Yeah Ano Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 My friend has purchased a PCI NIC card as his mobo doesnt have an onboard ethernet port.The PC works fine (without the NIC card installed) but when the NIC card is plugged into the slot the PC wont POST. Normally he would get the usual post beep and then it brings up the usual options to either go in to the BIOS or choose a boot device ETC.... With the NIC card in, the beep doesnt sound and nothing appears on the screen.I know the NIC card is not faulty as it worked in my PC fine - the PC booted into Windows and XP (Home, SP2) installed some standard drivers for it. My friend is also on Win XP Home Edition but i dont know if he has got SP2.I have looked through his BIOS settings and cant see anything in there to suggest that the slots arent enabled as he has a PCI graphics card and that works fine.Any ideas to why this would be happening???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 As the machine won't POST it means the fault is before Windows gets a chance to even look at it. The problem may be a conflict with an IRQ of something else that is already installed on the motherboard (not necessarily in a PCI slot). Is there another PCI slot that you could try the card in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeah Ano Posted April 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 He has 4 PCI slots, we have tried it in all of them with the same result. We have tested they all work by installing an old 56k modem and his PCI graphics card in each slot. Its just the NIC card, which i find strange as it worked in my PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeah Ano Posted April 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 The story gets even more weird. We have now inserted a NIC card that we borrowed from work (both of us work on the same IT Helpdesk) and with this NIC card in (different mane and model) the PC now posts, loads windows XP and installs drivers for it.Very strange!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Sounds like the NIC is defective. I'd return it for a refund. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 OrYou could remove the Modem PCI card and put the NIC card in its placeCould be a card conflict Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukus Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 I think they tried that.Sounds like a defective ethernet card. Short of resetting the BIOS, which probably won't make much difference, I'd hope that you've still got your receipt :)Have you tried the card in another pc/mobo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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