2 X accel PCI-X boards issue

[Pat H]

Got an old Protools 7.4 on an HP xw8400
It has the core card and 1 Accel card and all works well.
Have picked up a second accel card and flex cable and tried dropping that in the bottom PCI-x slot.
Configure info indicates that the bottom PCI-x slot can be used optionally for an accel card.

The card and flex cable are good because if I swap them with my current accel card and cable it all works fine.

But when I add the second accel card and connect the flex cable launching Protools generates a DAE -1128 error and the next message warns of an incorrectly connected flex TDM cable. Then Protools quits.

Any thoughts anyone?

Can I add a second Accel card in that setup?

[Craig F]

should work
a) a Sandra Reports might show something
b) check the BIOS, see if that PCI slot has an odd setting applied to it

[Pat H]

BIOS shows both slots as the same and at default settings.

I have a second xw8400 dual quad core (my ProTools is a dual dual core) so I may clone the HDD and try that crate as a test.

Device manager shows both cards and the core card and of course tried to install drivers on initial power up but couldn't.
But the working setup shows the same device !

[Brandonx1]

What's digits at say?