard is mentioned in the Knowledge Base post: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/CB3434DA94466DD286256E9E006BB775 under aditional requirements.  I am using the following motherboard -> Intel D945GTP.  Does anyone know if the D945GTP is another board that does not have PCI BIOS support?    Is there anyway that I can update the BIOS to have the PCI BIOS or do I have to switch to a different computer?

[eek]

Hi,

You can check out the BIOS support for the D945GTP from Intel's website.

And here's potentially silly yet perhaps important question: When you run the PC Evaluation Utility, do you have an ethernet cable that connects the network to your card? It's just one of those "make sure the power is on" kind of questions. 🙂

Cheers,

Emilie Kopp | Applications Engineer | National Instruments

[RobDekker]

I have been to Intel's website but could not find PCI BIOS mentioned in their BIOS support.  I don't know a thing about the PCI BIOS except that I need it to set up an RT machine, and the PC Evaluation Utility tells me it can't find it on my computer.  Does this mean that I am out of luck trying to set the computer up as an RT target?

I did have an ethernet cable connected to the network card and the lights on the card were flashing.  No problems with the network card.  I also tried it in all the PCI slots.

[aasenjo]

Hello,

The removal of PCI BIOS support has been an increasingly common trend amongst Intel's chipsets/motherboards. This limits the capabilities of operating systems that rely on the legacy PC architecture for operations such as finding PCI and storage devices.

We are currently working on adding support for these new chipset-specific interfaces, and we hope to be supporting the most common ones in a future release of LabVIEW Real-Time. This trend might continue until the industry converges back on standard interfaces such EFI and AHCI, moving away from vendor-specific ones.

In the meantime, the only option is to find another motherboard/chipset that still supports the PCI Bios interface that LabVIEW Real-Time requires. More information about compatible systems is being compiled in this forum thread:

Desktop ETS System Compatibility - Discussion Thread

Regards,

Alejandro Asenjo
LabVIEW Real-Time R&D
National Instruments

[RobDekker]

Thanks for your help.  I will check out the discussion thread and see if I can find a motherboard with PCI support.