ratbastid

Well, I went ahead and ripped the AGP video card (a Voodo 2! wow!) out of my file server and put it in my business machine, and the thing booted. Now, a couple problems:

The fileserver (which used to have 319 days of uptime on it! Boo!) won't boot normally. Hopefully I'm simply "a vid card short" at this point, and a quick trip to Circuit City will square that away.

The business machine boots okay, but it doesn't recognize its NIC anymore. Or, it recognizes it by name, and claims to have a driver installed, but won't acknowledge a connection on it, and the device manager has a yellow ! over the icon.

Also, it wants to install a newly-discovered "multimedia audio device", which it can't find a driver for. Audio works fine, even so.

Why would it suddenly go forgetful about its two PCI cards?

EDIT: It's not that it's gone forgetful. It's got an IRQ collision or something. The error message on the Hardware Manager error for the NIC is "Cannot get enough resources to function". Maybe I won't work too hard on solving that until I've got my replacement video card.