Hi,

Always look at the chipset on these HP/Dell/IBM cards. They're always a
standard Broadcom, Intel or Mellanox (Nvidia) chipset underneath with Dell
or HP only relabelling the card.
This 331T is a Broadcom BCM5719, so that's what you want to investigate.
Often these pcie cards, or the host system, do not fully support PCIe
active state power management. If you have a BIOS option to disable that
try experimenting.
Otherwise the kernel option "pcie_aspm=off" may help.

Good luck
Stephen

On Mon, 11 Aug 2025, 10:36 Chris Bell via GLLUG, <[email protected]>
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> Hello,
> I have a secondhand HP EliteDesk 800 G3 TWR PC with i5 and 8GB RAM. I am
> having problems trying to add a secondhand "tested" PCIe HP ETHERNET 1GB 4
> PORT 331T ADAPTER - HP PART NUMBER 649871-001 because the box will not go
> from
> standby, (powered), to fully ON, with the x4 card in either a x4 or x16
> slot.
> Pressing the power button produces audible and visible error signals. Is
> this
> likely to be a faulty PCIe card or some other reason? Several years ago I
> found that a much earlier HP 4-port PCI card prevented any computer other
> than
> a large HP server starting, which I assumed was due to its power
> requirement.
> I had assumed that a single 4-port card would be less of a problem than
> two 2-
> port or four single port cards. The 331T appears to be currently available
> from BT commercial.
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