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14 years ago

PCIe reference design does not work on various Dell platforms

I have been trying to get the Arria II GX development board running with the PCIe reference design, and I'm losing the will to live. It appears to work fine in a Dell XPS-730 machine, but it do...
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14 years ago

I tried on Optiplex 745. Interestingly, this PC doesn't train up at x8 or x4. It only trains up on x1. i5/i7 only trains up at x1 or x8. I'm using x8.

Check if your chipset or CPU is compatible with Altera's PCIe IP.