Can an external PCI-Express to PCI adapter work? Sort of...

[@draggonhedd]

the sata power connector is exactly that, it provides power to the board for higher power cards.

[@CalintzJerevinan546]

^SATA not sata

[@chuuni6924]

This. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the reason it didn't work on the bench computer is precisely because of the lack of power to that connector. Without it, power on the PCI side might just be unstable and depending on the exact motherboard power delivery, especially given that the host-side adapter card doesn't seem to have any kind of intelligent power circuitry to convert all those different PCIe power rails to the probably only one power cable in that USB cable.

[@technikfreak9859]

Donald J Trump who cares? sata SATA sAtA SaTa SAta saTA sATa

[@lepompier132]

@@CalintzJerevinan546 It's not a linux problem lol.

[@CalintzJerevinan546]

@@technikfreak9859 You're an idiot. Go back to school kid.

[@BandanazX]

Check the block diagram for the motherboard. Sometimes the 1x slots are already behind a PCI hub logically. As others have mentioned, a different slot might work.

[@bryanpratt3933]

The x1 slot you used was probably on the PCH and not direct to the CPU. Plug it into one of the x16 slots near the top and it may work fine.

[@DEMENTO01]

He's using them for the graphics card. Might worth a try just to be sure

[@niyablake]

@@DEMENTO01 It's the bios. Not all newer machines will do in 13h. If does not older scsi cards will not work

[@chrisparussin5359]

Niya Blake my Z170 motherboard has a pci connector (asus Z170-A)

[@saddle1940]

@No No That's a bit harsh! I came in here to say I was surprised that anything worked with just the power delivered down a usb cable due to constraints with voltage/current. Didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition on the chap. The SATA power plug looks to me it will probably get in the way of any card plugged in as it's vertical out of the backplane board. Might need some soldering and some short wires to fix that.

[@saddle1940]

@No No Still a bit tall, lots of cards have PCB in that area.

[@ceilingsoldier]

I bought one of these 2 years ago for my X99 system as it has no PCI slots and I had an older DVB tuner card I wanted to use. It worked fine for about 4-6 months and then it blew up taking out all the PCI-E slots on the motherboard. The way these things power the PCI cards is badly designed and it will still switch on and work even if the auxiliary SATA power connector isn't used. It has no overload protection so if the cards draw too much power over the PCI-E connection then you run the risk of damaging the motherboard as I did. The power connector on mine was also positioned badly where longer PCI cards would get in the way so I had to makeshift an angled connector that was shallow enough to fit. I wouldn't recommend using these on any motherboard you can't afford to damage and instead just buy the PCI-E equivalent of whatever expansion card you need or pay more for a better branded one such as Startech.

[@magog6852]

take note: videos like this are a masterpiece of youtube history. The presentation and suspense is great. Thanks man.

[@adamsteelproducer]

I know i'm late to this, but here's an explanation of the SATA power connector. A lot of external gear used to have Molex power connectors, those provide 12V and 5V. SATA connectors, when made properly, also have 3.3V on another lead - and traditional PCI needs 3.3 and 5V to support all equipment. Easier than having a step-down converter on the board

[@hbkirb]

You’re right in thinking that kind of chip usually goes on a motherboard. If you check the block diagram in the manual of a recent motherboard with PCI slots, you’ll see “PCIe to PCI Bridge”. Later graphics cards also did this but in the reverse way, so they could design the card for PCIe and then port it to AGP by simply sticking this kind of bridge chip on the board.

[@supremerulah420]

Out of curiosity, does the BIOS on the bench computer have a setting related to "Allow option ROMS" or something to that effect?

[@supremerulah420]

@@adriansdigitalbasement OK.. just a thought. I should have known better that you would be aware of it :)

[@mikegravgaard340]

@@supremerulah420 There might be an opton for legacy hardware. I had an issue recently where an LSI SAS controller woudn't show its POST screen.

[@mikegravgaard340]

This will be tghe case as non-EFI hardware. Adaptec card is from 1999 according to its copyright.

[@steingat]

I am also going to assume that Secureboot is OFF in this configuration. Legacy Roms will not load with secureboot enabled. It might also be worth it to turn off UEFI, Post the computer, and see if you get a Adaptec confituation screen at post

[@xnonsuchx]

As others said, you may need to go through all BIOS settings and make sure anything 'legacy' is enabled. Personally, any PC I build, I always get a motherboard w/ 2-3 legacy PCI slots just in case I need them (and I didn't want to have to buy new PCIe cards for things I did have).

