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Date:	Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:27:07 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Actiontec modem setup success?--IRQ

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Wayne wrote:

> Ideas, anybody?????

If this is a resource conflict of some kind, it must be a fairly obscure one.
Still sounds like there is some flakey hardware component at work here, but
this is pretty far out of my depth. You could bring this to a Live Help Desk,
though it sounds to me like this h/w troubleshooting could take several hours.
Probably the best thing would be if you had a rather similar 2nd. box, and could
swap individual components back and forth -- but that might also call for some
spares, on things like the cable and 29160 card. Unfortunately, this is not practical
for folks who do not have or need more than one computer. (I may have a 29160
card that I got for later use, but it's not the Low Profile model.)

There are a lot of odd things that can go wrong with hardware. My nephew is using
an old P-II computer, and the video recently stopped working, except for a tiny
rectangular box in the center of the screen. Initial suspicions fell on the monitor or
its cable, or the video card. Maybe there was oxidation on the edge connectors, or the
video card just wasn't seated properly in its slot ? They had a repair guy come out to
the house, and it turned out to be something else. For whatever reason, some of the
PCI slots had pulled away from having perfect contact with the motherboard itself.
So, it did not matter how well a card might be seated. Once this was corrected,
normal video resumed. There is still a mystery over why the NIC stopped working
for internet via I.E. (this is a W98 box), yet it is still possible to ping various
addresses.
Quite possibly some other separated connection.

There are plenty of such things one can run into, that only an experienced h/w guy is
apt to know about.

Jordan

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