I have two PCI Cards DMC 1846 & a DMC 1886 in a machine, existing win7x32 advantech PC has plenty of pci slots & it all works
(note: both cards are not on the same pci bridge)

I'm trying to upgrade the PC so I have two new PC's for trial, one has 1 pci slot & a few pcie, the other has only pcie (the one with only pcie is the preferred system - Advantech 975i )

both upgrade pc's have win10 x64, & I'm using a PCIe to PCI expansion chassis
- I got the startech pcie to PCI expansion system PEX2PCI4. With the two cards installed in that, galilTools can see the model & serial numbers & it all looks ok, however as soon as you plug in the cables from the galil cards to the DMC breakout module , the addresses show up but galilTools can no longer see the model or serial number of either card & fails to connect giving an error code for response time exceeding 500ms.

- using the pc with one pci slot it all works perfect, with one of the galil cards inside the PC & one in the startech expansion chassis - 0 problems

I'm awaiting the arrival of a magma pcie to pci expansion chassis now aswell, however I'm trying to figure out why the startech pcie to pci bridge wont work with two cards? is it a thing that two cards cant be on the same pci bridge?

My ideal scenario is that I have an advantech 975i pc with a magma PCIe to PCI expansion chassis & both galil cards in that chassis - how do i get this to work

thanks
Kevin