[@seeindarkness]

First power the adatper with the SATA power cable, second you need to look in hte BIOS of the other computer to enable looking for Other Bioses, remember that you are trying to boot a BIOS on a UEFI system (which might not work)

[@communalnoodle1356]

This is the correct answer. An old Bios card won't start in an Uefi environment. You'd need to set it back to Bios (can be done on lost boards)

[@SergiuszRoszczyk]

Double notch on Adaptec card is to mark the card as compatible with either 3.3V and 5V PCI standard. And yes, this card is officially 32/64 bit. Second notch on extended part marks it also as a 66 MHz capable. I have one on my Dell server. The only 64-bit PCI card I ever used ;-)

[@brassj67]

Did you try plugging it into another PCI express slot? I have had issues with slots and plugged into another spare slot and had success. Hope you get it working

[@willyarma_uk]

Last year I bought a selection of PCI to PCIe adapters and vice versa and risers, I managed to get an NVidia Quadro NVS 295 working on a Pentium II ! Out of a big tub of cards that I have its the only one that would POST. I got H.264 hardware video decoding working in XP !!! Love your videos BTW.

[@Irongrip62]

I've used a very similar product as a GPU raiser. You need to connect the sata power cable. They work okish.

[@jr540123]

Agreed. I use something like this to turn a 1x port to 16x for gpu support on boards that otherwise cannot or will not fit a full sized gpu.

[@holzwurm_hd7029]

5:10 ... You didnt connect the Sata power cable...

[@frankhernandez2833]

It actually begins at 3:03 in the video. He mentions that he's not sure if it's actually a sata power connection.

[@holzwurm_hd7029]

@@frankhernandez2833 I know. I just wrote my comment before he said it. I almost always watch every video until the end.

[@hussainalikahlini6803]

Yes 🤣🤣🤣 old but (didnt connect the Sata power cable) How Work !!!

[@priestblood]

Add additional power using the SATA power plug as you might not have enough through pcie x1 ,plug in a sata power cable as well on the board and should work on main PC.Worked for me

[@ineedanewhobby3669]

1. There's a SATA power plug on the PCI board, maybe the power delivery is not present on the gigabyte? 2. some cards don't play nice with some motherboards, as the standards weren't there for a long time.

[@Douglasvj]

I don't know for sure but I suspect Linux could find and configure the bridge. It seems to do pretty well at dealing with things that lack BIOS support. Of course, then you'd have to use Linux to read/write the SCSI stuff.

[@Skull_Gun]

Looks like a neat way of hooking up a GPU + Soundcard to a small Win98 computer with no decent expansion room

[@awilliams1701]

I've never heard of a windows 98 machine with pci express before.

[@Skull_Gun]

@@awilliams1701 Yes official support is non existent! But there are some modified chipset inf files which supposedly support a range of intel chips here: www.windows98.xf.cz/ I happen to have a Intel 915 Pentium 4 and Intel P35 QuadCore PCI-E board handy which are mentioned to be supported which I was planning to test and will get back to you how well those go! Something else to check: msfn.org/board/topic/107001-compatible-hardware-with-windows-9x/

[@UpLateGeek]

It'd be interesting to see if you booted from a Linux live CD, if it picks up the bridge and the card in lspci.

[@dcfuksurmom]

what you said is only partially true, ive seen cards not be detected at all in windows (not even as an unknown device), that would fire up and work fine with no configuration in linux. linux simply has better hardware detection.

[@someguy4915]

@@dcfuksurmom Hardware detection is not done by the operating system in that manner, Windows uses largely hal.dll for that, Linux has several different methods but in the end detection such as these PCI(e) cards is done by the BIOS, not the OS unless hotswap support is present and enabled, which it usually isn't. So no, Linux does not do 'better hardware detection', that's just something said by those who didn't understand why something didn't work as they wanted it to. Linux might have better support for certain devices, where Windows might have better support for certain other devices, detection however is done mostly at the physical level by chip logic, not the operating system.

