[ale] Lost nic with new system

[J. D.]

Sounds like it could be a short. Yoi may want
Toi ensure that there are no extra stand-offs
under the motherboard.

Best regards,

J. D.

On 2/2/07, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> I bought a mb & cpu combo from Fry's recently.  It was one of the duo
> core Intel systems.  The mb is an Elitegroup (ECS).  It was suppose to
> have a lan according to the label on the box and there was a socket but
> it didn't work.  There was supposed to be a enable/disable switch in the
> bios but there wasn't either.  I filed a ticket with Elitegroup and they
> said to update my bios.  I did and that didn't help, or it didn't until
> I powered off the system.  But that's not the strangest part.  I
> installed a 8139 based nic so I could get it on the lan.  That worked
> great until I powered it off and back on.  Now the onboard lan works
> fine, but the pci nic is nowhere to be found, almost.  lspci doesn't
> show it, Win XP doesn't find it.  But strangely enough SuSE seemed to
> know there was something there, because I saw during boot where he
> detected another port but disabled it somehow.  It went by too fast to
> tell exactly what it said.  Lspci on SuSE didn't list is nor does Ubuntu.
>
> I guess the next thing to do is move it to a different PCI slot, I have
> heard that sometimes helps, but I have no idea why it would.
>
> Anyone else with suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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