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Do I have a bad Mobo?!

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mad0maxx

Senior member
Ok well I thought I fixed the problem earlier but I did not. I am having hanging problems where I click on something and the computer hangs and just stops responding while I can still move my mouse and right click on the desktop and bring up the right mouse button menu but I can not click on any of the system tray icons, bring up the start menu nor can I open any programs from the icons on the desktop. Sometimes if I wait long enough all the crap I clicked on all appears at once and sometimes I have to just reset the computer.

I recently bought a brand new wireless network card (WMP54G linksys brand) and on my motherboard I currently have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro in the AGP slot and PCI slot 1 was empty and PCI slot 2 had my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Card and when I installed the wireless network card in ethier PCI slots 3, 4 or 5 the computer starts up but does not detect the network card at all. So I moved my sound card to PCI slot 3 and the network card to PCI slot 2 and left PCI slot 1 empty for the video card. Then the computer would not show the post screen and the monitor screen light stayed amber.

So I removed the two cards put the wireless network card in PCI slot 1 and the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition back into PCI slot 2 and the computer started up just fine and detected the wireless card.

Am I suppose to fill up every PCI slot in order or is my mobo bad?

P.S. When I stated earlier that I thought I fixed this problem I had a previous thread and when I took out my ATI Radeon x800 XT Plat Ed and put in my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro the problems all stopped. But now they are occuring again just today when I poped in my wireless network card that is brand new.

I also tested the ram with memtest86 and it found zero errors and I also ran a diagnostic tools on my hard drive scanning for bad sectors and other tests that the hard drive manufacter provided and found no problems. The computer is not overheating because I am useing "Intel Active Monitor" program to monitor my heat. I do not have many background programs running besides Logitech Setpoint, BitDefender, Wireless Network Software and lastly the Intel Active Monitor. Also all my voltages are monitored by the Intel Active Monitor so the power supply is providing stable power to all the components according to Intel Active Monitor

So what do you guys think?

System Spec's Below

Intel D875PBZ motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz w/Hyperthreading (ack need upgrade!)
4 x 512 meg Valueram Corsair Dual Channel DDR ram (pc3200 I think)
Antec Truepower 480watt (I hate Antec but as it still works I will keep it)
ATI Radeon 9700 pro (current video card still on RMA)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition
MadDog DVD-RW
Typical 3.5 Floppy
 
I fixed the computer problem... the problem was with a "svchost.exe" file that was located in the temp directory and was loading for some odd reason. I scanned my computer for spyware and viruses and the blaster.worm and found none at all so I dunno why that damn file was running.

But as for the computer PCI slot issue I still do not know... any one able to shed some light onto this subject?
 
I got the svchost.exe problem fixed but can anyone shed any light on the motherboard PCI slot issue where I have my wireless network card in PCI slot 1 and my computer starts and detects the nic card while in PCI slots 3, 4 or 5 the computer starts but does not detect the nic card. For more details please re-read post 1 thanks ^_^
 
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