Well some cards are just no good from the factory. When I worked at Gateway...(uggghhh!!! an aweful experience indeed) anyway as a QC I would test systems that were built and ready to send out the door and I had a ethernet card in a system ignite in flames on my work bench!!!! That was a brand new card. Lol....

There are 10 kinds of people: Those who know binary, and those who don't. 

A whiner is about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.