AudioScience makes PCI and PCIe plugin audio adapters for PCs. See <www.audioscience.com>. We have done
many PCI designs + drivers and more recently PCIe designs based on the XIO2000A and XIO2001.
Our current
issue is a low level BIOS error reported by a Dell R710 during shutdown when an XIO2000A product is installed. This occurs without our driver loaded at all. Notes
follow:
- product has a TI XIO2000A PCIe to PCI bridge chip on it
-
BIOS reports an E171F error on bus 0 device 7 function 0 (B0D7F0)
- Dell
support translates this error to "BIOS reporting fatal error on the PCIe
device"
- Dell support also states that the Intel chipset is thowing the
error
- computer BIOS and chipset drivers have been updated
- soft reboot
works correctly every time
- shutdown sometimes works
- with the ASI audio
driver loaded the card works correctly (but still issues the BIOS error on computer shutdown)
-steve
