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Article #230Re: Network Adapter card woes
From: Conor
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:49
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:49
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In article <KTS5UZAdnxN9EwUU@pigsonthewing.org.uk>, andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk says... > I'm having a bot of bother, installing a network adapter card. > > I bought it today, second hand, with no documentation. A friend pout it > in his XP machine, which recognised it, immediately, as an: > > Intel(R) PRO 100+ Management Adapter > > and in which it worked, perfectly, first time. > > I have put it into my Win 98SE machine this evening, and it doesn't seem > to be recognising it, Sometimes it detects new hardware, other times > not, If I try to manually add it, it asks for the manufacturers disk - I > have the drivers, "PRO98MEM.EXE", from the Intel website, but that > installs three files: > > net5599x.inf > net55a9x.inf > net8254x.inf > > and Windows' "Add Hardware" wizard only seems to want one of them. > > If I select one, it them tells me that the device is "plug and play, and > that I should switch off my machine, attach the adapter, and restart my > machine. > Get the right drivers. Uninstall the card in Device Manager. Shutdown computer and remove card. Restart computer without card in and shutdown again. Install card again in a different slot if possible and restart computer. It'll detect it and ask for drivers. -- _________________________ Conor Turton conor_turton@hotmail.com ICQ:31909763 _________________________
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025cc,30f66ae43bcbfffe X-Google-Attributes: gid1025cc,public X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,30f66ae43bcbfffe X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-18 13:49:59 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!iapetus.uk.clara.net From: Conor <conor_turton@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.win95,demon.tech.pc Subject: Re: Network Adapter card woes Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:49:53 +0100 Message-ID: <MPG.17a13a4b36a152a2989786@news.claranews.com> References: <KTS5UZAdnxN9EwUU@pigsonthewing.org.uk> Organization: Computershack X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50 X-Complaints-To: abuse@clara.net (please include full headers) X-Trace: 3350d14170360c30e0102365f46d76a2676486085175f634600781b03d3729ee NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:49:50 BST Lines: 38