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Network Card Driver problems

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  • 03-03-2003 11:43pm
    #1
    schlaps
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭


    A friend got me to install a network card to her PC. Its p133 with win95

    However, whenever i install the drivers from the disk, the device doesnt work. Its a cheap stanard 10/100 Lan Card. Ive followed the instructions again and again and i havent got a clue what the prob is. The problem when i check "System" in control panel is
    "device failure" try changing device


    Any ideas


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    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    need a lot more info

    BTW can you shove it into a winxp or win2000 machine , what happens, note the irq and i/o range it picks up in win2000 or winxp if you gt it to work and try to replicate in win95

    95 does not really do irq sharing unlike newer os's

    M


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    longword
    Closed Accounts Posts: 741 ✭✭✭longword


    Originally posted by Muck
    95 does not really do irq sharing unlike newer os's
    Err. Doesn't that mean Windows 95 is not compatible with PCI bus machines?


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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Try switching the IRQ - some old non plug & play cards are fairly picky. Try 3 or 5 (5 may be occupied by the sound card given that it's an old machine). Or 4. Shouldn't make a difference but for old cards it does. For i/o range, try a few combos from 300 up to 360. It'll take an age but one of the combinations will probably work. So much hassle TBH. It's been years since I had any dealings with old cards (I like 3com905s, I do) so the above advice may be a little flaky.

    ( I hope it isn't one of those NE2000 cards - if it is, try toggling the switch on the outside as well (double the possible combinations, lovely)


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    #5
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Try a different slot on the Board

    21/25



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    #6
    tribble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭tribble


    Try a different slot on the Board

    agreed - if you look through the manual you will (probably) see a line saying something like "card requires a PCI BUS MASTERING SLOT..." some old pentium boards did not have these.

    Every board (virtually) that supported the P166 MMX has at lesat one of these slots. A lot of earlier boards did too.

    All new boards have BUS MASTERING for ALL pci slots but the old ones usually have it at slot 1 only.

    Rearrange the cards and see if this solves the problem.

    tribble
    ps also look in the bios to see if you can enable a newer pci spec eg 2.1


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