On September 14, 2001 08:42 am, you wrote: > > I changed the card to another PCI slot and it worked again. > > > > Maybe you can tell me, do the PCI slots differ technically in general, > > so I have to pick a certain slot in the future whenever I buy new > > hardware, or are the changes that I have a broken slot? > > There are motherboards which have some non-dma-able PCI slots. Not sure > whenever this is still true for today's new hardware. But I'd expect > video not working (pci-pci dma xfer) if you plug a bttv card into such a > slot... > > To me it looks more like a broken slot or some obscure bus timing issue. My Turtle Beach Montego sound card refused to work properly with certain VIA-based motherboards if the interrupts were set to level instead of edge in the BIOS setup. The same card would only work in certain slots on the old UMC-based 486 I had when I first bought the card. I'd probably suspect the bus-timing theory. It looks awfully similar... -- James Oakley jfunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
