PCI device malfunction

[Toshi]

Out of the blue (not screen of death) my network on my gigabyte GN7400L motherboard croaked. The computer, on rebooting keeps trying to find drivers for a video card (although that ..a Geoforce 4 AGP is working perfectly OK)and the device manager identifies a problem with a PCI device under the PCi-PCI bridge. The motherboard also won't reload the PCI modem
I have tried reinstalling the device driver from the gigabyte CDROM and the latest drivers from the gigabyte site but nothing would be recognised. I flashed the bios to the latest without any change.
Other than for the network and the modem everything else works OK. No viruses or malware.

 

[Rik]

Sounds as if the pci bus has had it, u could well be looking at a new mobo.

 

[Nodsu]

How about removing that modem card?

You could also try installing Windows on another partition or a CD Linux to make sure your problems are with hardware and not software.

 

[Toshi]

I tried reinstalling winXp on a new harddrive: same problem occured, windows otherwise running OK. Will kludge the modem but I suspect the mobo will have to go as suggested

 

[IronDuke]

Have you a free slot to move the modem to?