First post, by songoffall
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Long story short, after plugging the NIC into the motherboard, the PC won't POST. I took out the GPU and then the RAM, expecting the motherboard to scream at me, but no error codes. Lights turn on, fans run, no signal to the monitor.
Here are the troubleshooting steps I tried:
- Take out the NIC from the PC. The PC POSTs and boots like normal.
- Plug the NIC into a different PCI slot (there's 2 PCI devices and one AGP device on this computer). No POST.
- Remove other PCI cards, plug the NIC into the motherboard. No POST.
- Plug the NIC into a different computer. The PC posts, the NIC is detected by the system.
I would assume 3COM cards were more compatible than other brands. Are there any known incompatibilities with this particular card and the Intel 865P chipset? Am I missing something?
Another thing that surprised me, whenever I plug the NIC into a motherboard, any motherboard, and connect the power wire to the PSU, the yellow light (indicating 100Mbps connection) on the NIC lights up, even though there's no ethernet cable plugged into it.
Compaq Deskpro 2000/P2 300MHz/256Mb SDRAM/Matrox Mystique/Sound Blaster AWE 32 Value/Aureal Vortex 2
MSI 865P Neo/Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz/512Mb DDR DRAM/GeForce FX 5500/Creative Audigy 2
Asus P5Q Pro/Core2 Quad Q9400/2Gb DDR2/GeForce 8800GT/Creative X-Fi