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Question I am seeing PCIe lane errors

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_Avalanche_

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I am receiving these pcie lane errors with my new build. Are these normal? Or I shouldn't be concerned about them?
Thank you
 
Seems the picture I attached is removed. So I just tell you the info.
I use Hwmonitor app, and under GOU senction, I notice increase in this rows:
PCI EXPRESS ERROR COUNTERRS:
- Receiver Errors​
-Recovery Count​
-PCIe Lane 2 Errors​
-PCIe Lane 5 Errors​
 
Not normal if they’re steadily increasing. If they keep climbing, could point to GPU/board defect worth RMA.
Do they increase only under load, or even at idle?
 
Quintessa said:
Not normal if they’re steadily increasing. If they keep climbing, could point to GPU/board defect worth RMA.
Do they increase only under load, or even at idle?
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after a few hourse of use, I see a few of them. Specillay those that happen on the line. those look so bad to me.
 

pci express error counters, whats normal whats a problem?

I am hoping that someone could take pity on us mere mortals and help us in understanding PCI Error counters, specifically what is potentially problematic and what is normal, I have two gaming PC's in the house, one is mine and the other is my grandson's, both have AMD cpu's (5700X3d and 9800X3d)...
www.hwinfo.com www.hwinfo.com

Some info from HWinfo forums. Might be a solution for you there, specifically post 16 might help.
 
Thanks
Yes, the recovery count seems normal, so I don't care about it
But PCIe errors, even as they are just few, and I don't see any problems in the GPU performance, make me worried.
Did you run hwinfo to see what happens in your cases?
I biult my previous pc about 15 years ago. I don't know if this is the reason that I am too sensitive, or I have the right to be sensitive 😀
 
The more I search, the more it appears it can be anything from graphics cards, to wifi cards, to nvme drives. The general consensus is that if it works fine, it's fine.
 
_Avalanche_ said:
after a few hourse of use, I see a few of them. Specillay those that happen on the line. those look so bad to me.
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If they show up at idle even slowly, that usually means signal integrity issues rather than just load stress.
  • Could be a bad riser cable (if you're using one).
  • Could be motherboard slot/seating problem.
  • Try different PCIe slot if available.
If they keep climbing no matter what, it’s not normal. A handful isn't catastrophic, but persistent errors.
 
This is right now. after half an hour of playing. but the PC was on from the morning for a few hours, but only the recovery counts happened a lot, as it seems normal. Also a few of NAKs
It works fine as I said, but I don't know.
I will try on another PCIe express. That one is gen 3 I think, but no other way.

Can you guys please check HWinfo for a few hours on your system? to see what happens? specially when power saving options are ON.I would really appreciate it
 

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_Avalanche_ said:
This is right now. after half an hour of playing. but the PC was on from the morning for a few hours, but only the recovery counts happened a lot, as it seems normal. Also a few of NAKs
It works fine as I said, but I don't know.
I will try on another PCIe express. That one is gen 3 I think, but no other way.

Can you guys please check HWinfo for a few hours on your system? to see what happens? specially when power saving options are ON.I would really appreciate it
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You fail to mention what GPU it is, but set the PCIe gen for that slot to the gen the GPU is specced for and see what happens.
 
bba_tcg said:
You fail to mention what GPU it is, but set the PCIe gen for that slot to the gen the GPU is specced for and see what happens.
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Yeah you are right, but believe me everytime I want to send a new post, it stops me and calls it as spam, so I edit it heavily in every aspect. Probably it is because I am new.
The gpu is fifty sixty ti 16gb version
 
I set it to PCIe 5, but no success.
When I disable the power saving function of GPU and pCIe, the number of Recovery errors go almost to zero. But the other error such as PCIe lane 5 error is there. Maybe even after few hours of use there is nothing, but suddenly 20 30 of them apper in a short period of time.
 
_Avalanche_ said:
I set it to PCIe 5, but no success.
When I disable the power saving function of GPU and pCIe, the number of Recovery errors go almost to zero. But the other error such as PCIe lane 5 error is there. Maybe even after few hours of use there is nothing, but suddenly 20 30 of them apper in a short period of time.
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Then try gen 4.
 
I disabled all the power management options, in bios and windows and nvidia control panel.
I am trying to see if the lane error appears again.
I am trying my best to not to return it back, because I am not sure if the hardware are really faulty or not. I have a few days. I will put the results here. Also, if anyone else has similar or more or less similar specs, please share the results
Thank you
 
Z O X said:
Although I'm on AM4, maybe it'll help:
pcie errors appeared once AER/advanced error reporting was activated in BIOS.
Had to up the SoC voltage a bit and they went away.

But, as you said, there were no perf differences ..
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Thank you!
Which of them? Just recovery errors? Or also PCIe lane errors?
 
_Avalanche_ said:
I disabled all the power management options, in bios and windows and nvidia control panel.
I am trying to see if the lane error appears again.
I am trying my best to not to return it back, because I am not sure if the hardware are really faulty or not. I have a few days. I will put the results here. Also, if anyone else has similar or more or less similar specs, please share the results
Thank you
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I don't think the hardware's faulty.
 
_Avalanche_ said:
I disabled all the power management options, in bios and windows and nvidia control panel.
I am trying to see if the lane error appears again.
I am trying my best to not to return it back, because I am not sure if the hardware are really faulty or not. I have a few days. I will put the results here. Also, if anyone else has similar or more or less similar specs, please share the results
Thank you
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After all of these, happened again on PCIe lane 5. But just a few. 10
 
_Avalanche_ said:
So you mean it is normal? Happens to everyone?
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These are from my system with a 5070 Ti. I also checked one of my systems with a GTX-970. It had a few under recovery counter but neither had any under lane errors. My AMD GPU systems don't seem to have this information.
 

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