Is it possible for an out of spec PCI slot to damage a card?

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:17 am

I have just found out that the PCI lock on my K8N Diamond failed, which means that the 260MHz HTT overclocked the PCI slots! Is it possible for these out-of-spec slots to damage the X-Fi soundcard I had installed at the time? Also, is it possible for a damaged soundcard to destroy PCI slots if it were inserted into a motherboard for testing? I don't KNOW for sure that the X-Fi isn't just misbehaving because of the damaged PCI slots on my old K8N...

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Tue May 15, 2007 12:07 pm

Sucks to hear. I would have thought it possible that the OC'd PCI bus might have done something to your X-Fi, but wouldn't have thought that a bad X-Fi card could do anything bad back to a different motherboard.

Here's hoping that its just a broken PCI bus on the mobo.

Dan

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Tue May 15, 2007 12:17 pm

The stupid thing is that the K8N Diamond is supposed to automatically lock the PCI bus down when you overclock...apparently that "feature" doesn't work in my case.