[@wishusknight3009]

It is a power issue. I am running the identical setup nearly to you, and I had to use a 90 degree sata power plug which I still needed to shave a little bit, and at that the pci card is only about 90% in the slot, but IT WORKS... Some motherboards react differently to power requirement signals on the pcie slots. That contraption has no logic to tell the motherboard what its power requirements are, so the motherboard will use whatever default is set by its maker. And its probably 5 or 10 watts only. The wyse may be giving the max of 25 watts or have a slightly higher voltage which is just enough for the card to work.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

I think it is working on one machine (but not the other machine) for either of two reasons: Either, it might be an IRQ conflict whereby the bigger machine has some other bandwidth priority for something on or in the motherboard (whereas the smaller board has less on it to use up bandwidth to cause that)... ...Or it might be the DMA on the smaller board. The reason I think this might be the case is that the thin-client would be part of a range of computers designed to go with business-class server hardware which expects to have weird expansion cards in it that have those odd DMA setups. There is an interesting Mark Furneaux channel video whereby he demonostrates how some business class expansion cards can have a strip on their PCI/Pci-e connector masked with tape so as to prevent domestic class hardware (mboards) rejecting it. I'll try to dig out the hyperlink if it helps.

[@MichaelGiacomelli]

We use enclosure style PCI to pcie adapters at work to interface old PCI data acquisition hardware to modern Intel hardware. They're a couple hundred bucks but include the power supply and are a lot more secure. Regarding compatibility, they should work with literally anything. PCIe is backwards compatible with PCI, so all that device is doing is serialization/deserialization. I've never had a device not work with ours, and we have some funky old hardware. Might want to spend a few bucks more though, for $15 I wouldn't expect much.

[@phillstevenson4931]

I have used these to expand out an single 16x machine to have 4 different cards, scsi, fiber channel, esata, and SAS. For a customer of mine didnt use the same wine you did, but same concept I know all the extensions needed to have power to work but the worked flawless out a 16x slot.

[@ivanfidelis]

Hi Phills, it was a long time ago. But, if you still using theses adapters, can you tell me if all of them are working fine, no problem at all?, You know, I´m doing a lot of researching on this, and besides the friend here that had his motherboard trashed after his adapter exploding, I found nothing likely in several users testing those, and on the relative comments either. But you know, we need just one to get worried =/ tnx for your time...

[@DihelsonMendonca]

Excellent, I need an adapter like that because I have tons old PCI cards ( Not PCI express ) and I wanted to use them on new computers !

[@PapaMurphTV]

Had the same issue with a mining rig, I believe there's a bios setting you need to change if I remember correctly

[@RAMChYLD]

I think it's a BIOS compatibility issue. What you want is to turn on CSM support on your motherboard. Also check BIOS settings to allow RAID card interrupt. It sounds like the Adaptec card does not support UEFI (and indeed, I do not expect it to).

[@CircsC]

I hope you've got a follow-up video on this thing. I absolutely know they usually work. I passed several PB worth of data to tape over ike 5 years at an underfunded non-profit. No more failed verifications than when it was using a native PCI-X card. Get it some power and preferably a slot wired not to the PCH, but the CPU.

[@elmariachi5133]

I'd check for the INT19h option in BIOS. But honestly, regarding the requirements, it was clearly a misstake changing the system at all. Any quad core should have been enough for flashing and such, and PCI was there ;) Now with this newer system I would ditch the Adaptec and simply use an USB-SCSI-Adapter.

[@GetMoGaming]

I bought one for my E-MU 1616M to plug into my 13900k z790 Hero. I can't part with this sound card, it's *PERFECTION* for a sound designer. But it's not showing up in DM, and so I am wondering if I need to plug power into this external adapter to get it to work, but I'm afraid in case I burn something out. Apparently, you can still get it to work... if you can get it to show up in DM. There are also 5v/3.3v jumpers on mine for each slot.

[@ivanfidelis]

Hey Man, did you put your E-MU 1616M to work on this adapter?, I got a similar one, just the SATA plug is placed on the side of the PCI slot. I tested my X-FI Fatal1ty Platinum Champion Edition and all working flawlessly, the modes, the I/O drive, specially the volume, 100% ok. If you did put your to work, can you tell me for how long is it working? tnx

[@GetMoGaming]

@@ivanfidelis No, it didn't work. I contacted the supplier, and they offered a return, but as it was cheap I kept it. I may try it again, as Windows 11 was pretty new then, so maybe they've added some compatibility drivers. The 1616m still works on my older PC though, but the only thing with it is the S/P Diff has some syncing issues, but I'm not sure if that digital clock issue is the EMU or my Stanton str8-150 turntables which are quite old now. If your adapter works, can you let me know where you got it from exactly, as I may give it a try.

