PCI problems

Tachyon

Tachyon

Tachyon

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I currently have an Asus A8N-SLI SE board & for some reason the PCI slots have stopped worked. I have an X-Fi Music in one & an ethernet card in another, neither of which work any more. Just started in the last week or so. I'm currently using the onboard sound and lan port.

I reinstalled drivers which came with the board and checked both cards were well seated.

Is there anything else I can do to check the slots or is the board on it's way out, currently about 2 year old. I'm not ovely fussed as I'll probably upgrade in the next few months but I'd like to check to see if I can get them working again.
 
I've no idea Meatloaf, I don't have much access to another machine. I've an old p3 500 over at my parents I could maybe get at some point if you reckon the cards are the problem.
 
Bringing this back up again. My op was just over a week ago & this morning they randomly started to work again. Would there be something loose (the cards are well seated) or what would cause PCI slots to randomly start/stop working? Any ideas appreciated, maybe the board is just on it's way out.
 
well back in the day SOME NF2 based boards had the same issue, pci slots just vanished. it could be power supply related or some sort of dry solder joint if they work for now, leave it be. if they die again, maybe consider an RMA, also if they die again check a program like sandra or everest to see what it reports as the state of the pci slots/how many it thinks there are.

- also some boards just dont like certain cards in certain slots. but if they were working, who knows. i used to have a cheap network card that would only work in 1 or 2 slots on a motherboard without failing to work/causing a lockup. my friend had an equally cheap one that jsut didnt work atall in my board, but was fine for him in all slots.
 
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