On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Vidiot wrote:
>
> > Of all things, a network card should not have to be in a particular slot.
>
> No, it shouldn't. The Netgear is, however, the second NIC that I have
> seen behave in this way. Some old Kingston PCI adapters did the same
> thing. If I installed it in the first slot, it would work. If I shut the
> machine down, put the card in the second slot, there was no way I could
> get it to work. Put it back in the first and everything was OK.
>
> I almost forgotten about that entirely, and had a lot of trouble getting
> the Netgear cards to work until my coworker, Charlie, remembered the old
> Kingston adapters. Damnedest thing...
>
> MSG
>
It depends on the motherboard too. Not all motherboards support bus
master devices in all pci slots. I have a P-60 board that you can only
put bus master devices in the slot farthest from the power suply. The
problem is that it doesn't have an onboard IDE controler, so I have a
choice of IDE, SCSI, or bus master NIC... I had forgotten about this
one - I will have to try some of the other brands of NICs to see if one
of them will work in the slave slots...
Mikkel
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for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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