[@ivanfidelis3829]

@@GetMoGaming ow. I almost forgot, my Xfi and 2 other simple pci boards worked flawlessly with the SATA 5 threads plugged on. And I tested too without the SATA, none worked without it, they dont even show in device manager, like they were not even connected...

[@pmf026]

Oscar winning 'duh I've never seen riser card before' part. 10/10 mate

[@НикитаДёмочкин-й3ж]

I was thinking about buying same adapter for the very same reason (I needed SCSI interface on my home server to access the tape library). Ended up with LSI PCI-E SCSI card however, cause I didn't have any SCSI adapter at hand that time around, but for those who have conventional PCI cards these adapters seem like quite an option

[@fu1r4]

You can use an angled SATA power connector and that SCSI card is a 64 bits PCI, so you can cut off the connections that are not connected. Now you should be able to get it to fit.

[@torskiz6115]

This room is AMAZING!

[@Zerbey]

I ran into the same issues you did, I had a use case for a SCSI card in a brand new machine and bought one of these adapters. I didn't get the SCSI BIOS to appear, but Linux did at least see the SCSI card as a PCI device. However, when I tried to load the drivers it just wouldn't initialize. Tried several different SCSI cards and had the same results. I think it's highly dependent on the system and whether or not the BIOS has support for legacy systems. So, if it works for you, great!

[@TimmyJoePCTech]

Did you try another PCI-E Slot on the Gigabyte mobo? Maybe go through the bios on the gigabyte system, you may need to enable something, change UEFI mode to legacy mode? Maybe change your sata config from AHCI to IDE? Maybe you need to plug a sata connector in ? I'm sure you could get it working.

[@asanjuas]

Force legacy oproms in the UEFI, because the i7 is UEFI not BIOS.

[@nathanronin2933]

I know it's kinda randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to stream new tv shows online?

[@chloedevereaux1801]

@@asanjuas its running in legacy mode.... he stated this at the beginning..... even my 7700k mobo has legacy support

[@wskinnyodden]

You should also add the sata connector for proper power on the PCI slots.

[@caffeinepizza]

If your bench computer uses UEFI, you need to enable CSM support for option cards or something similar. That might work.

[@ryanpaaz]

Think it has anything to do with the new computer uses UEFI and the SCSI uses bios on boot.

[@christopherhauck4702]

when using pci-e/pci bridge cards a large number of motherboards larger than 4 expansion slots use a "pci-e switch" and often fail to recognize the nested bridge cards in lower slots always try to use bridge cards in the topmost slots (often a x1 is just above the x16 gou slot) otherwise refer to the motherboard manual over which slots are directly connected to cpu lanes (often the "gen 2" listed lanes are NOT cpu lanes but instead switched lanes)

[@lepompier132]

Adrian, You could retry by putting the internal interface PCIe on a longer 16x slot. by using the 1X slot it's maybe too slow to detect the scsi card. On that other wise pc, you plugged it on a 16X slot and it did see the card. And if it does see that card, if you want to plug in an external SCSI drive, be sure to supply external power to that interface card or external drive. One other option. They sell riser card about two inch high inline with the PCIe slot and on top you have a PCI slot with no usb cable or anything else. It's a strait PCIe to PCI interface. The only draw back you can't put the side cover because the card will have two inch extend outside the frame of the case. An other one would be to find a flexible 16X PCIe to PCI ribbon interface the external board has two slot, one PCI and one PCIe ad you help for the power with one molex or Sata power connector to the external. Many PC Mod builder use these special interface when they move the video card horizontal or the MB is not close to the video card.

[@ratcatcher4804]

That looks like a Z97 gaming G1 motherboard. Extremely stable and could probably stay powered on for 20 years. I have a UD5H and it has a bridge for pci and 2 slots. Theres settings in the bios for pci. There might be some too for the G1.

