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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:37:53 -0801
From:      Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dc still reporting collisions
Message-ID:  <20031117173815.GA11563@lizzy.catnook.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031117090636.H21453@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20031115164720.I13393@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> <20031115071458.GA29973@lizzy.catnook.com> <20031115171702.F13393@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> <20031115204757.GA98569@lizzy.catnook.com> <20031115150841.I5733@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20031116000219.GC98569@lizzy.catnook.com> <20031117090636.H21453@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:14:05AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Jos Backus wrote:
> Just because it's been "working forever" doesn't mean it can't fail.

Of course.

> Ever heard of power surges?  Static discharge?  I've seen a tx on a Compaq
> motherboard go kaput with no intervention whatsoever.  It happens.
 
Yeah (I have ESD equipment at home, for fiddling with mobo's etc.).

But it turns out I lied, because I did change something a while back: I added
a new soundcard to my wife's PC. As it turns out, after I moved it to a
different PCI slot the problem went away. Whoever designed PCI ought to be
shot :-)

My apologies for wasting everybody's time.

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Jos Backus                       _/  _/_/_/      Sunnyvale, CA
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