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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