[@DirtyBob7777]

Those 29160's are god damn indestructable. Seagate 15k sata iii drives are fast but are damn loud and run hot. I have a seagate 5gb and i swear it sounds like a f15 jet. Raided scsi is almost a fast as a ssd. Nice thing about scsi they can handle multi read and write instructions and still maintain the same speed. Ide is basically one operation at a time.

[@metalmusic1401]

That was a great video perhaps you can check the BIOS in your newer computer to see if it supports Legacy ROM options this is used to display bios messages from older cards. If the new computer uses uefi the Legacy roms may not be initialised or displayed have a look for the option Legacy option ROM or something like that it's different for many motherboards

[@chuck2501]

I'd suggest you tell the BIOS to force the gen of the PCIE to GEN1 as it may be in auto or GEN3.

[@dabombinablemi6188]

This makes me glad that I was able to get a decent H97 board that has 2x PCI slots. Look for Gigabyte's lower end LGA1150 motherboards. Even some Z87 boards have PCI (warning: The boards can be fussy with the RAM installation/config).

[@MrGencyExit64]

lol, you're like a fish out of water with modern hardware. There's something comforting about that.

[@mracdcjailbreak]

startech pci to pcie adapter is fantastic, works easy, takes a molex power plug already in most psu's and when my copy died after a year they sent me a new one for free. I use mine to run an old scsi card that drives a canon film scanner. tested working windows 10 64 bit

[@succuvamp_anna]

Only problem I can think of is your desktop is in UEFI mode and that card may not support it.

[@chuuni6924]

That should only affect the boot ROM, which shouldn't be necessary for the OS to pick it up.

[@Auberge79]

Besides all other issues I have an idea. I think this card could be installed into ATX case along with Micro-ATX motherboard as kind of extension. So there's no need to put devices on your desk. Just screw everithing where it was supposed to be.

[@Elios0000]

sure why not? Failoverflow got PCIe running over 9600baud serial in asci mode... that card you have is PCI-X card and may not work on a PCI 2.1 card slot

[@FPVphilly]

Thanks for another awesome video Adrian.

[@BonkedByAScout]

I have multiple brands of PCI-E to PCI adapters, I've had success with all of them. I use them to pass PCI devices to WIndows 98 VMs. Works best on Intel procs.

[@piecaruso97]

I have the extact same adater and i could get it to work with some cards, i will try some of the things you suggested and some of the others people suggested in the comments, thanks for all the info

[@jasonknight1085]

Because I still use both my Emu Morpheus (4x Emu10k on one card with half a gig of RAM) and an Audigy 2 ZS (mostly for the front 5.25" bay support) I run one of these adapters on my machine and it works a treat. I've actually got the system in a Rosewill Thor case, which ahs 10 slot mobo support. Rather than mounting it externally, double-sided taped the adapter in the bottom two empty slots, the remaining slot worth of space between the mobo and the adapter being just enough room for that USB 3 cable's hood to fit. Giving me working PCI on what's now a Ryzen 5 3600. The only issue is the dumbass placement of the sata power, and that's easily rectified with a 90 degree adapter... which is where you F**ed up by not connecting power to it.

[@holzwurm_hd7029]

... Its only now that i have read the description. Maybe a 90° Sata power adapter? or soldering the cable onto the motherboard?

[@pojcharapoltosukowong]

I recently got one of these for my Adaptec 19160 aswell, mine particular adapter board use Asmedia 1083 PCIe-PCI bridge. And it seems to be more compatible with most PCIe slots, regardless if its a CPU direct bus or chipset bus. Although i personally enable legacy mode in the BIOS, just to ensure better compatibility.

[@omfgbunder2008]

Check your bios for an "option ROM" setting, it should be on

[@David_Phantom]

Did you happen to watch the video "Bits & more by René Rebe" did on this exact thing? Do you even know who he is? If not, I recommend you check him out. That SATA connect is for extra power from the PSU. It needs extra power to work properly. I honestly don't understand how it worked without extra power with the WYSE computer.

[@David_Phantom]

@@adriansdigitalbasement That's why I'm so confused. The SATA power, in my experience, is required for the adapter to work. Yet, the adapter worked on a machine incapable of supplying that power. I do not understand.

[@jeffhalebopp]

David Phantom, thanks for mentioning the "Bits & more by René Rebe" channel. I just subscribed.

