Re: Networking/LAN woes!!

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From: Peter Kirby
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:00

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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:17:35 GMT, alisdair@nospam.demon.co.uk
(Alisdair Wren) wrote:

>>Hoping someone can guide me through this minor disaster...
>>I've got (or rather had) three machines networked at home - two desktops
>>and a Sony laptop - and all was well until a truly disastrous
>>installation of Office 2000 trashed the laptop, necessitating a total
>>reinstall of W98. Ever since then the old PCMCIA network card causes the
>>Sony to hang. 
>The above suggests a software problem to me... doing this:

I agree it sounds like software.

I had the same problem when re-installing a 'Digital VP725 or 735'
here. It just crashed when certain cards were inserted. The solution
was removing an 'Unknown Device' from the device list. Seems it was
clashing.

I'm not saying it's the same problem, just that the drivers can easily
cause this kind of problem!

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