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So I got my brand new laptop in for repair, the second time already. They first replaced the system board and returned it to me... Still not working... Now it's been brought in for a second time and this time they're replacing the PCI-ISA card. All fine to me, but what exactly is a PCI-ISA card?

UPDATE

From the repair status page:

Part Number    Part Description
K000099140     PCI ISA CARD

They were trying to resolve the issue as stated here: Strange WLAN adapter behaviour; sometimes not detected

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There is no such thing as a PCI ISA card. There are ISA slots (in an old 8086 that ran DOS) EISA (about the 80386 era) PCI (80486) and PCIe. There are some other architectures (Micro Channel Architecture/MCA) but that one was proprietary and wasn't used as much. A PCI card could be a graphics card, audio card, network card, anything really. It's just a way for a device to talk to the computer. ISA card is the same answer (just a method for something to talk to the computer). You may want to ask which card they are changing, why, what they did to diagnose it, where is the output, etc. It sounds a little like they are changing your blinker fluid, and retrofitting your tires for Canadian air.

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The part K000099140 number is apparently a Toshiba wlan card. Perhaps they have an old invoicing system and they've ordered you a new wireless card. Might be no more to it than that.

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That would be a PCI-to-ISA bridge adapter. In all honesty, I don't know why a laptop would have one (I'd think all the internal hardware should be PCI or USB these days and laptops don't have expansion card slots to add a new ISA device in, even if you could find one still for sale), but lspci shows that the laptop I'm currently using has one:

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
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