Gilmartin wrote:
> I'm having the same issue- I made a post about it some 2 weeks ago. It
> happened to my system when I "upgraded" to Vista SP2. I reported it to
> Mickeysoft who passed the buck to Nvidia. In turn Nvidia have passed
> the buck to my motherboard manufacturer- AS Rock. I have now emailed
> them twice and apart from an automated acknowledgement have had no
> other response from them.
> I'm betting it will disappear when a patch to SP2 arrives...
PCI Express supports hot plug. The question would be why it is
turned on for this form factor. It would make more sense, for
something like an ExpressCard on a laptop (PCI Express x1).
Or a PCI Express device at the end of an extension cable
of some sort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pci_express
"Hotplugging? Depends on form factor"
This pcisig slide set, claims the standard register
set for PCI Express supports hot plug. So it has
likely always been lurking there, until some clever
driver writer wired it up to the OS :-) But some
designer has to decide what the default for the
register should be. Other possibilities exist,
if the register can be written at a later point
in time.
(See page 19)
http://www.pcisig.com/developers/mai...b6e0a0622249c3
"Hot plug registers are integral part of the PCI Express
standard configuration register set"
I don't have a copy of the specs, because they cost money.
HTH,
Paul
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