NIC Card wont load 1

[shannonk]

Hi, I have an one year old IBM Clone, pentium 3 running Windows 98. Recently I decided to network with another machine nearby. I have been trying to install a NIC card for a week now. I have tried three different plug and play cards. They all end up with an yellow ! besides them. I have tried different slots. These cards work in other machines. Someone said I may be having IRQ conflicts, but how do I fix that? I do not have many extras running on the machine.
Any ideas?

Thanks Keith

 

[butchrecon]

In the Bios try setting the Plug and Play aware OS to yes. Also in device manager go to the properties of the NIC and try reinstalling the drivers or update drivers. James Collins
Systems Support Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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[shannonk]

I have already tried both of the suggestions. Plug and Play in BIOS set to yes. When I try to re-load driver, it says best driver already loaded. I should say that it does not go through the full plug abd play wizard, but only starts it, then re-boots the machine, skips new hardware, as windows has already decided to stop responding to it. I had a built in modem which occupied IRQ 11, same as the slot I am putting adapter on. I have disabled the modem as I do not need it. There does not seem to be any IRQ conflicts that I can see, however, I am in unchartered water.

Keith

 

[xexth]

Have you tried looking in the Device Manager to see how many IRQ's your system is using? Sometimes disabling one device is not enough. As you seem to be aware most ( with some obvious exceptions) NIC's like IRQ 11 and you sometimes have to force windows to re-shuffle the IRQ's. Try going into the BIOS and disabling 1 or both or the Com Ports (if they are not being used). Reboot the computer - goto the device manager and remove the network card. Hit the refresh button and the system should begin to detect the NIC again. Install the drivers from the disk (if it allows you to, of course). Hope this works for you, I have used this method for various devices including NIC's and it has a fairly high success rate. Good Luck.

 

[tlcscousin]

Try right click my network places remove all protocols, no reboot then remove nic from device manager.Reboot and windows should find the NIC and setup the protocols again.
If it does not work after all that remove the NIC in device manager no reboot.Then add remove hardware and choose I want to select the hardware and pick have disk and install the proper drivers.

 

[butchrecon]

In device Manager is there a section that is a yellow questionmark? If so is there a reference to a PCI communications adapter OR PCI Ethernet Controller? If you see one then remove it. James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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