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Windows Question (Mods: Yes i know but i'm really stuck)
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I know this is a Mac OS X forum but I would really like a quick answer to a problem i'm having with a PC.
The PC is a dell running windows 98 2nd edition which i've just installed completely fresh. the BIOS was updated just before the install and was completed successfully. I'm now trying to install a network card. its a PCLine PCL-10100 card and the drivers are on a floppy disk. So i boot the machine up and go to add/remove hardware and it says there is a problem with the card. gives me a button to click on to see the properties of the card and it turns out the that driver isn't installed. fair enough says I, that would be because i haven't installed it yet! So i click the install driver button which is there and the hardware wizardy thing comes up and starts asking questions and i follow the instructions in the manual for the card. the driver appears to install successfully and the machine then restarts. once it restarts a message comes up saying that window has detected a problem with the registry and that it will now restart to fix it, it does so and says that it restores a backup of the registry and then proceeds with the boot sequence. once it is complete it puts me back where i started, since the driver appears not to have installed at all.
I've tryed looking for updated or new drivers but i can't find any could someone please help because i'm rapidly running out of ideas
Thanks in advance, and appologies to the mods
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I'd say check the network card maker's website and download the latest drivers and try installing that.
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Move the network card to a different PCI slot. There may be a resource conflict if it's in a 'shared' slot.
Was there a reason you installed the BIOS update? Did you save a copy of the old BIOS in case you have to 'downdate' to the old BIOS?
Chances are good that your motherboard's Setup Options have been reset to default values after the update. This could be the source of your problems, as well. See if any settings look wrong.
(Last edited by Spliffdaddy; Jun 18, 2003 at 11:35 AM.
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Originally posted by ntsc:
I know this is a Mac OS X forum but I would really like a quick answer to a problem i'm having with a PC.
The PC is a dell running windows 98 2nd edition which i've just installed completely fresh. the BIOS was updated just before the install and was completed successfully. I'm now trying to install a network card. its a PCLine PCL-10100 card and the drivers are on a floppy disk. So i boot the machine up and go to add/remove hardware and it says there is a problem with the card. gives me a button to click on to see the properties of the card and it turns out the that driver isn't installed. fair enough says I, that would be because i haven't installed it yet! So i click the install driver button which is there and the hardware wizardy thing comes up and starts asking questions and i follow the instructions in the manual for the card. the driver appears to install successfully and the machine then restarts. once it restarts a message comes up saying that window has detected a problem with the registry and that it will now restart to fix it, it does so and says that it restores a backup of the registry and then proceeds with the boot sequence. once it is complete it puts me back where i started, since the driver appears not to have installed at all.
I've tryed looking for updated or new drivers but i can't find any could someone please help because i'm rapidly running out of ideas
Thanks in advance, and appologies to the mods
Am I the only one having nightmares and goosebumps from reading this...???
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What's a floppy?
Seriously try swapping slots as suggested above. Don't know what model Dell or how old it isl you have, but also ensure the slot you are installing it in marked as PCI only and not PCI/ISA. I experienced many problems with some network PCI card because of that resource conflict in bios. I would assume your bios is configured for factory defaults since it was just upgraded.
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Thanks for all the advice guys, its problems like this that remind me why love to use Macs!
Anyways i'm not getting any joy from swapping the PCI slots around, and i'm running out of stuff to try so i think i'm just gonna go and buy and new NIC and see if it works any better. Ah the joys of windows hardware i think this was why this emoticon was created - 
Thanks again for your help 
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