[NCLUG] NIC that won't quite seat in PCI slot...

Jim Ankrum jimankrum at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 27 07:34:46 MDT 2001


S. Luke Jones wrote:
> I've got some Linksys LNE100TX cards and have generally been
> pretty happy with them but I recently picked up a new PC and
> while it has 6 PCI slots, the Linksys card won't seat in any
> of them.
> 
> There's this notch in the card that straddles the little ...
> uh, anti-notch in the PCI connector, and it's off by about 1
> or 2 mm. I can force it down a little further, but the sweat
> from my forehead as I think about ruining my spanking new PC
> runs down and blurs my vision whenever I start to try it.
> 
> The problem seems to be with the NIC. Or I should say that I
> have at least one PCI card (a sound card) that seems to have
> looser (tighter?) notch placement tolerances.
> 
> Any suggestions? I'm not sure what I suggestions I'm looking
> for, really? A different brand of NIC?
> 
> 

It could be the motherboard also. I have an Asus p3v4x that none of the 
pci cards fit quite right in, mostly loose fitting but if I rearrange 
the cards then they all work ok. Have you tried the same card in 
different slots?

Jim




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