> 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. Gerd -- Damn lot people confuse usability and eye-candy.