[@mahlapropyzm9180]

"I honestly don't understand how it worked without extra power with the WYSE computer." It probably depends on how much power is being consumed by other components versus how much the respective PSUs can deliver to the PCIE bus.

[@Romerco77]

Of course it does not work in the big computer as that thing has UEFI, but it works in the thinclient because it uses BIOS, and scsi cards use Bios extension to initialise. Glad to see these chineese things actually work though

[@DD-jk3nf]

Plug the Sata power connector in, just use an L-Shape right angle Sata power adapter. The bigger card will draw far more power than the smaller cards. There is nothing sketchy about these bridges at all, they are essentially what is built onto motherboards. The USB cable is just used for ease, its nothing to do with USB, it's just a high data rate cable for connecting the two boards. Overall you can make an adapter for any bus to bus, Chinese manufacturers are chucking out loads of interfaces from this to that.

[@rokero171]

I've been searching for a similar solution for me, i'm upgrading my rig, but I have a PCI capture card that I can't afford to lose, is a great analog capture card that captures S-video flawlesly, I hope that you find a way to make this thing work, and do a follow up video...

[@Treveliian]

i'm thinking part of the problem might be the SCSI card draws too much power for the adapter alone. i think you need the sata power connector connected to your psu aswell.

[@alextirrellRI]

@@adriansdigitalbasement Right angle power cable, perhaps?

[@Treveliian]

@@adriansdigitalbasement oh i was thinking one of the angled 90 connectors , but must be a bios issue

[@PrimalNaCl]

I have this (AHA29160 even) working on my Asus Zenith Extreme TR1950X system. I was using it to pull data off of all my old Jazz disks. Works great. CSM needs to be enabled obviously.

[@lexsmith8689]

not necessarilly.. i have scsi card in bios mode and i didn´t have to switch either csm on nor I had to disable secure boot.. it´s strongly dependent on your hardware, knowledge and skills.. it´s just that you let your os do the work.. you download the right drivers for the card along with manager utility (LSI has the best support in this case) and you can make it all work in Windows (for me that is) in gui.. I had plenty through the years and I´ve encountered problem only once when the vendor refused my query if there still are drivers he once supplied - i got no answer so I had to fall to linux and I solved the issue but otherwise I had no problems with cards like this..

[@PrimalNaCl]

@@lexsmith8689 - The 29160 worked out of the box for Windows 10 and Linux when I needed to do this about 6ish months prior to this video. Wrt to "knowledge/skills" bit, the CSM comment was for booting off of a device attached to the card (e.g. Jazz drive). As the card does not have UEFI-compliant firmware it cannot be used to _boot_ a system that does not have legacy (CSM) support enabled. It has nothing to do any nebulous "1337 h4x0r 5ki11z". If you do not care about booting from it, then yes, it's purely a driver issue.

[@lexsmith8689]

@@PrimalNaCl that´s what I meant.. ;-) cuz many too often people think and make the mistake I wrote about even if there ain´t no need for it, and some "wise" guys tell them to do so.. and then the people do.. and if there´s somethin´ I dislike then it´s misleading those in need of help..

[@PrimalNaCl]

@@lexsmith8689 Ah. Ok. Apologies if I was unclear.

[@bribi5940]

I'm a bit late, but the SCSI card probably didn't work on the Gigabyte mobo because it was in UEFI mode. The SCSI card requires the motherboard to boot in Legacy mode, in order to load its firmware.

[@VHSBits]

I've noticed a lot of comments saying to do this or that in the bios but once Windows is loaded the bios support is irrelevant unless you're trying to boot from it. As I understand it Windows should enumerate the devices attached to PCI-E regardless of bios support - I had a PCI graphics card that had a corrupted VGA bios that still worked once Windows had loaded. I think the issue is more likely an incompatibility with PCI-E 2.0/3.0 and the USB cable weirdness.

[@JmanNo42]

Adrian i wonder could you do a follow up video for this one, i am curious if you can get old soundcards like sblive, audigy 1 and 2 work under windows 10, using the "old drivers installing them as administartor using compability mode". I recently bought an aloder digital mixer that i got working in Windows 10 using windows 2000 drivers , i just had to install the drivers using compability mode as adminstrator. I am currently thinking of buying an adapter to use with my old PCI "Adat soundcards", but if the machines do not even recognize the soundcards i guess the whole approach is mot. That it did not work with SCSI does not necessarily mean that it will not work with a soundcard? What do you think will the adapter recognize old PCI soundcards?

