On 27 Jun 2006 14:21:55 -0700, put finger to
keyboard and composed:

Pci dial-up modem blocks the PC when inserted
below is the pci pinout and the card uses B/A 1-62
http://www.geocities.com/anglomont/pcipins.txt
do you think the cause is a short circuit on some of the power / other
pins?

Test for shorts on the supply rails with a DMM. I've seen many shorts
caused by tantalum filter caps.

Otherwise it may be that one of the chips is hanging up the PCI bus.
This could be the result of a lightning strike.

- Franc Zabkar
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