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Re: [LUG] OT: Disappearing hardware?

 

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:52:14 +0100
Rob Beard wrote:

> On 17/06/10 22:37, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My mediacentre has just developed the most peculiar of problems...
> > the onboard Ethernet device has disappeared.  It was a PCI device
> > (I forget what it was specifically) but lspci doesn't list it - not
> > even an unknown device... nothing.  I've been through the BIOS to
> > see if it's somehow magically been disabled... but BIOS has nothing
> > about it either.
> >
> > I'm gonna be chucking in a proper PCI card (I have a couple spare),
> > but I just thought I'd throw this out there: any of you had devices
> > just disappear before?
> >
> > Grant. :)
> >
> 
> Nope, I've had devices not being detected (USB sticks usually) but
> not just disappearing.
> 
> Have you tried looking behind the sofa? :-)

I don't want to even think about what might be behind our sofa!

> Seriously though, have you tried booting from a LiveCD to see if it's 
> detected there?

It's a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu 9.10 machine (no Ethernet in either) and
booting from Ubuntu 10.04 DVD throws up the same issue... no Ethernet.

> Could be a motherboard fault maybe.

So long as it's not indicative of more failures to come.

Grant.

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