Hi all, I have a problem with an Digital Devices TV Card. The card is only randomly recognized by the system. The provider asked me to set the PCIe Link Speed parameter to Gen1 as it seems to be a known issue with ASROCK mother boards. Unfortunately I do not find this parameter in my AB350 Pro4 BIOS. Has it another name or something? Maybe somebody can drive me to the right direction or has another suggestion how I could fix this.

It seems if I restart my PC, the card is not recognized. However, once the PC was completely power off for a while, the card is recognized on first startup. Or any other suggestion, how I could achieve the very same start procedure when restarting the PC? I am working mostly remotely on this machine. Power Off is not really a good solution??I build the system a few days ago, I build the system some days ago, I would like to avoid to change to another mother board and setup everything again.

Ok, I will try with clear/reset BIOS. Then setting ARI parameter. This is the right sequence, or not?

Off topic: It is a TV server, it can receipt 8 SAT TV Channels in parallel and share it via LAN/W-LAN. The clients on TVs, PCs, Tablets and Mobiles of the family members are running Kodi an can receive TV channels and plan an play recordings. SAT cables are going only to the server. But this is for sure another story. One PCIe card is the TV card with 8 channels, the other is the Decrypting module holding pay-tv crypto cards via common interface. Everything legal. I was even planning to install an additional TV-Card for terrestrial reception (DVB-T2) of local TV and Radio stations. Thats why I have choosen an MB with several PCIe slots.

Sorry, maybe I was not precise enough. I run vmware for other services, the both TV cards are not used in vmware. Can I run vmware without setting this CPU parameter in BIOS. Without I cannot start any VM.

Dears, with all respect, but I am sure this is not a vmware issue. I am working in IT and some knowledge I have also. If the OS is not seeing the PCIe Card, why vmware should be the root cause? In VMware workstation it is not possible to use this kind of PCIe Cards in VMs. For such requirements VMware hyper-v is required (I already run such a setup in the passt). But it is not the case of this setup. I am using Win10. I can uninstall VMware an prove it, but I will mess up with such actions my setup for no reason. For Windows and the VMware on top of it I am sure it will not make absolutely any difference if I restart the PC or if I do a cold start. For BIOS however I think it could and also seems that it makes a difference.

Off topic: Currently I am not sure if the problem is the AMD platform or the ASrock motherboard only. But I am already sure, I will never buy such thing again. Most parameters are undocumented, parameters which appear to be necessary like PC link speed disappear or are renamed and nobody knows what to do. The motherboard has DVI and HDMI connector, but Video is not supported with the newest AMD CPU. WTF?! Ok, then I buy an old Video-Card, it's my fold if I did not ready all the disclaimers. Now the issue with this PCIe card, everything else should be the root cause, but for sure not the motherboard. If I use this slot, I cannot use the other. Take care, this is shared, bla bla... How much time I should invest to buy a motherboard? I choose on purpose not the cheapest one. I choose a board with enough PCIe slots and SATA slots and I expected that ?œPro??versions of a board, provide all necessary parameters to use standard hard ware. I did not use an M2 SDD, as at least this is documented, that it will block SATA and PCIe slot??Sorry for the complains now, but how many hours I am expected to invest to setup such a standard configuration??