Re: Nvidia MCP55 Machine reboots on ixgb driver load

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

I have seen something similiar with the ixgb. make certain there are **NO** other adapters sharing the PCI bus with the
ixgb. There are some serious hardware compatibility issues with the ixgb mixing it with other cards on the same PCI-X bus,
and I have seen power loading problems, performance slowdowns, reboots, and other issues when an ixgb is installed in a
system.

It is on its own pci-x bus with no other cards on the
pci slots that are on the same bus, the machine in question has
4 slots divided into 2 buses.

Roger

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