Sort of OT: PCI Slot

Date : Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:10:08 -0500
To : DS List <ds(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "Gregory, Ryan" <Ryan.Gregory(at)bbdo.ca>
Subject : Sort of OT: PCI Slot
Hello all,
I am trying to put a firewire card into my DS. Compaq EVO W8000. I have an
external lacie drive I want to hook up through firewire since this box is
only USB 1.0. The only available slot I have is the third from the bottom.
It fits fine and reads the drive, but my computer has been acting up ever
since adding it yesterday. Most of the time it happens when accessing our
network. This has happened before almost a year ago when the internal
ethernet card died and we had to install a new one. We had it in that slot
and were getting these problems, so we took out the firewire card from
another slot and put the ethernet card there and it was fixed. We left the
offending slot empty since I didn't need the firewire card then. I thought
it might be the card & the slot didn't mesh well, but this is now 2 cards
that don't mesh with this slot. I have changed the IRQ settings to every
option and still no luck. Am I not supposed to use that slot, or maybe it is
corrupt? I'm not much of a tech guy, but I thought if anyone has any insight
into this, it would be a big help.

If I missed anything info that is relevant let me know and I can try to give
you more.

Thanks everyone.
Ryan


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