500MCE problems---can this happen?

[pcostanza]

I purchased a 500MCE and took out my PVR350 but first, I uninstalled the 350 and ran the HWCLEAR to remove all instances of my old card. Put in the new card and installed the drivers.
When I went to config GB-PVR, I was not able to connect to the internet. I noticed my NIC light was orange and not green and many calls to Dell and diagnostics turn up nothing.
One strange thing was the error I get says my PCI Epress is not working but my NIC is on the motherboard. Is it at all possible that something in the drivers caused a problem like this? I'm totally confused at this point.
Thanks

[Pilot]

Could be a hardware interrupt conflict. Is your PC set up for plug and play interrupt assignments or manual? I believe with two tuners in the PVR500, you'll be using a two separate interrupts, which could've snagged the one your NIC is expecting to be free.

[pcostanza]

Chris, thanks for the reply.
I'm not really sure how to tell about the interrupts but will look in device manager to see.
I did remove the card and all the software and still have no luck and am getting the same error.
Nothing I do makes the NIC work. I'm thinking it's a hardware problem but Dell ain't budging yet. I wish I had a nic card to test it out in a spare bay.
Thanks again for your help.

Oh, I should also say that I put an older image back on to see if that would correct it and it didn't.

[LilY0da]

I hope you didn't fry a component with static electricity when you opened the case to swap the cards :|
You can probably find a cheapo NIC card at walmart for $10 now, I guess....