fixed: AIDA64 won't detect all PCI Devices - most missing

[Crashtest]

all tested AIDA64 versions are unable to detect all PCI devices on my HP xw9400 based systems:

 

AIDA found only device on PCI bus 0 and 1 - rest (on bus 24,43,44,64,69,70,71,72,107) are missing; because of that, AIDA64 wont display any infos about installed GPU etc.

 

Systems:

HP xw9400 Board (OEM Version of Tyan S2915e)

Dual Opteron 2382 and Dual Opteron 2427

Windows 7 sp1 x64 and Server 2008r2 x64 sp1
 

 

PCI Device List AIDA64 vs SIV

 

 

PCI Device List AIDA64 vs Windows Device Manager

 

 

 

I added:

- ACPIDUMP

- PCIDUMP

- DEVDUMP

and SIV-Dumps

 

 

well if I boot Windows PE based on NT 5.1 or 5.2 AIDA64 will report all devices !?

acpidump.txt

devdump.txt

pcidump.txt

SIV_ODIN.txt

[Fiery]

Thank you for the dumps. I suppose the issue may be the fact that your system has multiple PCI bus segments. We'll have to come up with a workaround for such situations. If possible, please export the following Registry path out to a .REG file:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI

Rename the .REG file to .TXT, and attach it to a post.

 

well if I boot Windows PE based on NT 5.1 or 5.2 AIDA64 will report all devices !?

Maybe, but I'm not sure. It may worth a try. But please do the Registry export under Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

Thanks,

Fiery

[Crashtest]

Thank you for the dumps. I suppose the issue may be the fact that your system has multiple PCI bus segments. We'll have to come up with a workaround for such situations. If possible, please export the following Registry path out to a .REG file:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI

Rename the .REG file to .TXT, and attach it to a post.

 

Maybe, but I'm not sure. It may worth a try. But please do the Registry export under Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.

Thanks,

Fiery

 

Here are the Registry Exports from both systems

reg_thor.txt

reg_odin.txt

[Fiery]

Thank you. Please to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme available at:

http://www.aida64.com/downloads/latesta64xebeta

After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade.

Let me know how it works.

[Crashtest]

So back to business:

 

I tested old (4.x) and current (5.0 final not current beta) AIDA64 versions on Windows NT 5.2 (PE 2005)  - AIDA64 found all !!!! PCI devices on both segments !

Reboot to Windows NT 6.0 (PE 2007) - only devices on bus 0 & bus 1

Reboot to Windows NT 6.1 (PE 2009) - only devices on bus 0 & bus 1

Reboot to Windows NT 6.4 (PE 2015 - current internal beta) - only devices on bus 0 & 1

againt test with older Windows, Windows NT 5.1 (PE 2004) - AIDA, both 4.7 and 5.0, found all devices

 

Result:

AIDA64 could find all devices as long as Windows is NT 5.x and not NT6.x

 

So it looks like a OSrelated AIDA64 Bug

 

(I will upload AIDA64 dumps from NT5x soon) 

[Fiery]

Have you tried the new AIDA64 beta I've linked above? That should provide an OS independent fix for your systems.

[Crashtest]

here are the dumps

 

ps my simple delphi tool detect all devices even on Windows 10 using winring0 driver

simple

for bus:=0 to 255 do

for dev:=0 to 31 do

for func:=0 to 7 do

if ReadPCIConfigDword(Mix(bus,dev,func), 0) <>$ffff // checkin VendorID

begin

...

end;

 

I will check the "fix" later - but why enum PCIdevices by registry if theres is a working (NT5.x) enum by devicedriver ?

AIDA_PCI_BUG_NT52_DEVICEDUMP.txt

AIDA_PCI_BUG_NT52_PCIDUMP.txt

AIDA_PCI_BUG_NT52_REPORT.txt

[Fiery]

By default AIDA64 scans only the first 8 PCI buses, for safety reasons. Many older systems could go wild if you try scannig 256 PCI buses. AIDA64 uses additional information from the Registry to find out whether the actual system may have more than 8 PCI buses with devices.

BTW, the code snippet you've quoted there has some other issues too You're not supposed to scan all PCI functions of a device by default.

[Crashtest]

Only 1 Question left:

 

Why is it working on NT 5.x but not on NT 6.x ?

 

 

AIDA64 4.7 on NT 6.1 and my small not finished delphi tool:

 

 

and the current Beta :

 

 

so its working now ....

[Fiery]

I suppose PCI bus segmenting has been introduced in the v6.0 NT kernel with Windows Vista. AIDA64 wasn't prepared to handle PCI bus segments before, but the latest beta fixed that up.

Thank you for the feedback, I'm glad it works fine now