> This sounds like a problem that was just identified recently.  It appears
> to be that newer versions of the 3c509 ASIC are "plug-n-play compatible"
> and this causes them to exhibit the above behaviour.  The current work
> around is to go into the 3c5x9cfg program and disable plug-n-play 
> compatibility and then all will work.

I'm still stuck here. the 509 cards work fine in one pc, and don't work 
in two others. The ones that they don't work in have a newer ami bios 
which does have one menu screen mentioning plug and play. I haven't 
figured out if i have disabled that part of the bios, the docs i have are 
worthless.

So is this problem one that occurs only when you have: 
1) 509 configured for plug and play
2) bios configured for plug and play

So i have to disable plug and play on the 509, and then it won't matter 
what bios i have? 

thanks
ron