[@SidneyCritic]

I suppose you could swap out the SATA power with a right angled one, or just hard solder a lead with plug to it.

[@JmanNo42]

Is there anyway to test how much latency such an adapter card produce /introduce "if any?", i was thinking for soundcards. I have ADAT cards "i have seen one affordable solution for PCI-E" but otherwise they are expensive beyond my budget and i was thinking maybe a PCI-E to PCI solution could work.

[@MatthewSuffidy]

That actually makes for some good sense to make like a USB bridged bus, because it would possibly overcome signal spec issues, but could have some lag issues. I was wondering about like a big case, using some mount points to use slots beyond the motherboard. Recently when I got a new motherboard, I got an older, more expensive Prime 350B plus because I wanted my Audigy 2 card still. There are 2 pci slots and 1 is blocked by a 3 slot gpu.

[@AureliusR]

It's not actually USB, they're just using USB cables as a cheap, easy way to pass signals back and forth.

[@meemee1357]

Wow, I actually have a adaptec scsi card 39160. It works amazingly.

[@zebart]

Do you have a legacy boot option in the Gigabyte BIOS ? Latest BIOS update?

[@deineroehre]

If you'd have an Big tower you could mount this on the normal extension slot area below the mainboard and use the internal Sata Power Connector.

[@richardwernst]

Don't know specifics, but more than likely there IS some setting on the newer system to allow that to work.

[@darkwind9000]

I'm surprised that gigabyte board doesn't have a pci slot. I have one on my gigabyte z97-ud3h board with my 4790k.

[@judgegroovyman]

A friend of mine has this kind of thing working en masse in his mining rig. I hope you get it working

[@scifreaks]

Legacy USB port option? Sata port is for power as the USB is for signal of the pci lane Sata connector draws the power that's required for the skuz card. My Ide 133/100 pci raid card had to draw extra power.

[@WXSTANG]

Those are mining risers... but yes they tend to work for randomness. :) You will need to enable 4G decoding for some systems. Intels are a little more finiky for that. Depends on the bios. Also, for higher power devices, you need to connect the sata cable for devices that need larger amounts of power.

[@terje2005]

There are quite a few Z97 boards with one or more PCI slots. You would probably want one of the higher end models as the 4790k is quite demanding. Quite expensive to buy new old stock ones though.

[@virtualtools_3021]

There's even b450 with PCI

[@nucflashevent]

Ideally you would have another case sitting next to your PC, those boards are roughly the same thickness as a normal motherboard so imagine an empty case, you could plug that card into one of the external slot openings, have the adapter below it like the motherboard would be and then route the USB cable out of the case and to your main system with the adapter installed.

[@paulmaydaynight9925]

you will need to add the sata power to the included signal adaptor board connector to make it work properly usually,as most older pci use the universal voltage PCI cards (3.3V/5V) and so need the extra power to boot properly, still far simpler than hacking and soldering ribbon cable to the right spaced reclaimed connectors for fitting the original a590 with original unpopulated pins of the Shugart ST506 mfm/xt with a real 5 megabytes after formatting,and scsi tape/drives installed to the reversed a1000a2000 expansion connector :), zx81 flappy external 16k ram expansion style, that was real fun back in the day. alas i never really did get Commodore's official licenced port of AT&T System V Release 4 Unix working there, everything else worked fine. oh and pci are always keyed on the right with the back slot facing left so you where fine...

[@esra_erimez]

I tried to give this video a "thumbs sideways" but gave it a HUGE thumbs up and subbed!

[@MatthewSuffidy]

That's a real doosey that Adaptec, but expecting BIOS interaction as well as windows response is asking a lot out of something connected through USB. When I got my computer I got a Ryzen socketed one with pci and pcie so I could use my old audigy 2. Half the motherboard is blocked by my strix 970oc.

