ongakuka wrote:Topic is a few days old, but figure'd I'd throw this suggestion out there...
Were all of your restarts just straight cycles? Or did you ever shut off the system for X amount of time and then repower? Sometimes when something fritzes out a standard reboot isn't enough. Breaking the power and letting the charge dissipate out of onboard capacitors (as there will be a number of them esp. on an analog capture card) may fix things. You wouldn't get that with a power cycle/control-alt-del.
It also could just be that the mobo's PNP IRQ/DMA bios settings got corrupt somehow (or Win98 registry w/ driver settings). A reset of the bios (jumpers, unplug battery, etc) may do the trick as well.
Have you tried the card since all of this?
Thanks for the suggestions.
I shut down the computer for a whole night at one point and restarted only to find the same problems.
I have tried the card since then and XP detects new hardware but won't accept the drivers for some reason, and to have the card in without the drivers makes the computer crash.
Any other ideas?
