Sound card and PCI-E?

[DrFaroohk]

Been having problems with my computer again - it froze up on me and wouldn't reboot. After much trial and error I decided the problem was the sound card - when I take it out, computer boots fine (this is a sound blaster card, not the onboard one).

So today I was missing the sound (onboard doesn't work) and I decided to fiddle some more. Put in sound card - no boot. On a whim, I switched the sound and ethernet cards - and it boots fine now. With sound.

I thought the slot would be bad - but if that's the case you'd think the ethernet wouldn't work there either.

[lordlundar]

Only thing I can think of off the top of my head would be an IRQ conflict.

[Daskinor]

speaker shorted out the sound card?

[lineswine]

IIRC IRQs etc. are handled by the HAL.
It was more likely a bus mastering conflict.

In days of yore, swapping positions of ISA cards & VESA Local Bus cards was routine to get everything to play nice. PCI wasn't as twitchy, but could still throw up the odd hiccup.
Don't get me started on EISA or MCA cards - I still have flashbacks to those nightmares.