On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:14:05AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Jos Backus wrote:
> Just because it's been "working forever" doesn't mean it can't fail.
Of course.
> Ever heard of power surges? Static discharge? I've seen a tx on a Compaq
> motherboard go kaput with no intervention whatsoever. It happens.
Yeah (I have ESD equipment at home, for fiddling with mobo's etc.).
But it turns out I lied, because I did change something a while back: I added
a new soundcard to my wife's PC. As it turns out, after I moved it to a
different PCI slot the problem went away. Whoever designed PCI ought to be
shot :-)
My apologies for wasting everybody's time.
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