[@raysmith5124]

90 degree SATA power plug on to the side board would be needed as the scsi cards has a high "draw" & slow the bus down on the overclocked machine . enable legacy support and add some harddrive delay if it has the option . he already said it had trouble booting sometimes which is prob due to memory or bus timings slightly out . Modern bios would quickly cycle power up & adjust a few times before allowing boot but by that time its already skipped or failed to boot the card . bur sometimes things just don't like each other ... lol

[@paulisthebest3uk]

As Timmy Joe PC Tech said, (i know its quite an old video) but try if you still have it enabling non-CSM or non-UEFI (legacy) on bios. On my RYZEN machine i have a PCI-ex sata card that has a bios but it never shows up unless legacy mode is enabled

[@intel386DX]

What about sata power connector ? Did you try to power that thing?

[@intel386DX]

@@adriansdigitalbasement what will happen if you plug this in regular USB 1.x 2.0 or 3.x ?

[@stefaancodde6578]

enable in the bios USB legacy and it should work. Do note, if the pci1x draws power from the pci-express port keep an eye on the power that the cards need. But indeed the sata alike is for powering hungry cards.

[@holzwurm_hd7029]

I had some Pcie riser cards that had the same usb 3.0 for data and power and kost of the Cards didnt work without the Sata Power.

[@BigDaddy_MRI]

Some scuzzy boards would create their own plus and minus 12vdc for the differential transmitter/receivers. Looks like the cable is only bringing over plus 5vdc and that is fine for the 5vdc IC’s, but if the board requires +/- 12vdc to work and it doesn’t generate them using a boost circuit and ONLY depends on the motherboard power supply, then you will need to cobble up a way to get the SATA cable plugged into the adapter “mother”board. The scuzzy board may not allow access to its BIOS unless it has the +/-12vdc present. Also, on the computer motherboard BIOS, you may need to expore the BIOS for allowing external BIOS or legacy boards allowed. You may need to really dig deep and see if it is just a configuration change in the BIOS and adding the power cable with the +/-12vdc fixes the issue.

[@ElectricEvan]

You should really try a more serious pci external adapter. At my work we use a lot of them for electrical noise reasons. The devices we use have a special card that sits in the host pc and uses 2 dvi cables to run to the external chassis which has 4 or 5 pci / pci-express slots in it.

[@ElectricEvan]

running pci-e directly over a usb3 cable is going to have signal ring issues.

[@raggededge82]

When the PC he finds in the trash is better than the one you're using :(

[@raysmith5124]

I was thinking that very same thing . i still using a p4 with 7600gs & athlon64x2 with8600gt both with 2gb memory . & he found a 32gb machine in the trash ,,,., lmao i need to go more upmarket on my dumpster diving .....lmao .. Adrian you videos are great but i hate you right now ,,,,lol... in a friendly way of course

[@Peugeot306]

A simple PCI-e to SCSI card only costs about $ 18 and that’s an easier solution.

[@estoylisto]

can give me more info of how is done? or refer me into a tutorial ... I have couple old PCI cards that are expensive to be dispose

[@ProDigit80]

You need to power the adapter, with a data cable. Your VGA works, because it uses less than 20watts.

[@xheralt]

You may need a SATA power cable with a 90° connector at one end to get it to work with the oversize card you're using.

[@yusufnoname1949]

I tought postcard was made from paper and have stamp on it

[@electrohacker]

I'm using one of those on my threadripper with an ASRock taichi micro-atx board to run my sound card no problem

[@gongbisama]

BIOS can select PCI or LPC to send the POST code. In this case BIOS sent the POST code via LPC not PCI. You may see POST code via TPM port in the mainboard.

[@liblevi45s53]

Try plugging the PCI-E card into one of the x16 slots instead of the x4(if that doesn't work try the other x4 or x16). Might just be the slot. I've encountered similar problems with raid cards not being picked up, it's all due to build configuration and the motherboard you have installed. You can also determine which way the PCI cards go in based on the position of the notch on motherboard's with PCI. Hint: The single notch for PCI is at the end of the PCI slot(closest to the front of the case) and not the front. It's slightly different for PCI-E depending on what type of slot.

[@paulnelson8946]

Cool video! I like your videos, would be especially interested in an abridged version of them :)

[@OndrejPopp]

Tx Adrian, my msi big bang fuzzion just died and so I lost the pci slots for my also adaptec aha2940 scsi2 card connected to my umax astra1200S scanner. So I am going to try this as well. If it works I can put it in a little box, and then I will have an usb3 to scsi2 adapter 😃