Hello agian,
I'm strongly suspecting a hardware failure with a CAN card I have
here. Yesterday my machine suddenly and completel locked up
while I was debugging a C++ application which uses CAN. I tried
to reboot but the machine ( a Gateway E-Series P4) would either simply
not boot (no BIOS screen) or would appear to boot and then
freeze. In a couple cases it got so far as booting XP but
was then either frozen or the network interface was off (verified by
the indicator on a 4 port hub.) I tried all three open PCI slots
and could discern no effect.
I opened it up and saw that the green LED on the card would go on and
off few times during the process. No rhyme or reason to it that I
could discern. I installed a spare 2-port card and the
problem did not occur. Later I put the old card back in and
everything seemed fine for a while and then the machine locked up hard
again. This time I wasn't running my CAN application.
Back to the 2-port card and everything seems fine.
Neither card failed self test in the M&A explorer.
Does this sound like a hardware failure of some sort with the CAN card? Anything else I can try to pin it down?
thanks
-MM
