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PCI card problem

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Dark Assassin

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Alright, I've encountered a must frustrating and peculiar problem. I was bored at 4 am the other night and I felt like playing in my BIOS on only 1 setting, my RAM timings. They were set at 5:4 and I thought I'd push the ol' mobo to 1:1. Well, the system didn't post on a reboot and I cleared the CMOS as I have always done. However, it spat me a message upon startup that a Windows file (c:/windows/system32/ha.dll or something) had become deleted or corrupted. In my experience, a change so minute as that would never delete system files.

This is when shit really hit the fan, pardon my language. I decided to switch up my boot hard drive priority (Maxtor 120 SATA) to another (Quantum Fireball 20 GB).

Windows booted up fine, but my SATA drive wasn't appearing as detected. So, I fiddled with more settings in BIOS and reformatted my 20 GB IDE drive for maximum efficiency. The install worked properly except that my PCI ethernet card was being detected by my motherboard nor was my onboard audio working (I know I merely needed the driver). However, I have no drivers for the ethernet card since it's old and have never needed any.

After countless times of clearing the CMOS and reinstalling Windows XP on the hard drive, I'm back to a point where my SATA is detected with the audio codec so I have sound, but even it doesn't detect my ethernet card anymore.

Is it suggested that I merely purchase a new ethernet card? I know they are dirt cheap, but I'm flat broke after purchasing a new car audio system.

Dark Assassin
 
Amazing discovery. I forgot to attempt using a different PCI slot. Once a friend tipped me off to it, I tried it and it works. All is possibly well in the castle yet again...

Thanks for the suggestions.

Dark Assassin
 
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