Firewire card trouble

[Mirth]

I'm at my wits end here.


I've got a Adaptec Fireconnect 4300 firewird card and it refuses to be installed on my machine.

The mobo is an Aopen Ax4b-533 tube.

Upon putting it into a PCI slot the machine will not boot up. And by that I mean it shuts down 1/2 second after I turn the power on. If I remove the card and turn the power supply on and off, it will boot normally, but no matter what slot I use it refuses to boot if the offending card is installed.

I thought I might have a bad card, so i've returned it for another. Same problem.

I tried removeing the network card as well, no luck there.

I've previously installed this exact same brand card into my wife's 3 year old Dell with no problem =

The adaptec site doesn't seem to cover this, and i've been googling different variations of this all night.

If you guys have any ideas, i'd love to hear them

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Mirth]

After a late night of searching, I was able to find a few more users with this problem, but no solutions to speak of =\

 

[NathanBWF]

If it shuts off after 1/2 second with the card installed it almost sounds like it is shorting something out, or maybe you've got a bad card...?

 

[Mirth]

That's what I was thinking, but I returned it, and the replacement has the exact same issue.

 

[corkyg]

The problem could be the PCI slot. Did you try a different slot? Do you have XP SP2 installed? That has been known to screw up Firewire to a fare thee well.

 

[Mirth]

I did try the other available PCI slots. It didn't like any of them either.

And no, i'm staying away from SP2 for a little while