>Hi ed,
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>>>After monitoring the network I came to the conclusion it did not use the whole bandwidth of the the network when opening forms, so I concluded something was wrong with the network card or its configuration. After cheking all it settings I moved it to another PCI slot and this nicely solved the problem.
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>>This probably moved it to a different IRQ - the IRQ is tied to the Slot. You probably could have gotten the same effect adjusting the PCI Steering registers in the BIOS.
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>I've tried that, but strange enough that did not solve the problem. Can't it be that two PCI slots (or either one AGP and PCI slot) can be bound to one IRQ together ?
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Yes, and Windows can also reassign the IRQs at will during configuration. It's not uncommon for the AGP slot to grab a fixed IRQ shared with one of the PCI slots. It'd be very unusual for two PCI slots to steer to the same IRQ unless you have a lot of PCI slots.

>anyway's it was placed in the slot directly beneath the AGP slot, and when I moved it to the last PCI slot the problem went away.
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>Walter,