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Re: Network Adapter card woes

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From: Conor
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.

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Subject: Re: Network Adapter card woes
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:49:53 +0100
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