A few years ago, I was operating my computer during an electrical storm and the power got knocked out. Whenever the power came back on, the computer started up just fine. However, after Windows loaded up, I discovered that all my PCI cards weren't working.
I had a sound card, wireless ethernet card, tv tuner and dial-up modem. Now, it seems none of them work. I've tried hooking them up to other computers and they don't work. Also, I tried putting a working sound card from another computer and it also was not detected.
I assumed the power failure had somehow destroyed anything to do with the PCI slots on the motherboard, including the cards plugged into the slots. It was strange that nothing else was effected including the video card which was in an AGP slot.
Why did the power failure only corrupt the PCI cards and PCI slots?
2007-02-03
02:32:30
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