Win2k Pro Issue

CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
edited May 2004 in Science & Tech
Here's the problem. Windows doesn't detect the cable being plugged in even tho it is. I've tried 2 different NIC's (Same company) and all the different PCI slots without any success. Any ideas?

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  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Is this for a LAN application? Just a connection to a DSL or cable modem? Please give us more info here. Has that NIC been sucessfully engaged before?
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    The NIC's worked fine before the XP install went south and I had to format. I'm installing Xp Pro atm because "That's what she wants" even tho it's not going to run right. Worked on a LAN, DSL and Cable modem before this.
    It's an Asus KT 133 MB and the NIC's are SMC 10/100's.
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited May 2004
    Have you tried them in different pci slots?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Creep wrote:
    and all the different PCI slots without any success.
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Thanks, that saves me from asking him if he even read the post....
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited May 2004
    I did read the post. Just can't remember stuff to well sometimes, haha

    How about drivers? Tried uninstalling the card and reinstalling drivers. Have you checked for an IRQ conflict?
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    It was an IRQ conflict, I hate old hardware.....
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Well, with NICs, some of them come with a floppy disk. Some of the floppy disks can set the cards to something that will work with a utility on the floppy. Try running the floppy utils if you have them, and some of these floppies boot or run the utils in the command console or "DOS" mode so the NIC settings can be as unique as possible. I ahve had to disable modem ports, other things like printer ports, etc in BIOS to let these cards work right, and many are trial and error set and then test type utils.

    Some of the diagnostic\setting things are explained some in a readme file on the floppy, and nowhere else. NICs can not work if they have this kind of util on floppy and the BIOS does not choose same settigns for the NIC given what else is already in system. If you know who made the card, sometimes the diags and setters are available at the card mfr's website or avialable via FTP if you ask the mfr's tech support and tell them what model and make the card is. They will look tiny, and want to be often run from a floppy computer boot or be copied onto a boot floppy and then run.

    In XP, you can sometimes run them from a recovery console. Sometimes you have to reload the dirvers to get the card working after doing this, so if the readmes say to run util and then install dreivers, try doing exactly what the readmes say.
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