home network nightmare

Hi again. Not logged in for some time, but I've not forgotten you!

You mentioned that you are going to put another PC on the network. Have you got this PC yet? It's just that if you have another PC, then you can install that one with an ethernet card, and then see which of the other two are not working.

Just an idea.
 
The lady who owns my life (the wife) won't let me put another pc on till I get the existing setup working again. It's like banging your head on a brick wall trying to explain what you are trying to do ect...

The lastest network card is installed with no conflicts when you view it via device manager but when you run winipconfg it does not appear any ideas ?
 
Isnt it about time you got another hobby m8?

This thread is giving me a headache <img src="frown.gif" border="0">

Ever thought about taking up wind surfing instead?
 
You think you have a head ache, you should try being where I am. LOL

I am awaiting another pc, on loan, which as no fancy on board sound or graphics ect and am going to try the network card in that machine to see if I can tie this whole mess down to on problem.
 
That sounds like a very good idea.

Let us know how you get on.
 
Hi all, progress has been made. Removed my machine and put an old p60 (yes a p60) in its place. This machine, after installing the nic, connected to the network with no problems so it must be down to a conflict with my on board stuff (is that right). There are no conflicts in device manager so which of you bright sparks is going to guide me through this bit and put an end to this NIGHTMARE.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, honest !
 
Excellent - progress at last. Well done.

Well, if no conflicts are being flagged, I'm a bit confused. Unless you've got some legacy hardware in your system which does not have drivers loaded for it (probably unused ISA cards), I'd have thought that conflicts would have been flagged if the resources used by your card were also being used by something else. It is quite normal for PCI devices to share interrupts by the way.

You've tied it down to one PC. Yes?

You bought two new network cards. Is one of these currently in use on your now known good system? If the cards are identical, try swapping then over and see if the good system still works.

I guess you've already done this, but download the latest drivers off the internet for the LAN Card.

You could try removing all of the networking components, rebooting, and set up networking from scratch.

I think you've already tried this too, but try a different PCI slot in your computer.

I hope these suggestions are some use.

Keep us informed!
 
Another suggestion.

If you have other PCI cards in the system, try removing them all and see if networking works. If it does, then add the PCI cards back in one by one until the network fails. Then this may give you an idea as to a hardware conflict if there is one.
 
The network card in the naughty machine is sharing IRQ 11 with the on board display jobbie but no conflicts show. Now I know its the machine at fault and that the othere system is setup ok I can just set about messing about with this ones settings till I get a result.

I will keep you posted.
 
Well you might be able to change the IRQ for the Nic in Device Manager. Choose the Device (network card), go to its properties, then click the Rescources Tab. Uncheck the “Use automatic settings” then look at the settings (memory addresses etc) and try changing the IRQ to something like 10.<br />If it dont work, remember to change it back!<br /> <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> <br />Good luck
 
In my poor PC, I've got 2 NICs, sound card, USB, serial + parallel ports, fire wire, ** tuner card, etc all using interrupts. I think most of the devices share an interrupt with something else.

Unless there is an incompatibility, I don't think you have to worry about the sharing of interrupts.
 
One thing though. If you're really worried about the interrupt sharing, on experiementation it appears to me that the way the interrupts are allocated at boot time on my PC at least depends on which card slot the cards are in. You may find that you get a different interrupt allocated if you put it in a different card slot, or rearrange your cards.
 
Just to keep this one alive, I have installed XP and gained no ground, in fact I am now struggling to find the settings I once new quite well. Never mind God hates a quitter.

By the way this machine dose detect when the other machine is switched on cos its says that it is connected via the icon thingy in xp.

[ 22 February 2002: Message edited by: Dutcho ]</p>
 
hey m8 did u use the wizard it gets set up for u
 
Yes m8 tried it but no joy. Tried it with another system and it worked so the prob is with this machine and I cannot for the life of me work out why cos it is setup the same as the one I replaced it with and got the network to work.

Mind you I do like this xp thing once you get used to it.
 
Hi again.

Just got a problem with my PC. Added an internal modem, and the sound card doesn't work, although the driver loads okay, and everything appears normal - just no sound out of the speakers. I'll let you know how I fix it (if I do!) because it sounds like you PC suffers in the same way.
 
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