Michael Said:

>Manager/System properties/PCI bus  I get two listings and the second one
>always has a yellow flag.  I assume the PCI duplicity is for the dual
>controllers.  The first PCI bus listed says everything is okay in
>properties and has no flag.  The second PCI bus shows as follows with a
>PCI Bus properties
>     /General.........Device Status- Device failure. Try changing the
>driver for the device.  If that doesn't work see
>                            your hardware docs (code 2).


I just repaired a system with an exact issue. In my case, it wasn't actually
the bus causing the problem. Another device was preventing it from running
smoothly. In fact it had to do with the Commnication ports listed in CMOS.

It's something you may want to check out. After verifying what com ports the
system was actually using, I disabled one of the com ports in CMOS,
re-booted and the device was working properly.

Some symptoms that were relived were:

- the yellow flag is gone
- the system doesn't freezeup like it use to

Hope this helps.

Guido Piraino