LSI IBM Br10i not seen at post (not sure about in windows)

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I cannot see anything happen during post and windows doesn't try to install anything.
What should I be looking for in the device manager, also what can I check in Ubuntu?

IBM flasher fails
LSI flasher crashed
LSI drivers closes quickly(using CMD i can see the terminal says that no card was found)


Is my card bad or could a low level reflash fix anything?

I have tried it in both PCIe slot they are 16x in size
 
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Also I dont have any drives in it, don't think that that should make a difference though
 
how do I know if my card is bad and need to send it back? my mobo is a p5k-e and i have tried it in both slots. also am running windows 7 and ubuntu 11.
 
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In Ubuntu, if you issue the command 'lspci' in the terminal, do you see the controller listed among the PCI devices?
 
Well that worked! and the answer is a clear "no".

Thanks for the good tip UICompE02, I knew it had to be simple but i didn't really know what to search for.

lspci shows just my chipset, video card, eth, and jmicron extra sata(onboard). here are the details if it could reveal conflicts someone else had(I read somewhere that a graphics card in and PCIe would foo it up) :

Code: 
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
02:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)
 
well i noticed the lights come on the board and that gave me hope. Then I decided to pull the board and look one more time. Then I thought; what changed after it had been tested and then sent to me. I ordered it with a bracket. So I took the bracket it off and booted. post, jmicron post, LSI post!!. Couldn't believe it.

Also I can't believe this never happened to anyone.

Either the bracket was grounding something incorrectly(WTH), or it was actually too large and shorted one small open copper dot to ground(most likely)
 
Well, that's certainly unusual! Is there a chance the bracket was bent or slightly off in size? I wonder if it was pushing it just far enough back or out of the slot that there wasn't a good enough connection for the PCIe link to train correctly...
 
It actually looks pretty well formed, but that certainly sound like a good possibility

Also a note for others, if you can't enter the configuration, turn on interrupt 19.
and if your flashing in windows use sasflash.exe not sas2flash.exe, and run(the correct version for your windows, not the dos) as admin from cmd with the -o switch
 
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