From: Ellen K. 

No idea what you're talking about but will pass it on, thanks.

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:13:37 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote in message :

>Robert Comer wrote:
>
>> 1 timeout out of 4 in a ping is not normal.
>>
>
>Nope I had the same thing in an old home machine (win2K). Turned out
>that the 2 lower pci slots had been b*ggered up by me via shoving in a
>PCI 2.2 card into a PCI2.1 slot (the whole mobo is 2.1). At the time it
>didn't work etc so I tried it in a couple of slots & then thought the
>card was bad.
>
>I should point out the PCI rev was not on the card's box. However much
>later...I then thought I'd slot a lan card (known to work with that
>machine) into first one & then the other slot & I got the above problems.
>
>Luckily I had a pci slot I'd never touched with this PCI 2.2 card & when
>seated in that slot the card worked fine.
>
>It is possible this machine has PCI 2.1 mobo & someone has tried to slot
>in a 2.2 card.
>
>Seems to trash those slots permenantly.....
>
>Adam

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