Win98 lockup w/network card

[AndrewG]

I have a strange problem.<br>
<br>
I have an Abit BE6 with a P-III 500,<br>
a WD 20GB drive on the Highpoint UDMA port,<br>
a 50X digital research CDROM on the regular<br>
IDE port,a soundblaster live value, a<br>
buslogic scsi adapter, a yamaha scsi CD-R<br>
drive, a diamond v770 ultra AGP board and<br>
a USR sportster 56k internal. My printer is<br>
an HP deskjet connected via usb.<br>
<br>
My problem comes when I have a network card<br>
in the machine... I tried both a card with<br>
an SiS900 chip and an encore chip. Both I<br>
have problems with windows locking up when it<br>
boots into graphics mode (the background<br>
loads and shortly after it hangs solid).<br>
<br>
My system was fine before I added the CD-R<br>
drive (I was using the SiS card). At that<br>
point I updated my BIOS since I heard about<br>
many problems with older BIOS on my BE6. No<br>
luck, so I also updated to Win98SE. Same<br>
problem. All drivers are current.<br>
<br>
The buslogic board is an older one and there<br>
are no win98-specific drivers listed on<br>
their website. Could it be an incompat.<br>
between the buslogic board and the MS network<br>
drivers?<br>
<br>
If I have the netcard installed but disabled<br>
via the

 

[pmkincaid]

Can you determine what IRQ your NIC is trying to use? If its a PCI NIC, you may be able to manually assign an IRQ within the BIOS to each PCI slot and not use the IRQ the IDE controller and secondary controllers use (14 and 15 I believe...)<br>
<br>
It sounds to me like an IRQ conflict. I would investigate what IRQ is used with each one individually and see if they conflict.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps,<br>
Paul Kincaid

 

[ladin]

I agree with paul kincaid <br>
<br>

 

[jaymar]

It may seem off the wall, but I have found that some nics work in the third PCI slot and not in others

 

[rhedgepe]

Had a problem Instaling a zip drive on a 98 box. Found that when I put a diffrent cdrom <br>
and drivers in the problem whent away. Mabe the drivers don't like each other.<br>
Richard

 

[Guest_imported]

I had lockups with both cards in 2 slots...<br>
one shared interrupts with the UDMA ports<br>
and the other shared interrupts with the<br>
USB ports.<br>
<br>
I borrowed a 3com PCI card and voila! The<br>
computer is working fine now.

 

[rorove]

When I installed a second cd rom unit (burner and dvd reader) as master on IDE1, my sis900 onboard ethernet card stopped working, it became impossible to set up this ethernet card because msgsrv32 hangs the system and w98se became very unstable, and the shutdown process hang the pc too.
There wasn't IRQ conflicts.
At last I disabled from CMOS setup the onboard lan, installed a new encore with realtek drivers on the last PCI slot and the system worked fine, the only last problem was the realtek card didn't connect fine at auto or maximum speed (100mbps), I should set it manually to 10 mbps and the connection seems to be very fast now, at least for internet.
The processor is an AMD Athlon XP 1700+, 256 MB ram. Master HDD western digital 40 Gb as master on IDE0, 8 Gb maxtor as slave on IDE0, both hdd with SMART enabled on CMOS.
IDE1 has as master dvd reader an cd burner (Samsung combo) and an Asus 52x cd reader as slave.
I decided to forgot the onboard lan forever....
If anybody knows how to restart the onboard lan whitout the pain, I'll be happy.
Thanks